It's almost here. The new album by Fountains of Wayne "Sky Full of Holes" will be out in the next couple of weeks and from what I've heard so far, we have a serious contender for Power Pop album of the year! The new set of songs are filled with Fountains of Wayne's trademark stories of quirky characters and absurd modern life. Of course there are plenty of hooks and this time there are a quite a few allusions to summer fun. In fact, it really seems like they planned this release to correspond with summer in the northern hemisphere. Looking forward to hearing the full release when it comes out.As is customary around here, I put together a compilation of some of the more recent b-sides, bonus tracks and songs played on American TV in anticipation of the official album release. None of these tracks can be found on "Out of State Plates" the official collection of B-sides released in 2005. For fans of Fountains of Wayne more rockers, you'll want to listen to this collection. Its a nice up-temp balance to the more mellow new album. Let me know if anyone has any rare tracks I'm missing!
1. Sense Into You - Japanese bonus track from "Traffic and Weather"
2. The Story In Your Eyes - Moody Blues cover, bonus track from "Sky Full of Holes"
3. Cookie Jar - Chris Collingwood song from "Ciao My Shining Store" compilation
4. You Gotta Go - Japanese bonus track from "Traffic and Weather"
5. Bus Stop - Hollies cover from "American Dreams" NBC Show
6. Too Cool For School - From "Scary Movie" soundtrack
7. Song of the Passaic - Bonus track from "Sky Full of Holes"
8. Monster House - Written for "Monster House" movie but not used.
9. Better Things - Kinks cover from "This is Where I Belong" Kinks tribute
10. Tell Me What You Already Did - From "Robots" soundtrack
11. Crank Yankers - from "Crank Yankers" show on Comedy Central
12. Joe Stein - from “Hey Joel” VH1 show
13. Bad Neighborhood - from “Hey Joel” VH1 show
14. Captive Audience - from “Hey Joel” VH1 show
15. A Busty Lad - from “Hey Joel” VH1 show
16. Androdgyny - from “Hey Joel” VH1 show
17 comments:
Thanks! You can't have too many FOW songs. Some real gems here. Looking forward to August 2.
Excellent Haper, you are becoming prolific.
Glad you are enjoying Don. Not much chance of becoming much more prolific.
Isn't "Places" on Out-of-State Plates? Or is this a different mix/version?
This stuff is great! Can these guys do anything that is not at least entertaining?!
Can't wait for the new LP (except I will have to wait!).
Ace
Thanks a lot Haber -- another great comp.
oops. Shriner, you are correct. "Places" was on Out of State Plates and should not have been included in this comp. My bad. I'll fix in a newer version sometime soon.
That's cool baby, you know how it is, rockin' and rollin' and what not.
http://www.mediafire.com/?6ysn0wghoruoxu5
shmoopatties
Haper - I missed out on this...any chance that you can repost the files?
Matt, I checked and the files are still there. Just follow the links...
Regards.
Haper - bizarre...when I click either of the Mega UL links in your post, it takes me to an error page and says
"Unfortunately, the link you have clicked is not available.
Reasons for this may include:
- Invalid link, etc. etc."
Try it now Matt. Think I fixed it.
That did the trick...thank you!
Is there anyway you can post this again!!!!! I been looking for these songs for a while!!!! PLEASE!!
Any chance of these being reposted. Thanks.
can you repost these tracks please? as per usual, i missed them...
Ordinarily I'd be glad to oblige but the tracks behind this post have been repeatedly removed (and quickly) that I think I'm supposed to get FOW's message. They don't want these up there. FOW are one of the most successful artists I've featured on this blog but if they don't think my blog posting is good for them, then I need to respect that. Sorry!
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