Train: C or D?

The GGD have an amazing string of great radio songs, while Train have the awful "Meet Virginia" and a Black Crowes cover, er, *homage*, shall we say...

The Goo Goo Dolls are better without question.

Train, on the other hand, are pleasantly, grotesquely over the top with their yuppie anthems. "Drops of Jupiter"!

Personally I prefer the term 'improvements'...

Tom Erlewine gave the last Train thingamabob a glowing review on AMG. (I think it was him.) What the hell was he thinking?! :D

Goddamn the Puerto Rican rough boys are after my ass! I'll never be able to visit San Juan now and talk about T. Rex. ;-)

Wow. That's, uh... quite a review. (By Thom Jurek, actually.)

Let it be known, I don't like 'em THAT much!

"My Private Nation is not an album about angst, but about transcending it and the paralyzing cynicism that goes with it. The question is, when was the last time listeners got a rock & roll album that could do that without cowering in fear of having its optimism shattered? Not in a long time. But that's because My Private Nation isn't about optimism; it's about the flickering glimmer in the darkness, in the heart, in the culture, in the world, and how it should — and can — be seized, right now."

Haha! Very nahz...;D

DUD

"My heart is bound to beat right out my untrimmed chest"

Wha???

gross

the new single is one of the worst things i've ever heard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8U1cX75vUc

what

"Hey Soul Sister" is the worst single of the decade.

otm

i always knew ilx was a bit out of touch but after that "i gotta feelin" thread and now this. you guys gotta carve out fifteen minutes of assigned forkcast listening turn on radio or something because this song has been inescapable for months

or maybe i'm the only one here who hears 8 hours of the local soft-rock radio station at work like every day of my life

this is my ~6 month old baby cousin's favourite song, she sways & claps every time it comes on in the car. it's super adorable obv and is kind of an otm metaphor for the song's appeal

the thread was revived by "markers," who is the same person as "ksh," who posted about disliking the song in March. i don't know why he revived the thread with that particular vid of the song, but i'm just saying.

ah

i always knew ilx was a bit out of touch but after that "i gotta feelin" thread and now this. you guys gotta carve out fifteen minutes of assigned forkcast listening turn on radio or something because this song has been inescapable for months

You're not going to find many people on ILM who listen to the radio as much as the people who've posted since the thread revival.

Also...

igi, i was being a crank. i usually don't like it when people yack about who lives under a rock, just kind of funny that two enormous ubiquitous singles got revives/threads in the past day

ok listening to this song...it's pretty bad, but not any worse than "If It's Love" tbh

Butch Walker's last couple solo albums are great and he was all over the last Fall Out Boy and Pink albums i loved, did prob the best later Weezer single, etc. so that stuff outshines whatever crap he's been involved with.

i liked "if it's love" too \o/

the whole wordy staccato verses/big melodic chorus thing is really grating to me as a pop/rock formula

oh my god i just looked up Train on Spotify and the deluxe edition of their last album has a cover of "Umbrella"

nb: also love third eye blind

threeeb is better than train, though, obv

yeah agreed - i was just saying why the whole wordy staccato verses/big melodic chorus thing might not bother me

yeah i guess that's where you were coming from with that -- "semi charmed life" still has fairly melodic verses, though -- "if it's love" is like a bad standup act where the closest thing to a punchine is "remember winger?"

Now that this song is here, I know exactly when to set the time machine for so that I can get to their van before they do, slash the tires, and keep them from reaching their major label showcase and getting signed to Aware records or whatever.

oh my god i just looked up Train on Spotify and the deluxe edition of their last album has a cover of "Umbrella"

how can a band so terrible be simultaneously so entertaining

happens all the time, doesn't it?

I don't know about "all the time"; for me anyway, terrible bands/artists rarely give me any enjoyment (although when they do, it's a fuckton of enjoyment; see: ICP, Spice Girls).

http://open.spotify.com/track/5GCgC77m6EaAqu7ZlukMu2

okay everyone has to listen this now btw

I REFUSE

6 people like this. Be the first of your friends.

this band has two songs in the UK top 40!! wth

They know talent when they hear it over there.

Train Won't Play At Boy Scouts Jamboree Unless BSA Lifts Ban On Gay Scouts, Band Says

Train has taken a very public stand against the Boy Scouts of America's longstanding ban on the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community by boycotting an upcoming performance.

In November, Scouting Magazine announced that the Grammy-winning band would be headlining the closing stadium show at the 2013 National Scout Jamboree in July along with "Call Me Maybe" sensation Carly Rae Jepsen.

