THE MAGICAL ARMCHAIR
The Ben Folds Five Digest
Issue #1077 - June 21, 1998
Magical Armchair Digest Sunday, June 21 1998 Volume 01 : Number 1077
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Re: Magical Armchair Digest V1 #1073
Harmonies in the car
[none]
no subject
Bff a capella in the car with my brother.
Re: Magical Armchair Digest V1 #1075
TaberTHIS.
ben is it
Inquiry... people at the atlanta show..
SFTD on Much
Re: Magical Armchair Digest V1 #1075
Re: What's playing in Detroit
Re: Sessions at W. 54th
sorry to annoy
re: She Don't use Jelly?
a slight problem
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Date: 19 Jun 98 21:22:37 EDT
From: Rey Anthony (rey@radiolink.net) <reyanthony@usa.net>
Subject: Re: Magical Armchair Digest V1 #1073
Sean Kiely <seank@CYBERNEX.NET> wrote:
<<< There's one part of Missing the War, the whole pyramid harmony
(for all
you Music Theory buffs) that just screams Pet Sounds by the beach
boys.
Anyone agree? >>>
Wholeheartedly, Sean.
Rey
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Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:57:09 -0400
From: Sean Kiely <seank@CYBERNEX.NET>
Subject: Harmonies in the car
I sing the high parts my dad sings the lows, and hells yeah we make our
own up as well
"I hate you" - dan finn
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Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 19:08:31 -0700 (PDT)
From: Leigh <emaline5@yahoo.com>
Subject: [none]
I've been hearing many things about the Lounge-A-Palooza cd. So I
guess I won't take chance of wasting my money on a sucky cd, besides
"She Don't Use Jelly", of course. I was wondering if anyone had an
extra copy of the "Brick" import featuring "She Don't Use Jelly"? I
don't have that many things on tape to trade, so I'll pay good money.
Thanks,
Leigh
The Page That's Uncanny To See
http://www.angelfire.com/fl/BenFolds5/index.html
P.S. That Atlanta show was great! The best I've seen!(Besides the
fact that it was my first BFF experience.)
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Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 22:09:28 EDT
From: Vwbugn5890@aol.com
Subject: no subject
In a message dated 98-06-19 21:37:23 EDT, you write:
<< Also, is there anyone else who loves Sports and Wine as much as I do?? >>
i didn't like sports and wine when i first listened to self-titled, i don't
know why, it just didn't stick with me like the rest of the songs...until i
listened to it some more and now i love it just as much as the rest of the
album
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Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 04:16:59 -0400
From: ashleybell1@juno.com (silly rabbit)
Subject: Bff a capella in the car with my brother.
hi,
I've been lurking so long. Two jobs, no time, not fun. Anyways, my car
doesn't have a radio so I thought it was my turn to come clean and admit
that I love to sing BFF a capella in the car with my brother too. I
think our best number together is Underground. Especially the "BAH BAH"
part near the end really loud. My brother also has hand gestures for
every word, imagine the 12 year old boy shaking his finger at me while
singing the line, "don't look down no, no (cue shaking finger)." Its just
the cutest thing. Brother/Sister bonding at its best.
One last thing, gotta give a shout out to Rey Anthony for hooking me up
with conan tix. Gotta love that guy.
***************ashley*******************************************************************************
********* you could hear a pin drop on the carpet floor**************
- -Ben Folds
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Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 22:21:58 EDT
From: BlueJellow@aol.com
Subject: Re: Magical Armchair Digest V1 #1075
In a message dated 6/19/98 8:01:20 PM Central Daylight Time, owner-
armchair@ford.il.fontys.nl writes:
<< << Also, does anyone else not like the irish sounding music in Smoke. I
hate
that. I think it's like my least favortie bff song. Later on Chairers~
~Kristin :) >>
you are sorely mistaken, kristin. i am hoping for your sake that you are an
misinformed, utterly ignorant little girl who hasn't matured much yet. the
"irish sounding music" in smoke is perhaps their most beautiful ever. >>
I don't like it either. The accordian weird thing makes me mad. This is the
first BFF song I ever heard though. So it was good enough to capture my
attention. But IMO, Evaporated, Air, Philosophy, and Cigarette are the BEST
songs. They are slow and beautiful. Can't beat it
Lucy
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Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 22:37:19 EDT
From: KNULPREK@aol.com
Subject: TaberTHIS.
Heya folks. Wow. Me and two friends drove from MIAMI to see the show in
Atlanta. It was fuckin' AMAZING. I was so impressed. And Snuzz was staying at
our hotel!! (the Quality Inn across the street) so we saw Ben walkin' out and
got to talk to him, as well we ran into them after going to IHOP after the
show.. all very nice.. Chuck gave us Bus Stop shirts!! What a COOL guy! Oh, we
were the obnoxious people in the very front. I have really large hair. :)
Sorry for being so obnoxious, but hey, after 10 hours in a car it starts to
come out! Wow. What a great show!!
