Botch,This tune popped into my head today, had to call it up on EweTube:
Fantastic melody, feel, fun chord changes, spot-on harmonies, and hilarious lyrics. The video was top-notch, too.
Fountains of Wayne were a fantastic "power-pop" band, and the album Welcome Interstate Managers (that has this song) is right up there with Bridge Over Troubled Waters as a great, start-to-end album.
They played many of the late-night TV shows but were plagued with severe stage fright, didn't sound so good. Their next album was good but not the level of WIM, and they kinda faded into obscurity after that. The bass player/primary songwriter (whose name escapes me) died early on during COVID. They shined bright, but brief.
Yes, Adam. And Agreed! I didn't remember the "Saw" references in that video (a movie I haven't, nor won't, see) but the Biker line "crumbs in his beard, from the Seafood Special" may just go onto my own tombstone!Botch,
I think you are talking about Adam Schlesinger. I agree WIM is a great album but so is their eponymous album. Radiation vibe is a killer tune.Leave the biker is another great one. Just sayin!
Dude, that kinda rocks. I gotta more of there stuff.
Ah! Leia! - Donnie Iris
GREAT frickin' tune, hit the bars when I was a Sr. at SDSU, absolutely loved the tune. Double memories here too, he mentioned the pool in Idaho Springs, we gigged at The Wagon Wheel often in that town too (a fun tourist town with hot spring streams and pools running thru the town and even under a couple of the hotels.
EDIT: Of course, we can't forget this one!
???This kid was bragging about the tone of his new “gold” bass strings, but…
Well, the bass strings' tone didn't strike me at all (I'm not a bass player).
I thought was what you meant.Well, the bass strings' tone didn't strike me at all (I'm not a bass player).
But listen to him play!