THE MAGICAL ARMCHAIR
The Ben Folds Five Digest
Issue #910 - March 27, 1998
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TOPICS IN THIS DIGEST:
Re: Magical Armchair Digest V1 #907
The Earth Shakes....
College CampusTV
Re: Magical Armchair Digest V1 #907
Charlotte Center Cityfest
Random Stuff
Fakebook sight with Brick Music
Ben Abounds up North
ABC, Easy as 1-2-3
DMB!!!!
Re: Magical Armchair Digest V1 #909
(No Subject)
Superdrag opening for BFF
Foxboro...
meeting the guys/video
meeting the guys/video (fwd)
Re: Tom Kingsmill's fave quote
file under f?
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Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 20:10:24 EST
From: Dimsdale0 <Dimsdale0@aol.com>
Subject: Re: Magical Armchair Digest V1 #907
'ello 'ello, This is for sjoson. One of my favorite bff quotes is,"The
cruellest lies are often told without a word. The kindest truths are often
spoke, and never heard." Great one, that is. Also, to other armchairites, I
think bff should do a cover of Billy Joel's "I've Loved These Days," also
"James." See you next time. Dimsdale0
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Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 20:42:19 EST
From: ShirowFan <ShirowFan@aol.com>
Subject: The Earth Shakes....
Mahallo,
The New Semisonic album is just neat. A good solid buy. The opening number,
"Closing Time" and Track 4 have some wicked piano. Off topic? Hell yeah. But I
can do that.
Drenched in Urine,
dave-o
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Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 21:01:38 -0500
From: Adam Tyner <ctyner@CLEMSON.EDU>
Subject: College CampusTV
Did anyone see the College CampusTV (or whatever the heck it's called)
interview with BFF? It was pretty...interesting. The sound quality was
terrible, but BFF was hilarious! They kept talking about how stunning the
interviewer's eyes were, and after a while, Darren took over and started
interviewing. :) "In the Brick video, you guys looked so sad. What's up
with that?" was the most memorable question he asked. :)
They also showed the videos for Brick & BOWCCL, and they showed a couple of
short live clips too.
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Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 18:18:12 PST
From: "Chandra Hicks" <chanfifteen@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Magical Armchair Digest V1 #907
<<everyone has to put a quote next to their picture in our school's
yearbook,and i want to put a bff quote up, but i can't think of one
particular one that's either wise and proverbial or really funky and
weird.>>
My favorit quotes are:
"the cruelest lies are often told without a word, my my , the kindest
truths are often told but never heard"
"But baby i was doin fine how do you think that i survived the other 25
before you?"
"oh well maybe not, try again, this should cheer you up for sure"
"faith that there's a sould somewhere that's leadin me around, i wonder
if she knows which way is down"
"money talks, i hate to listen but lately it's been screaming in my ear"
"well, i've seen some old friends sorta die, or just turn into whatever
must've been inside them, whatever all of us had then in common, grew up
and left home, we don't think that way no more"
sorry to take up so much space i love a lot of their quotes, let me know
which quote you end up using (whether they're from my list of faves or
not)
one thing to say and i'll go, beck and bff in the same place, they are
my two favorite artists/groups. beck kicks major and bff is the death
mother. anyway, i'll go, chandra
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Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 21:44:55 -0500
From: "Justin M. Davis" <redrum29@earthlink.net>
Subject: Charlotte Center Cityfest
That's where Ben Folds is playing April 26. Tickets through ticketmaster. OK, dandy. But does anyone know
how to go about getting a spot for a band to play there. It's a whole downtown festival thing, and I'm trying
to book a band to play there, but I haven't been able to find any numbers for contacts. I don't know if it's
too late or not, but any help from anyone who knows anything about it would be helpful. Thanks.
~Justin
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Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 23:01:46 -0500 (EST)
From: Joshua Keller <joshua@his.com>
Subject: Random Stuff
Well this is my first post to the Armchair so I'll say a word or two about
myself: I'm about to be 16, I'm a sophomore in high school and I've been
very into BFF for a few months since I saw theme on Sessions at West 54th.
Now to get down to bussiness.
First off, I'm in the process of putting together a web page. The first
main section that I'm going to have on it will be a major discography and
songlist that's all linked up. As soon as I can I should also get a
bootlist up, in the same format as the discography. It should be really
cool when it's all done. I'm really trying to get everything in one place
in a really nice format.
The other thing that I want to do is start a list of all the weird sounds
that people have found in songs. Infact, I just found one in Uncle Walter.
At about 2:08, there is a weird click and than a squeaky sound. It sounds
almost like somebody is pressing a button on a tape recorder and then it is
rewinding. Check it out. If you've got any sounds that you've found please
send them to me so that when I finally get my page up I can post them.
Well I guess that's just about it. I'll probably be posting something later
because I'm reading through all my backed up digests, so I'm sure I'll have
something to respond to.
Later,
Josh
You can visit my really outdated website @ http://www.his.com/~jjj/
P.S. If there's anyone out there that wants to trade me some BFF boots for
some Smashing Pumpkins Boots, please email me. I'm desperately trying to
get a hold of some but all I have is SP boots (I do have some good ones.)
