Fountains of Wayne

Fountains of Wayne - Fountains of Wayne

Fountains of Wayne
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Artist: Fountains of Wayne
Edition: Music CD
Published: 1996
CD Release Date: 1996-10-01
Music Label: Atlantic / Wea
Soundtracks:
  1. Radiation Vibe
  2. Sink to the Bottom
  3. Joe Rey
  4. She's Got a Problem
  5. Survival Car
  6. Barbara H.
  7. Sick Day
  8. I've Got a Flair
  9. Leave the Biker
  10. You Curse at Girls
  11. Please Don't Rock Me Tonight
  12. Everything's Ruined

Music reviews of Fountains of Wayne

Music Review: A solid debut and a good indicator of things to come.
Rating: 4 Stars

As a relatively late arrival to this band, I've been working my way around their catalog finally getting to the debut. I found pretty much what I expected: incredibly clever wordplay wrapped around solid power pop hooks; this band has been solid since the beginning. "Leave The Biker" alone is worth the price of the CD; a tale that every guy who thought Joe Jackson's "Is She Really Going Out With Him?" needed an update, will be more than satisfied with. The CD is filled with various takes on life's little mysteries and it's interesting to see how close the band stayed to its roots. If I have any complaint, it is the overwhelmingly mellow music; a little edge occasionally would be appreciated, but as a debut this is a good indicator of how talented this band is.

Description of Fountains of Wayne

Fountains of Wayne is one of the leaders of the latest in a long series of power- pop revivals. If the music sounds a lot like mid-'60s pop rock, it's no accident, for the songwriters are unabashed British Invasion fans. The songs on the debut album, Fountains of Wayne, take perky, '60s-like hooks and marry them to ambiguous, unnerving, '90s-like lyrics. Some songs offer an untrustworthy narrator; when the singer complains about "Joe Rey," a Eurotrash jet-setter, you wonder whether he's expressing disdain or envy and whether the song's noisy guitar energy belongs to the band or to Joe Rey. And there's something about the pent-up Mersey-beat energy and pleading vocals of "Please Don't Rock Me Tonight" that make one suspect the singer doesn't really mean what he says. Schlesinger and Collingswood are undeniably clever, but they're not afraid to rock. --Geoffrey Himes

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