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Product Description
The Follow Up to their 1997 LP 'further'. Their Sound is Fine Tuned with the Aid of Howie B (U2 and Bjork) and Tommy D (Catatonia, Mcalmont).

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Average customer rating: I'm going to be listening to this one for a long long time Awesome Corny More of the Same from Fountains of Wayne Fun fun fun!

Traffic and Weather Fountains of Wayne Manufacturer: Virgin Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Pop | Styles | Blowout Music | Stores | Music Rock | Styles | Blowout Music | Stores | Music Alternative Rock | Styles | Blowout Music | Stores | Music All Blowout Music | Blowout Music | Stores | Music More Titles at Least 25% Off | Blowout Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Sky Blue Sky Because of the Times Favourite Worst Nightmare Easy Tiger We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank ASIN: B000N4SKFK Release Date: 2007-04-03

Tracks:

1. Someone To Love
2. '92 Subaru
3. Yolanda Hayes
4. Traffic And Weather
5. Fire In The Canyon
6. This Better Be Good
7. Revolving Dora
8. Michael And Heather At The Baggage Claim
9. Strapped For Cash
10. I-95
11. Hotel Majestic
12. Planet Of Weed
13. New Routine
14. Seatbacks And Traytables

Amazon.com

Punctuated by 2005's sprawling compilation of B-sides and outtakes (Out-of-State Plates), a nearly four-year interval between fresh recordings has done nothing to tarnish Fountain of Wayne's pop-drenched songwriting tandem of Chris Collingswood and Adam Schlesinger. This 14-song bash is a late-'60s/early-'70s time warp that exploits every facet of the pop action plan (chiming guitars, infectious choruses, sinful harmonies) and begs for radio play. As usual, the band never takes itself too seriously, crafting melodies around a lively, vigorous cast of characters that practically come to life. There's a DMV attendant who can't shake our attention (the bouncy, piano-boosted "Yolanda Hayes"), an airport-stranded couple waiting impatiently for lost luggage (the folksy "Michael and Heather at the Baggage Claim"), and ex-lovers who blame it on the highway ("Fire in the Canyon," which explores the radio country-rock of the Eagles and America). They sing of an old-model Japanese car to get the girl ("'92 Subaru") and Renee seeing you "at the Gap in a baseball cap" ("This Better Be Good"), and any way they shake it, even after a too-long interruption, Collingswood and Schlesinger rarely miss the mark. --Scott Holter

Album Description

A new, indelible cast of characters is inducted into the FOW pantheon of stars on Traffic And Weather: Yolanda Hayes, a sullen object of affection behind the glass at the Department Of Motor Vehicles; Seth Shapiro and Beth Mackenzie, two lonely, hardworking New Yorkers who cross paths - sort of - in "Someone To Love" (which features Hole/Smashing Pumpkins bassist Melissa Auf Der Maur singing backing vocals); the exhausted couple in "Michael and Heather At The Baggage Claim", dragging themselves onto an airport shuttle bus after a long trip; newscasters in heat in the album's title track, and many others. Hapless protagonists like the suspicious boyfriend of "This Better Be Good" and the hit-man target in "Strapped For Cash" are also classic Fountains Of Wayne narrators.

Travel and transportation continue to figure heavily in the on-the-go world of FOW. The guy who buys himself a "'92 Subaru" is convinced that the right pimped-out ride is all he needs to get the girl; in the Beatlesque "i-95" a driver explores a rest area gift shop late at night, on the way to visit his loved one; we hear of "an eerie kind of sadness on the highway today" in the Gram Parsons-tinged "Fire In The Canyon" (featuring backing vocals by the Candy Butchers' Mike Viola, who was the voice of "That Thing You Do"). The misery of sitting in coach on a delayed flight is examined in the wistful waltz "Seatbacks And Traytables" (which contains a guest appearance on guitar by James Iha). And in the semi-epic "New Routine", we follow a series of characters who each randomly pick a new place to live, only to discover someone else there who can't wait to move away.

Customer Reviews:

I'm going to be listening to this one for a long long time.......2007-07-24

Let's make it simple. The music is catchy, the lyrics are fun and original. I hear and feel Beatles, Fleetwood Mac, Sheryl Crow, and a whole lot of great 80's bands on this one. I dare you not to bob your head while driving and listening to the title track!

