In the comments section of our post on the "Hiroshima" video, reader sean took a moment to disparage the fake leak of Way To Normal before writing:He's squandered all of his stock-piled Ben Folds Five love ... Let's get the reunion gears spinning for that show. That'd be something, huh?For some people it would be, yes. Your wish is the Ben Folds Five's command, sean:~~
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Today the contrast podcast pays tribute to those bands that have been chosen most frequently throughout its history. To see who made the cut, go here and listen to or download this episode. I had the privilege of introducing one of my all-time favorites, Ben Folds . I chose a Ben Folds Five song from long ago, "Alice Childress." It's off Naked Baby Pictures and I do believe it wa...
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We're big fans of this generation's Randy Newman; the sultan of song, proud Nashvillian, friend to the shat: Mr. Ben Folds, so imagine our glee when these detail showed up in our inbox this morning after waiting three years for a follow-up to his last full-length solo LP (of new material). The album is called Way To Normal, it was recorded in Nashville by Dennis Herring (Elvis Costello, Modest ...
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"Although the counterculture spawned many new mediums, it was the music scene (with its viable commodities: graphics, posters, magazines, and records) that brought the revolution and the corporation into face-to-face confrontation. The counterculture didn't possess the means or the infrastructure to distribute its wares. For a split second everything was new, pure and untarnished, before the sc...
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Ben Folds is feeling a bit ambitious it seems. Inspired by the many university a cappella videos he found on YouTube of his music, Folds' new album, scheduled for spring '09 release, will be "a cappella versions of his music performed by the best university groups." Here's a couple I found just by typing "ben folds a cappella" in the You Tube Search box (University of Chicago's is off the hizoo...
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Back in October Ben Folds announced to the world that he was "scouting a college a capella group":http://mog.com/Charley_Rogulewski/blog/216266 for his next album in hopes of bringing to light "unique nuances and perspective that is necessarily absent from the original recordings as the songwriter and singer happen to be the same guy." Okaaaaaay... Flash forward some 5 months later, after Folds...
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After talking with some friends about my last post, one of them suggested, "What about a mix cd to break up with someone to." I thought to myself, what a novel idea. I have never had the balls to actually make a cd of you are getting dumped music. Usually it is me on the recieving end. Even when you are in the process of a break up, its not something that usually goes through your head. So, I d...
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Ben Folds Five - MySpace Front To Back concert"I was writing a much slower song, and it was the chorus. The instrumental part with the fluegelhorn was probably the only thing that we were really excited about when we left North Carolina. We'd been playing that together and it sounded finished and tight. There was a lot of editing going on in that song. It took a lot of turns and was a real evol...
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We all know how much Ben Folds loves colleges and a cappella bands. As a matter of fact, he is constantly on the college circuit, recently hitting up universities with both PMA fave Miniature Tigers and world fave Jason Mraz. At all of these shows, he makes sure to bring out the college’s a cappella [...]
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Yesterday, Blair (SatisfiedMind) was trying to pass off some unhappy songs as happy songs. (;) Then, I decided that was a perfect post: sad songs that disguise themselves as happy songs. You get to wallow in your grief with a smile on your face. Ben Folds is the king of this special type of music for me. I can't count the times I've been bopping down the road to Ben Folds and then a lyric...
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Dear Mog, I have enjoyed your community of music freaks like myself. Your acceptance of another audiophile blow hard like myself. You made me believe that I could make friends, post and post and respond to posts to my hearts delight, and my status would raise to "blazing hot!". Alas, I am still "under the radar." It is my pleasure to write about what I love, to learn about music I haven't...
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MUSIC NEWS - Epic Records has announced the release of BEN FOLDS PRESENTS: UNIVERSITY A CAPPELLA! on April 28, 2009. Folds was amazed when he discovered the number of colleges that have active a cappella groups on campus (1,200 in the US alone), so, on top of this, how many of them love to cover his songs, Folds decided to produce a record with the best of these performances. When
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The first time Ben Folds played with The Boston Pops at Symphony Hall in 2007, the concert was an odd mix of Folds songs and Pops pieces, a fight broke out in the mezzanine, and conductor Keith Lockhart was forced to temporarily halt the show. It was hardly your typical night at the symphony.On Friday night, Folds returned for round two, looking to make things right. It was an equally unusual n...
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This is my generation's Billy Joel plus some....I got to see Ben Folds perform at Vegoose at Sam Boyd Stadium in Vegas in 2006. I moved out there for about a year and a half; the show was directly across Boulder Highway from my apartment so I naturally attended the day show and a few of the Vegoose at Night Shows. The festival was not a big hit in the Vegas valley, but I would not expect it t...
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This song says it all. I have mine.....go get yours.l
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