![]() Though it still contained much of what made FOW great, the punchlines seemed more important, the irony less necessary than ever - 'Revolving Dora' was just a bad pun, 'Planet of Weed' a bad skit.Äownload fountains of wayne 1996 free shared files. ![]() They followed up the hit with 2007's Traffic and Weather, the nadir of their corporate relationship. The subtle nuances, the tells that made Adam Schlesinger and Chris Collingwood's songs open up and bleed, weren't obliterated, but they were made harder to spot. The big stupid hit, 'Stacy's Mom,' seemed like a novelty song on the radio in the context of their whole catalog, it almost takes on the weight of The Graduate. ![]() As they grew bigger, the pressure to turn up the volume and turn down the empathy made their literary-grade sketches seem more like frat boy jokes. ![]() You'd never know it from the way they were presented by their record label, though. They began as an intoxicating mix of jangle-pop and Beach Boys beauty imbued with post-Weezer pop-punkish energy, but their secret weapon was nonetheless lyrical: a real gift for characterization that made every song a little five-star romcom. Sky Full of Holes Fountains of Wayne Yep Roc 08.02.11 It's not easy being the smartest kid in the pop-rock class, even less so when you're the most real, and Fountains of Wayne have always been both ever since their 1996 self-titled debut.
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