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Fountains of Wayne - Utopia Parkway Audio CD

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Fountains of Wayne Band: Fountains of Wayne
Title: Utopia Parkway
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Release Date: 2004-05-25
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Utopia Parkway 2: Red Dragon Tattoo 3: Denise 4: Hat and Feet 5: Valley of Malls 6: Troubles Times 7: Go, Hippie 8: Fine Day for a Parade 9: Amity Gardens 10: Laser Show 11: Lost in Space 12: Prom Theme 13: It Must Be Summer 14: Senator's Daughter 15: I Know You Well [*]

"Maybe One Day Soon It'll All Come Out..."
"Troubled Times" features one of the most Ebola-like melodies EVER. Fountains Of Wayne have produced several underappreciated gems--"Denise," "Stacy's Mom," "Sink to the Bottom"--but the one I could forget only with years of intensive electro-shock therapy is "Troubled Times," a candied little ballad on the "Utopia Parkway" album. One, at the most two, exposures to it and you're done. The thing will stick to your cerebral cortex faster than your girlfriend's phone number.

But it's not like the words in the song are irrelevant. It's just that they fit the melody in a way that just seems right, like an olive in a martini. The song has to do with the inarticulate passions of love and the heart-quickening secrets of desire that can never quite be expressed right:

"Maybe one day soon/
It'll all come out/
How you dream about each other sometimes. . . "

It's a feeling almost emblematic of youth, the almost unbearable roller-coaster combination of two intoxicating emotions: your desire for someone and the agonizing realization that maybe, just maybe, they might desire you back. Yet none of this would matter a whole lot without that melody, which does to the lyrics what a French chef can do to a couple of eggs.

We've all been victimized by melodies so sickly sweet and juvenile, we can't escape their echoes (I won't mention "The Brady Bunch" theme song . . . Doh, shouldn't have done that). The answer to such a scourge isn't no melodies. Find Fountains of Wayne, and you'll see the answer is more melodies. This album is a MUST-HAVE, if only for "Troubled Times".
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