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Available publicly for the first time: Adam Schlesinger, A Music Celebration, Virtual Show. Organized by Jody Porter and featuring appearances by Courtney Love, Sean Ono Lennon, Mickey Dolenz...
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- Jody Porter Unearthed
- 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.
Watch the new official music video for The Beatles’ “Let It Be”, filmed on the day after the January 30th rooftop concert. The footage has been meticulously restored from the 16mm negative....
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- Fountains of Wayne, “Radiation Vibe” (Fountains of Wayne, 1996) The first song on Fountains of Wayne’s self-titled debut is a slacker-y delight with zonked nonsense verse typical of the era: “Are you alone now/ Did you lose the monkey/ He gave you backaches/ And now you slouch.”
- Fountains of Wayne, “Sink to the Bottom” (Fountains of Wayne, 1996) “Sink to the Bottom” failed to chart stateside, but did respectably in the U.K., peaking at No. 42 and (oddly enough) hitting the top 10 in Finland.
- The Wonders, “That Thing You Do!” (That Thing You Do! , 1996) The musical centerpiece from the Tom Hanks-directed ’60s-set comedy of the same name is more than just a theme song: It’s a central character, an action sequence, a love story, a rise and a fall in 166 glorious seconds.
- Fountains of Wayne, “Denise” (Utopia Parkway, 1999) This carbonated 4/4 jam with wheedly synths has a sneaky way with detail about its titular love interest (“She drives a Lavender Lexus/ She lives in Queens/ But her dad lives in Texas”) and her day job (“She works at Liberty Travel/ I hear her heart’s made of gravel”).
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 Mom,” an ...
Apr 2, 2020 · But Schlesinger’s career extended far beyond that single to the screen, including everything from “That Thing You Do!”, the theme to the Tom Hanks movie of the same name, to songs for television shows like Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Sesame Street and Saturday Night Live.
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Apr 2, 2020 · Adam Schlesinger’s 30 Essential Songs 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 ...
