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| From | "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net> |
| Subject | Re: Fountains of Wayne -- Am I alone out here? |
| Date | Thu, 08 Dec 2005 02:51:03 -0500 |
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We invited our friend David over for Thanksgiving dinner this year, to
spare him from having to eat at a restaurant -- or even worse, visit
his family -- and in the course of conversation, learned that he's a
recently-converted Fountains of Wayne fan, having gotten into the band
after hearing an interview on Fresh Air a while back. (This is really
weird because I've looked through David's iPod before, and 75% of it
is Romantic-era Russian composers.) But what was interesting to me
was that he's almost exactly the same kind of FoW fan I am, even
though he's only been into the band for a few months: he doesn't rate
the first album too highly at all and thinks it's full of cutesy joke
songs, thinks UTOPIA PARKWAY is by far their best record overall, but
thinks the best songs on WELCOME INTERSTATE MANAGERS are their best
songs ever, and thinks OUT-OF-STATE PLATES is mostly disposable.
This is particularly interesting to me because my experience has
mostly been that people are either *very* into FoW (our other dinner
guest, Lisa, is exhibit A in this regard) or they can't stand them at
all. I just liked knowing that there's someone else out there who
quite likes but doesn't worship them.
S
NP: "Move On Up" -- Curtis Mayfield
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