Ben Folds Sucks
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I love him, but I will agree that the vast majority of his solo material is lacking. My favorite tracks with his new band were on one of those EPs he released (I think one of them was called "Dog"), but I found out later these were early Ben Folds Five demos, so that explains things.
Also, The Bens suck.
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I love him, but I will agree that the vast majority of his solo material is lacking. My favorite tracks with his new band were on one of those EPs he released (I think one of them was called "Dog"), but I found out later these were early Ben Folds Five demos, so that explains things.
Also, The Bens suck.
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LIES!Girl Toes wrote:Ben Folds Sucks
I wasn't too enamored with Songs for Silverman, but I wouldn't say it sucked. I do agree that Ben Folds Five is superior to the solo stuff.
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What sucks about Ben Folds? To me, the guy's a brilliant songwriter and a breath of fresh air to the music industry. Sure, he's not the greatest singer in the world, but to me, that's one of the awesome things about him. He's quirky and has a great sense of humour in his writing (again, something that was lacking from almost everyone in the mainstream except Barenaked Ladies when Whatever and ever... came out). He made it cool to have piano on the radio again. He made it okay to put out records that weren't recorded to a click. He's friends with William Shatner. He threw his drums into the lake at University of Miami when he got fed up. He played the shit out of a cowbell on a travel commercial with Lisa Loeb and Eric Marshall. He played a bunch of different instruments in a bunch of different really great bands in the southeast for years before The Five with Darren and Sledge took off (can you say "The Semantics" with Will Owsley?). I almost ran over him in my car at Music Row this summer (I guess he was in a hurry). He recorded stuff on his last record with a bunch of Lomos.
You may not like his style or asthetic, but sucks? C'mon.
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You may not like his style or asthetic, but sucks? C'mon.
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But then it might have been a Sam Cooke moment, you can't know which hooker he was fleeing or who he had just robbed.cgarges wrote:I think so for a number of reasons. He was coming out of the RCA building.joelpatterson wrote:Now, if you had run over him, would that have sucked?
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You can't deny the guy needs a comeback or a bitter end or a SOMETHING.
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cgarges wrote:What sucks about Ben Folds? To me, the guy's a brilliant songwriter and a breath of fresh air to the music industry. Sure, he's not the greatest singer in the world, but to me, that's one of the awesome things about him. He's quirky and has a great sense of humour in his writing (again, something that was lacking from almost everyone in the mainstream except Barenaked Ladies when Whatever and ever... came out). He made it cool to have piano on the radio again. He made it okay to put out records that weren't recorded to a click. He's friends with William Shatner. He threw his drums into the lake at University of Miami when he got fed up. He played the shit out of a cowbell on a travel commercial with Lisa Loeb and Eric Marshall. He played a bunch of different instruments in a bunch of different really great bands in the southeast for years ...
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Add to all this " He recorded some stuff with WIERD AL on the new record.."
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Favorite Ben Folds story relating to people thinking he sucks: Saw him live on his "just me and a piano tour" thing, and he mentioned that he was flipping though a Spin magazine at the store and came across an interview with Korn. As he scans the interview he notices his name..."Ben Folds? That guy plays CHEERS, music, man!"...which became the foundation for "Rockin' the Suburbs".
I love Ben folds, and the only album I actually own (after hearing a lot of his recordings with The 5 from a friend of mine over the years) IS "RTS" which he did with the guy who produced Filter and it has all those kinda overproduced sounds on it. A lot of people her bash that record because it's so processed, but fuck it man...great songwriting speaks for itself regardless of production values. To me it's not that processed stuff sounds "bad" and room-ey stuff sounds "good"...it's just two different ways to go about making a record and either can be awesome.
He's a great songwriter pure-and-simple. Amazing lyrics, amazing arrangements, all that.
I love Ben folds, and the only album I actually own (after hearing a lot of his recordings with The 5 from a friend of mine over the years) IS "RTS" which he did with the guy who produced Filter and it has all those kinda overproduced sounds on it. A lot of people her bash that record because it's so processed, but fuck it man...great songwriting speaks for itself regardless of production values. To me it's not that processed stuff sounds "bad" and room-ey stuff sounds "good"...it's just two different ways to go about making a record and either can be awesome.
He's a great songwriter pure-and-simple. Amazing lyrics, amazing arrangements, all that.
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