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Save Me, San Francisco is the fifth studio album by pop rock band Train (and the first of two albums recorded as a three-piece). It was released on October 26, 2009, through Columbia Records.[2][3] The album was certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America on April 7, 2021.
The album's first single, "Hey, Soul Sister", which marked a return to the group's folk-rock roots, was released to digital retailers on August 11, 2009. The single has since become Train's fourth career Top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 and second career top 10 hit, reaching number three 26 weeks after it was released. It is also the band's highest-peaking single to date in their native United States, as well as Canada, Australia, the Netherlands and New Zealand.
Despite debuting in the Top Ten of the Billboard 200 and garnering numerous positive reviews, the band's previous album, For Me, It's You, was a commercial failure, lacking longevity on the aforementioned chart and being the first Train album to fail to garner an RIAA certification or spawn a Billboard Hot 100-charting single.
The band has since attributed the album's failure to resonate to listeners to their own internal struggles at the time. After considering breaking up altogether at one point,[4] the band finally decided to take a hiatus and pursue solo projects. Lead singer and lyricist Pat Monahan recorded his debut solo record, Last of Seven, which was released in September 2007, shortly after the band went on hiatus. Despite garnering positive reviews, the album was a commercial failure, debuting and peaking at a disappointing #82 on the Billboard 200 composite chart.
After deciding to change management and restore the band to its core trio, the band found motivation in writing new songs; reportedly writing a total of 80. The band also made a habitual departure from collaborating with a sole producer each previous album era in deciding to record and collaborate with numerous producers, including famed producer and frontman of OneRepublic Ryan Tedder, Dave Katz and Sam Hollander of the 2008 Rolling Stone Hot List Producers of the Year-awarded recording duo S*A*M & Sluggo, and Espen Lind and Amund Bjørklund of the famed Norwegian producing duo Espionage, who produced and co-wrote the album's single "Hey, Soul Sister" and the album track "Brick by Brick".
So our goal with this record was to get back to our San Francisco vibe that we had when we made our first album. I think we're happier than we've ever been, we're more excited than we've ever been, and with that I think we're all feeling a lot more at home.
With their diminished commercial standing at the time of its release, Save Me San Francisco debuted at #17 on the Billboard 200, their first album not to debut in the chart's Top Ten since their self-titled debut release. The album quickly descended the chart in subsequent weeks until, at one point, it exited the Billboard 200 altogether.
However, buoyed by the breakout success of Train's biggest single to date ("Hey, Soul Sister"), the album enjoyed a resurgence; steadily climbing the Billboard 200 back to a position of #20 the chart week of August 21, 2010, 39 weeks after its release. The album is certified Gold by the RIAA, and has sold 954,000 copies as of April, 2012.[9]
The album also enjoyed modest levels of international success to date. After their previous album For Me, It's You failed to chart the ARIA Albums chart altogether, Save Me, San Francisco reached a peak of #8 on the aforementioned chart: their best chart showing since Drops of Jupiter peaked at #3 in 2001.
Train really became (kind of) famous with their 2001 album Drops of Jupiter, whose title song became a favorite among many radio stations. And you will find a live version of this song Save me, San Francisco. But as is often the case, the bands then fall into some sort of a depression hole. And some of them have real trouble getting out of this kind of abyss.
So, after some arguably not-so-stellar records and some over-valued hits like Calling All Angels from the album My Private Nation, they finally hit it big with Save me, San Francisco.
And many bands kind of give up after their initial high, and eke out a living at a relatively low level. Well, Train are not one of them. Of course, their hit single Hey, Soul Sister helped a lot. In truth, this one really is the driver for this album. And a more refreshingly sung love ballad I have never heard before. Love it! No pun intended.
Breakfast in Bed is the really only ugly spot on this album, lost them a point or so on the rating below, by the way. What a terrible track. But things cannot be all good. Would be too perfect and we cannot have that.