Awesome.......2007-07-20

It makes me laugh when I read reviews of people complaining about this record. I like all of FOW's records and I to might've liked a little more guitar driven rockers on this release but for the life of me I can't understand how anyone can put this record down. Nobody out there is as creative lyrically or hook wise and nobody is doing or can do what they are doing and I'm grateful as heck that there is a band out there that I actually look forward to hearing and learning those smart snappy lyrics. These guys are real musicians and that seems to be a long lost artform these days. Go listen to the radio and you'll see what I mean.

Corny.......2007-07-18

This album is either 2 or 3 stars - I decided for 2. This is the first Fountains of Wayne album I have listened to, but I have heard a few of their singles from years ago. The songwriting on this album is real corny, and intentionally so. A lot of the instrumentation is just as corny too - overly catchy hooks and harmonies that grate with only a few listens. Oh, and the name dropping and brand-slinging is rampant and also becomes grating.

Sure, they don't take themselves too seriously, but nearly every single song is obsessed with cars, trains, airplanes, and travel in some way. This obsession certainly is familiar to me - perhaps the songwriter is autistic? Or, to be fairer, maybe they were trying to create a theme album, however, I hear that this band is always obsessed with transportation. I don't know; I must say that I can easily remember each song, which is a good sign, but many songs are not memorable in a good way. I hear other albums, like their self-titled, are better. I recommend listening to that first if, like me, this is the first FoW album you are about to hear.

More of the Same from Fountains of Wayne.......2007-07-15

Fountains of Wayne's latest album doesn't change much of their formula. There are 14 songs, all some variation of pleasant, ultra-catchy pop-rock. It's all well-written and some of it is clever, and yet, the overall effect is something a bit diminished this time. I thought I personally had an endless appetite for cool variations on power-pop, but maybe that's not so true anymore. It's tough to pin down exactly what, if anything, is wrong with Traffic and Weather.

The songs, taken individually, are pretty darn good. There's opener and single "Someone to Love," which features a slight curveball in the familiar FoW formula by including a hyped-up disco-beat chorus. Then there's "Yolanda Hayes," a bouncy song with sweet lyrics about the narrator's attempts to woo a DMV attendant. "This Better Be Good" is about the paranoia of a man who keeps hearing sketchy rumors of his girlfriend being seen with other men and in places she isn't supposed to be. I-95 is a wistful country song with lyrics about driving down the titular interstate to visit a long-distance lover. "Planet of Weed" is a one-joke song that's made to work with the ambient sounds in the background- various clinking and low talking. Plus the piano that fades in and out, playing bits completely unrelated to the main song, and the tambourine that keeps showing up that isn't on the beat at all. "New Routine" is a strong rocker that zooms around the world and tells several stories of disenchanted people making a change in their lives.

But then there's the rest of the songs. The band's penchant for pop-culture references verges on the out-of-control on this album; it'll be dated by 2008. "Someone to Love" works entirely on its music and chorus, the verses reference Coldplay, King of Queens, and The Late Show, and you're getting a bit aggravated on the first song. Then there's "'92 Subaru," a song whose narrator is a pompous jackass talking about how he is pimping out his car. I think it's supposed to be ironic, but the "irony" comes across about as well as Motley Crue's "Dr. Feelgood" came across as an anti-drug song (now they've got me making the references- dammit!). "Traffic and Weather" is a one-joke song that doesn't work, as a male news anchor spends the whole song telling his female co-anchor "we belong together, like traffic and weather." The effect is creepy, and not so funny. "Michael and Heather at the Baggage Claim" is a boring story of a couple who have lost their luggage, and it's supposed to be sweet, but it's piled on too thick and becomes cloying. And "Strapped for Cash" features another unlikeable narrator that's supposed to be funny, this time a loser who owes money to everyone.

Leaders Adam Schlesinger and Chris Collingwood are as strong as ever in the songwriting department. But since their style hasn't changed nearly at all over the past decade, the weaknesses in the lyrics keep this album from being a home run. Too bad the guys didn't write more stuff like the two great new songs off of their 2005 B-side collection, "Maureen" and "The Girl I Can't Forget." Despite the complaints, this is still a pretty good album. I'd give it a 3.5 on the Amazon scale, or a solid 7/10.

