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 A Jewel!!! Nov 21, 2009
From the first track this album is great. The best of train for me...loop and loop and loop in my music player
Ahhhhhhh, Joy Nov 17, 2009
Joy = Train being back with this new CD. I love the CD and consider Patrick and the band the best of the best. They are by far my favorite group of all time and they are great in concert. If you ever get a chance to see them live, GO! If I had to pick a favorite track or two from this CD it would probably be Words and Brick by Brick. Train, please come to Northeast Pennsylvania!!!!
INCREDIBLE!!!! Nov 13, 2009
Incredible album i have been listening to it non-stop since it was delivered.Train packs a musical punch.
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Surprisingly Good Nov 12, 2009
I like every track on this album, even "I Got You" despite the cheesiness with the Doobie Brothers lyrics. Pat Monahan's vocals soar on many tracks and teaming up with Ryan Tedder on "This Ain't Goodbye" is the highlight for me, a wonderful song.
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 Too Much Pop, Not Enough Rock Nov 04, 2009
Train began their careers as roots rockers with pop sensibilities. They operated with a folk-like moxy that flirted with pop hooks and catchy guitar riffs. Although their debut self-titled eponymous was mediocre at best, it carried some great tunes such as "Meet Virginia," the band's first hit single. The band enlisted the help of super-producer Brendan O'Brien (Bruce Springsteen, Stone Temple Pilots, Incubus) for their 2001 album Drops of Jupiter, an album which personifies the band's style and sound perfectly. The album featured top-of-the-line songs with even the lesser songs shaping up as decent efforts. The band collectively won a Grammy Award for the album's title-track single for which band is best known. In 2003, the band released My Private Nation, an album that boasted a more mainstream sound but still contained some of the band's strongest material including "Calling All Angels" and "Get to Me." However, the band suffered from the departures of bassist/guitarist Charlie Colin and guitarist/bassist Rob Hotchkiss. My Private Nation was also promoted poorly with the clearly made-for-radio single "Get to Me" receiving a single release long after the album's release in 2003 and the song failing to receive a music video. As a result, the album floundered while Train's popularity seriously waned by the time their 2006 album For Me, It's You come around.
For Me, It's You featured the greatest stagnation from the band since their debut album. The tunes were too polished and generic. Lacking a defining or enduring personality, For Me, It's You failed on the charts while its two singles "Cab" and "Give Myself to You" only resonated on the adult contemporary charts. Subsequently, lead singer Pat Monahan recorded a solo album that allowed his worst tendencies to roam free. Last of Seven, released in 2007 boasted Monahan's continuous pop culture references and pop hooks. Much of the album was written by professional pop songwriters and session musicians resulting in an overtly pop album. Monahan also co-wrote two songs with pop songwriter Guy Chamber for Tina Turner's one hundred and tenth greatest hits album. In 2008, it became clear that Monahan had become a full-fledged pop musician throwing rock music to wayside. Monahan brought his new musical persona back to the long-awaited Train album Save Me, San Francisco. Plagued with a long period of inactivity, fledging popularity, the departure of two replacement musicians and a horrible album title, Save Me, San Francisco is not the album Train fans have been waiting for. It sounds far more like another Monahan solo album. The majority of the album was written by Monahan with professional songwriters while lead guitarist Jimmy Stafford and drummer Scott Underwood making two or less contributions to the songwriting, something that betrays their style of having the band members contribute to the songwriting.
Save Me, San Francisco is purely a pop album in which Train seems to be sporting to regain the popularity they lost after 2003's My Private Nation. It is overtly mainstream sound and any of the folk rock styles they previously sported seeming like an afterthought. It doesn't seem like a band album with much of its instrumentation seeming too orchestrated and over-produced. The songs are less memorable because they sound alike and Monahan's pop references becoming tiring and clichéd. The album doesn't move along, it plods up and down with forced tunes laced with professional intent for success. It seems that Train lost a big part of themselves after the loss of Colin and Hotchkiss. The addition of professional musician Brandon Bush and session/touring musician Johnny Colt helped very little with their live shows lacking the same fire (watch Midnight Moon and listen to Alive at Last, you hear the difference) and their songs lacking emotion or passion during the For Me, It's You phase. Save Me, San Francisco is another plunge into the ordinary and Monahan's pop vision. Listen to Train's "Hey Soul Sister" and Monahan's "Her Eyes" or "Two Ways to Say Goodbye" and you'll realize what you're listening to. You're not listening to Train, you're listening to Pat Monahan with pop songwriters and two band members who now act as hired hands.
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