So, if you are on a long drive down the hot and sunny highways of California, this is your music. Clearly, Hey, Soul Sister drove this album out of the dust into the light. But the rest of Save Me, San Francisco is by no means bad. And Train managed to cut down on the cheese factor in this album, which I really appreciate. Real feel-good music, no kidding folks.
Save Me, San Francisco: This song is a mid-tempo rock track that is an obvious ode to San Francisco, with witty lyrics and a compressed sort of power-pop sound. There are some elegant piano elements, along with some touches of a nice falsetto, something I appreciate when I listen to songs. It is little wonder that even on an album with quite a few hits that this heartfelt ode became a minor hit itself.
Parachute: This song is a passionate sort of song about the difficulties of regular life in a relationship that sounds like something Daughtry would sing (and I mean that in a good way). With its plaintive lyrics over a driving guitar rock sound it sounds like a song that could have very easily been a hit, not this album needed any more (it had at least five hits, after all) to make its point. It is a song that any woman would be happy to have written about them, I would think, despite its tone of anxiety.
Words: Continuing the somewhat drastic mood shifts on this album, this song is about a refusal to give up on a partner. It has strings, a soaring and soulful music and lyrics. Ideally, if someone could be comforted by words, this song expresses the desire to speak words of kindness and forgiveness. It also expresses a desire for avoiding words that cut and hurt. This song is a standout track on an excellent album.
Marry Me: This song is a slow acoustic ballad that seeks to serve as a marriage proposal between the two lovers in this album. It expresses the sentiments of the singer (who did marry a woman at this time) but it is a song that, for fairly obvious reasons tends to make me feel a bit gloomy and lonesome given that not only have I never married but I have never been even particularly close to marriage, at least not yet. Again, this is a song that combines longing and sadness. Unsurprisingly, it was a hit single.
Hits on this, the group's fifth studio album, included "Hey Soul Sister", which reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100, "If It's Love", "Marry Me" and the title track. The album reached #17 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart and it also charted in numerous other world markets. By 2021 the album was certified Platinum by the RIAA for one million sold. See image above for all the RIAA sales certification data of this album*.
NEW YORK, April 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Grammy Award winning American rock band Train will hit the road with the group's first set of US tour dates in support of California 37 (the brand-new studio album released April 17), beginning July 26 at the Time Warner Center in Charlotte, North Carolina. Guest artists Mat Kearney and Andy Grammer will open select dates of the tour. (Please see full Train tour itinerary following).
Also, in a first, Shazam exclusively streamed California 37 to 200 million fans of their wildly popular mobile application a week prior to street date. Preorder sales of the album exploded at online and digital retailers along side Shazam-enabled TV commercials running the entire week driving to the stream on shows including The Voice and Biggest Loser with partner Brita.
Train will launch its new album with "California 37," a brand-new Cabernet Sauvignon from the Save Me, San Francisco Wine Company. The much-anticipated third varietal from the acclaimed craft winery, "California 37" is a worthy addition to previous varietals, "Drops of Jupiter" (Petite Syrah) and "Calling All Angels" (Chardonnay). A portion of the proceeds from the varietal will go to the San Francisco charity Family House, which provides temporary housing to families of seriously ill children. For more information please visit familyhouseinc.org.
The multi-platinum band Train made its mark on music history with the Grammy Award-winning song "Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me)" and chart-topping singles like "Meet Virginia" and "Calling All Angels," earning its third Grammy in 2011 for the worldwide smash "Hey, Soul Sister" from Save Me, San Francisco. The top-selling single of 2010, "Hey, Soul Sister" hit #1 at radio in the US and in 15 countries abroad. Save Me, San Francisco has sold over one million albums worldwide and over ten million tracks. In addition to taking the sales and radio worlds by storm, Train has made numerous television appearances, performing on the NFC Championship Game, American Music Awards, the Grammy Nomination Concert, Crossroads, The Today Show, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Monday Night Football, A&E Private Sessions, America's Got Talent, The View, Dancing With The Stars, and Live With Regis and Kelly, Ellen DeGeneres Show, The Bachelor, Rachael Ray and more.
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