Fountains of Wayne Songs : Cover Songs & Music Videos Category

  • The Laptop Sessions: “Hey Julie” (Fountains of Wayne Acoustic Rock Cover Song)

    Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

    By Chris Moore:

    It’s been a lot of fun this week to see what bands Jim and Jeff are choosing to do. If you haven’t heard, we decided this weekend that this week will be “New Band Week” at Laptop Sessions.com. Each day this week, we will be posting songs by artists that have yet to be covered by us.

    My selection today, “Hey Julie,” is from Fountains of Wayne’s 2003 album Welcome Interstate Managers. I liked their previous albums, but this one is by far their best effort. Although it’s a very simple song, “Hey Julie” is one of my favorite tracks, and I thought it would be a perfect fit for the Laptop Sessions because it’s acoustic-based and incorporates harmonica.

    Be sure to visit the site tomorrow because Jeff’s “Original Wednesday” selection will be a world-premiere performance of one of the songs from his soon-to-be-released album, Greenlight!!

     



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Fountains of Wayne Acoustic Cover Songs

Best known for their first real hit single after three albums, “Stacy’s Mom,” Fountains of Wayne is a four member group, with two of the members – Adam Schlesinger and Chris Collingwod – as the principal songwriters. The duo has also been involved in other projects both together and separately, such as recording new music for the soundtrack for the Tom Hanks movie That Thing You Do, the Hugh Grant movie Music & Lyrics, and the 2008 America album Here & Now. While they have a firm basis in acoustic guitar music, their recording process involves a good deal of electric guitars, bass, and drums. Their new music continues to have favorable reviews, and their in-between-albums release Out-of-State Plates had a generous amount of new rock music and some of the best cover songs the band has ever released. The Laptop Sessions have released cover songs of such acoustic music from Fountains of Wayne as “Hey Julie” and there are more to come in the future.