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Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 23:37:37 EST
From: Fantine222 <Fantine222@aol.com>
Subject: Fakebook sight with Brick Music
Hi Everyone!
I found a nifty sight with all sorts of guitar tabs and a few sheets of piano
music (for everyone who keeps asking). There is music from S/T, WEAEA and
NBP. Good Luck! <A HREF="http://www.afn.org/~afn61842/index.html">S.C.'s
WWW Offerings</A>
Anybody know when they are coming back to the best place on earth, Seattle?
A Bientôt
Caitlin
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Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 23:45:38 -0500
From: Jessica Brandt <jbrandt@kent.edu>
Subject: Ben Abounds up North
Hey all, I was just in Canada for Spring Break (hey, who needs fun and
sun?) Toronto to be exact, and not only do they have the best concentration
of record stores there on Younge St., but they have TONS of singles,
particularly BFF.
I was able to pick up both Underground singles for $10.99 (which is like,
50 cents in American $$ or something) and this weird copy of BOWCCL, which
instead of having a brownish cover (or something.....whatever the european
covers were like) it is quite plain with just a picture of the guys, which
i believe is a still from the "potty Mouth" video. Actually, i think it's
an american pressing, with Champagne Supernova and Dr. Pyser. It was also
for $10.99.
anyway, what i'm saying is that everyone who lives within 5 hours of
Toronto should take off (get it?) for there and snatch the other gazillion
copies of these singles i found at HMV, Sam's, and Tower Records.
or maybe the canadians who don't have them should go get them. Whatever.
Anyhow, thanks for having me, Canada. glad to know i could rape your
national CD import supply! :)
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Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 23:52:22 -0500
From: Richard Challen <rchallen@clemson.campus.mci.net>
Subject: ABC, Easy as 1-2-3
re:
Why would you file Ben Folds Five under F? Would you file Dave Matthews
Band under M? Or the 80's J. Giel's Band under G? Just wondering, I
wouldn't.
Ooops... our lil' record store files Ben Folds Five under B, Dave
Matthews Band under M, and J Geils Band under G.
The thinking here is: If it's a real person (Steve Miller, Pat McGee,
Dave Matthews) with the word "Band" following their name, file it by the
person's last name. If it's a BAND that only SOUNDS like a real person
(Jethro Tull, Billy Pilgrim, Pink Floyd), file it like a band.
Unfortunately, some people have to be oddballs. (Like the Freddy Jones
Band, which is filed in F because, well, there's nobody named Freddy
Jones in the band.) In an odd sort of logic, we would probably file Ben
Folds Five in F, not B, if their name was the Ben Folds Band.
Of course, then they'd become a hippie act and have to play H.O.R.D.E.
and later open for DMB in Jersey and... oops, nevermind...
Your friendly record store manager,
rICH
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Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 00:00:50 -0500
From: "Derek Supranowicz" <dpsupr@maila.wm.edu>
Subject: DMB!!!!
Well one of the main concerts I wanted to go to just got better, what
better package could you ask for than Beck, BFF, and Dave Matthews? I have
never seen Dave and I planed this summer to be my first one and that
announcement just blew me away. Well Since I am at school My sister will be
up bright and early for me on Sat morning to buy tix, hopefully the first
35 rows of Foxboro. I have seen beck twice and BFF four times but never in
this kind of atmosphere, it might be interesting. Too bad I wont get to go
backstage on this one, bummer.
Well If it sells out I hope the guys don't get too nervous for 61,000
people. I know they opened for counting crows, but this adds a few on to
those numbers. Good luck and I will see you there!!!
Derek
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"Those who say the past is not dead, stop and smell the smoke" - Ben Folds
Five
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Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 01:52:35 EST
From: Corrin108 <Corrin108@aol.com>
Subject: Re: Magical Armchair Digest V1 #909
<<<i have never really liked the song brick, it's slow, and depresses
me. BFF has so many wonderful songs that it frusterates me when they play
brick over and over......i was just wondering if i am the only one. does
anyone else agree with me. i feel like a bitch saying i hate one of their most
popular songs, but i love philosophy, kate, and the last polka.....>>>
Uh, i also really like those songs, but brick is still really good. I mean
thats why its so popular, right? I think BF5's slow songs are some of the
best....c'mon - Smoke, Evaporate, alice childress, missing the war, selfless,
i could go on and on. These songs all rule.
Corinne
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Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 23:04:41 -0700
From: "Will Canzoneri" <canzo@eudoramail.com>
Subject: (No Subject)
>Why would you file Ben Folds Five under F? Would you >file Dave Matthews
>Band
>under M? Or the 80's J. Giel's Band under G? Just >wondering, I wouldn't.
I was planning on using that as my argument. Xept it was "would you file Dave Matthews
Band under D?" Filing bands like BFF, DMB, J. Geils, and all those other So-And-So
Band(s) under the first name of the leader instead of the last makes absolutely no
sense! It's the exact same thing as filing Elvis Costello and the Attractions under
"E" or looking up George Bush in the encyclopedia under "G." Having to look under
"F" and then "B" to find BF5 has always irritated me...
