- Welcome Interstate Managers · 2003
- Fountains of Wayne · 1996
- Fountains of Wayne · 1996
- Welcome Interstate Managers · 2003
- Welcome Interstate Managers · 2003
- Welcome Interstate Managers · 2003
- Welcome Interstate Managers · 2003
- Utopia Parkway · 1990
- Welcome Interstate Managers · 2003
- Welcome Interstate Managers · 2003
- Traffic and Weather · 2007
- Welcome Interstate Managers · 2003
- Welcome Interstate Managers · 2003
Essential Albums
- Named for a New Jersey decorating store beloved by Sopranos characters, Fountains of Wayne watch the goings-on of the bridge-and-tunnel crowd with gimlet eyes. Welcome Interstate Managers, the pop-rockers' third album, affectionately but wryly toasts the great dreams of suburbia. Of course, there's "Stacy's Mom," a Cars-style bopper that finds a teenage boy asking himself "the girlfriend or the mother" and opting for the older woman as his lust object. A handful of other songs tie into the title's business milieu, with a brazen young go-getter trying to pull it together for his "Bright Future in Sales" and an airline pilot fired for reading doper's mag High Times in "Mexican Wine." The laughs feel real, but the most genuine thing here is "Valley Winter Song," a holiday meditation for two.
Albums
Music Videos
- 2011
- 2011
- 2011
- 2007
- 2007
Artist Playlists
- RIP power-pop titan and Fountains of Wayne leader Adam Schlesinger.
About Fountains Of Wayne
Power-pop heroes Fountains Of Wayne released six smart albums full of wry lyrics and sticky hooks. Adam Schlesinger and Chris Collingwood met in college and formed Fountains Of Wayne, named after a New Jersey outdoor-furniture shop, in 1995. After the duo recorded a demo that got them signed, drummer Brian Young and guitarist Jody Porter joined the group, and their self-titled debut came out in 1996. Schlesinger and Collingwood’s songwriting partnership produced gems like the shaggy “Radiation Vibe” and the giddily fuzzed-out “Denise,” causing critics and diehards to hail them as pop geniuses; the band hit the mainstream with the faithful Cars homage “Stacy’s Mom,” which was accompanied by a video starring supermodel Rachel Hunter. Fountains Of Wayne split in 2013, and Schlesinger went on to write and produce songs for stage, TV, and The Monkees; he passed away from Covid in 2020, and the three remaining band members honored him with a reunion show.
- ORIGIN
- Northampton, MA, United States
- FORMED
- 1996
- GENRE
- Alternative