![]() The musical centerpiece from the Tom Hanks-directed ’60s-set comedy of the same name is more than just a theme song: It’s a central character, an action sequence, a love story, a rise and a fall in 166 glorious seconds. ![]() The Wonders, “That Thing You Do!” (That Thing You Do!, 1996) 7 in Finland is literally about 1,000 records, so we’ve been living off that for a while.” His self-deprecation aside, it’s hard to think of a more prototypically 1996 radio-rock song than “Sink to the Bottom” - despondent yet triumphant with a melodic fuzzbomb of a chorus. “Apparently, it was in some Finnish beer commercial,” Schlesinger was quick to add to the A.V. 42 and (oddly enough) hitting the top 10 in Finland. “Sink to the Bottom” failed to chart stateside, but did respectably in the U.K., peaking at No. MORGAN ENOSįountains of Wayne, “Sink to the Bottom” ( Fountains of Wayne, 1996) “I got very jealous of that song.” While “Radiation Vibe” was actually written by co-leader Chris Collingwood rather than Schlesinger, it showed that Fountains of Wayne nailed its effervescent sound from the jump. The first song on Fountains of Wayne’s self-titled debut is a slacker-y delight with zonked nonsense verse typical of the era: “Are you alone now/ Did you lose the monkey/ He gave you backaches/ And now you slouch.” “It’s got some kind of magic, fun quality to it that we never really had in anything before,” Schlesinger told The A.V. To mark a musical genius’s tragic passing, Billboard is looking back at his 15 most essential songs.įountains of Wayne, “Radiation Vibe” ( Fountains of Wayne, 1996) 21 hit “Stacy’s Mom” and fan favorites like “Hackensack,” but enduring outside assignments for VHS-era hits like 1996’s That Thing You Do! and 2000’s Josie and the Pussycats, as well as songs recorded by the Monkees, the Click Five, and the Jonas Brothers. That musical telepathy not only led to Fountains of Wayne’s No.
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