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| From | matty karas <mkaras@mindspring.com> |
| Subject | Re: FOW |
| Date | Wed, 18 Jun 2003 21:25:15 -0500 |
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> Stacy's Mom is a cute tune. I love the Buddy Holly injections...p-hoo-hoo-hoo-hool.
i beg to differ. billy joel might have been injecting some buddy holly when he called you up in the middle of the ni-i-ight in 1980, but what fountains of wayne are injecting in 2003 is pretty clearly billy joel. suggested alternate title for "welcome interstate managers": "the great suburban showdown." or "next phase, new wave, dance craze, anyways, it's still power pop to me." the whole album is pretty much a love letter to joel and particularly to "glass houses" (the lyrical reference to "just the way you are" in "peace and love" is probably just to throw us slightly off the scent). and "stacy's mom," from its new-wave guitar chug to that poo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-ool (eight syllables and i don't hear a single holly-esque "h" in there), is an open homage to "sometimes a fantasy" (which, hell, FOW covered the first time i saw 'em). add a little piano to "yours and mine" and you've got a classic BJ concert closer.
matty
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