Three chords in a fountain

The new Fountains of Wayne album Traffic and Weather dropped today, and I'm going to be picking it up at my favorite big box retailer on my way home today.

T&W has been getting lukewarm reviews (downright hatred from Pitchfork and Stylus), but to me, their songs are more addictive than chocolate covered crack, and I've been four years without a fix, so it's a first day in the store pickup for me.

I had this exchange with my brother while we were watching FoW on PBS Soundstage a few months ago.

Him: (vexingly) All their songs sound exactly the same!
Me: (groovingly) Yeah, aren't they great?

Robbie Fulks' "Fountains of Wayne Hotline" offers either a tribute or a takeoff to the band, where a songwriter struggling on a new song calls the Fountains of Wayne hotline, where their suggestions ("radical dynamic shift", "semi-ironic Beach Boys vocal pad") turn the song into a FoW song.."I'll ride these three chords til I die!"

Fountains of Wayne - Someone To Love (mp3)
Robbie Fulks - Fountains of Wayne Hotline (mp3)