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1993 single past Soul Asylum

1993 single by Soul Asylum

"Runaway Train"
Runawaytrain(single).jpg
Single past Soul Aviary
from the anthology Grave Dancers Marriage
Released June 1, 1993[ane]
Recorded 1992
Genre
  • Alternative rock[ii] [3] [4]
  • folk stone[5] [6]
  • soft rock[seven]
Length 4:26
Label Columbia
Songwriter(s) Dave Pirner
Producer(s) Michael Beinhorn
Soul Asylum singles chronology
"Blackness Gilt"
(1993) 		"Runaway Railroad train"
(1993) 		"Sexual Healing"
(1993)
Music video
"Runaway Train" on YouTube

"Runaway Train" is a power ballad[8] [four] by American alternative rock band Soul Asylum. Its music video is notable for featuring images of missing people, nigh of them young children and teenagers. Lead singer Dave Pirner has stated that the lyrics originally described his experience of low.[nine]

"Runaway Train" was released in June 1993 as the fourth single from the band'southward 1992 anthology, Grave Dancers Wedlock, and became a success around the world. It reached number five on the United states Billboard Hot 100 and climbed to the superlative position on the Canadian RPM Top Singles chart, earning a gold sales certification from the Recording Industry Association of America and selling 600,000 copies in the US. Exterior North America, it reached number two in New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland and peaked within the superlative 5 on the charts on several other European countries. The song helped bring their album, Grave Dancers Union, to a multi-platinum level and won a Grammy Award for Best Rock Song in 1994.

Critical reception [edit]

"I distinctly recall first hearing 'Runaway Train', non to the lowest degree of all because it was the very first song on the demo cassette they sent me. Information technology just had this rawness to information technology. It felt similar the naked expression of this desperately deplorable person. Every sentiment, every lyric was so beautifully employed and placed. It all added up to a very intense mood, also as something that was easy for anyone to relate to who has ever felt lost in their life. It reminded of a classic state-western song in that way."

—Producer Michael Beinhorn talking to Spin virtually the song.[10]

Larry Flick from Billboard wrote, "Acoustic-anchored midtempo tune has a sweet, cord-lined undercurrent that is the perfect embodiment of the song's cinematic, romantic lyrics." He added, "Icing on top is a restrained pb vocal and pillowy harmonies. Deserves immediate play."[11] The Daily Vault's Christopher Thelen felt the vocal was "too sappy and dull".[12] David Howell from Edmonton Periodical deemed information technology "a melancholy vocal nigh hopelessness and despair".[xiii] Dave Sholin from the Gavin Report commented, "Groups like Soul Aviary don't come up around very often and neither practice songs like this one. For a riveting and chilling experience, go immediately to your VCR and watch the video, which gets my vote equally best of the year! A song that truly deserves to go a runaway hit."[fourteen]

Music writer James Masterton commented in his weekly UK nautical chart commentary, that "this rails comes with a powerful video featuring shots of homeless children, putting a whole new slant on what would ordinarily be an ordinary beloved song. Judging merely how well this brand of country-sounding rock will practice is hard. If there is whatsoever justice it will keep to exist a massive hit."[15] Afterward he added, "Always a strong rail and with 'striking' written all over it".[16] Pan-European magazine Music & Media described it as an "alternative guitar-driven pop combo", "temporarily injected with a dash of country."[17] Chris Mundy from Rolling Stone called it a "cute acoustic ballad".[18]

Music video [edit]

The music video for the song was directed by Tony Kaye and received heavy airplay on MTV and VH1 during its elapsing. It was published on YouTube in February 2010. The video has amassed more than 171 million views as of Jan 2022.[nineteen]

Several versions of the video were made. The video for the United States version begins with a fade to a blackness screen with a large, white blocked text reading: "There are over one million youth lost on the streets of America", while the Uk version begins with "100,000 youth are lost on the streets of Britain". The next scene shows a drawing of an adolescent daughter, and a Dave Pirner voice-over proverb that the drawing is by a girl who had run abroad more than 110 times. The scene was often omitted when the video was shown, a common do when videos had additional footage before or afterward the song.

Subsequently Pirner spoke, the video continued with various shots of the band playing the song, and Pirner singing. Iii physical scenes are shown interspersed among the other images of the video. During the showtime verse, a kid is shown witnessing his grandfather beating and eventually killing his grandmother, before fleeing in fear. During the second verse, a young teenage girl is pimped as a prostitute, and initially purchased past the aforementioned abuser. Later, she is dragged into a van by a gang; afterwards, she is picked up by paramedics and taken to the infirmary, after getting beaten up. During the coda of the song, a pocket-sized baby is snatched from his stroller by an older woman, with his mother running after the kidnapper's machine.

