was the fifth professional single by the Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese band The Blue Hearts

The Blue Hearts

was a popular Japanese punk rock band that performed from the mid-1980s to the early-1990s. In 2003, they were ranked by HMV Japan as number 19 on their list of 100 most important Japanese pop acts...

. They had released one single as an independent group, making this the sixth single overall.

The single was released at the same time as the album Train-Train

Train-Train (album)

is the third album released by the Japanese band The Blue Hearts.-Track listing:#"Train-Train" #"Merry Go Round" #"Denkō Sekka" #"Missile" #"Boku no Migite"...

. Though the single version and album version of the song were cut from the same take, the single version does not include the train sounds or the blues harp and drums that are played at the beginning of the album version of the song.

The B-side song to "Train-Train" was "Mugon Denwa no Blues" (無言電話のブルース Silent Telephone Blues). Both of the songs were written by Masatoshi Mashima

Masatoshi Mashima

is a guitarist who has performed with Japanese rock bands such as The Blue Hearts, The High-Lows and The Cro-Magnons. He was born in Hino and raised in Kodaira in Tokyo, Japan.His nickname while playing was "Marcy."-Solo albums:...

, the band's guitarist.

The song was used as the theme song of the drama High School Rakugaki (はいすくーる落書), pt. 1.