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All rights reserved.| 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
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 CMJ (06/30/2003) Mojo (07/01/2003) Q (10/01/2003) Entertainment Weekly (06/13/2003) Spin (07/01/2003) Rolling Stone (06/12/2003) Rolling Stone (12/25/2003) Q (01/01/2004) | See an error? Submit a change request | ||||||||||
