Fountains of Wayne - "This Better Be Good"

The demise of the New Jersey store from which they took their name—featured in the ‘Another Toothpick’ episode of The Sopranos—was probably an omen, as the band outlasted its namesake by only a couple of years. And when you add the desultory vibe of what turned out to be their final album, 2011's Sky Full of Holes (the recording of which singer/guitarist Chris Collingwood referred to when asked about a possible reunion as “staggering to think of everything that would have to happen for me to want to repeat that experience”), then it’s plain to see how referring to FoW in past tense is not just accurate but quite inevitable.

In any event, “the American Sloan” (are Sloan “the Canadian Fountains of Wayne”?) had their moments and not just the Top 40 hit “Stacy’s Mom”. Case in point: