Thanks Matty!  This was enough to send me over to Not
Lame right now to buy it.  I wasn't exactly putting it
off, so much as being lazy, but compare it to "Glass
Houses" and I'm THERE!  That was a formative album in
my youth.

anna



--- matty karas <mkaras@mindspring.com> wrote:
> > 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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