Track Listing
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
| Details | | Distributor: | EMI Music Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Fountains Of Wayne: Adam Schlesinger (vocals, guitar, keyboards, bass); Chris Collingwood (vocals, guitar); Jody Porter (vocals); Brian Young (drums, percussion).
Additional personnel: James Iha, Jen Tryin (guitar); Ronnie Buttacavol (trumpet, flugelhorn).
Producers: Adam Schlesinger, Chris Collingwood, Mike Dennen.
Recorded at Stratosphere Sound, New York, New York; Q Division, Somerville, Massachusetts; The Clubhouse, Rhineback, New York.
Fountains Of Wayne was nominated for the 2004 Grammy Award for Best New Artist. "Stacy's Mom" was nominated for Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal.
Following a four-year hiatus that found Fountains of Wayne going from Atlantic Records to S-Curve Records, New Jersey's favorite power-pop outfit delivers WELCOME INTERSTATE MANAGERS, the band's third opus. FOW does an excellent job of capturing the suburban zeitgeist that dates back to the band's name (derived from a Garden State backyard fixtures emporium) and carrying on from 1999's excellent UTOPIA PARKWAY.
Wielding boatloads of hooks and harmonies, Adam Schlesinger and Chris Collingwood delight with songs about high school sweethearts (the melancholy "Hackensack"), a good woman's love in the face of a crap job (a sweet, semi-acoustic "Hey Julie"), and exploding cell phones (an anthemic "Mexican Wine"). With its handclaps, rad harmonies and perky synths, the irresistible "Stacy's Mom" fantasizes about a best friend's mom, and seems tailor-made for any future American Pie sequels. Other pop manna includes the Beatlesque "Fire Island," the country-fried "Hung Up On You" (featuring guest lap steel player Robert Randolph), and the Brit-pop psychedelia of "No Better Place." WELCOME INTERSTATE MANAGERS easily notches a place on any Best of 2003 list.
Editorial Reviews
Fountains of Wayne are known for one thing: giant, sugary power-pop that melts in your ears and unleashes hook-laden euphoria on your brain...
CMJ (06/30/2003)
4 stars out of 5 - ...WELCOME INTERSTATE MANAGERS celebrates the little people with full powerpop majesty...
Mojo (07/01/2003)
4 stars out of 5 - ...Moments of wry genius make a very special record...
Q (10/01/2003)
...Front-loaded...with a triple punch of joyously clever power pop... - Rating: A-
Entertainment Weekly (06/13/2003)
...[With] shimmering songs....The choruses explode like fireworks over a church picnic... - Grade: A
Spin (07/01/2003)
3 stars out of 5 - ...Bubbles over with unpretentious power pop...
Rolling Stone (06/12/2003)
Included in Rolling Stone's 50 Best Albums of 2003
Rolling Stone (12/25/2003)
Ranked #43 in Q's The 50 Best Albums of 2003
Q (01/01/2004)
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