THE OFFICIAL BEN FOLD FIVE THREAD!
Cosmo
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The SQLiens hijacked the other thread so I'm doing it AGAIN>--->>>>>>>
It's your boy BEN FOLDS back up in this motherfucker like WHOA! You cannot, and I mean CANNOT front on this power-pop genius and his piano rocking skills!!!You know I had heard his name echoing distanly in the back of my mind with some kids talking about "Son did you cop that new Ben Folds joint" but I have to admit that I never heard, much less COPPED, and actual disc until I heard the unforgettable "Army" from the 1999 release "The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner." From then on it was nothing but UP! I used to listen to that record on a spring day. When I was house sitting for this girl I knew (I used to "break that off" in our spare time, if you catch my drift) I would blaze the speakers up bout it and be like whoa. I even sampled "Jane Be Jane" for a hip-hop record.So recently I have revisited this album and it made me remember the last "greatest summer ever" that I had, which was the summer of 1999. You had "Musical Massacre" and "Murda Music" but I also rocked joints by my dude Mr. Berry as well as the occasional Cassandra Wilson record and, OF COURSE, the Original Sound Track from "The PJs" (essential listening!)But you know what? Your boy Ben is right up in that mis as well. You got to hand it to him for being able to go against such tough competitors. I recently Illegally downloaded (I SEE YOU, Mr. Most!) his entire catalog and was quite pleased. In fact, I caught up on some of the live recordings the day I had to speak on a panel with Jazzy J. That's just what I needed to set my mind "right here."So big up to BF5, and I'm looking forward to your next project.NEXT UP[/b]Next on the list of bands I LOVE will be~ The New Radicals (This is the soundtrack for a summer, my friends. It could have been of a generation.)~ Len (It doesn't get any better than this.)
It's your boy BEN FOLDS back up in this motherfucker like WHOA! You cannot, and I mean CANNOT front on this power-pop genius and his piano rocking skills!!!You know I had heard his name echoing distanly in the back of my mind with some kids talking about "Son did you cop that new Ben Folds joint" but I have to admit that I never heard, much less COPPED, and actual disc until I heard the unforgettable "Army" from the 1999 release "The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner." From then on it was nothing but UP! I used to listen to that record on a spring day. When I was house sitting for this girl I knew (I used to "break that off" in our spare time, if you catch my drift) I would blaze the speakers up bout it and be like whoa. I even sampled "Jane Be Jane" for a hip-hop record.So recently I have revisited this album and it made me remember the last "greatest summer ever" that I had, which was the summer of 1999. You had "Musical Massacre" and "Murda Music" but I also rocked joints by my dude Mr. Berry as well as the occasional Cassandra Wilson record and, OF COURSE, the Original Sound Track from "The PJs" (essential listening!)But you know what? Your boy Ben is right up in that mis as well. You got to hand it to him for being able to go against such tough competitors. I recently Illegally downloaded (I SEE YOU, Mr. Most!) his entire catalog and was quite pleased. In fact, I caught up on some of the live recordings the day I had to speak on a panel with Jazzy J. That's just what I needed to set my mind "right here."So big up to BF5, and I'm looking forward to your next project.NEXT UP[/b]Next on the list of bands I LOVE will be~ The New Radicals (This is the soundtrack for a summer, my friends. It could have been of a generation.)~ Len (It doesn't get any better than this.)
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song for the dumped
battle of who could care less
Cosmo
Make sure that all of those items end up in the correct place, or there might be trouble....
But these dudes wrote that song brick right? Thats a pretty heavy song, cant front.
Yeah, that's them, and man, that was one of the most depressing pop songs I've ever heard.
I'm not being facetious at all. Len was the shit. I had the picture disk.
That Andrea True sample they used on "Steal My Sunshine" was on my "I need to flip that" list for years. You snooze, you lose...
I want to start an abortion club thread. Shit IS heavy. heavier than america and Ben Folds combined.
AI, dude you are confusing the hell out of me right now
slush you have no fucking idea how FOCUSED I am right now. Seriously, I ride for Ben Folds, I ride for America, I ride for Mark & Sharon Constanzo, Gregg Alexander and Andrea True. I'm moving and shaking things up in a big way buddy.
the only thing i can really feel right now is this 23 part audio lecture on relativity. TIME AND SPACE DEPEND ON YOUR POINT OF REFERENCE. so simple but so elusive in my shitty high school physics class
[you are ignoring this thread]
Who are these people?
Who are these people?
porn star
Read this:
Is that book good? I would like to read it I think. Has anyone ever read Hawkings "A Brief History Of Time"? I read this years ago when it first came out. I was 14 and was super into all sorts of shit on general and special relativity. I think I should read it again, because I was only just a kid.
This kind of reminds me of the lyrics of the song "Your Most Valuable Possession" from the BEN FOLDS FIVE album "The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner!!!!"
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It's pretty good. I have always been really bad at science, but I like to strech my brain every once and a while and read something I know nothing about. I have to read some of the theory sections more than once to fully grasp them, but there is a lot of history as well. Over all it is well writen and interesting. If you are into this kind of stuff it is well worth checking out.
Dude's music definitely opened me up to the idea that I wasn't just a hip-hop head. I owe it all to college radio for that. Michigan State's 88.9FM was the lick.
I think dude is one of the better songwriters of our time. He definitely doesn't get the credit he deserves. Plus his live show is vicious! I can never go to another one though, because his fanbase is anchored in that high school / college market. I feel old as hell at his shows.
Him and John McCrea of Cake... those are my dudes.
Cake has gotten stale and I didn't realize it was neo-hippy rock a la Guster, but the shit was still great for about 4-5 albums.
SEE IF PAUL CAN SCORE SOME WEED
YOURE ALL DRESSED UP LIKE THE CURE
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But yo I WILL RIDE FOR THE FIVE
This:
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I played the shit out of this record and I'm overdue for a listen.
Fuck it man, while we're at it we might as well invite this dude to the party
"Smoke" is a track that I still play from time to time. Pretty sure it's from this CD. Good song about letting the past live in the past. Very healthy.
I hate to poop on the floor when Cosmo is getting so open to Billy Joel's kid brother but a point of clarification: Ben Folds Five is no longer. They broke up amicably in 2000*. Carry on.
*All of this information is referenced from Wikipedia. Paging Sir Elton
true story, this dude I know, who is the worst kind of drunk(the surly kind, might even take aswing at his best friend when he gets blotto) was in this bar and Jeff was in there also(he had been staying in Memphis to record and hang out). Surly drunk dude thought Jeff had taken his backpack(he had the same one) and was arguing with him about it. Surly dude said "ahhh, fuck you, go jump in the fuckin' river!" A few days later Jeff drowned in the Mississippi river.