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Night Train

KeaneAudio CD
2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (94 customer reviews)

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  • Audio CD (May 11, 2010)
  • Original Release Date: 2010
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Interscope Records
  • ASIN: B002ZRPQ5K
  • Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Music
  • Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (94 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #19,000 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

1. House Lights
2. Back In Time
3. Stop For A Minute (Feat. K'NAAN)
4. Clear Skies
5. Ishin Denshin (You've Got To Help Yourself) (Feat. Tigarah)
6. Your Love
7. Looking Back (Feat. K'NAAN)
8. My Shadow

Editorial Reviews

Following the worldwide success and three consecutive #1 albums in their native UK, the members of Keane release the Night Train EP. Night Train features eight powerful new tracks which were written and recorded during the band's Perfect Symmetry world tour in 2008/2009 that saw them playing to packed arenas in 28 countries; Brisbane to Washington D.C, Copenhagen to Berlin. The album takes its title from the band's favorite mode of transportation during the tour, and includes Keane's genre-busting collaborations with Somali/Canadian rapper K'Naan, 'Stop For A Minute' and 'Looking Back'.

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Do you not like Keane? DA Jackson  |  14 reviewers made a similar statement
Only about half the songs were good. M. Roberts  |  10 reviewers made a similar statement
I have no problem with Keane wanting to try rap but this is just bad rap. reasondethroned  |  11 reviewers made a similar statement
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63 of 67 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Keane's newest doesn't leave the station... June 14, 2010
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
So, you're a Keane fan are you? Well, I hope you haven't bought the new CD yet...if you have, I'm sorry. Keane's newest release is 8 songs long, clocking in at a whopping 31 minutes. Sure, the Beatles albums were often short and no one would say they weren't great...and there have been recent memorable releases that have barely stretched a half hour...Paper Tigers by Caesars jumps right to mind. However, upon closer look and listen, this Keane CD falls very short of being called a classic. You can start with saying it's really a 7 song CD that clocks in at just under 30 minutes, as track 1, "House Lights", is a minute and 24 seconds of nothing. "Back In Time", which follows, is a good song, but nothing that will make you forget standout songs from past Keane CD's. When it's over, it's left your head. That's followed by the official single, "Stop For A Minute", which sounds extremely promising until guest rapper, K'Naan, sings lines like "Baby, you are just beautiful from your crown to your cuticles". Sadly, that gem might be one of the better lines and it makes me cringe every time I hear it. I'm certainly not against rap...even if it doesn't quite fit Keane's style...but I am against bad rap. The song "Clear Skies" follows, and it's easily the highlight of the CD. With hand claps and vivid lyrics, Keane makes you wonder if the ship has been righted and we're set for smooth sailing. But then "Ishin Denshin (You've Got To Help Yourself)" starts to play and you vomit a little in your mouth. I don't know what guest vocalist Tigarah is singing in Japanese, but if it's as syrupy sweet as the English lyrics, I don't want to know. I skip this song more than any other on the CD, which is saying a lot. Next up is "Your Love"...another song which makes you think things are headed in the right direction. "Looking Back", another song with guest vocalist K'Naan, follows and it's not much better than the first he guested on. Lines like "hard to separate my past from a rhyme, cause how could you separate milk from lime" will leave you scratching your head. Instead of thinking things are going to get better, you start to wonder if this Canadian singer/rapper has some incriminating photos of the guys in the band? Or maybe this is some cruel joke? Did Keane have to finish out a contract? Finally, mercilessly, the CD ends with "My Shadow"...which ends the CD on a decent note...if you didn't pop it out of your CD player before then.

Bottom line...if you're a big Keane fan, I highly recommend you stay away from this CD, or else you may be scarred for life. If you feel you must own some new music from Keane, definitely download "Your Love" and "Clear Skies". And if you can get an edited version of "Stop For A Minute", minus the rap...go there too. Otherwise...pop Hopes & Fears, Under The Iron Sea, or even Perfect Symmetry into your CD player...you'll be much happier you did.
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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Pretty, pretty, pretty bad! August 11, 2010
Format:MP3 Music
For goodness sake, DO NOT download the whole album! Listen well to the samples and don't assume a song will get better than what you hear there. Then download probably two tracks and resign yourself to listening to Hopes and Fears or Under the Iron Sea again for a year or so more while you hope for better.

