THE MAGICAL ARMCHAIR
The Ben Folds Five Digest
Issue #1202 - September 6, 1998
Magical Armchair Digest Sunday, September 6 1998 Volume 01 : Number 1202
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TOPICS IN THIS DIGEST:
Re: Magical Armchair Digest V1 #1192
Various BFF info :)
Re: Magical Armchair Digest V1 #1201
Re: Magical Armchair Digest V1 #1201
BIRTHDAYS n stuff
TV Updates
help me
routine song, oad, lennon thing
BFF Birthdays
local toronto 'zine
Re: Magical Armchair Digest V1 #1200
REPEATED STUFF
bad songs and joe jackson
semisonic
la la ..Favourite Song
Emaline
sigh
ben's birthday
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Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 20:01:22 EDT
From: Eze114@aol.com
Subject: Re: Magical Armchair Digest V1 #1192
I was so excited the othgr day when i saw the Squirrel Nut Zippers song on VH1
and I screamed with excitement at the end when Ben came in. That is a great
video now.
Erin (Air)
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Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 20:28:08 EDT
From: Mr1Intl@aol.com
Subject: Various BFF info :)
Hi fellow BFF fans! Its me, Caroline here. I haven't posted anything for a
while, but here goes. Anyway, I was at the music store lately and I asked
about Ben's solo album "Fear Of Pop" and I think the guy looked it up on the
store's computer and told me it should be out like September 15th or
something. I could be wrong about this, but this is what I remember he said.
And about people who look like the guys, I swear that one of my 10-year-old
sister's friends looks EXACTLY like Robert Sledge. I'm not saying that he
looks like a little girl (I think he's really cute), its just that the
resembelance between them is uncanny. Its weird, but the last time I saw her,
I was just like WOW, ITS ROBERT! (She even has the shoulder-length brown hair
too). And my favorite songs would have to be Underground, Bad Idea, Song for
the Dumped, Kate, Sports & Wine, Julianne, Jackson Cannery, Eddie Walker, and
Philosophy. I know I've kinda rambled on, but I just love to talk about Ben
Folds Five. Later!
Caroline
"Go ahead, you can laugh all you want, but I got my philosophy" --Ben Folds
Five
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Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 21:13:51 EDT
From: JKFett@aol.com
Subject: Re: Magical Armchair Digest V1 #1201
In a message dated 9/4/98 8:55:32 PM Eastern Daylight Time, owner-
armchair@maillist.il.fontys.nl writes:
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Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1998 22:33:24 -0800
From: "Jer Davis" <uselink@fcmail.com>
Subject: Birthdays
Bah, I wish I was cool enough to have Ben's birthday, but alas I was born on
Sept. 21. I can still take heart in the fact that 21 is just a 12 transposed.
Mildly Obsessed,
Jer >>
Well Jer, you are not the only transposee...my birthday's also on Sept.
21...so close! Makes you want to smack your mom doesn't it? Who cares if I'd
be premature? I could share a birthday with a legend! Instead the only
celebrity I share a birthday is Cecil Fielder :P
JK
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Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 21:14:09 EDT
From: Eze114@aol.com
Subject: Re: Magical Armchair Digest V1 #1201
Hey guys!!! I was just wondering where you can get all these bootlegs and
other cds???? I have 3 (BF5,WAEA,NBP) and i want more!!!! Also, if anyone
knows where you can get this stuff or other merchandise in the Chicagoland
area please e-mail me at Eze114@aol.com.
Air
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Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 21:24:53 EDT
From: BenFoldss5@aol.com
Subject: BIRTHDAYS n stuff
Hello armchairers
Ok, wasn't this the maillist with the most, where people responded to each
other? So what do people think about sending Ben some kind of birthday thing
(it's sept. 12)? Feedback, please!
Anyway, I have a couple questions. First of all, i just got the mp3 of Rocky.
Does anyone know where the idea for this song came from? How about someone
out there with a transcription of the words or something (it's not the
greatest copy)? I sure hope so... it's like new bff for me.
And another thing... I went to the Music Boulevard site today and there's this
new single called Brick ep - a japanese release in the near future. It's not
Brick, Brick pt.1 or Brick pt. 2 - what is it? What are the other tracks?
Anyone know?
And how have people seen the cover art to Fear of Pop yet? i wanna see!
Sorry to bore you with such random stuff.
Jon.
"hell yeah." Ben Folds, minimalist piano solo in Where's Summer B?
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Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1998 18:29:12 PDT
From: "Lauren Choplin" <zyah_1@hotmail.com>
Subject: TV Updates
Hey everyone! This is for anyone who may have missed some TV
appearances:
On September 14, The BF5 Conan will be rerun. It said the rerun of
6/26/98, but that wasn't the date, was it? Either way, they'll be on.
On October 30, the BF5 Hard Rock Live appearance will be reaired. Which
is good for me because I managed to forget about it two times.
So, there you go!
Lauren
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Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 21:34:28 EDT
From: KrZy29@aol.com
Subject: help me
Hey all...a while ago someone posted a site where you can get really good
pictures of the band...well of course when my computer crashed i lost all my
favorite places...so if anyone has this site or any other where i can get
really great pics can you please e-mail me...thanks!
- --kristina
"Well, sometimes I punch myself as hard as can, yelling no one cares, hoping
someone will tell me how wrong I am."
- -Boxing
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Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1998 18:40:54 PDT
From: "Lauren Choplin" <zyah_1@hotmail.com>
Subject: routine song, oad, lennon thing
- -- Natasha --
You said for gymnastics, you're thinking of mixing some BF5 songs.
