10 Terrible Rock Bands With One Incredible Album
3. Drops Of Jupiter - Train
Seeing Train's career trajectory has been one of the more interesting cases in the pop rock scene. Although they did manage to pull off a career comeback with Save Me San Francisco late in their career, it's about time that we realize some of the more cringy aspects that come with Pat Monahan's songwriting techniques. If you want the more bearable version of this, we gotta take it back to the real early days.
Fresh off of their independently released debut, Drops of Jupiter was the moment that made Train superstars in the eyes of the public. With the title track alone, fans got a perfect piece of soft rock that actually managed to have a bit of muscle behind it with the string arrangements. And that wasn't the only strength of this album either, going for a more rootsy approach and making decent songs like She's On Fire in between the hits.
Are the lyrics still the wrong kind of zany? Yes, but the way that Monahan puts everything together makes you forget about the more questionable lines. The main bridge off of the title track is absolutely atrocious, and yet the melody is so sticky that you probably won't even care when it comes by. Any band's first steps might be embarrassing, but this is the real potential before Pat descended into the abyss of writing about Hefty bags and ripping off Heart and Soul.