Kriegsspiel wrote: ↑Mon Apr 27, 2020 8:11 pm
The guitar effects in the Wonders songs sound like the synth effects in the Fountains song. The backing vocals harmonization. and their usage are similar. Nobody did backing vocals like that when Stacy's Mom came out. The vocal reverb is similar. It sounds like the Wonders song was recorded on old equipment (or, old effects, it was filmed in 1999), which gives it that vintage vibe.
It was a great movie.
Thanks for providing room for the following comments:
1) Passed both songs on the two vocalists in our band to see what similarities they saw. Have not yet heard back from them.
2) I did hit it on the Cars!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacy%27s_Mom
"In writing the song, he was hoping to take influence from new wave and power pop music: "I was thinking a little bit about "Mrs. Robinson" and sonically I was thinking about The Cars, a Rick Springfield sort of thing." He acknowledged that stylistically, the song "owes a debt" to the Cars' "Just What I Needed"; its opening guitar riff is similar.[7] The Cars' frontman Ric Ocasek thought that the intro was a sample from "Just What I Needed"[8] but the band says they performed it in the studio and just "got it right." "
3) "Stacy" in real life is a fellow Italian also from Rhode Island.
4) Over the decades I've many times read Rachel Hunter's name in the context of being Rod Stewart's wife but I don't know if I'd ever seen her prior to tonight. The thing I always thought about her was Rod Stewart in his live Unplugged MTV performance introducing one of his songs by saying it came out before his wife was born!
5) The movie came out in 1996.
VInny