The debut album from piano-playing Ben Folds' smart-ass trio is a potent, and extremely fun, collection of postmodern rock ditties that comes off as a pleasantly workable...
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I'll admit it. I suffer from pianophobia. The symptoms? Living in a non-ivory tower (unlike most rock critics) in mortal dread of
Billy Joel and Tapestry-era
Carole...
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Expanding on the hook-laden songcraft of their eponymous debut, the Ben Folds Five turn in another glitzy array of Todd Rundgren-esque, piano-driven pop on their second...
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As the title suggests, Naked Baby Photos opens the vaults to capture Ben Folds Five in their developmental stages, splitting its 16 tracks evenly between studio rarities and...
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The follow-up to the popular Whatever and Ever Amen, Ben Folds Five's third LP, The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Mesner, continues the eclectic and clever songwriting...
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Ben Folds is the leader of a little band that thinks big, and here he's made the most of it, employing string and horn sections throughout The Unauthorized Biography Of...
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The follow-up to the popular Whatever and Ever Amen, Ben Folds Five's third LP, The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Mesner, continues the eclectic and clever songwriting...
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The title track of this single, "Underground," taken from their self-titled LP, was the first to gain Ben Folds Five worldwide recognition and is found here in a slightly...
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Music in the mid-2000s seems more diverse and stratified. But in the general guitar-bass-drum format of '90s alternative rock, the Ben Folds Five piano-and-rhythm show...
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