mp3: Narcolepsy
mp3: Army
mp3: Rock This Bitch (live)
website: http://www.benfolds.com/
So Ben Folds plays in Amsterdam on Tuesday night. The last time I saw him live was a couple of weeks before I moved to Holland, playing Barrowlands with the Divine Comedy. Considering that it was a pretty expensive show and I pretty much hate(d) the Divine Comedy, it showed how much I really loved seeing Ben live, and even though it was a split billing, the majority of the audience seemed to share a similar viewpoint as me.
Well, I may not be at Tuesday’s show, simply because it’s also very expensive and I may not be able to afford four trips to Amsterdam in one week, but the prospect has had me listening to my old Ben Folds Five records again.
They were a great band. I think back when they first began breaking into the UK scene, I didn’t like them. I can’t remember why. Either way, it didn’t last long because I had the ‘Underground’ single and then all of their albums, and was witness to a handful of amazing live shows too. Partly it was because Ben Folds Five were a band with incredible chemistry and musicianship, and partly it was because they (Folds in particular) were a bunch of fools, so they’d be silly, jump up and down on pianos, throw around stools and make up songs on the spot. All traits that really appealed to me.
Their final album The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner is my favourite, just because it’s such a complete work. There’s no real filler in it, just substance, and what more can you ask from an album? That’s why I’ve opted to share two tracks from it–’Narcolepsy’ is all grand and sweeping, while ‘Army’ plays more of the comedy card, yet was still a great single and the ideal introduction to the album. Also ‘Army’ strikes me as a good companion piece to The Decemberists’ ‘16 by 32′.
I’ve actually been comparing BFF and The Decemberists a lot in my head lately. There are similarities, both in songwriting style and execution. The main difference is that Meloy’s lyrics play in my mind like a screenplay and Fold’s fictional tales almost always end up in the first person.
Anyway, I’ve also included a live version of ‘Rock This Bitch’, recorded during an Australian tour with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra. You’re better listening to it than reading me trying to explain it, but it’s basically this improv piece that turns up regularly at shows, only in this version he has an orchestra to pull along too. Good fun.
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