Whatever happened to Fountains of Wayne? (c/d?)

If you are interested, Maron moved his 2012 talk with Adam out from behind the paywall. It's actually a pretty good talk.

http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/repost-adam-schlesinger-from-2012

Driving to the valley of POLLS: Fountains of Wayne's UTOPIA PARKWAY (An Adam Schlesinger memorial poll)

Is it Adam singing on Everything's Ruined? I always pictured that but never had that confirmed. It could have been the friend who taped me their debut told me so, but that was about 23 years ago so can't remember at this stage.

"From the night I can't remember / with the girl I can't forget" seems like such an obvious couplet and yet they wrote a perfect song around it and no one else did.

Many xp, Brian Young was the drummer on "Amazing Disgrace," my absolute favorite Posies album. Joe Skyward was the other half of the rhythm section for that one, and when I saw them live the power knocked my socks off.

Carl Wilson on Adam

"From the night I can't remember / with the girl I can't forget" seems like such an obvious couplet and yet they wrote a perfect song around it and no one else did.

Did this predate the Magnetic Fields song with a similar conceit?

always got them confused with ben folds five...

Can't get my head around this

Robbie Fulks on Adam:

https://www.talkhouse.com/heres-how-adam-schlesinger-did-that-thing-he-did/?fbclid=IwAR1WJ6tDHwrfP-nelFDaxeQldWP7LPdAqU3SxStMWmrb-lM1v8A21W31pfI

Xpost that Magnetic Fields tune was released first. The Girl I Can’t Forget came out a few years later on Out of State Plates.

CC on Adam:
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/adam-schlesinger-fountains-of-wayne-chris-collingwood-980798/

He viewed himself as a craftsman and not an artist, a word he considered pretentious. He worked diligently every day, even when he didn’t feel like it, which is true of a lot of successful people, and probably the greatest single difference between us.

lol that RS photo makes each member of the band look stoned on a different drug.

What a great interview. Reminds me a lot of Forster's account of Grant McLennan, except that Adam was really technically proficient.

Yeah

Very nice tribute. Does anyone know what their falling out was all about?

Artistic differences?

i read something in the last few days where Collingwood basically said he checked out during the making of Sky Full of Holes (drugs/alcohol-related, maybe? or maybe he just wasn't into it) and that forced Schlesinger to take over to keep the ship moving. and then once Collingwood was in a better place and tried to return - I'm paraphrasing here - "it was hard to go from him leading back to a 50/50 situation". i think that was the main reason for their separation ... if they truly fought, i'd guess it grew out of that as opposed to artistic differences or whatever.

i wish i could remember where i saw that, maybe someone else will know.

COLLINGWOOD: Well, the - you know, the struggles with alcohol were over in 2006 or so. And Fountains of Wayne was recording long after that. So it hasn't been an issue for several years. It was related to, I think, what eventually caused the demise of Fountains of Wayne in that when we were recording the record before the last Fountains of Wayne record, which was called "Traffic And Weather," I didn't really have a whole lot to contribute to that album. I was out to lunch a little bit, mentally, and just drinking too much.

And I think that the fact that I sort of removed myself from the process at that point made it really easier for Adam to take over. And when I was ready to actually make another album, you know, several years later after I'd sort of cleaned up my act, it was very difficult. It was very, very hard to get back into the position where we were equals.

https://www.npr.org/2016/07/24/487237229/fountains-of-wayne-s-chris-collingwood-returns-with-new-project-look-park

re: Sky full of holes

“Adam and I just fought constantly making that record,” he says. “We stopped making that record in the middle of making that record to try to work out a whole bunch of things that were going on between us. We saw a psychiatrist and tried to work things out. ”

In the end, they reached an agreement to finish the album, tour a bit behind it, and then go their ways.

https://veermag.com/2016/10/life-after-fountains-of-wayne/

and…

AS: I don’t know if Chris wants to do it anymore. Getting the last FoW record finished and out in the world was sort of a nightmare, frankly. If we can find a way to work together and have fun and be creative again and not have it be miserable, I’m totally into it. But I’m too old to have band fights.

CC: I like Sky Full of Holes quite a lot, but it was no fun to make. There were two different writers with two increasingly different visions, and we spent more time fighting than recording. I try never to say never, but it’s staggering to think of everything that would have to happen for me to want to repeat that experience.

https://louderthanwar.com/interview-fountains-wayne/

xpost i had the timeline wrong, but that's it - thank you vm

Listened to UP and Traffic and Weather this am as I was making Easter brunch. The latter was a mainstay in my car CD player after it came out. It’s obviously not on the level of its two predecessors and has fewer classics. But it holds up better than I remember and that the circumstances surrounding its recording would suggest.

Yolanda Hayes for the sneaky win here.

https://youtu.be/R3CfvtjZgog

^ Squeeze's Glenn Tilbrook's new cover of Hackensack

Hackensack is the best FoW song.
(also, Glenn Tilbrook is one of my all-time favorite songwriters, but this cover is a bit limp -- dude *is* in his 60's after all)

https://youtu.be/m9p8t4Q_MX4?t=185 him doing Red Dragon Tattoo in 2003

That's more like it -- back in 2003, Glenn still had the juice (I think i saw that solo tour)

Hackensack w/ Sharon Von Etten:
https://streamable.com/ph4a0c?fbclid=IwAR2WBl1GylprtMdOF9WnS_XXax_yX9fVtX_Sz94FYeTE3fo_RfY2Qpzcj_w

Nice.

Watched Josie and the Pussycats with the kids tonight. Of course Adam is all over the soundtrack, but I've always thought this one by him was a career power-pop highpoint:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Fzv-dbiJMM

yes!!!

crossposting w/ the emo thread, only up to the Silverman/Ben Lee "Way Back Into Love" but this is really nice so far

https://fatherdaughterrecords.bandcamp.com/album/saving-for-a-custom-van