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Fountains of Wayne - Welcome Interstate Managers Audio CD

A fair review of the Fountains of Wayne "Welcome Interstate Managers" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Fountains of Wayne reviews here, or go back to the Fountains of Wayne tabs.

Fountains of Wayne Band: Fountains of Wayne
Title: Welcome Interstate Managers
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Release Date: 2003-06-10
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Mexican Wine 2: Bright Future in Sales 3: Stacy's Mom 4: Hackensack 5: No Better Place 6: Valley Winter Song 7: All Kinds of Time 8: Little Red Light 9: Hey Julie 10: Halley's Waitress 11: Hung Up on You 12: Fire Island 13: Peace and Love 14: Bought for a Song 15: Supercollider 16: Yours And Mine

Pleasurable Listening
Last year it was the Mattel commercial song "Have Fun", and
this year it was the song accompanying a catalog for gifts, "Valley
Winter Song, by Fountains of Wayne. It seems that every holiday season, I hear one or two jingles on the TV
commercials that are so beautiful that I pursue their source on the
internet. They are a soft rock group with
songs having harmony and pretty melodies. For those not full of teen
or early 20's anger, this is very pleasant listening.


One song takes me back a few decades...
. . to a time when you didn't have to be "edgy" (which is to say "punk wannabes") to get signed. As I write this, "Valley Winter Song" is being used on L. L. Bean's Holiday TV ad. On strength of the 30 lousy seconds heard in that ad, I ran a Yahoo search for the title based on the lyrics of that clip, came over here and downloaded the track. It reminds me of a cross between Simon & Garfunkel's "Flowers Never Bend In the Rainfall" and the work of a group nobody talks about these days: The Cyrkle (remember "Red Rubber Ball" and "Turn Down Day?). I hadn't thought about that band for ages and I used to play those two songs in garage bands. I keep hearing the phrase "power pop" in other reviews and I've been more and more suspicious of labels every day. Particularly since I first heard that term applied to Foreigner and Journey. Plus suggestions that the entire content of this group's albums isn't necessarily consistent with the "Winter" song. So what have we got here--an S&G/ Cyrkle of the 21st Century? That will be a refreshing change, given how we're inundated by gangsta rap pounding from nearby cars in traffic. .


"He was killed in a cellular phone explosion"


It's a great album, full of 1960's-sounding music, but with themes from the 1990's and 2000's. When I heard these words, the first of the first song, I was completely hooked. Every song's a winner, with lyrics that stick in your mind.


awesome.
fountains of wayne are more versatile than you'd imagine -- they span everything from country-like rock to punk rock to acoustic. i love this cd. and the lyrics are beautiful, as well. go fountains of wayne! .


A little uneven, but there's still some great songs to be found.
From the slacker salesman in "Bright Future in Sales" (Really reminds me of some old Nick Lowe) to the hopeless dreamer trapped in "Hackensack," there are a lot of great characters here. WELCOME INTERSTATE MANAGERS opens with a series of clever rhymes (or near rhymes as the acceptable equivalent) in the song "Mexican Wine" a bit of nonsense that sets the tone for this one. This one even has a hit for a band that deserves it in the form of "Stacy's Mom," a quirky look at teenage lust. But sometimes the songs land flat, like on Halley's Waitress" that stretches the metaphor way too far, "Hung Up On You" with it's forced twang, or "Peace and Love" that could be taken with tongue in cheek or not; it's just too earnest to convince. Then you hear something like "Valley Winter Song" or "Hey Julie" and all is forgiven. This is a band that's just hard not to like.
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