History Music / FountainsOfWayne

-->--'''"Stacy's Mom"'''

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* ShoutOut: "Someone to Love" namechecks Music/{{Coldplay}}, ''Series/TheLateShow'' and ''Series/TheKingOfQueens''.
** The video for "Stacy's Mom" contains several nods to the song's primary musical inspiration, Music/TheCars, including a license plate that reads "I ♥ RIC" (a reference to guitarist and songwriter Ric Ocasek), a character that is dressed in Ocasek's style, and a recreation of the SexySurfacingShot from ''Fast Times At Ridgemont High'' (which originally used the Cars' "Moving In Stereo").

* LeadBassist: In addition to his role as bassist, Adam Schlesinger was co-founder and one of the two main songwriters of the band. He also had an extensive career in other bands and writing music for movies and tv shows.

->''Stacy's Mom has got it goin' on!\\

Stacy, can't you see? You're just not the girl for me.\\
I know it might be wrong, but I'm in love with Stacy's Mom.''
-->--"Stacy's Mom"

Formed in New York in 1995 and named after a now-out-of-business lawn ornament store in Wayne, New Jersey, '''Fountains of Wayne''' was a PowerPop band formed by Chris Collingwood (vocals & guitar) and Adam Schlesinger (bass) with Jody Porter (guitar) and Brian Young (drums). Collingwood and Schlesinger originally met as freshman roommates at Williams College in Massachusetts and would record with various bands before splitting up to start two separate bands before coming back together and forming Fountains of Wayne under a deal with Creator/AtlanticRecords. Their SelfTitledAlbum dropped in 1996, and their most famous song is the Grammy-winning "Stacy's Mom" off their 2003 album ''Welcome Interstate Managers''.

* NobodyLovesTheBassist: A proud aversion. While not quite a LeadBassist, Adam Schlesinger is credited as one of the band's main creative forces, alongside being a very prolific songwriter and producer outside of both this and the many other bands he was also a member of.

* NobodyLovesTheBassist: A proud aversion; Adam Schlesinger is credited as one of the band's main creative forces, alongside being a very prolific songwriter and producer outside of the many other bands he was also a member of.

The band would continue to be active until the early 2010s, whereby the band has more-or-less dissolved after having a frustrating experience recording their final album, 2011's ''Sky Full of Holes.'' The group has not ruled out a future reunion but Schlesinger's death from COVID-19 in April 2020 has put a possible return into jeopardy. The band reunited for a virtual tribute show for Schlesinger a few weeks later with indie rock singer Sharon Van Etten filling in on bass, which has been their final appearance as a group to date.

Their music often describes the lives of ordinary people and alternates humor with a certain wistfulness.

* DownerEnding: "Someone to Love" - Seth and Beth [[spoiler:don't get together and are still as alone and lonely as they were at the start of the song.]]

* HippieVan: the hippie narrator of "Peace and Love" owns a Volkswagen van.

* LyricalColdOpen: "Mexican Wine".

* NonAppearingTitle: ''Welcome Interstate Managers''

* JadedWashout: The narrator of "Hackensack", who's still stuck in his hometown pining for his high school crush and hasn't grown at all since high school.
-->''I used to work at a record store''\\
''Now I just work for my dad''

* SelfTitledAlbum: They're first album was called ''Fountains Of Wayne''.

* {{Joisey}}: Adam Schlesinger was raised in Montclair, so the setting of New Jersey pops up in a number of songs, most notably "Hackensack". According to Chris Collingwood, "If it's about New Jersey or High school, Adam probably wrote the song."

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: 3-4, mostly.

* {{CloudcuckooLander}}: Dora in "Revolving Dora", who dances by herself and seems to be able to fly.

The band would continue to be active until the early 2010s, whereby the band has more-or-less dissolved after having a frustrating experience recording their final album, 2011's ''Sky Full of Holes.'' The group has not ruled out a future reunion but Schlesinger's death from COVID-19 in April 2020 has put a possible return into jeopardy. The band reunited for a virtual tribute show for Schlesinger later that year with indie rock singer Sharon Van Etten filling in on bass, which has been their final appearance as a group to date.

The band would continue to be active until the early 2010s, whereby the band has more-or-less dissolved after having a frustrating experience recording their final album, 2011's ''Sky Full of Holes.'' The group has not ruled out a future reunion but Schlesinger's death from COVID-19 in April 2020 has put a possible return into jeopardy.

The band would continue to be active until the early 2010s, whereby the band has more-or-less dissolved after having a frustrating experience recording their final album, 2011's ''Sky Full of Holes.'' The group has not ruled out a future reunion but [[AuthorExistenceFailure Schlesinger's death from COVID-19 in April 2020]] has put a possible return into jeopardy.

* {{Cuckold}}: "This Better Be Good" is about a man whose girlfriend is cheating on him with "a guy wearing light blue Dockers pants".

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Formed in New York in 1995 and named after a now-out-of-business lawn ornament store in Wayne, New Jersey, ''Fountains of Wayne'' was a PowerPop band formed by Chris Collingwood (vocals & guitar) and Adam Schlesinger (bass) with Jody Porter (guitar) and Brian Young (drums). Collingwood and Schlesinger originally met as freshman roommates at Williams College in Massachusetts and would record with various bands before splitting up to start two separate bands before coming back together and forming Fountains of Wayne under a deal with Creator/AtlanticRecords. Their SelfTitledAlbum dropped in 1996, and their most famous song is the Grammy-winning "Stacy's Mom" off their 2003 album ''Welcome Interstate Managers''.