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Certain Songs #465: Fountains of Wayne – “Mexican Wine”

February 28, 2016 by Jim Connelly

Fountains of Wayne Welcome Album: Welcome Interstate Managers
Year: 2003

After 1999’s Utopia Parkway, which seemed to be a step back from their debut (though it did feature a song I almost wrote about, the gorgeous “Amity Gardens”), Fountains of Wayne came roaring back in 2003 with the album I consider to their masterpiece, Welcome Interstate Managers.

In my original review of Welcome Interstate Managers for Neumu, I predicted it would “go down as a guitar-pop classic, smack dab in the midst of the pantheon with any Big Star, dBs, Posies, etc. record you might want to name.”

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