Well, does it have to be
slow or fast? I don't know, I think One Angry Dwarf would be pretty
cool.
You know when I first heard OAD, and I didn't look at the words, I
thought he was saying "I'm a big angry hornet" instead of "now I'm big &
important." :) Anyone else think that? I mean, it kind of made sense,
at the time.
Unless I missed something (and I do read everything in these digests,
usually!), is it true that no one's heard anything about the John Lennon
tribute album?
"I am sorry to inform you that I lost your kid's address."
- -- Phantom Planet --
Lauren
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Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 22:03:00 EDT
From: Amff5@aol.com
Subject: BFF Birthdays
Ben-September 12th
Rob-March 9th
Darren-April 8th
Tis' all for now.
~allison
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Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1998 22:18:38 -0400
From: cherry@idirect.ca
Subject: local toronto 'zine
For anyone living in the Greater Toronto area, there's this great free
'zine called Ductape (it's the warped tour bonanza issue #15&16) and they
had a bit of Ben Folds Five content. A review of some Chicago show , a
review of NBP (this issue was delayed a couple of months), and just an itty
bitty picture of them and just a few quotes/question, answer bits...nothing
too spectacular... it's maybe only a half a black and white page long...but
its still Ben Folds Five...which is good
Have a great day
Val
Fave song: A tie between Last Polka and Emaline
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Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1998 12:18:31 +1100
From: "Karolina Panczyna" <kpanczyn@rivercorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: Magical Armchair Digest V1 #1200
unsubscribe
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Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1998 23:24:28 -0400
From: stp1237@home.com
Subject: REPEATED STUFF
Sorry bitch, I mean Sarah....but I hadn't seen anything about lettermen
or SNZ, so why don't you calm down. That really pisses me off that you
mentioned that becuase there are many other things mentioned more than
they should be.
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Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1998 00:15:10 -0400
From: schander@juno.com (joe s schanderson)
Subject: bad songs and joe jackson
First, JOE JACKSON(love that first name)
Although he has a few songs I really like I think the main reason he
comes up in comparisons is simply the piano. Jackson's songs ON THE WHOLE
don't have NEARLY the hooks and creative melodies that Folds' do.
BAD BEN FOLDS FIVE SONGS(there...I said it)
FIRST : demos : As I've stated before, I think "COOL WHIP," "KALAMAZOO,"
"LONELY," "HALF ASLEEP" are obviously inferior(some TERRIBLY inferior) to
tracks that made the albums.
SECOND : lp tracks : I don't want to part with these songs, sometimes I
even REALLY like listening to them but I could very easily live without
them : smoke, cigarette, julianne, fair, dumped
Again, don't bother telling me I'm wrong and that these songs are great.
I'm sure I have named some people's favorite songs in my "bad" list.
Personal preference......
Darren's advice for young bands:
"practice and then play gigs."
ta ta,
michigan joe
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Date: Sat, 05 Sep 1998 02:16:24 PDT
From: "Crystal Cooper" <crystal_bf5@hotmail.com>
Subject: semisonic
I was reading who weekly and there was this little review of semisonic^Òs
album. It said "...you^Òll hear Matthew Sweet in the pretty ^ÑShe spreads
her wings^Ò, Ben Folds Five in the bouncy ^Ñnever you mind^Ò, and weezer in
the mosh-friendly single ^Ñclosing time^Ò." I wrote that cause I know
there are a lot of weezer fans on here and obviously a lot of bff fans,
so maybe you should all check out semisonic, I wouldn^Òt know, I^Òve only
ever heard ^Ñclosing time^Ò.
Crystal
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Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1998 03:18:37 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jessica Tan <gesika@rocketmail.com>
Subject: la la ..Favourite Song
If anyone cares..I love all of them, but I do agree
that there are some fans who may have jumped on the
BFF bandwagon...try all the 'Brickettes' especially
in Australia thanks to commercial radio overplaying
the song, but anyway..
Some of my faves in particular
- -best imitation of myself..gotta love the lyrics
- - boxing and underground
- -fair and evaporated
bad idea!!!
jess
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Date: Sat, 05 Sep 1998 10:21:10 PDT
From: "Emily Starr" <emaline_@hotmail.com>
Subject: Emaline
Hey everyone!
I have heard Emaline only once and that was when they played it on 'Hard
Rock Live'. I don't have NBP yet. Anywho, I was wondering if anyone
could send me all the lyrics to it... I can't quite make a few words out
from the HRL tape. Thanks. I really love it but I just can't figure
out a few phrases!
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Date: Sat, 05 Sep 1998 15:18:28 -0400
From: bf5 <bf5@SURRY.NET>
Subject: sigh
Funny thing,
The other day I was reading the armchair and I realized something....I don't
know who the hell half of these people are. Another funny thing is that
they are talking about all of the same stuff (for the most part) that we
(older members) were talking about months ago. Also...when did Robert
become known as "Robbie"?
bf5's new album is expected out sometime early next year.
just looking to complain,
\ \/ /
~\/\/hitney =o)
*i wanna be kate*
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Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1998 15:33:55 EDT
From: SmilesGLH@aol.com
Subject: ben's birthday
hi all,
yes, i was reading someone's post about not having ben's birthday...sept.
12th. i was so excited when i first heard that date, mine's the 13th and i
always get a kick out of things that have the same (or very close to the same)
date as my b-day...especially when it's someone as wonderful as ben folds, i
mean, how much more wonderful does it get??? sorry if i've bored anyone, i
kinda just felt like posting...anyways, i wanted to ask if anyone can help me
find any posters of the guys or maybe some articles accompanied by pictures of
them, i'd really appreciate it...
thanx ever so much,
~gretchen
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