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Apr 2, 2020 · Hear tracks from Fountains of Wayne, “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” and more — plus a tune written about the power-pop dynamo, who died of the coronavirus at 52. Adam Schlesinger was a gifted power ...
Feb 14, 2007 · View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2007 CD release of "Music And Lyrics (Music From The Motion Picture)" on Discogs.
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- CD, Compilation
- 5 min
- Jon Dolan,Brian Hiatt,Christian Hoard,Daniel Kreps,Angie Martoccio,Alan Sepinwall,Simon Vozick-Levinson
- “Utopia Parkway” (1999) Three years after landing an alt-rock hit with the Collingwood-penned “Radiation Vibe,” Fountains of Wayne returned with a concept album about dead-end suburban ennui that rivals the best of the Kinks.
- “Red Dragon Tattoo” (1999) There are Fountains of Wayne songs that rock harder (“Little Red Light,” to name one), but the band may not have recorded a more propulsive track than this Utopia Parkway highlight about a dude who takes the N train out to Coney Island in a desperate attempt to impress a girl who doesn’t know he exists.
- “It Must Be Summer” (1999) A most excellent power-pop bummer hidden at the very end of the second Fountains album, “It Must Be Summer” is the kind of song that would have guaranteed them a spot in the cult-classic canon even if they’d never scored another hit.
- “Stacy’s Mom” (2003) There was nothing really wrong with Stacy. She wore Van Halen T-shirts, rocked heart-shaped sunglasses, and liked to hang around by the po-oo-ol.
A native of New York City, Adam Schlesinger (1967-2020) was a founding member of Fountains of Wayne, Ivy, and Tinted Windows. He received two Grammy Award nominations for “Stacy’s.
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- Mark Grassick
- Fountains of Wayne, ‘Radiation Vibe’ (1996) The song that kicked off FoW’s first, self-titled record contains the nucleus of what made his songwriting partnership with bandmate Chris Collingwood so special.
- The Wonders, ‘That Thing You Do’ (1996) Most songwriters would cling onto a pop nugget like ‘That Thing You Do’ rather than give it away to a film soundtrack.
- Fountains of Wayne, ‘Red Dragon Tattoo’ (‘1999) Another Schlesinger/Collingwood trademark: a dorkily charming sense of humour, as they forever played the lovable losers. ‘
- Fountains of Wayne, ‘Troubled Times’ (1999) The counterpoint to that aforementioned sense of humour was Schlesinger’s knack for heart-melting sweetness. ‘
He won the 2019 Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics for "Antidepressants Are So Not a Big Deal" and was nominated for Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music for "Meet Rebecca" (Season 4 Theme) from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (both co-written with Rachel Bloom and Jack Dolgen).
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Apr 2, 2020 · Sung by Letters to Cleo frontwoman Kay Hanley, “Pretend to Be Nice” from the Josie and the Pussycats soundtrack is another case of Schlesinger delivering a hit for a fictional band rising to superstardom.
