{"id":486177,"date":"2019-05-22T09:00:06","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=838659"},"modified":"2019-05-22T09:00:06","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:00:06","slug":"songwriters-remake-soul-asylums-runaway-train-for-videos-25th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/songwriters-remake-soul-asylums-runaway-train-for-videos-25th-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Songwriters Remake Soul Asylum\u2019s \u2018Runaway Train\u2019 for Video\u2019s 25th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/9770504q.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">Singer-songwriters Skylar Grey, Jamie N Commons and Gallant have recreated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/soul-asylum\/\" id=\"auto-tag_soul-asylum\" data-tag=\"soul-asylum\">Soul Asylum<\/a>\u2019s 1993 hit, \u201cRunaway Train,\u201d and shared a video that might also help locate a new generation of lost children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The original Tony Kaye-directed video for \u201cRunaway Train\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/soul-asylum-finds-success-80705\/\">famously featured<\/a> real-life footage of missing children in the hopes that it might lead to their discovery. As the song rose up the charts \u2014 peaking at Number 5 on the <em>Billboard<\/em> Hot 100 \u2014 the video became a staple on MTV and miraculously led to the location and recovery of 21 of the 36 missing kids featured in the video.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NRtvqT_wMeY?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cRunaway Train 25\u201d \u2014 meant to mark the 25th anniversary of the video, which would have been last year \u2014 finds Gray, Jamie N Commons and Gallant putting a distinctly contemporary pop spin on the song, though without losing any of its original potency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The video, meanwhile, was produced alongside the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and takes a novel approach to the original clip\u2019s mission. Though a standard version is available to watch on YouTube, if it\u2019s viewed on the <a href=\"https:\/\/runawaytrain25.com\/watch-video\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cRunaway Train 25\u201d website<\/a>, geo-targeting technology changes the footage so that viewers receive information about children from their area who have gone missing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/rock\/8512560\/runaway-train-25-dave-pirner-interview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Billboard<\/em><\/a>, Soul Asylum frontman Dave Pirner spoke about the legacy of \u201cRunaway Train\u201d and the success of the video. \u201cI\u2019m not even suggesting that one thing led to the other, but as far as trying to bring about some awareness by using the platform of MTV, it really surprised me that it was as effective as it was,\u201d he said. \u201cKatie Couric was asking me about runaway children. It just was a direction that was very pleasing to me, because the rock videos were just getting more and more shallow, if you will. So I wanted to do something that had impact in the real world, and it did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/soul-asylum-runaway-train-video-25-anniversary-838659\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singer-songwriters Skylar Grey, Jamie N Commons and Gallant have recreated Soul Asylum\u2019s 1993 hit, \u201cRunaway Train,\u201d and shared a video that might also help locate a new generation of lost children. The original Tony Kaye-directed video for \u201cRunaway Train\u201d famously featured real-life footage of missing children in the hopes that it might lead to their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-486177","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 19:11:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}