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SUPPORT ME ON PATREON\n\nWATCH MUSIC is not a GENRE VIDEOS and MORE\n\nLoss is a constant. Loved ones. A job. The end of a relationship. The end of an era. Your youth. It hurts the most when there\u2019s a lot of love & desire. If we want to love, we have to accept that loss is always eventually a part of it.\n\nAnd so it goes with music. When a favorite band or artist is alive and well, every new album or single or show is exciting. Even if they break up or retire, there\u2019s always hope for one more reunion, one more album. Once a band member or artist dies, it\u2019s over. Forever. And so is that era for you. There\u2019s no way around it. It hurts like hell.\n\nWhen John Lennon died, a tremendous amount of hope died with him. I still feel it. Same for Kurt Cobain, Prince, and countless others. Unreleased tracks or faux reunions like those \u201cnew\u201d \u201cBeatles\u201d songs from the 1990s just don\u2019t cut it. It\u2019s trying to hold onto something that is over for good. Only the music and memories survive.\n\nFountains of Wayne, this week\u2019s band, is the first in a series I\u2019m doing on love and loss in music. Early on in the pandemic, Adam Schlesinger, the principal architect and songwriter, died of COVID. He was in his 50s and in the midst of a thriving career. The band had broken up nearly a decade before, but with him and lead singer Chris Collingwood alive, I held out hope they\u2019d do more stuff together. That all ended last April. And it sucks.\n\nFountains of Wayne were one of the few power pop titans that A. influenced the fuck out of me, and B. should have been way bigger than they were. They had their big hit, \u201cStacy\u2019s Mom\u201d, and that album was phenomenal. But so we\u2019re all their albums, and they had songs even better than that. As prolific and restless as Adam was, there\u2019s no doubt they would have done something again.\n\nSo that band is done forever. That era of my life is over. Death is dumb. But the music isn\u2019t dumb, and it isn\u2019t dead. It\u2019ll be around forever, and deserves to be heard and loved by way more people. We\u2019re lucky it was made. And I\u2019m lucky to still be around making music. My band REC\u2019s latest album owes a huge debt to Fountains of Wayne. Especially this song:\n\nREC \u2013 \u201cWake Up High\u201d\n\nAnd here's a link to the tribute concert I did last April:\n\nhttps://youtu.be/fghgpxoTtok\n\nDo you know this band? Is there a band that can never exist again that breaks your heart? Discuss dammit!\n\n\n--- \n\nThis episode is sponsored by \n\xb7 Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app\n\nSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/musicisnotagenre/support\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices