At Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:54:21 Michael Vg

>  Never one to subsribe to the "supposed to like", but the one
>band I have tried to get into and understand what all the praise,
>hype buzz whatever is all about are the Beatles.
>  Sorry just kidding. Pavement. that is it. tried. Bought the CDs
>listened, put aside, listened again, eventually sold.
>  I agree with Bholmes, too much other stuff to explore.

Fountains Of Wayne. I've bought every CD hoping there's going to be that 
lightbulb moment and the only song that's ever moved me was "Red Dragon 
Tatoo". I can even see the appeal to "Stacey's Mom", but it all sounds so 
manufactured and contrived to not have any spontaneity. I can predict where 
the word couplets are going to go, the breaks, and the choruses. All 
formulaic in a TV commercial kind of way. I went to see them in 1999 at 
Lee's Palace with Owsley opening on a recommendation from a former audities 
list member who came to town and bought me a ticket.

Came out an Owsley fan and still, to this day, scratching my head over FOW.

Oh....and The Wackers. Sorry Bob. The stuff you played me of the band live 
is, hands down, absolutely brilliant -- I wished I'd seen you guys in the 
day. But the albums seemed to lack the cohesion that the Family Tree album 
seemed to have [I was hooked the first few bars you played of that at your 
house the last time I was over]. Song writing and performances are all there 
for the Wackers, but the production has always left me cold.


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