Fountains of Wayne - Utopia Parkway (+ Bonus Track)
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Artist: Fountains of WayneEdition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Import
CD Release Date: 2003-09-09
Music Label: Atlan
Soundtracks:
- Utopia Parkway
- Red Dragon Tattoo
- Denise
- Hat and Feet
- The Valley of Malls
- Troubles Times
- Go, Hippie
- A Fine Day for a Parade
- Amity Gardens
- Laser Show
- Lost in Space
- Prom Theme
- It Must Be Summer
- The Senator's Daughter
- I Know You Well [*]
Music reviews of Utopia Parkway (+ Bonus Track)
Music Review: Their best work to date, plus a bonus track
Rating: 5 Stars
This album shows a wide range of lyrical and musical talent -- a talent for whimsy and humor, sympathy, melody, harmony, and rich production that overlays guitars, keyboards, and vocals into a beautiful pop soundscape. They can rock out too, as on Go Hippie and Denise. I suppose one could say it is a little lightweight, but writing the pop music equivalent of The Wall is not Fountains of Wayne's forte. It is what it is.
The Asian import adds a beautiful romantic bonus track, I Know You Well. It is not a throwaway song -- it stands equal in quality to the rest of the album.
The sound of the import, on my system, seems to be tilted more toward the midrange and bass, with a bit less zing in the high frequencies. That's not necessarily a bad thing. The USA release is a little on the bright side.
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Description of Utopia Parkway (+ Bonus Track)
Asian edition of sophomore album, originally issued in 1999, includes one exclusive bonus track, 'I Know You All'. Atlantic.Fountains of Wayne's second album is somewhat of a new thing under the sun: Pet Sounds for '90s Jersey high schoolers. Main-men Adam Schlesinger and Chris Collingwood litter these songs with cultural references (Pink Floyd laser shows, tattoos, Puff Daddy, lavender Lexuses, "You Dropped a Bomb on Me"), but their "Valley of Malls" is saturated with as much bittersweetness as that of Adam Sandler's wedding singer. The pop-savvy Schlesinger--who also puts in time as a member of Ivy and wrote That Thing You Do!'s title song--is wiseacre enough to dub a touching ELO tribute "Prom Theme," but when the album ends with one of the kids falling for "The Senator's Daughter," it feels as openhearted as when Brian Wilson puzzled over why he just wasn't made for these times. --Rickey Wright
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