{"id":326,"date":"2003-06-25T10:11:17","date_gmt":"2003-06-25T17:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=326"},"modified":"2012-05-03T14:40:31","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T21:40:31","slug":"train-my-private-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2003\/06\/train-my-private-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"Train _My Private Nation_"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, I am blown away by Train. These guys consistently put out albums that are good to the last drop.<\/p>\n<p>I like Pat Monahan&#8217;s vocals. They are textured enough to keep my interest, and very singalong-able.<\/p>\n<p>The music is catchy, and there is a lot of range. Energetic songs, slow depressing songs, and things in between.<\/p>\n<p>The lyrics have good hooks, but they are abstract and intelligent. Wow! I love that about them. Every song on this album is a collaboration, usually involving almost everybody in the writing process.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a sign of a tight band, they work together to create. I think that&#8217;s a sign that they will probably not split off into separate acts. I sure hope not, because I love their sound.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I could say things about this specific album. But I think I can suffice to say that it is consistently good, like their other albums. It was not a disappointed at all, and I liked their other albums a lot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, I am blown away by Train. These guys consistently put out albums that are good to the last drop. I like Pat Monahan&#8217;s vocals. They are textured enough to keep my interest, and very singalong-able. The music is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2003\/06\/train-my-private-nation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}