The Summer Place, Richie & Ruben, Someone's Gonna Break Your Heart and A Drop In The Ocean = great new FoW songs.
― Colin Allstations (PaulTMA), Saturday, 13 August 2011 04:07 (thirteen years ago) link
I like this more every time I hear it. The only one I'm not sold on right now is "Radio Bar." Think it's the sax.
My wife doesn't understand why I like this band, btw.
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Saturday, 13 August 2011 14:03 (thirteen years ago) link
I also just realized how much this band reminds me of Grandaddy circa Sumday. "El Caminos In The West" could have been a FoW tune. Anyone ever make this connection?
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Saturday, 13 August 2011 21:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Gotta say I've never made the connection to Grandaddy, but I have made the connection from both of them to Electric Light Orchestra so there's probably something in that!
― Sean Carruthers, Saturday, 13 August 2011 21:14 (thirteen years ago) link
I love this record.
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 16:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Me too. Weirdly, something of a grower, but I find myself passing over, cooler, more recently acquired other things to hear it when I'm driving. I like every song except "Radio Bar" (still not sold on that one).
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 20:54 (thirteen years ago) link
I chose walking in the sunshine to give this a first listen, and it worked alright, but I'm still not pulled in. I have a feeling that at some point in the future, I'll put it on and it will click, because I can tell that's it pretty solid even if I'm not yet overly-enthused. But the summer season is waning and I feel I need to act right now.
― Gukbe, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 21:04 (thirteen years ago) link
"summer place" was in my head today.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 1 September 2011 01:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Thought this would be about Hurricane Irene flooding.
― Hipster Shake Boogie (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 1 September 2011 01:41 (thirteen years ago) link
We're having a rough time here in NJ. Take a look at Wayne's Willowbrook Mall, just about a mile from what once was the actual Fountains of Wayne store....
http://media.northjersey.com/images/0830a_a3willowbrook.jpg
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 1 September 2011 01:57 (thirteen years ago) link
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 1 September 2011 01:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Back to the record, this is quickly becoming my #2 Fountains of Wayne record, right behind Welcome Interstate Managers. It's so much better than Traffic and Weather.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 1 September 2011 01:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Your second sentence is definitely true, but I can't imagine ranking WIM over either of the first two.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 1 September 2011 02:01 (thirteen years ago) link
I think I'm with kornrulez
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Thursday, 1 September 2011 12:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Maybe its nostalgia and all the hours I spent with the first two albums in college as an antidote to all the awful music my roommates were playing at the time, but I think those first two are pretty much perfect power pop albums. I'd rank 'em as:
Fountains of WayneUtopia ParkwayWelcome Interstate ManagersSky Full of Holes (although, with time, I think this may climb to #3)Traffic and Weatehr (definitely their worst)
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 1 September 2011 13:37 (thirteen years ago) link
I like this new record quite a bit after a couple of listens but unlike their other three good albums, I can't get into it TOO much because there's one song ("Someone's Gonna Break Your Heart") that is so far ahead of the other songs, it's absolutely perfect, maybe the best song they've done since the second album, so the other songs haven't had a fair hearing from me. Might listen to it front to back while skipping that one...
― unskinny blap (edwardo), Sunday, 4 September 2011 15:23 (thirteen years ago) link
jon OTM. First album is just classic after classic. Traffic and Weather was, I think, them trying too hard to be Steely Dan for middlebrow people, but mostly failed. (Although "Someone To Love" is still great.)
― Ad hom . . . in em's cock? (Phil D.), Sunday, 4 September 2011 16:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, a lot of enjoyable but imperfect tracks on the new one. Even "Someone" has a repeat or two too many. Better than traffic and weather which is full some superficially well written songs that are just not that fun to listen to.
― skip, Sunday, 4 September 2011 23:20 (thirteen years ago) link
I agree that track is the obvious standout though.
Xgau's certainly given them a lot of coverage lately (given his word limit). I dunno, they seem better as singles artists to me.
― dow, Sunday, 4 September 2011 23:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Just scored their catalogue up through & including Out of State Plates for $6 at a library sale.
