jcroach Posted August 14, 2008 Share Posted August 14, 2008 I tracked it down. If anyone is interested send me a PM. Ben folds admits to leaking his "fake" album. Rolling Stone article: http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/225...it_ben_folds_co I think he might have turned some people off with these fake songs though. They sound just enough like real, albeit sucky, songs that people might have been turned off from buying the album. I know I was! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
KevinG Posted August 14, 2008 Share Posted August 14, 2008 Ben folds admits to leaking his "fake" album. Rolling Stone article: http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/225...it_ben_folds_co I think he might have turned some people off with these fake songs though. They sound just enough like real, albeit sucky, songs that people might have been turned off from buying the album. I know I was! I actually like the fake album. The lyrics are pretty trite, but damn they are bunch of hooky pop songs that get stuck in your head. Plus when a lyric references Rushmore, it gains some points for me. The fact the leak was fake makes me want to buy the album even more Quote Link to post Share on other sites
solace Posted August 14, 2008 Share Posted August 14, 2008 considering his post BFF work has been just decent to average at best, i don't have high hopes for this new album, but i am curious to hear the songs w/ Regina Spektor Quote Link to post Share on other sites
KevinG Posted August 15, 2008 Share Posted August 15, 2008 considering his post BFF work has been just decent to average at best,... Wrong. Case and Point, "Late" and "Landed (string Version)" from Songs for Silverman; and "Still Fighting It" from Rockin the Suburbs. Three great songs. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DAngerer09 Posted August 29, 2008 Share Posted August 29, 2008 Ben Folds posted some interesting info on a folds fan site today: We've been planning something for Chapel Hill on Sept 18th that I'm told we have to wait a few more days to announce. There will be those who shit. I know I will. Very excited but I gotta hold it in a few more days. Most likely something involving Ben possibly uniting with the former members of the Five for a night, or at the very least Darren Jesse's band Hotel Lights will open. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DAngerer09 Posted August 30, 2008 Share Posted August 30, 2008 Review of Way To Normal from Paste Magazine: Ben Folds Ben Folds aims at normal, ends up on his butt in Japan By Jaan UhelszkiBen Folds may have named his third solo disc Way To Normal, but the North Carolina native doesn't have any such destination in mind. If you listen closely, you can see he's on the highway to hell, or at least to "Effington," his own version of the Truman Show. More movie set than true home, that song and the entire album reaffirms the long-suspected idea that Folds is more comfortable on the margins of art, respectability and society, a perpetual outsider reveling in his own eccentricities, from naming his former trio Ben Folds Five to mounting a tour with Ben Lee and Ben Kweller and dubbing it "The Bens" to producing an album for William Shatner to palling around with "Weird" Al Yankovic. Instead, these 12 songs are more of an anthropological study of aberrant human behavior, idiosyncratic news stories and bizarre chapters of the musician's own autobiography, all observed with the same unstinting absurdist eye as J.D. Salinger when he penned Nine Stories over 50 years ago. And much like Salinger's "Uncle Wiggley in Connecticut," Folds' "Kylie From Connecticut" suffers from the same thwarted dreams, disillusionment and frozen acceptance as the highball-drinking heroines in "Wiggley," and the song conveys that same sense of being the prisoner of your own wrong choices. But this doesn't seem to be the case for the Folds. Married four times, he seems obsessed with dissecting gender relations on this album, and understanding the physics of love in the bombastic and misogynistic "The Bitch Went Nuts" and "You Don't Know Me," his fragile, fractured duet with Regina Spektor. The album's standout track, the latter delves into a couple's intimacy problems using a he said/she said dynamic, but with a twist. Like those frothy Doris Day and Rock Hudson movies of yore, the song shows how a little bit of mystery works for a relationship. Almost high-concept musical theater, it's both lighthearted and profound, a blast of cold water on your expectations. Folds returns to the theme on two-song suite "Before Cologne" and "Cologne," but with much different results. It's a travelogue of a relationship in the last stages of decay, and it exquisitely captures imaginary conversations with an absent lover, and the small claustrophobic details that stay with you as watch your heart breaking. Woven into the middle of the song Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DAngerer09 Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 SPIN magazine has a full stream of the album version of Bitch Went Nuts-- http://www.spin.com/articles/ben-folds Quote Link to post Share on other sites
KevinG Posted September 30, 2008 Share Posted September 30, 2008 Just got the real version of Way to Normal from iTMS. Haven't listened to it yet (thoughts to come I am sure). Anyone else get this? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