Anyway, so i write for a wonderful publication called Ink19, and i wrote up
the show and i thought i'd post it. Take care!
-jason.
http://members.aol.com/knulprek/home.html
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If it's one thing Ben Folds Five doesn't have, it's a good tour schedule.
Coming as
close to South Florida as they were ever going to before heading off to Europe
and then
going back into the studio, me and two friends hopped in a car and drove 10
hours to
Atlanta to witness what I've been told is one of the best live bands around.
Finally, after
many hours in the car and a few stops along the way (which i feel i should
mention our
stop off in Macon, GA, to purchase paraphernalia from their hockey team, Macon
Whoopee), we arrived at our hotel across the street from The Tabernacle, a
decent-sized
church-turned-club and, as well, formerly the House of Blues. And we were just
in time
to see Ben Folds himself stroll out of our hotel! What could be better? Ahh..
the show.
Never has there been a more suitable band to open up a Ben Folds Five show
than
Snuzz, who features Chuck Folds, Ben Folds's brother, on bass, and Eddie
Walker, of
recent fame from a track on the new Ben Folds Five album Naked Baby Pictures,
on
drums. But aside from staring in awe at the startling resemblance between Ben
and
Chuck and watching Eddie actually sing along to his drum beat, Snuzz was
musically
quite impressive. A light and often guitarless version of indie rock, Snuzz
took the
audience through 40 minutes of songs about things like lemonade and
summertime, with
occasional comments to the audience from the guitarist/vocalist who never
actually
introduced himself but was later introduced to me as Snuzz. (Apparently that's
where the
band's name comes from) The band didn't overstay their welcome, and eventually
thanked the audience for their time and left the stage.
I've been listening to Ben Folds Five for quite some time, but have never
been
fortunate enough to see them live until this point. I had built their show up
in my head to
be some form of monumental event, and if it was anything less than that i was
going to
be quite disappointed. I wasn't disappointed. The trio took to the stage, gave
a small wave
to the audience, and jumped straight into "Philosophy", a track off their
first album. From
there, the band an unbelievable set including their addition to the Godzilla
Soundtrack,
"Air", "Emaline", a song originally written by Ben Folds's old band Majosha,
and
"Evaporated", a beautiful song they rarely perform live. The band was
incredibly tight
throughout the hour and 40 minute set which was split 50/50 between their rock
songs
and their slower and more emotional ones, as they never missed a beat while
changing
the structures of the many of the songs seemingly at will.
As their closing song "Song For The Dumped" came to an end, bassist Robert
Sledge started whipping out some heavy metal bass licks to start off what's
come to be
known as "The Big Rock-N-Roll Ending": Heavy metal, a bit of screaming, lots
of
running, all to be culminated by Ben Folds climbing the speakers and tossing
two stools
onto the piano. The band kindly said goodnight and left the stage, only to
come back a
few minutes later for a two-song encore, "Brick" and "Uncle Walter", both
tracks off their
self-titled debut. Then the lights went on and we filed out of the Tabernacle,
as my
friends and i all agreed that seeing Ben Folds Five live was worth the 10 hour
drive.
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Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 22:49:02 -0400
From: Lou Papineau <loup@ids.net>
Subject: ben is it
entertainment weekly's new double issue contains "the it list: the 100
most creative people in entertainment." ben folds is in the music
section (the others are movies, tv, books, and digital) w/ the likes of
puffy and the propellerheads and madonna and billy corgan and tori amos
and the taco bell talking chihuahua (really)
here's the text
Age: 31. Why him? The titular skipper of the Chapel Hill, NC-based trio
Ben Folds Five has made ivory tickling cool again, and with the radio
hit "Brick," turned the unlikely topic of teenage abortion into bona
fide ballad fodder. "Some people get a happy melody and go, 'Let me find
some happy words.' I like twisting it a little bit," says Folds. Work
habits: "We record in my house so I can be in my own environment while
I'm writing," he says. Next? Finishing a summer tour, then heading back
into the studio in October.
ew sure is pithy. "titular skipper." "bona fide ballad fodder." good
stuff.
lou
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Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 22:49:07 EDT
From: KNULPREK@aol.com
Subject: Inquiry... people at the atlanta show..
Oh.. just out of curiousty, and i don't know how to spell that..
are the following people that attended the Atlanta show on the armchair:
SPAM (Hello my name is SPAM. "mind if i pop a squat?")
Christopher, a cool guy who was "down with" everything and was particularly
down with some beer and pot on the particular evening.
The guy who pulled my hair to see if it was real and looked scarily like
Ben/Chuck.
If you people are on the armchair, just for kicks, please e-mail me. :)
Thanks!