Fun fun fun!.......2007-06-08

My only prior experience with FOW was Welcome Interstate Managers which I love. Listening to this band never fails to bring a smile to my face. No, they are not very "deep," but they are clever and I always feel like I am in on the joke. Their rhymes put me in mind of Lily Allen. The song that runs through my head these days is Traffic and Weather, but I love Strapped for Cash, and the part that makes me go Awww! is in Michael and Heather at the Baggage Claim where Michael asks Heather "Have you had enough?" and Heather says "Michael, you know it's you I love." And how about the places people end up in New Routine? Too funny. This is pop at its finest - catchy, funny and makes you feel smart.

Average customer rating: CHECK THIS OUT....!!!! Disappointing... If You Liked "Movies", Get This DECENT Cage:Weather Proof

Weather Proof Cage Manufacturer: Eastern Conference ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music Pop Rap | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Movies for the Blind Waterworld Nighthawks Porn Again (Revisited) Hell's Winter ASIN: B0000A4GBI Release Date: 2003-07-29

Tracks:

1. Intro
2. Summer in Hell
3. Leak Bros (featuring Tame One)
4. Come to Daddy
5. Underground Rap Star
6. Haterama
7. Weather People
8. Fresh Out the Morgue
9. Too Much (remix)

Customer Reviews:

CHECK THIS OUT....!!!!.......2005-03-24

OKAY, SO THIS EP FROM CAGE IS PRETTY SHORT, BUT THERE WERE SUM
GOOD JOINTS HERE, THOUGH LIKE SUMMER IN HELL, UNDERGROUND RAPSTAR, HATERRAMA, AND LEAK BROS. THE ONLY BAD SONGS WERE THE
TOO MUCH REMIX,SONG BUT THATS IT.
IF YA GIVE THIS ALBUM A CHANCE INSTEAD OF SKIMMING IT, MAYBE YOULL APPERECIATE IT MORE LIKE I DID...SO GIVE A CHANCE A CHANCE HERE. I STILL ENJOYED IT FOR HOW MUCH THIS THING WAS WORTH.

PEACE OUT.

Disappointing..........2004-02-28

I love Cage, however, this e.p. is a seriously weak effort from the guy that brought us the incredibly dope lps Nighthawks, Smut Peddlers, and Movies for the Blind. For one, with less Mighty Mi beats, the production suffers (even the perpetually brilliant RJD2 seems bored on this lp, giving Cage so-so fare) leaving Camu Tao to pick up the slack (with J-Zone and Cage still not quite working their kinks out of their chemistry and on the redudant "Too Much RMX"). Also, with Haterama only one verse long and already being released, this dessert e.p. suffers tremendously, wading in mediocrity where Movies For the Blind stood out like blood red mars, shimmering hauntingly in the night sky.

If You Liked "Movies", Get This.......2003-09-15

I personally love Cage, he's deffinatley one of my all around favorite rappers so I love this album and even got the advance release before it was out. However, it sure did have it's share of flaws. For one, the majority of Cage fans have already heard "Haterma" and "Come To Daddy" w/ Camu Tao, none the less they are still ill tracks. Secondly, I agree with the majority that the "Too Much" Remix on here is pretty weak. Besides that though, every track is ill and it's still a nice length for an EP. The production is very on point like always on Cage's stuff and that deffinatley stands out. Though I'd deffinatley tell any newbie of Cage stuff to spend the extra few bucks and buy "Movies For The Blind" first, if you are already a fan, this is deff worth your money. I gotta say, it sure has left me hungry for the upcoming work Cage is putting out soon!

DECENT.......2003-08-26

If you liked Movies for the Blind chances are you'll be feeling this release as well. My only complaints are its very short, 2 of the 9 songs are remixes which I didnt like as much as the originals, and 1 song was previously released on The Conspiracy, (come to Daddy). Weather People is nice (rjd2 beat), and my personal favorite song is Leak Bros. feat Tame One, dope Reef beat and the flows are nice. Cage is definitley stepping it up lyrical wise, but this album just feels like it was thrown together w/out much effort. If your a fan of the self proclaimed prince of leak this probably won't dissapoint you, but keep in mind its really short.

Cage:Weather Proof.......2003-08-19

If you want hot beats and great lyrics at once, i say u cop cage's new joint. Thats some Underground stuff at it's best.

the only reason i gave it 4 stars is because its too short but if it was longer it could have been a 4 1/2

****/*****

Average customer rating: This CD is great Great album!

