The Hidden Genius of Fountains of Wayne

A brief documentary about ‪@FountainsOfWayneVEVO‬. Produced and written by Matt Beat.
My other channel: ‪@iammrbeat‬
My band: https://open.spotify.com/artist/62BsM...

All other images and video found in the public domain or fall under fair use guidelines.

A special thanks to the AP Archive for footage for this video.

Listen to the Fountains of Wayne: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1pgtr...

Sources/further reading:
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/fount...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountai...
https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/l...
https://www.concertarchives.org/bands...
https://msretailer.com/timemachinetue...
https://americansongwriter.com/who-is...
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/pos...
https://www.theguardian.com/music/mus...
https://louderthanwar.com/interview-f...


Creative Commons image and video credits:
Rob DiCaterino
Chuckschilling
NPRmusic
Andy Witchger

Today, Fountains of Wayne are mostly just known for “Stacey’s Mom.” This is sad to me, because frankly their entire catalog is brilliant. The songwriting combination of Schlesinger and Collingwood, in particular was pretty darn special. Fountains of Wayne may be known to some as a one hit wonder, but all of their songs could have easily been hits and hopefully more and more folks will realize this in the future.

I know this pandemic is horrible, but I am still in shock that it took one of my songwriting heroes, Adam Schlesinger. Please stay safe out there. Fountains of Wayne was one of those bands I listened to over and over and told as many of my friends about because, for some reason, they just didn’t understand how genius they were like I did. I’ve always been a sucker for power pop, and “Hey Julie” might just be the most perfect song ever written. So what’s your favorite Fountains of Wayne song or album? Which band should I do a brief history of next? Let me know in the comments below, and thanks for watching this dorky video I made.

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