-jason.
http://members.aol.com/knulprek/home.html
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Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 00:34:03 -0400
From: Gregory <ggregory@kingston.net>
Subject: SFTD on Much
Hi,
Remember how I posted last week complaining about Muchmusic's lack of
airplay for SFTD? I take some of it back now, b/c I've seen them play the
video two or three times since then. I think I'm going to go e-mail much
and bug them for a spotlight. I mean, MASE had a spotlight this week for
God's sake...the guy's got, like, two videos.
One quick question that's been nagging at me....
Does anybody have the New Music BFF interview on tape? IIRC, Ben's talking
with some girl in the street, and he tells her who he is. Then she says
something like "you wrote "that song", what's "that song" about"?. Then
Ben says something like "It's about these pizza delivery guys that used to
antagonize me". I'm paraphrasing, but could someone please remind what
song they were talking about? For the life of me, I cannot remember.
Thanks,
Scott
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Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 01:09:27 EDT
From: JKFett@aol.com
Subject: Re: Magical Armchair Digest V1 #1075
In a message dated 98-06-19 21:58:46 EDT, you write:
<< PS: the lounge version of black hole sun is hilarious >>
Well since I am getting very little support from my fellow armchairians, let
me defend myself. How many of you would throw $17.99 into cd for a "that's
just wrong" cover of Black Hole Sun? I mean, when you say it is hilarious, you
mean that it is stupid. So stupid in fact that it is funny. I am sorry I put
$18 into it when I went out a week later and found a Brick import with the
same song and Missing the War live on it for $12. Hey, if anyone wants a copy
of Lounge-A-Palooza, practically brand new since I only listened to it all the
way through once before buying the other single, e-mail me.
~Go ahead you can laugh all you want (but I still don't think the Black Hole
Sun cover is funny),
JK
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Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 01:18:12 EDT
From: JKFett@aol.com
Subject: Re: What's playing in Detroit
Well in Detroit I can honestly say the radiowaves have been "Brickless" (thank
God) for almost a month. However, only one radio station continues to play BFF
schtuff. 105.1 FM (The Edge) plays SFTD fairly regularly and TBofWCCL once in
a great while (i.e. once a week). Anyone else agree that the next single
should be "Kate"? I think it's cool and the whole pot reference would make it
"cool" with that grunge crowd. Afterall, for some reason, when they played
"One Angry Dwarf..." no one digged it and I haven't heard it since. Sigh...if
only these people would see the light. How anyone could ever want to listen to
the same old "Santa Monica" shit over and over a year after its release over
new BFF tuneage is beyond me. But hey, Detroit radio sucks.
~Everyday she wears the same thing, I think she smokes pot.
Dan
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Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 01:47:00 EDT
From: Sentabmx@aol.com
Subject: Re: Sessions at W. 54th
Hi everyone! I have been hearing about the Sessions at West 54th program for a
while now, but I have never been able to find it. If there is anyone on the
list from California that knows if it is shown out here? I'd really like to
tape it and I read on the Armchair that the show will be rerun soon, so I'd
appreciate any info you've got. Please e-mail me privately if you know
whether or not the show is broadcast out in CA. Thanks!!
- -Erin
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Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 23:09:37 -0700
From: "Karen Ladd" <kazza34@mailcity.com>
Subject: sorry to annoy
If anyone out there is truly annoyed by the RF's thing that happened, could you possibly email me?
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Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 01:40:25 -0700 (PDT)
From: Timmy Piper <timmypiper@yahoo.com>
Subject: re: She Don't use Jelly?
BFF didn't sing the original she don't use jelly, (that was sung by
Flaming Lips), but they do a cover of it that I like to think is
better, although many don't. The japanese version of sftd can be
found on some bff website, but if you want the cd and not the mp3, you
can order the cd from cdnow..it's whatever and ever amen, with the
extra jap. sftd track at the end.
By the way, my favorite harmony is "during the bridge or bowccl, the
first verse is "everyday, you wake up late", and my favorite melody is
during Stevens last night in town when ben sings "lost points with the
ladies for sayin he couldn't love a woman with cellulite."
Timmy
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Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 01:46:22 -0700 (PDT)
From: Timmy Piper <timmypiper@yahoo.com>
Subject: a slight problem
I don't want to sound too rude here, but I feel that if you fell in
love with bff because of brick, then you're not truly in love with
bff. I mean, brick was a good song and all, but it was not a bff type
of song. I bought whatever and ever amen long before brick ever came
on the radio, and I grew tired of brick in a couple days. I loved
song for the dumped, one angry dwarf, kate, and all the other songs so
much that i bought thier first album and fell in love with all their
songs (except the last polka). Brick isn't what bff is all about. I
mean look at all of their other songs. They all feature all three
members singing, and robert doesn't use his stand up bass in any other
song (i think). It's just a sappy little girl song that bff made up
so they could at least get some recognition. Oh well, enough of my
ramblings, i'm goin to get drunk.
Teemu
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