Better Weather Heavy Blinkers Manufacturer: Brobdingnagian ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Chamber Pop | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | R&B | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Heavy Blinkers The Night and I Are Still So Young The Night and I Are Still So Young ASIN: B00005N8PH Release Date: 2002-01-01

Tracks:

1. It's Finally Done
2. Baby Smile
3. Far as You Are
4. Heartstrings
5. Long as I Am Able
6. Malm
7. Lazy in Love
8. Didn't Even Have Time to Dream It
9. I Used to Be a Design
10. Broken Wave
11. Helicopter Blues
12. Weight That Can't Be Carried
13. It's Finally Done

Customer Reviews:

This CD is great.......2002-07-17

If you like the Beatles, Beach Boys, Sloan, Carpenters, Matthew Sweet, Paul McCartney, Mike O'Neill or similar artists, then you will like this CD by the Heavy Blinkers. It consists of pop songs which are beautifully arranged and orchestrated.

Great album!.......2002-05-17

Left Banke meets FRIENDS-era Beach Boys. Highly recommended.

Average customer rating: Inconsistent but very good in parts... It could only have meant the end Excellent follow up

Weather Underground Geneva Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Britpop | British Alternative | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Further ASIN: B00004NHGM Release Date: 2000-03-13

Tracks:

1. Dollars in the Heavens
2. If You Have to Go
3. Killing Stars
4. Musem Uile
5. Amnesia Valley
6. Morricone
7. Guidance System
8. Cassie
9. Rockets over California
10. Place in the Sun
11. Have You Seen the Horizon Lately?

Album Details

The Follow Up to their 1997 LP 'further'. Their Sound is Fine Tuned with the Aid of Howie B (U2 and Bjork) and Tommy D (Catatonia, Mcalmont).

Customer Reviews:

Inconsistent but very good in parts..........2005-08-29

I've had the MP3 versions of every song on this album since the old Napster days. I recently decided to part with about a dozen dollars to get the CD (used). No, it's overall not as good as Further -- and aside from the vocals, it doesn't even sound like the same band, either. But several of the songs on this are so great I just had to have it in CD form. I'll make this short and sweet.

Recommended if you like: Remy Zero, Turin Brakes, The Autumns

EMINENTLY worth buying for: Dollars in the Heavens, Killing Stars, Amnesia Valley, Guidance System, A Place in the Sun

It could only have meant the end.......2004-11-13

Scotland's Geneva were, for a flash, a band that showed enormous promise, arriving on the scene in 1997 with a striking slew of singles in handsomely designed sleeves-within-sleeves and an ethereal debut album, 'Further.' Similar to Suede, Geneva charted more celestial territory, and the primary attraction was Andrew Montgomery's soaring falsetto vocals.

After their debut buzz, Geneva disappeared for three years and returned in 2000 with 'Weather Underground,' and oh what a disappointment it was. Overproduced, overmixed, and just generally overwrought, trouble sets in early on this album. "Dollars in the Heavens" constitutes a fine opening track, grabbing you with its sharp hooks and setting you afloat with its spacey imagery and sounds, despite some preachiness and heavy-handed lyrics (a mere shadow of things to come, as it were). Next up, though, is "If You Have to Go," a droning drag that sounds like an album closer (or worse, the sad theme to an adolescent romantic drama starring Claire Danes). Recovery is imminent, though, with track 3, the gripping and eerie "Killing Stars," Geneva's take on California's Heaven's Gate cult, which wiped itself in 1997 for a free ride on the comet Hale-Bopp. Sadly, the album dives into the mud again with "Museum Mile" and never returns to the surface. Some tracks start promisingly enough, and then go nowhere fast. You can very plainly see what Geneva are trying to do in songs like "Rockets Over California" or "Morricone," and that makes these failures all the more embarrassing.

This is a terrible album; messy, pretentious, unwieldy, and virtually unlistenable. It is only right that Geneva stopped recording after this album's failure, as to do otherwise would have made them appear fools. Montgomery's vocals, while they were breathtaking on the debut album, given the support of good songmanship, are absolutely cloying here, and there's this sickening preciousness about the whole affair. There's an "Aloof Mix" of the final track, "Have You Seen the Horizon Lately?," on one of the singles associated with this album, and it has a discernable melody and shape, unlike the album version. In fact, most of the songs on 'Weather Underground' sound like remixes instead of original recordings. Perhaps what this work needed was a little more 'aloofness.'

