{"id":22686,"date":"2015-05-18T11:14:34","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T17:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/?p=22686"},"modified":"2015-05-18T07:17:39","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T13:17:39","slug":"train-to-release-a-christmas-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/train-to-release-a-christmas-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Train to Release a Christmas Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Train<\/em> is releasing a <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> album this year. <\/p>\n<p>Frontman Pat Monahan told Billboard that the band is currently recording a <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> album with the tentative title <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> in Tahoe. And Monahan promises it will be no ordinary holiday album.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a couple of traditional covers on there, but we tried not to do the same stuff everybody else does,\u201d Monahan said to Billboard, explaining what fans can expect from the album. He listed a cover of The Band\u2019s \u201cChristmas Must Be Tonight\u201d Train is doing as an example of what\u2019s to come.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately there\u2019s no word on whether the band will do <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> versions of their biggest hits, such as a \u201cChristmas <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/sneaking-christmas\/\">Lights<\/a> of Jupiter,\u201d \u201cMeet <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Santa<\/a> Claus,\u201d or \u201cDrive By (a Holiday Light Show).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Train previously released a holiday-themed single, \u201cShake Up Christmas\u201d in 2010, though that song was included as part of a special edition version of the band\u2019s Save Me, San Francisco album. The band last released a record in 2014, Bulletproof Picasso, and Monahan indicates that the <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> album will bridge the gap in between Picasso and the band\u2019s next album.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J-8VCL4uSUc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Train is releasing a Christmas album this year. Frontman Pat Monahan told Billboard that the band is currently recording a Christmas album with the tentative title Christmas in Tahoe. And Monahan promises it will be no ordinary holiday album. \u201cThere\u2019s a couple of traditional covers on there, but we tried not to do the same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","iawp_total_views":8,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,6],"tags":[22,188],"class_list":["post-22686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas-features","category-christmas-music","tag-christmas","tag-train"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}