Imagine a whole album of the worst parts of Perfect Symmetry, and that's what Keane have delivered here.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars EP, LP, it's all the same to me November 30, 2010
By Daimsta
Format:Audio CD
Do you remember the last Star Wars movie of the original 3 that came out, and before the big space battle, the fish general says, "It's a trap!"? I did some research, and it turns out he was referring to one of his staff asking if he should buy Keane's new CD "Night Train" and not the Galactic Empire knowing they were coming to attack (it was coincidence that the Empire did in fact know they were coming). SERIOUSLY THOUGH. I don't have time to deal with this EP vs LP stuff. I go to the store. I pay as much for this CD as I do for every other CD I buy. I should get the same quality for my money, right? WELL I DON'T. Keane snuck into my wallet with their decent song history and all I got for it was a bad rash inside my ears and arthritis in my joints from forever hitting the "Next" button throughout the CD in the hopes that a song worth listening to on it exists.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not mad. Okay I'm mad, pissed even. But I'm not pissed. Oh wait. Picture this: you're a music artist! And not someone in a basement, you have several CDs, a few hit songs, most people even know your name. Your band puts together 8 "tracks" that consist of an intro with no vocals and lasts a minute and a half, a featured rap artist that talks about being beautiful from your crown to your cuticles and separating milk from lime, a featured Japanese artist that never speaks English during her song so you have no clue what's going on, Keane using THE SAME 3 LINES FOR AN ENTIRE SONG, a song that steals the theme from Rocky, then burns it to a disc and calls it a CD worth asking the public money for. Can you guess what band and CD you are?

Are there some okay songs you can listen to more than once? Yes. Are they worth buying the CD for? Not unless you want an excuse to get all riled up on a Wednesday night and break out your digital pitchfork and torch on amazon's review section. I have loved most of Keane's music in the past. Nothing is ever perfect, but there was enough balance with experimenting and sticking with what they already did well that the CDs were worthwhile. If the experimenting in their other CDs was the equivalent of adjusting the amount of food a mouse in a cage gets every few days by a small percent, then this CD was dousing the mouse in gamma radiation, testing makeup on it, painting it's fur leopard print, renaming it to Lothar, giving it only sushi to eat and demanding it has until Tuseday to learn to play Beethoven's 9th ...or else. TOO MUCH EXPERIMENTING KEANE, TOO MUCH! And now look at the monster that you've created...stealing the Rocky theme, using the same 3 lines for a whole song, shame on you...
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars Give Night Train a chance!
The quirky, eclectic hip-hop sound of "Night Train" is very different from the somber, sweeping piano-based style that put Keane on the map, and I can understand how fans of the... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Ann
3.0 out of 5 stars Keane Has Taken A Step In The Wrong Direction
Let me start this review by saying that I've been a Keane fan, probably since about mid-late 2007 when I heard the song "Is It Any Wonder" on a guided tour for the original iPod... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Phillip Miceli
5.0 out of 5 stars I had to write this, as this is Keane at their most creative and...
Yes, it's not like Hopes and Fears! Yes, Strangeland is like HAF, and this is exactly what makes Strangeland fall flat. Read more
Published 12 months ago by A Music Lover
4.0 out of 5 stars Please Give This a Chance
We all bring a unique perspective to the critical table, that is what I admire most about people is that I think about all those emotions, reactions, thoughts, feelings that I have... Read more
Published 16 months ago by Immaculate Friend
5.0 out of 5 stars I LOVE THIS!
Never haerd of this performer until now. A few cuts hated but the ones I liked awesome. Thank you Amazon for exposing me to new music.
Published 16 months ago by C. J. Middaugh
4.0 out of 5 stars This train might be your ticket....
A great little ep for a solid price that, while offering nothing too new, continues to explore the territory of Perfect Symmetry a bit further. Read more
Published 17 months ago by James G. Mcmahan
4.0 out of 5 stars Don't believe the naysayers!
I am a fairly new Keane fan, and have heard all their albums, eps, and watched most of their videos and youtube performances since they came on the scene in 2004. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Melon
5.0 out of 5 stars Glad they are true artist.
I prefer artist that take risk. the same kind of sounds over and over again does not make me happy. I saw a lot of bad reviews saying bad things about this album because they have... Read more
Published 21 months ago by BohemianSoul
2.0 out of 5 stars Wow -- what happened???????????????????
I wouldn't buy this album if you've ever listened to any other Keane CD's and liked them... What can I say but it's hardly like his other work and it's like he has "guests" on the... Read more
Published on May 17, 2011 by C. OHARA
4.0 out of 5 stars Stone cold awes'
OK. It's not the soaring epic of Hopes and Fears. But it is really a great listen. I saw them live, and was totally amazed. Read more
Published on March 9, 2011 by Alpine Shine
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I have never cared about a band in my life like I did Keane. They honestly touched me like no other band. Under the Iron Sea was brilliant. I have noticed the people giving wonderful reviews have said "get over it". They think they are defending the bands right to experiment. They are... Read more
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