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446:(1979) was released, many fans assumed it was called "Stand by Me", but the meaning of the song's title is obscure as the title phrase cannot be found in the lyrics. Mick Jones, who wrote most of the song, offered this explanation: "The track was like a train rhythm, and there was, once again, that feeling of being lost."
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d) As Wessex
Studios' manager and house engineer Bill Price points out, 'Train in Vain' was 'the last song we finished after the artwork went to the printer. A couple of Clash Web sites describe it as a hidden track, but it wasn't intended to be hidden. The sleeve was already printed before we tacked
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e) The meaning of the song's title is equally obscure. Sometimes it seems as if every little boy who once dreamed of growing up to be a train engineer became a songwriter instead. With the Clash, however, things are never quite what they seem — and no train is mentioned in the song. Mick Jones,
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at the end of the album. This was because the track was added to the record at the last minute, when the sleeve was already in production. Some editions include the song in the track listing. It was the first Clash song to reach the United States Top 30 charts and in 2010, the song was ranked number
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g) If the Clash were hard-line
British punks who despised America as much as their song 'I'm So Bored with the USA' suggested, why did 'Train in Vain' have such a made-in-the-USA feel? Strummer has admitted that despite the band's anti-American posturing, much of its inspiration came from this side
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but there wasn't time because the sleeves were already done." The result of its late addition was that it was the only song without lyrics printed on the insert, and was not listed as a track, but its title and position on the original vinyl record was scratched into the vinyl in the needle run-off
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h, i) 'Train in Vain'... has become a Clash standard, covered by artists as diverse as EMF, Dwight Yoakam, Annie Lennox and Third Eye Blind. Its influence crops up elsewhere, too: Listening to 'Train in Vain' and
Garbage's 'Stupid Girl' in succession makes clear where Garbage drummer and producer
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The song was also covered by
Atlanta alt-rock outfit Blueburst, featuring Marty Willson-Piper (the church, Noctorum, All About Eve) on guitar. Guitarist vocalist Craig Douglas Miller was inspired to make a slower and more somber version of the classic after the events of Summer 2020, when Miller
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of the
Atlantic Ocean. 'I was drenched in blues and English R&B as a teenager,' the singer says. 'Then I went to black American R&B with my group the 101ers. Mick had heard a lot of that stuff too, and he had this extra dimension of the glam/trash New York Dolls/Stooges scene.'
516:" were released on a 7" single in August 1980 (catalogue number CBS 8323). The song was released in the US as a 10" white label promo in 1979 (catalogue number AS 749). The US commercial release of 12 February 1980 (catalogue number 50851) consisted of a 7" that included the track "
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c) 'Train in Vain', written in one night and recorded the next day, was initially going to be given away as a promotion with the
British rock magazine New Musical Express. Only after that failed to happen did the band consider the song for inclusion on the
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f) Another curious aspect of "Train in Vain", given the Clash's political stance and reputation for social consciousness, is that it's a love song, with an almost country-and-western lyric that echoes Tammy
Wynette's classic weepie "Stand by Your
1446:"Train in Vain" isn't listed on the sleeve credits for "London Calling" because it was originally going to be a flexi give-away with NME. Unfortunately, the idea proved too expensive and the track went on the LP instead.
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The song has been interpreted to be about Jones' volatile relationship with
Albertine, who commented "I'm really proud to have inspired that but often he won't admit to it. He used to get the train to my place in
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In the US and Canada, the song's title is expanded to "Train in Vain (Stand by Me)", as the words "stand by me" dominate the chorus. It was titled "Train in Vain" in part to avoid confusion with
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used a drum loop from "Train in Vain" in 1996 for the Garbage song "
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recorded a soulful, dance-beat cover of the song on her 1995 album
1152:"The Clash: Clássico do rock politizado chega (atual) aos 30 anos"
1350:"The RS 500 Greatest Songs of All Time - Train in Vain The Clash"
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1459:"MTV Rockumentary Part 2 [Transcript]"
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1685:"The Clash Chart History (Dance Club Songs)"
1606:"Albums by The Clash — Rate Your Music"
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1416:. London: IPC Magazines. 16 March 1991.
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2658:Song recordings produced by Guy Stevens
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1318:"The RS 500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
1122:Partridge, Kenneth (13 December 2014).
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553:"Train in Vain (Stand by Me)" –
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1461:. londonsburning.org. Archived from
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1150:Nascimento, Débora (October 2009).
959:Certifications for "Train in Vain"
457:shortly before he wrote the song.
358:The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time
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2111:(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais
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1968:The Story of the Clash, Volume 1
1496:Gray, Marcus (26 October 2007).
1094:Taylor, Tom (12 February 2021).
767:The Story of the Clash, Volume 1
1272:Butch Vig located 'Stupid Girl'
262:reissued singles chronology
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1334:292. Train in Vain, The Clash
2209:Should I Stay or Should I Go
1628:Top RPM Singles: Issue 0189b
1386:"The Clash - London Calling"
1031:, and San Francisco rockers
2514:The Joe Strummer Foundation
1936:From Here to Eternity: Live
1638:Library and Archives Canada
830:— vocals, guitar, harmonica
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331:" is a song by the English
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18:1980 single by the Clash
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1172:Los discos del cambio
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1943:Live at Shea Stadium
1890:Give 'Em Enough Rope
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2509:Rock Against Racism
2503:Spirit of St. Louis
2367:Overpowered by Funk
2195:This Is Radio Clash
2033:The Clash Hits Back
2004:The Essential Clash
1608:. rateyourmusic.com
1362:on 28 December 2006
1240:on 21 February 2009
1169:Egan, Sean (2009).
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815:The Clash Hits Back
791:The Essential Clash
367:'s signature song "
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2462:Big Audio Dynamite
2360:Washington Bullets
2311:Brand New Cadillac
2297:Police and Thieves
2104:Clash City Rockers
2065:The Cost of Living
2040:5 Album Studio Set
1961:Black Market Clash
1763:(list of releases)
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1384:(2 January 2019).
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