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The Ben Folds Five Digest

Issue #978 - May 6, 1998



Magical Armchair Digest     Wednesday, May 6 1998     Volume 01 : Number 978



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TOPICS IN THIS DIGEST:

    TV spots?
    Indianapolis show
    here we go
    Re: Magical Armchair Digest V1 #975
    show me the mosh pit...
    Dumped from the Song
    Sad.

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Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 11:45:45 PDT 
From: "garrett weindorf" <garrett32@hotmail.com>
Subject: TV spots?

any upcoming tv appearances any time soon? I guess everyone would be 
talking about em if there were....ah well, just wondering...

 thanks 

 garrett

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Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 16:05:42 EDT
From: Lokavidu <Lokavidu@aol.com>
Subject: Indianapolis show

Hello all!!  This is my first post to this wonderful thing we call the
armchair.  I have been a huge BFF fan for three years.  Anyway, I was simply
wondering if anyone was going to the show on May 20 with the Foo Fighters in
Indianapolis.  My seats suck, but I would still love to meet any of you.
(Besides I need someone to wait around with after the show-- you know,
autographs and the like)  So, if you are or happen to have good seats that you
are willing to get rid of,  E-mail me.  Finally, I guess I list my favorite
musicians other than BFF.  Here goes:
in no particular order-
1. Dave Matthews Band
2. Lindsey Buckingham
3. John Lennon
4. Billy Joel
5. Kula Shaker
6. Spacehog
7. James Taylor
                                       Hope to hear from you-------Noelle 

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Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 12:46:54 -0400
From: schander@juno.com (joe s schanderson) 
Subject: here we go

And just when I was starting to really respect the absence of personal
attacks on this issue.


>Because silly people don't like silly words, I guess.

>If this is wrong, then you must be the life of the party.....


"How can someone be fun if he won't swear?"      Puh-leeze.


I make my living doing comedy so please don't pretend to know anything
about me or how "FUN" I may or may not be. As amazing as this may seem,
for 27 years I have been enjoying a very "fun" life and doing it with
very little swearing.  


>Why should radio listeners hear the song with certain words silenced
out?


I believe the intent is to try to curb the growing use of obscenities and
the dumbing down of society.

Obviously I am in the minority here in my feelings about the song and
swearing in general, and that's fine, it's much easier to go along with
the flow then set up a dam. 


Happy Dam,

michigan joe

 

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Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 17:27:33 EDT
From: Zyah <Zyah@aol.com>
Subject: Re: Magical Armchair Digest V1 #975

<Okay, there's the essence of the problem I have with the song. To me it's
not a good way of expressing emotions, it is a LAZY way of expressing
emotions. There are so many people who think swearing and having strong
emotions go hand in hand. Thus swear words have become adjectives, verbs,
etc>

Ok, about the whole SFTD thing.  Well, I think part of the reason the curses
might be in there, even if it wasn't really intended for this, might be that,
the message of the song will only get across to certain people (and this isn't
a bad thing, either) if its expressed through a medium such as cursing.  Know
what I mean, or am I not making any sense?

- --Duncan--
Hah, I thought you were serious at first about your 5 fave being Hanson, the
Spice Girls, Puff Daddy, along with BF5.  I was thinking..um, well, that's
different.  :)

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Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 17:30:15 EDT
From: Vwbugn5890 <Vwbugn5890@aol.com>
Subject: show me the mosh pit...

in answer to your question...no, no mosh pits...listen to the music.. is it
moshy-type music? i think not...there wasn't even any warning signs about mosh
pits and they even put those up when i went to see tonic, k's choice, and
verve pipe which obviously would not incite mosh pits...so ya know, the five
is def. not big with the mosh pits...
shan

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Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 18:36:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jessica Mathews <writeme@arches.uga.edu>
Subject: Dumped from the Song

R.I.P. SFTD debate...
by all means, please continue posting your opinions, just mention it in
the subject so folks like me can sift past it if we choose :-)
to make both people who read this, yet only listen to SFTD for the "bad"
words, happy: "Fuck"..."Shit"..."Goddamn"
now that you've got your fill, back to the music, k folks?
like it, don't, most likely you (being anyone who listens to the boys)
already have an opinion that will not easily be changed by a post on the
Armchair; accept it, move on, deal :-)
<ahem>
Thank you!

oh, anyone who records BFF at HoB in New Orleans and is willing to trade,
share, be nice, whatever, please e-mail me privately.

jess

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Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 18:30:10 -0400
From: jaedonely@juno.com
Subject: Sad.

I don't know what to write- but I hate the month of May- :''(
Rest In Peace, Robert Smith.
~Elisabeth

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