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

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-fountains-of-waynes-song-subaru/402783>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 4, 2007, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-fountains-of-waynes-song-subaru/402783 "2007-05-04T18:25:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2007, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-fountains-of-waynes-song-subaru/402783/1 "2007-05-04T18:25:37Z")

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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](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=419174) about songwriting and realized that it doesn’t get much better than FoW’s late '92, baby blue - Subaru! 🆒

Check it out! The whole new CD, _Traffic and Weather_, is wonderful…

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**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2007, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-fountains-of-waynes-song-subaru/402783/2 "2007-05-04T18:37:59Z")

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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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**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2007, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-fountains-of-waynes-song-subaru/402783/3 "2007-05-04T18:55:41Z")

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Those guys have pretty much got it goin’ on.

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**Author:** ![stretch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@stretch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stretch)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2007, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-fountains-of-waynes-song-subaru/402783/4 "2007-05-04T19:19:22Z")

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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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**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2007, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-fountains-of-waynes-song-subaru/402783/5 "2007-05-04T19:40:45Z")

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[QUOTE=stretch]  
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!

😃