Your Zionist Leader: rcantley: I've never understood the hate for bands like Train. No, they're not original. No, they don't take risks. Yes, their stuff is radio-friendly by design.

But they also write some decent pop songs. It's not like anyone's pretending they're the Beatles or R.E.M. of their generation or something.

I feel the same way about Coldplay. I remember reading an interview with the lead singer of Harvey Danger, who was biatching about them... he said something to the effect of "What's the point of Coldplay?" First of all, that might have more impact if it weren't coming from the guy who sang that one song that was sort of popular in the 1998. And second, not every band is going to be ground breakingly original. Sometimes decent pop is okay.

While I don't necessarily disagree with you, something about Train makes me very punchy. I can't really put my finger on why.

Maybe I can help:

While everybody else is getting out of bed
I'm usually getting in it
I'm not in it to win it
And there's a thousand ways you can skin it

My feet have been on the floor
Flat like an idol singer
Remember Winger? I digress
I confess you are the best thing in my life

...and...

Hey Soul Sister
Ain't that Mister Mister on the
Radio
Stereo
The way you move ain't fair, you know?

That's why.

Last week I was thinking I really hated Train. Then I heard that banshee from Sugarland. Train doesn't seem so bad now.

EyeballKid: Pants full of macaroni!!: Sad King Billy: My friend who likes Train also thinks Thomas Kinkade is a great artist and that the Left Behind books are serious literature.

Does he or she love The Olive Garden too?

You really think they'd be into ethnic food?

Yeah, no way they'd be into such spicy ethnic food.

Pants full of macaroni!!: Sad King Billy: My friend who likes Train also thinks Thomas Kinkade is a great artist and that the Left Behind books are serious literature.

Does he or she love The Olive Garden too?

You really think they'd be into ethnic food?

Sad King Billy: My friend who likes Train also thinks Thomas Kinkade is a great artist and that the Left Behind books are serious literature.

Does he or she love The Olive Garden too?

Disagree that Maroon 5 doesn't have a hook. Once somebody told me that "Moves Like Jagger" sounded like "Moose Vagina", I haven't stopped singing it.

Skarekrough: Train is music for younger people who don't like music.

Coldplay is for middle-aged folks that don't like music.

I resent your implication that middle-aged folks are things.

bluesbox: HighZoolander: Drops of Jupiter, by Train! I love that song! Wait, what's it called? I wish I knew who did it, I have a vague memory that it was good.

I just listened to it on YouTube. It sounds like it should be the opening song of a new TV drama/comedy show about young people dealing with life and stuff.

I had no idea who Train was, so I went to iTunes and listened to their songs. EVERY song sounds like it should be the opening song of a new TV drama/comedy show about young people dealing with life and stuff.

That, or the background to a commercial previewing a new TV drama/comedy show about young people dealing with life and stuff.

HighZoolander: Drops of Jupiter, by Train! I love that song! Wait, what's it called? I wish I knew who did it, I have a vague memory that it was good.

I just listened to it on YouTube. It sounds like it should be the opening song of a new TV drama/comedy show about young people dealing with life and stuff.

B.L.Z. Bub: Your Zionist Leader: Drops of Jupiter is one of the douchiest songs I've ever heard

The very first time I heard that song, I was in driver's training. The instructor, a middle-aged black guy, had it playing on CD one day as we drove, and he was obsessed with it. He kept pausing every few seconds to explain what the esoteric lyrics meant, but it seemed like he was hearing the song for the first time. "This white boy can write lyrics," he said.

/Cool story, bro

Now the question becomes how did you keep from smashing the car into something?

Gunny Highway: The band Bush did this. I apologize for ruining the band Bush for you.

Breath in breath out breath in breath out breath in. Do you feel the way hate, do you hate the way you feel. I repeat. You repeat. I Repeat. Now Backwards. Repeat I. Repeat You.