Fountains of Wayne will release Out-of-State Plates, a two-disc collection of rarities, on June 28th. The compilation features twenty-six tracks that span the pop-rockers’ ten-year career.
“We’ve got a lot of stuff that was released only in really obscure ways,” Fountains co-frontman Adam Schlesinger told Rolling Stone. “There are songs from European singles, compilations and a few things that haven’t been released at all.”
Plates features the band’s 1999 cover of Britney Spears’ “…Baby One More Time,” which garnered much attention when radio mogul Howard Stern broadcast it on his show. The compilation also includes covers of songs by Jackson Browne, Burt Bacharach, Aztec Camera and ELO; fan-favorite oddities like “I Want an Alien for Christmas” and “California Sex Lawyer”; and two new tracks penned by Schlesinger and songwriting partner Chris Collingwood, “Maureen” and “The Girl I Can’t Forget.”
Meanwhile, the band has begun recording new material for the anticipated follow-up to 2003’s Grammy-nominated Welcome Interstate Managers. Schlesinger is also writing music for the Broadway adaptation of the 1990 John Waters film Cry Baby, set to debut in 2006.
The Out-of-State Plates track list:
Disc One:
Maureen
California Sex Lawyer
Janice’s Party
Karpet King
Baby I’ve Changed
I Know You Well
You’re Just Never Satisfied
I’ll Do the Driving
Nightlight
I Want You Around
Trains and Boats and Planes
Places
Can’t Get It Out of My Head
Disc Two:
The Girl I Can’t Forget
…Baby One More Time
Elevator Up
Comedienne
Kid Gloves
Today’s Teardrops
She’s Got a Problem (live)
These Days
I Want an Alien for Christmas
The Man in the Santa Suit
Killermont Street
Half a Woman
Imperia
Source rollingstone.com.
