In 2005, Fountains of Wayne, the band led by the late Adam Schlesinger and Chris Collingwood, got the ultimate salute: a hugely affectionate tribute song from soneone as musically gifted and sharp-…
asked Fulks to share what he thought made his fellow songwriter’s work great:
By “humor,” I don’t mean that they cast a satirical eye on their characters, or put laugh lines in their songs — though sometimes they did both — but rather that they used a light touch to coax humanly relatable absurdities, yearnings and ironies from fine-detailed and even drab scenarios. They situated their stories with journalistic care. The narrators were young single men, seemingly educated and clearly self-reflective , living in the mid-Atlantic U.S.
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