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New Ben Folds Album - Sept. 30th

post #1 of 20
7/21/08 at 11:48pm
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Way to Normal hits stores September 30, 2008

This news make my day. I'm still listening to Songs for Silverman.
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post #2 of 20
7/22/08 at 12:37am
New Ben Folds AND Rock Band 2. September is shaping up to be a good month.
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post #3 of 20
7/23/08 at 11:01am
"Songs for Silverman" was a nice step back towards Ben Folds Five-era greatness, but it was a little long on semiserious ballads and short on hooks. I'm hoping his new one will hit that balance between the two that the first two BFF albums achieved.
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post #4 of 20
8/5/08 at 5:31pm
Tickets for the fall tour--including a preorder of the new album--are on sale now, by the way.
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post #5 of 20
8/5/08 at 5:39pm
I'm sure many of you know this, but he's really wonderful live, even solo. I've seen him calm/amuse a beer-soaked crowd of about 2,000 semi-interested festival goers using nothing other than a piano and his serious, serious balls. He had the place rapt and doing two-part harmonies by the end of his set.
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post #6 of 20
8/11/08 at 4:37pm
"You Don't Know Me" is fantastic.
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post #7 of 20
8/15/08 at 12:53pm
Nice- pumped for this one for sure.
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post #8 of 20
9/29/08 at 1:12am
This Tuesday! The first single, featuring Regina Spektor, is pretty great. Seems to me like a balance between the light sound of Rockin' the Suburbs and the more serious (and superior, dammit!) Songs for Silverman.

Anyone go to the BFF reunion show in Chapel Hill a few weeks ago? If so, I hate you.
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post #9 of 20
9/29/08 at 5:03am
Ben has been streaming the full album on his Myspace page for about a week now. It's pretty good. Not Reinhold or Whatever good, but definitely better than Silverman.
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post #10 of 20
9/29/08 at 9:03am
Anyone know if the BFF show is a one-off, or if they plan to keep going? Ben Folds is one of my top songwriters ever, but I've always loved the one or two songs Darren and Jesse would write on the first 3 albums (specifically Magic on Reinhold).
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post #11 of 20
9/29/08 at 12:46pm
Seeing him Wednesday. Can't wait.
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post #12 of 20
9/29/08 at 11:18pm
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Originally Posted by Chris Miller View Post
Anyone know if the BFF show is a one-off, or if they plan to keep going? Ben Folds is one of my top songwriters ever, but I've always loved the one or two songs Darren and Jesse would write on the first 3 albums (specifically Magic on Reinhold).
It was a promotional gig for State Farm Insurance so I doubt there's a full tour in the works.
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post #13 of 20
9/29/08 at 11:24pm
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Originally Posted by Chris Miller View Post
Anyone know if the BFF show is a one-off, or if they plan to keep going? Ben Folds is one of my top songwriters ever, but I've always loved the one or two songs Darren and Jesse would write on the first 3 albums (specifically Magic on Reinhold).
It was a one-off. They were billing it as the farewell show that they never did. Both Robert and Darren are on to other things, so I don't think that an extended reunion will happen.
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post #14 of 20
9/30/08 at 11:02pm
Also, the show was a full run of Reinhold Messner. I need to see if there's a decent bootleg floating around.

I've only listened to the new disc once but I really like it on initial listen.
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post #15 of 20
10/1/08 at 1:07am
Wow, Folds really listened to Elton John a lot between the last one and this one, huh? Still, "Effington" is pretty great.
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post #16 of 20
10/16/08 at 1:21am
Rath mentioned this in the "what your listening to" thread but I figured I'd ask the question here- anyone know a good place to get the fake leaked Way to Normal album? I don't use any torrent programs or things like that so it'd have to be somewhere to just download the files.

I don't think this is a pirating-related request since it was a leak perpetrated by Folds himself but if it's too shady the mods can kill this post.
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post #17 of 20
10/16/08 at 1:34am
Ben had them available to download off his Myspace for a few weeks, but it looks like they're all gone. At this point, torrent sites are probably your only option.
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post #18 of 20
4/25/09 at 11:59pm
I picked this up yesterday, it's good but I still prefer Songs, Hiroshima is a great Benny the Jet's style opener, Cologne and Effington are the standouts, Before Cologne is a beautiful intro.
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post #19 of 20
4/26/09 at 12:11am
Folds also has this album he produced coming out Tuesday, the best college acapella groups in the country recording his songs: http://www.benfolds.com/acappella
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post #20 of 20
4/26/09 at 7:29pm
Yeah, I saw that, that sounds really cool.
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