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My Private Nation is San Francisco-based rock band Train's third studio album, which was released June 3, 2003. The album was reissued February 8, 2005, as a CD+DVD dual disc set. The album is now certified Platinum in the US. Four singles were released from this album. The first, "Calling All Angels," was a top 20 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at #19, and was a huge success on the Adult Contemporary and Adult Top 40 charts. Second single "When I Look to the Sky" also hit the Top 100 and was successful in Adult Top 40 and the Adult Contemporary chart as well. Third single "Get to Me" was also a successful song on the Adult Top 40 chart, and the album as a whole has been certified platinum by the RIAA.
"I'm About to Come Alive" was covered in 2008 by country music artist David Nail, who released it as a single from his debut album of the same name.
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Radio-ready, professional and utterly dull, Train are a roots-rock band only a corporate accountant could love. Their musical influences sound fifth-hand -- distilled Matchbox Twenty, Black Crowes and Deep Blue Something -- and singer Pat Monahan seems like he's boring even himself. The band is surrounded by classy people such as producer Brendan O'Brien, who has made much better records with the likes of Bruce Springsteen and Rage Against the Machine. (Unfortunately, his résumé also includes Train's double-platinum Drops of Jupiter.) The up-tempo songs are worse than the ballads, and the attempts at lyrical sass are even worse than the sentimental cliches. The pop-culture references to Patrick Swayze and Courtney Love (which rhyme with "lazy" and "of," respectively), fall flat, like the guy in the next cubicle who's still saying "Talk to the hand," for some reason.
SOURCE: http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/train/albums/album/265434/review/5940504/my_private_nation
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