Chris Collingwood had some nice things to say about Henning Goes to the Movies in a recent interview with Seattle's Sea Live Music.
It's a nice interview all around. Here's the blurb about this album, though:
We once got a stern lesson about the differences between a theme album and a concept album during a phone interview with Stephin Merrit of the Magnetic Fields. Given the band’s strong foundation of narrative-driven songs, has Fountains of Wayne explored the idea of doing a concept album… or theme album if we’re being strict with definitions?
I’m curious about what Mr. Merritt said. I read once where he said that when he’s writing an album, the first thing he does is visualize the poster for the theatrical production. I don’t know if that’s a concept or a theme. My friend Henning Ohlenbusch just did an amazing record called “Henning Goes To The Movies,” where he wrote songs about nine different movies that he liked for one reason or another. It holds together incredibly well, maybe because the rules he set out for himself were so strict that it really feels like a single piece.
Read the full interview here: Discussing Blessing, Curses, and everything in between with Chris Collingwood
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