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No Stairway to Heaven
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by Ice Cream Jonsey 08/11/2003, 1:22pm PDT |
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Fullofkittens wrote:
Got the new FoW album (Welcome Interstate Managers) a few days ago.
WIM 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 exactly what I was doing less than 12 hours before I heard the song. So, that's my bias towards the record.
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 Anthem 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! |
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Fountains of Wayne: Welcome Interstate Managers (long, rambling review) by Fullofkittens 08/09/2003, 10:25am PDT 
I'm sold - liked their first album, I'll pick this up. NT by Senor Barborito 08/09/2003, 10:31am PDT
Re: Fountains of Wayne: Welcome Interstate Managers (long, rambling review) by Chairman Mao 08/09/2003, 12:55pm PDT
It would be, if they'd kept their streak going. But they didn't. NT by Fullofkittens 08/09/2003, 12:57pm PDT
Stacy's mom: Anti-MILF by Entropy Stew 08/09/2003, 11:04pm PDT
!!! by Fullofkittens 08/10/2003, 12:47am PDT
No, he's right, sorry you lose. NT by Choson 08/10/2003, 2:44am PDT
Argh! NT by Fullofkittens 08/10/2003, 6:20am PDT
I Know it Might Be Wrong, but I'm in Love with Stacy's Mom. by creativepig 08/10/2003, 4:40pm PDT
You are also wrong. NT by Choson 08/10/2003, 9:03pm PDT
We have a serious gap in taste here by Entropy Stew 08/10/2003, 10:41pm PDT
At least we can all agree on The Doors and Pink Floyd. Right? by Fullofkittens 08/11/2003, 1:06am PDT
Actually we can all agree on the stuff you're making. NT by Senor Barborito 08/11/2003, 6:14am PDT
Don't like the Doors or Floyd? Wow, you are quite the intellectual. by Mr. Cranky 08/11/2003, 6:42am PDT
Is there some kind of rule that those bands are for retards? NT by Fullofkittens 08/11/2003, 9:28am PDT
Weak. NT by Mr. Cranky 08/11/2003, 10:17am PDT
Re: At least we can all agree on The Doors and Pink Floyd. Right? by mrs. johnson 08/20/2003, 9:20pm PDT
Style point when writing by Senor Barborito 08/20/2003, 9:59pm PDT
The contradiction was on purpose... NT by mrs. johnson 08/21/2003, 1:51am PDT
Clarification accepted - I do that myself if I think it will upset people. NT by Senor Barborito 08/21/2003, 1:59am PDT
Way to nitpick the best sentence he's written in a month NT by Entropy Stew 08/21/2003, 7:06am PDT
Re: Fountains of Wayne: Welcome Interstate Managers (long, rambling review) by Ice Cream Jonsey 08/11/2003, 1:22pm PDT
Re: Fountains of Wayne: Welcome Interstate Managers (long, rambling review) by FoK 08/11/2003, 1:44pm PDT
Now this is a novelty. by Lizard_King 08/20/2003, 8:45pm PDT
DIE. PLEASE. NT by Your secret identitty 08/20/2003, 9:09pm PDT
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