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Kelly Buchanan – I Hate To See You Like This

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Being funny when writing a song is really hard.  Times and tastes change and sometimes a joke isn't funny the 30th time you have heard it.

My two favorite songwriters who are consistently funny are  John Prine and the Fountains of Wayne team of Adam Schlesinger and Chris Collingwood.

Adam passed on pretty early on in 2020 from Covid, much like Prine. This recording was from a tribute done in 2021.  There is a certain weight to the performance given the reason for the show but I love the way Buchannan belts this out.  Great tune, great performance.

 

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Fountains Of Wayne – Troubled Times

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When Fountains of Wayne released their self titled album I remember hearing "Radiation Vibe" on the New Music show on CFNY. I was in 8th grade and fell in love with the band. Sadly, with it being high school, most people were listening to terrible music like Creed instead. I was in 10th grade when FOW released Utopia Parkway. The album itself wasn't as good as their first effort but man, this tune really spoke to a 16 year old Hitman.  1998 was still the sort of early days of the internet and I e-mailed Fountains of Wayne telling them how much this song ruled and how it should be a number one hit.  A couple of days later I got a response telling me how their label released their record the same week as Creed released their album and the Creed disc got all the promotion while their album got no push. I was devestated and vowed to myself to hate Creed forever.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ECUrVVybwQ

It was a pretty easy promise to make to myself.

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