Throughout the music video, various images of children running, or appearing with injuries from abuse, are shown. During the choruses, pictures of missing children would appear on the screen. Afterwards each movie was shown, their total proper name would appear in large capital letters on the screen, along with the year they had been "missing since...".

Later on the video, in an ending also non regularly shown, Pirner says in front of the photographic camera, "If yous've seen ane of these kids, or yous are one of them, please phone call this number," with the post-obit screen showing a number i could contact. MTV cut this part out because they did not desire to have the video dislocated with being a public service announcement. VH1 shows the United kingdom version in its total length.

There were three original versions of the video in the The states, totaling 36 missing children shown.[20] The children shown varied with the location of the broadcast, using missing children from that area.

Resolved cases [edit]

According to Kaye, 26 missing children were constitute afterward existence featured in the video.[21] In 2006, guitarist Dan Murphy stated in an interview with Pasadena Weekly that some of the cases featured in the video had ended in tragedy: "Some weren't the best scenarios. I met a firewoman on the East Coast whose daughter was in the end of the video, and he'd been in a bitter custody battle with his wife over her", Murphy said. "It turned out the girl hadn't run away, simply was killed and buried in her backyard past her mother. Then on tour, another girl told us laughingly 'You ruined my life' because she saw herself on the video at her swain's house and information technology led her being forced back into a bad home state of affairs."[22]

The UK version of the video featured Vicky Hamilton and Dinah McNicol, who each went missing in 1991. Their remains were establish in 2007 at a house in Margate. Peter Tobin has since been convicted of both murders.[23] [24]

Also featured in the UK version was Mark Bartley, a runaway who went missing in 1992. He was recognized in the video by a human being who knew Bartley was staying in the tenant's house below them, but was unaware of his missing condition. By the fourth dimension the police force arrived, Bartley and the man he was living with were gone. It is unknown what happened to him after this.

Curtis Huntzinger, who was featured in the US video, was located deceased in 2008. His bedevilled killer, Stephen Daniel Hash, pleaded guilty to manslaughter and, in 2009,[25] was sentenced to 11 years in Folsom State Prison.[26] Aundria Bowman was also featured in the The states video. Her adopted father Dennis Bowman confessed to her murder in February 2020. Her remains were located later that month, and positively identified via Dna testing in May 2020. Already serving 2 life sentences for another 1980 murder, he was sentenced to a additional 35–fifty years for Aundria's murder.[27]

The last image in all three U.S. versions of the video is that of Thomas Dean Gibson, who disappeared from Douglas County, Oregon in 1991 at the age of 2.[28] He is still missing as of February 2021, and age-progressed photos of him at age 18 and historic period 21 were released in 2009 and 2012, respectively, by the National Heart for Missing and Exploited Children.[29] Thomas's father, Larry Gibson, a former deputy sheriff, was bedevilled of 2d degree manslaughter after prosecutors alleged that he accidentally killed Thomas when he shot at a devious cat in his front end yard fifty-fifty though no remains were ever found. Larry maintains his innocence and claims to have worked on finding Thomas since being released from prison house in 1996.[30] The instance was explored on an episode of Unsolved Mysteries.

The version shown in Commonwealth of australia showed a number of young backpacking tourists whose families were looking for them. Many of those shown in the Australian version were confirmed victims of serial killer Ivan Milat, who was arrested in 1994 not long later on the Australian motion-picture show clip was released.

Likewise featured in the video, merely withal missing as of February 2021 were Christopher M. Kerze, Martha W. Dunn, Andrea D. Durham, Wilda M. Benoit, Byron E. Page, Kimberly Due south. Doss, Duane Eastward. Fochtman, John F. Lango, and Patrick S. Betz.[31]

Track list [edit]

No. Championship Length
1. "Delinquent Train" four:25
2. "Black Gold – Live" 3:56
3. "Never Actually Been – Live" 3:12

Charts and certifications [edit]

Cover versions [edit]

"Runaway Train" was covered past Brent Smith and Zach Myers of American hard rock ring Shinedown on their 2014 (Audio-visual Sessions) EP[80] and English rockband, Smokie. It was too covered by the British pop band Busted on their 2004 double A-side "Thunderbirds / 3AM". Dee from 'Its Ever Sunny In Philadelphia' covered the song in the episode the gang hits the route. In 2019, National Middle for Missing & Exploited Children invited Jamie N Eatables, Skylar Greyness and Gallant to cover the song for "Delinquent Train 25" campaign. KIDinaKORNER/Interscope donate a portion of the proceeds from domestic digital downloads and streams of the recording to NCMEC for the get-go year.[81] [82]

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