“Such a great format - this is a music appreciation, not a music critique, podcast. It’s fun listening to two people who obviously love music talking about albums that they love, and also giving a shot to things they wouldn’t.
My album recommendation is Fountains of Wayne’s self-titled debut. My first exposure to FoW was as the opener to Smashing Pumpkins in 1997, at the first rock show I ever attended (which, I guess, makes them the first rock band I ever saw live). I don’t think the rest of the crowd quite knew what to make of them, but even in my peppermint schnapps 101 (relax, we were know-nothing high school kids who took what we could get) induced haze, I was taken. Maybe it was the fact that this was the first live music I’d seen, maybe it was the perfect pop hooks, maybe it was the schnapps, but I immediately went out and bought the album and love it to this day.
Sure, everyone of a certain age knows and got tired of Stacy’s Mom and those in the know weren’t surprised to discover Adam Schlesinger was the genius behind That Thing You Do, but I really wish everyone knew Fountains of Wayne from this album, which I really think is as perfect a pop rock album to have come out of the 90s.”
dustingodsey via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
05/02/21