Excellent follow up.......2000-11-16

I had been waiting to buy this cd for ages and when I did I wasn't disappointed. If You Have To Go quickly became my favorite song with it's gorgeous lyrics and music. Combined with the soaring vocals and it is practically the most beautiful song ever written. Cassie is my second favorite song though in a different vain that I.Y.H.T.G. It's more poppy sounding with a nice beat to it. Dollars In The Heavens has some excellent lyrics and vocal ranges as well and deserved the be a single. All the lyrics are catching and make you want to sing along. A must for fans of fellow label mates Suede and anyone who likes the Longpigs, Marion, Pulp & the like.

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Earthquake Weather Kristian Hoffman Manufacturer: Eggbert Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000008TBZ Release Date: 1997-09-18

Tracks:

1. He Means Well
2. Lite Of The World
3. Earthquake Weather
4. Morose Colored Glasses
5. Man In A Hurry
6. Gaper's Club
7. That Beautiful World
8. I Had My Chance
9. That's Our Secret
10. Rehearsal
11. But It Didn't
12. Reasonable Man
13. The Fool Is Back Upon The Hill
14. Now I Understand
15. Bonus Track

Average customer rating: Possibly the most underrated band in the world!

Weather Underground Geneva ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Britpop | British Alternative | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B00004SA4N

Tracks:

1. Dollars In The Heavens
2. If You Have To Go
3. Killing Stars
4. Museum Mile
5. Amnesia Valley
6. Morricone
7. Guidance System
8. Cassie
9. Rockets Over California
10. A Place In The Sun
11. Have You Seen The Horizon Lately?

Album Description

Brand new album from Suede labelmates, follow-up to their 1997 debut 'Further'. Includes the singles 'Dollars In The Heavens' & 'If You Have To Go'. No US released date scheduled through the end of March. 2000 release. Standard jewel case.

Customer Reviews:

Possibly the most underrated band in the world!.......2000-03-31

This is a fantastic album, but possibly still not as good as their debut recording "Further". The album opens with the first single "Dollars in the heavens" which seems to have the potential for a big US hit. The second track "If you have to go" is an absolute classic and alone is worth buying this album for. Other highlights on the album are "Cassie", "Museum mile" and the instrumental "Morricone". It's a pity this band haven't had the recognition they deserve in their native Scotland. The only small criticism I would have of the album is the songs aren't quite on a par with those from the magnificient "Further" album. However, the band's sound has improved immensely. Go buy this album - you won't regret it!

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Underground Mary Lampson, and Haskell Wexler with the Weather Underground Emile de Antonio Manufacturer: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000SQ3MW4 Release Date: 2007-10-02

Tracks:

1. Statement By the Underground
2. Violence Is Necessary: H. Rap Brown, Malcolm X, M.L. King, Jr., F. Castro
3. The Viet War: Ho Chi Minh, N.T. Dinh, J. Ford
4. SDS, Chicago 1969, Days Of Rage
5. Attitudes Of the Underground
6. Self Criticism
7. Puerto Rico-'Mongo Affair'
8. Making the Film
9. We Are Professional Revolutionaries
10. The West 11th Street Explosion

Tracks:

1. Capitol Bombing-Returning Medals
2. Fear And Commitment
3. Class Origin And Class Stance
4. The Publication Of the Praire Fire
5. Make Up Of Capitalistic Power And the New Revolution
6. The Prison Movement And Attica
7. It Is the People Who Make the Change
8. We Are a Small Organization
9. Interview AT a L.A. Unemployment Center
10. Why We Are Communist & Speak Collectively

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"When I Was a Soldier" Ep The Weather Underground ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000QW256Y

Product Description

1 HowManyOperations 2 Beggar's Ballad 3 When I Was A Soldier 4 Turncoat's Palace 5 Nickel and Dime

Average customer rating: It was a new start

So Much for Fair Weather Kamilla Manufacturer: Kamilla ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CAKNQE Release Date: 2005-08-16

Tracks:

1. Catrina
2. So Much for Fair Weather
3. Leader
4. Hidden Track

Customer Reviews:

It was a new start.......2006-01-08

So Much For Fair Weather-Kamilla's second album, this time with a new singer. Jason is gone, and Johnny is in. Over-all the album was a success, but not as much as their first. Their music changed from a hard-metal rock, to an alternative rock, something that change their fan base. "All Your Sins and All Your Lies, They Will Be Judged Tonight!" Their lyrics are still awesome, but the sound, just isn't what "Kamilla" is known for.

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6. Barlotti
7. Behind You
8. Body Language [Extra tracks] [Limited Edition] [Import]
9. Break n' Bossa: Chapter 4 [Import]
10. Chilled/Disco [Import]

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