But a campaign to get both performers to denounce the Boy Scouts' anti-gay policies picked up steam on March 1, when GLAAD announced it had signed on to support gay Eagle Scout Derek Nance's Change.org petition.

A few hours after GLAAD signed the petition, Train posted a statement on their website saying the band will not perform at the Jamboree if the Boy Scouts do not change its policies before the summer.

When we booked this show for the Boy Scouts of America we were not aware of any policy barring openly gay people from participation within the organization. Train strongly opposes any kind of policy that questions the equality of any American citizen. We have always seen the BSA as a great and noble organization. We look forward to participating in the Jamboree this summer, as long as they make the right decision before then.

Huffington Post

http://blogs.sfweekly.com/shookdown/2014/04/train_priced_out_of_san_franci.php

Exciting news for us Oaklanders!

every once in a blue moon, I remember the existence of their minor radio hit "Meet Virginia", featuring the imperishable quatrain Well she wants to live her life / And she thinks about her life / Pulls her hair back as she screams: / "I don't really wanna live this life"

I'll be an old, old man before I can forgive that one

said song also features an egregious & unnecessary rhyme of 'president' with 'president', which is enough to make their more recent clunkers like 'tenderloin'/'tender coin' seem positively Keatsian

My sister and brother-in-law think Train are great. I am not convinced

lol i like "Meet Virginia"

Train encompass a genre I like to call "Piano Bar rock"

http://thenearsightedmonkey.tumblr.com/post/133929057114/dear-students-from-the-collected-works-of-making

Just heard what I assume is their new single (the one that bites "Heart and Soul" or something). Satan's taking too long to collect on the "Hey Soul Sister" comeback.

...I missed mentioning, I heard it TWICE in two different businesses in the space of 30 minutes.

its like why saddam and not pat monahan?

Watching you’s the only drug I need. :-)

Worst ever.

I was in a car listening to the radio last night and had the misfortune of hearing Train's 'Play that song'. Never has a song made me want to claw may ears of more. It reminded me of that 30 Rock doing 'America's Kids Got Singing' but it wasn't a joke. How the hell do they have 11 Albums, or a career for that matter.

Partway through Alfred's piece, realised I hadn't heard Meet Virginia before. It's clearly awful and sounds to me an older cousin of One Direction's equally dreadful "what makes you beautiful". However not all is lost as I misheard one of the lines as "we sit at home and live on President" - we have no money for real food or heating but we do have some Brie and a blanket. perfect and sadly relatable romantic image.

Their new single is called "Mai Tais".

I believe that is Tagalog for "My Humps."

kill this band

Just heard what I assume is their new single (the one that bites "Heart and Soul" or something). Satan's taking too long to collect on the "Hey Soul Sister" comeback.

― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, May 27, 2017 8:59 PM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink

...I missed mentioning, I heard it TWICE in two different businesses in the space of 30 minutes.

― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, May 27, 2017 9:05 PM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Also missed that the song had already been out for awhile--it underperformed upon initial release, and then was re-serviced to radio & muzak in hopes becoming a Summer Hit tying into their tour.

Drummer Drew Shoals left the band in January 2019 to return to practicing law

"drops of jupiter" is a classic! haven't heard any other good songs by them tho and some are truly heinous

^ note my enjoyment of "jupiter" probably depended in part on the fact that i was unable to understand some of its worst lyrics (soy latte etc)

She checks out Mozart while she does tae-bo
Reminds me that there's room to grow

makes you think

Gawd i can't stand them. About five awful songs that are on the radio all the time i'd find out, one every few years or so, are by this band

These guys are the only thing that makes me second guess if Led Zeppelin was good.

She checks out Mozart while she does tae-bo

lmao i've definitely looked up the lyrics to this song before but i didn't realize this was the lyric. yikes!

D

"Hey Soul Sister" is the worst single of the decade.

― balls and adieu (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 30 July 2010 12:34 (eleven years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JeAfVoA_iE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi67yCACrmI

The way you move ain't fair you know

"meet virginia" is maybe the worst song i've ever heard, really makes me doubt the whole idea of people singing words.

She checks out Mozart while she does tae-bo

lmao i've definitely looked up the lyrics to this song before but i didn't realize this was the lyric. yikes!

How could anyone not parse the greatest lyric of the 21st century(?)

brimstead otm

In that very funny Pat Finnerty video I love how he says he made a bracket for worst song and they all somehow won.