In praise of Fountains of Wayne's song "Subaru"

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Pretty much a perfect power-pop song. Indelibly catchy, rocking, with nerd-perfect story lyrics and all the right highs and lows in the song structure. You’d swear that Cheap Trick played it at Budokan - but it doesn’t sound simply like a pseudo-70’s retread - only that they wanted that feel for their song…and Rick Nielsen, while a great songwriter and guitarist, could never write brilliant lyrics as arch and fun as this while still making them so easy to hum along to…

I hope they make a TON of cash when Subaru buys it for commercial use.

I was re-visiting this thread about songwriting and realized that it doesn’t get much better than FoW’s late '92, baby blue - Subaru! :cool:

Check it out! The whole new CD, Traffic and Weather, is wonderful…

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While we disagree on the CD (I think “Traffic and Weather” is just alright), “92 Subaru” is hands down the best song on the CD.

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Those guys have pretty much got it goin’ on.

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This is why I love this place…I didn’t even know there was a new FoW CD out, but of course someone does and mentions a song and now I have to have it. Mr.stretch will be stoked!

Thanks again, Dopers.

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My work is done here. Onward!

:smiley: