Caltrops - No Stairway to Heaven





	[quote name="Ice Cream Jonsey"][quote name="Fullofkittens"]Got the new FoW album (<i>Welcome Interstate Managers</i>) a few days ago. <i>WIM</i> is a sort of loose concept album about your life, assuming that your life is like mine was a year ago. Specifically, all the songs are about what it's like to be an office slave while trying to stay rock, or maybe not so rock. If you're an office worker in NYC, it's exactly about your life, as songwriter extraordinaire Adam Schlesinger also includes even more than his customary number of NYC landmark references. One of the creepiest/greatest moments of my first listen to the record occurred during "Little Red Light," where he describes being stuck at the Tappan Zee and whistling because he has no radio - which was <b>exactly</b> what I was doing less than 12 hours before I heard the song. So, that's my bias towards the record.[/quote] Props to you for making me feel less guilty for liking pop. I played jazz at every level I could growing up, and love progressive rock. But goddamn if I don't find myself devouring stuff like Fountains of Wayne lately. I actually just got back from a road trip, and the CD player in my automobile doesn't reliably play CD-Rs, so I went in and bought a couple discs before leaving. I grabbed <i>Anthem</i> by Less Than Jake and the FoW album that starts off with the song "Radiation Vibe." I really wanted to instead get the CD with "Troubled Times" and "Denise" on it, because "Denise" has gotten into my brain like how I suspect Stacey's Mom has done with you, and because "Troubled Times" makes me all weepy like a bitch with a skinned knee, but it wasn't in stock at either place I checked. Looks like I should have grabbed their new disc as well. the dark and gritty...Ice Cream Jonsey![/quote]