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Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 23:04:20 -0800
From: Janet <LemonDrp@pacbell.net>
Subject: Superdrag opening for BFF
Yesh, I do believe so.
Apparently, they are this tour's openers.
Janet.
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Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 09:01:43 +0100
From: Janniek van Walsum <vanwalsum@wxs.nl>
Subject: Foxboro...
Wow, they are going to play Foxboro...I hail from there. I now live in
Holland. The first concert I saw at Foxboro Stadium was The Police, summer
of "83, my graduation year. My girlfriend was working at the office there
and I was hanging out with her. She smiled at me and suggested that we go
out on to the field and look around at them setting up for The Police.
Well, we walk out there and there are Sting, Andy and Stewart rehearsing
for the show! I froze in my tracks! I just stood there for the longest time
and pretended to be a fly on the wall. It was an honor and a memorable
experience. The show itself was awesome!
Saw David Bowie at the end of August, the same summer for $2 because all
the stupid scalpers bought all the tickets and none of the teens could get
transportation there. (This stadium is in the middle of nowhere!) Got my
picture in the "Serious Moonlight" book that was published! I nearly didn't
go either, because I had just gotten off a plane from England the day be
fore and I was totally jetlagged.
To tie it to Ben Folds Five... I think it is totally cool that they are
playing such a big venue! They've arrived! Now more people will be able to
experience these 3 fantastic guys that we've come to know and love so well!
Let's share our wealth! Hey, somebody great has to play there, the Patriots
sure suck!
LJ
"Some summers in the evening after 6 or so
I walk on down the hill
And maybe buy a beer
I think about my friends
Sometimes I wish they lived out here
But they wouldn't dig this town
No, they wouldn't dig this town" BFF
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Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 11:39:43 +0000 (GMT)
From: ER Burningham <u7g83@ugg.keele.ac.uk>
Subject: meeting the guys/video
hey y'all
haven't posted for a while. to the person wondering about meeting the guys,
in my experince it's purely a case of patience. you have to stand around
outside the stage door/ by their coach. mind you the last show i went to
wasn;t that big, but even so i was surprised at how few people there were
waiting for autographs.i didn't speak to them b4 the show but i sneaked into
the sound check and stood at the back (i was a bit nervous at the time &
they were busy and i didn't want to piss themm off). anyway. that's my
theory on meeting them, or any band for that matter.
incidentally, this video thing. does anyone know if they'll do this in the
uk? i suppose that have to wait for the iminent success of brick first which
is released on monday......
anyway, thanks
love
em
"i feel like a quote out of context...." that's one of my favourite quotes
anyway...
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Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 15:26:51 +0000 (GMT)
From: ER Burningham <u7g83@ugg.keele.ac.uk>
Subject: meeting the guys/video (fwd)
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hey y'all
haven't posted for a while. to the person wondering about meeting the guys,
in my experince it's purely a case of patience. you have to stand around
outside the stage door/ by their coach. mind you the last show i went to
wasn;t that big, but even so i was surprised at how few people there were
waiting for autographs.i didn't speak to them b4 the show but i sneaked into
the sound check and stood at the back (i was a bit nervous at the time &
they were busy and i didn't want to piss themm off). anyway. that's my
theory on meeting them, or any band for that matter.
incidentally, this video thing. does anyone know if they'll do this in the
uk? i suppose that have to wait for the iminent success of brick first which
is released on monday......
anyway, thanks
love
em
"i feel like a quote out of context...." that's one of my favourite quotes
anyway...
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Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 19:33:48 +0000 (GMT)
From: Richard Cheng <richard.cheng@st-edmund-hall.oxford.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Tom Kingsmill's fave quote
On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Magical Armchair Digest wrote:
> From: SASH37 <SASH37@aol.com>
> Subject: Tom Kingsmill's fave quote
>
> "there was a girl that passed me by and she gave a smile but i was shy so i
> looked down sooooooo down" ben folds defining me
um... and me as well.
rich
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Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 19:37:46 +0000 (GMT)
From: Richard Cheng <richard.cheng@st-edmund-hall.oxford.ac.uk>
Subject: file under f?
> Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 13:37:41 GMT
> From: "Mark Piper" <mfp540@novell3.bham.ac.uk>
> Subject: File Under Water
>
> Hi hi hi,
>
> Rick wrote:
> > After seeing all these lists of B-bands, I was wondering if I was
> > the only one who filed BFF under F???
>
> Funny you should mention that. Tower Records here in Birmingham files
> BFF under F, and it always confuses me, but thinking about it, I
> guess it's the more logical choice. After all, there are two F's to
> choose from :), and if it was just Ben, he would be filed under F,
> would he not? Perhaps the new album should be subtitled "File Under
> Folds" ;)
>
> Um, that's all. I'm Sorry.
>
> Mark
But it's not *The* Ben Folds Five, as in his five. It's the name of the
band. And it starts with a 'B'. File it under 'B'.
Gawdemmit.
rich
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