Every time I hear ‘Love Train’ by Wolfmother I’m reminded of the times when it was the band’s new single and its video was making the rounds for the first time on MTV2 in the UK. 2006 was the year. Wolfmother seemed to come out of nowhere when the group’s video for ‘Dimension’ was also played endlessly on that channel. That was the first ever song of theirs I heard/watched and I guess its fair to say that became a bit of a fan. They wore their 70s hard rock influences on their sleeves but the music was amazing. I got their album as a result; I haven’t gone through it in a while.

After ‘Dimension’ and ‘Woman’ were released as singles, ‘Love Train’ followed. It wasn’t as commercially successful as its two predecessors but showed, at least to me, that they could be just a bit versatile and could lay on the funk on their music if they wanted. ‘Train’ is carried by this groove and riff that I’m sure probably came from some jam the band were doing in their spare time. The lyrics aren’t very substantive and I’m sure the music is meant to be the main thing to focus on, but from what I can hear the narrator hasn’t been in the game for a while and is looking to get back to it some time soon.

There are a load of copies of Wolfmother’s first album which have a totally different tracklist to the one I own, and that don’t have this song on there. The record was initially released only in Australia in late 2005; I guess either the band didn’t finish the song in time for it to be included, or they hadn’t even thought of it in between the time they released the album in their home country and its international release. Whatever happened, ‘Love Train’ exists, I’m glad it does, the music video you can see up there.