Qualification to The Lucy Museum of Musicians who deserve entry to Lucy's Museum of Musicians is they must have a minimum of three songs which would make me turn up the radio if they came on.
Train
Qualifying Songs: 50 Ways To Say Goodbye, Drive By, Drops of Jupiter
Strangely, i was a Train fan without even realising it. I really liked 'Drops of Jupiter', '50 Ways to Say Goodbye' and 'Drive By' but never realised they were all by the same band until surfing through YouTube one day and coming across the Train channel.
'50 Ways To Say Goodbye' has a mariachi type feel to it and is a song about the singer saying his girlfriend died in a variety of ways rather than admit she dumped him which doesn't sound great i admit but it's a fantastic upbeat song.
'Drive By' is in the same mould, the sort of catchy song that it is impossible to not tap along to or sing the chorus.
Not that it's obvious but 'Drops of Jupiter' i found out years later, is about someone dying and coming 'back in the atmosphere' for a visit and was inspired by the death of the singers mother. The chorus is very catchy and the song has put in several appearances in the UK charts, a nice song and the fifth planet from the Sun doesn't get sung about enough in my opinion.
I guess it's not much of a compliment to Train that i didn't even know who they were and that it was their songs i liked but i'm sure they don't mind.
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