My October "best of the 2000s" might bleed into November!
Looking back, 2003 was a really strong year for music! I ended up ranking Welcome Interstate Managers by Fountains of Wayne lower than I should have that year, because there were so many other great albums, and it seemed like a step down after Utopia Parkway.
Six years later, I rank WIM as one of the high points of this decade. The trick is to treat it like a 12 song album (ending with "Fire Island"), with tracks 13-16 as "bonus tracks". The first dozen songs are almost perfectly crafted, and flow seamlessly together, and makes for a great forty minutes of listening.
This album was FOW's commercial breakthrough that earned them a 2003 Grammy nomination for "Best New Artist"(?), thanks to a hit single with a saucy video featuring Rachel Hunter, but "Stacy's Mom" is probably no better than the fourth or fifth best song on the album. My favorite song on WIM is "Hey Julie", which is catchy and bouncy and almost perfect in every way.
Also, "Hackensack"!
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