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 9 September 2017 20:36 (seven years ago) link
"Welcome Interstate Managers" owns
― valorous wokelord (silby), Monday, 19 March 2018 18:00 (six years ago) link
Yes. I love that record.
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 19 March 2018 20:19 (six years ago) link
when I was 14 I was silly and didn't care for "Halley's Waitress" or "Hung Up on You", but I can't really blame myself for being young
― valorous wokelord (silby), Monday, 19 March 2018 20:29 (six years ago) link
Word on the internet street is that Adam Schlesinger has been placed in a medically induced coma as he's treated for COVID-19. Press isn't reporting it yet, but apparently known friends of his have confirmed it.
Hope it's a lie tbh, but also hope he beats it if it's not.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 04:18 (four years ago) link
Fuck
― silby, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 04:34 (four years ago) link
Jesus christ
― brechtian social distancing (Simon H.), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 04:36 (four years ago) link
Not in a coma: https://variety.com/2020/music/news/adam-schlesinger-coronavirus-coma-fountains-of-wayne-emmy-winner-1203549825/
― PaulTMA, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 14:13 (four years ago) link
well that's...probably good news at least
never seen his credits listed all together before, between all his projects dude has written a frankly ridiculous number of great songs
― brechtian social distancing (Simon H.), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 15:09 (four years ago) link
https://variety.com/2020/music/news/adam-schlesinger-coronavirus-dead-dies-1203552130/
Fuck. Only source I'm seeing so far, but Variety says he died. Hopefully this is proven wrong or premature, damn.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 22:23 (four years ago) link
Hell.
― silby, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 22:25 (four years ago) link
local station played radiation vibe the other night as a get well, such a great song, one of the great alt rock songs
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 22:29 (four years ago) link
Confirmed by Rolling Stone now too, dammit this one stings a lot. Been a fan since catching "Radiation Vibe" on 120 Minutes or something way back when, don't think they ever released a bad album. Also dug that Tinted Windows power-pop confab way more than I would have expected.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 22:33 (four years ago) link
Fuck COVID-19.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 22:38 (four years ago) link
RIP. The sound of my tweens.
― coco vide (pomenitul), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 22:39 (four years ago) link
wow
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 22:40 (four years ago) link
Holy shit... RIP.
― brechtian social distancing (Simon H.), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 22:43 (four years ago) link
Everything's ruined, indeed.
― brechtian social distancing (Simon H.), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 22:46 (four years ago) link
very shocking. this virus does not only hit the elderly or those with (known) pre-existing conditions.
― treeship., Wednesday, 1 April 2020 22:47 (four years ago) link
I had no idea he wrote songs for Crazy Ex-Girlfriend too, maybe I need to bump that higher on my to-watch list.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 22:50 (four years ago) link
Been a fan since catching "Radiation Vibe" on 120 Minutes or something way back when
Same. I bought the cd as soon as I could get to the store, and it remains one of the most perfect songs of the 90s.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 23:02 (four years ago) link
RIP Adam
saw Ivy and FoW play many times
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 23:03 (four years ago) link
Fucking hell, this sucks
― Mule, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 23:05 (four years ago) link
jesus damn RIPhuge Apartment Life fan
― brimstead, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 23:12 (four years ago) link
ugh :(((((((
― alpine static, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 23:19 (four years ago) link
Crazy Ex GF had some great songs.
― brechtian social distancing (Simon H.), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 23:19 (four years ago) link
bad time to ask this, probably, but do hardcore FoW fans know there are Adam songs and Chris songs, like Teenage Fanclub or something like that? or are they all pretty much collaborations that sound like FoW?
― alpine static, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 23:20 (four years ago) link
"That Thing You Do" has got to be one of the most convincing songs ever written for a film, also.
― brechtian social distancing (Simon H.), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 23:22 (four years ago) link
Never actually checked out Ivy, I'll have to rectify that.
― brechtian social distancing (Simon H.), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 23:28 (four years ago) link
horrible. he was so talented. he and rachel bloom were collaborating again, on a musical adaptation of THE NANNY. also i think i’ve mentioned this but “stacy’s mom” is an enduring party song at the college where i teach, like second only to “mr. brightside.”
― maura, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 23:33 (four years ago) link