THE MAGICAL ARMCHAIR
The Ben Folds Five Digest
Issue #1439 - March 16, 1999
Magical Armchair Digest Tuesday, March 16 1999 Volume 01 : Number 1439
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TOPICS IN THIS DIGEST:
don't change your plans ra
TUBORM MP3's
wow
FAIR
Re: Sound-a-likes
army->harvey danger?
Thanks for the MP3s!
daria, 1999
army
BFF desktop theme!
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Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 20:00:59 +500
From: "Darrell Phillips"<dnp4@bestweb.net>
Subject: don't change your plans ra
hey all...
i put a short real audio clip up of don't change your plans...Please treat it
as what it is: a less-than-commercial quality recording of a yet-to-be-released
song. It shouldn't get in the way of sales...
http://www.bestweb.net/~dnp4/plans.html
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Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 21:37:08 EST
From: Snlpiscopo@aol.com
Subject: TUBORM MP3's
What's the deal with the TUBORM MP3's someone posted about, I emailed them but
haven't gotten a reply yet. Just wanted to know what's goin on.
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Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 21:49:10 EST
From: Alanica@aol.com
Subject: wow
i feel a lot of angry posts making their way to the armchair.....
so, hello all- and have a lovely day.
play nice,
becca
" go ahead you can laugh all you want "
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Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 22:32:00 PST
From: "Chandra Hicks" <chanfifteen@hotmail.com>
Subject: FAIR
ok, interesting and pointless story. i was having dinner at cutters
(this restaurant on the waterfront of seattle) and they have that musack
that plays ove the intercom.. and all of a sudden i hear these 3 chords,
and my ears perk up. ok, of course it was a ben folds five song, but
guess which one? FAIR, i couldn't BELIEVE it. i mean i've never heard
fair played anywhere else but from my cd player. damn i was in shock, i
threw down my napkin, and started shouting NO in disbelief. i got more
than a couple odd stares. but all is fair in love i guess.
chandra
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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 01:49:13 -0500 (EST)
From: Sam Scruggs <sscruggs@widomaker.com>
Subject: Re: Sound-a-likes
According to Magical Armchair Digest:
> Would you guys agree that there haven't been a crop of BF5-imitators
> yet? Usually when a band achieves success, not necessarily
> commerically, with doing something different, then others start doing
> the same. But I haven't seen that with Ben Folds Five. Or at least, no
> one's been talking about them.
I found this a while back on MP3.com.. I don't know anything about this band, so I am not calling them a
clone (ie. I don't know if they were inspired by BFF or anything), but the music is very similar.
http://www.mp3.com/artists/1/joe_deveau.html
Also, in response to the same remark (and don't let this rub you the wrong way), although we all love
BFF, it's not necessarily mainstream music. Last I checked, they're still touring fairly small venues,
whereas bands that create new genres are sellouts at the largest venues in the country. Yes, BFF is an
awesome band, but unfortunately the music doesn't reach enough people for clone bands to start saying
"Hey, let's get a piano, a bass and drums, and we can be famous too!"
- -Sam
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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 04:15:46 PST
From: "Alice Childress" <jbpastie2@hotmail.com>
Subject: army->harvey danger?
>next time any of ya'll
>listen to army just for kicks try singin a bit of flagpole sitta by
>harvey danger over the main chord progression, then try singin the
>chorus of battle of who could care less over the chorus.
>
>sean
wow. that's what my brother said too,
the first time he heard army. just the
bit bout harvey danger. i thought he was
talking about that private helicopter
song, (coz he couldn't remember the song
name, just the band). hmm, interesting.
JANET =)
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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 10:09:22 EST
From: Dreamer528@aol.com
Subject: Thanks for the MP3s!
Wow, you guys really ARE nice and helpful! I got a lot of responses when I
asked for rare BF5 MP3s - thank you!
I found everything I was looking for except:
Lonely
Silver Street
Free Bird
I don't know if MP3s of those even exist, but if someone has those, could you
e-mail me? Thanks!
Oh, and for those of you who are looking for rare BF5 MP3s, and you don't know
how those FTP sites work, just e-mail me and I can send over whatever you
need. It's the least I can do for all the help I got!
Thanks again you guys!
- - Sarah
Dreamer528@aol.com
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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 21:56:00 GMT
From: "tavia -" <taves@hotmail.com>
Subject: daria, 1999
well hello
I've finally bought cakes album fashion nugget, and lo and behold I find
that the tune Ben Folds used to sing a song about robert sledge at some
concert, was from 'daria', one of cake's songs. and some of the phrasing
is the same too.
i'm sure everyone else knew that, but it's nice to enjoy a song and then
realise that folds n co, must have liked it too. cool.
moreover, (whoa, where did that word come from, miss university
graduate, I thought I had sworn that word off forever....) on 1999 last
night on jjj, the wonderful dj who's name i presently forget
(kingsmill.... ) mentioned that they were going to flog the guts out of
army and that 'they've done it again' re: army being another hit for the
band. I get teh feeling he thinks bff are cool. however, when he played
it they're still playing the edited version ('must be' instead of....)
actually they must have it on high rotation, because everytime I'm
listening to teh radio it seems to come on. which suggests massive
airplay or fortunate timing
oh yeh, I was at disorientation on saturday (VERY average) adn I saw a
lassie wearing the 'kiss my ass' tee adn I said hi and she and her pal
were nice and we had a brief but nice conversation. bff fans are so
cool.
taves (misbehaves)
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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 17:02:28 EST
From: BenF0lds05@aol.com
Subject: army
thanks for the tease - but does anyone ACTUALLY have an .mp3 or .ra of "army"?
please help me out someone in australia. reply personally please. thanks -
---dAn---
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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 14:38:31 PST
From: "Heather Kniert" <hkniert@hotmail.com>
Subject: BFF desktop theme!
does anyone know where i can get my hands on a bff desktop theme with
screensaver, cursor, etc? i've found one, but don't have Win 98 so i
can't use it. so, anyone with info on a win 95 bff desktop theme,
please let me know where i can get it! i'll be so happy!!!
~heather
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