remphish1 Posted September 30, 2008 Share Posted September 30, 2008 Seeing him tonight in concert! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin Posted September 30, 2008 Share Posted September 30, 2008 Ben Folds covering Dr Dre's Bitches Ain't Shit Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Scalzunfield Posted September 30, 2008 Share Posted September 30, 2008 I totally dislike the new album. Now, I've never been a huge fan but this album is really, really hard to stomach. It seems like he's trying waaaay to hard to be "cool" and lyrics come off as trite for it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mechanical_bird Posted October 1, 2008 Share Posted October 1, 2008 I really love the song "Errant Dog". Besides that, the new album is a couple good songs, and a bunch of ok songs. Hiroshima is awful. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
H to the ickle Posted October 1, 2008 Share Posted October 1, 2008 This new record is a resounding disappointment. I feel like I've heard all these songs before. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DAngerer09 Posted October 1, 2008 Share Posted October 1, 2008 Hiroshima is awful indeed. I skip it every time. I like a lot of the music on the album, but the lyrics are pretty juvenile on most of the songs. Good news is he confirmed he will be recording an album this winter with author Nick Hornby, so hopefully the writing will improve drastically. I'd say my favorites on this album are the slower tracks, "Cologne" and "Kylie From Connecticut." Dr. Yang is fun too. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SarahC Posted October 1, 2008 Share Posted October 1, 2008 i think it's a very solid record. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
remphish1 Posted October 1, 2008 Share Posted October 1, 2008 I like it way better than Silverman. Last nights show was good. He played most of the album and fake versions along with some good BFF songs... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SarahC Posted October 1, 2008 Share Posted October 1, 2008 I like it way better than Silverman. Last nights show was good. He played most of the album and fake versions along with some good BFF songs... i dig silverman, it's just a different type of record for him...seeing him live back in march was amazing. i wasn't expecting such a good show. did he do "narcolepsy"? that song is awesome! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
remphish1 Posted October 1, 2008 Share Posted October 1, 2008 i dig silverman, it's just a different type of record for him...seeing him live back in march was amazing. i wasn't expecting such a good show. did he do "narcolepsy"? that song is awesome! The Ben Folds Five Songs he played wereBattlePhilosophyKateArmy I have seen him do Narcolepsy several times in the past and it is a great intense live song! I still feel a little silly watching his bass player and listening to him as he sounds identical to Sledge in terms of sound. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SarahC Posted October 1, 2008 Share Posted October 1, 2008 it's all in the fuzz pedal! Army is awesome. I love the horn section/audience participation! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9Wldzhdu_o Quote Link to post Share on other sites
KevinG Posted October 1, 2008 Share Posted October 1, 2008 Hiroshima is awful indeed. I skip it every time. I like a lot of the music on the album, but the lyrics are pretty juvenile on most of the songs. Wonders if you are listening to the real album that came out yesterday or the fake leak that came out a couple of months ago. The fake leak is pretty juvenile and lyrically dumb (which was its point I think). The real album is pretty cool, lyrically more mature, but not a hell of a lot more, then the leak. Ben has always had a tongue and cheek way of witting, which can be off putting, but I think there are some great stories in the songs. I really like Hiroshima, it has an obvious nod to Elton John, which I like, though it meanders at the end, and the crowd noise is unnecessary. You don't know me, Errant Dog, Cologne, and Kylie from Connecticut, are the highlights. Though I don't think anything can beat Bitch Went Nutz from the leak. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bsr8j Posted October 2, 2008 Share Posted October 2, 2008 I really like this album so far and think it is a significant improvement over Songs for Silverman. Even the songs that sound like they could have been on that album (Cologne and Kylie from Connecticut) sound better because there's more variety here. Maybe Silverman had the same variety of sound, but my impression of it having not listened to it in awhile is that it was a flat record. I think the caliber of songs on this one is better and I genuinely like most of them so far. The only song I can't get into is Free Coffee. Other than that I think it's a solid record. Does anyone know the story behind Brainwascht? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DAngerer09 Posted October 2, 2008 Share Posted October 2, 2008 Does anyone know the story behind Brainwascht? He said someone wrote a song about him, so he wrote one back to them. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bsr8j Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 Does anyone know the story behind Brainwascht? He said someone wrote a song about him, so he wrote one back to them. But do you know who wrote the song about him? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DAngerer09 Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 nope, sorry. He mentioned it at a show, and people were asking "who wrote the song about you???" and he didn't answer. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MaGlaser Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 Ben Folds on Conan O'brien tonight! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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