THE MAGICAL ARMCHAIR
The Ben Folds Five Digest
Issue #912 - March 28, 1998
Magical Armchair Digest Saturday, March 28 1998 Volume 01 : Number 912
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TOPICS IN THIS DIGEST:
Fear of Pop
to all you AUSSIE's...
Fwd: Ben Folds Five Update/New Dates! 24-7 Chat
Glastonbury Festival
Uncle Walter sound
its really wierd.
My 1st posting
BF5 Airplay in louisiana
Band name?
i too, feel this way sometimes
ok why did rich steal tommy's quote?
Y100 cage match
Brick on 96.1
Re: Magical Armchair Digest V1 #911
waaaaaahhhh
Jools Holland
Re: Magical Armchair Digest V1 #910
Re: Magical Armchair Digest V1 #910
i know that in a moment we'll be shooting up heroin
This has ALWAYS confullded me
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Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 20:38:32 EST
From: KNULPREK <KNULPREK@aol.com>
Subject: Fear of Pop
I have a friend who keeps buggin' me if Fear of Pop is out yet, where he can
get it, so on, so on.. So, does anyone know any specifics on this album? I was
under the impression it's already out.. anyway, thanks.
-jason.
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Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 21:50:41 EST
From: HiGeary <HiGeary@aol.com>
Subject: to all you AUSSIE's...
Ok, this is kinda off the BFF five subject, but I just got back from visiting
your beautiful country of AUSTRALIA and I have to tell you that it was the
best trip of my life!!!! The country is incredible and everyone was extremely
nice!!! I saw Sydney, the Blue Mountains, went skydiving over the Gold Coast
and snorkeling in the Great Barrier Reef!!! I want to move there it is so
beautiful and WARM!!!! : ) It was a shock coming back to NY...
But, I was distressed to learn that there is this free video offer there that
I did not notice while I was there, oh well. And boy, you guys sure do have
to pay a lot for CD's. wow. You AUSSIE's have to be true fans of a band to
lay out those bucks!!
Finally, to those of you I owe tapes to, they will be sent out this weekend.
And to all others, get your butts out to Australia if you can....it is an
amazing experience!!!
Rachael
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Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 22:07:17 EST
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Subject: Fwd: Ben Folds Five Update/New Dates! 24-7 Chat
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Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 22:25:32 -0500
From: doug cunningham <douglc@mindspring.com>
Subject: Glastonbury Festival
this has probably been posted already but i note that the boys are playing
this huge festival in england 6/26-28
http://www.cybercomm.nl/~saucytrt/glaston.html
feeling neglected in atlanta
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Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 23:11:48 EST
From: JBusch9540 <JBusch9540@aol.com>
Subject: Uncle Walter sound
To the guy that posted about the sound in Uncle Walter sounding like a tape
recorder.. ummm.. nope. It's definitely a bong. Goes after the lyric "he sees
his children smoking pot" and then after the bong sound you hear a cough. Hope
that cleared it up for ye.
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Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 22:16:35 -0600
From: rcc35060@cmsu2.cmsu.edu (rebehka-christine-chrissy-meg-cramer)
Subject: its really wierd.
see, with the whole 'where do you file it' thing, all the record stores
here file bff under b. but someone mentioned elivis and teh attractions.
they are filed under c. but then again i once saw julian lennon under b
for beatles.
weird stuff huh.
this is my story both humble and true, take it to pieces and mend it with glue.
everyones favorite chrissy (the silly old bananafish)
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campaign to end the jewish problem. we're all just sooo perfect, aren't
we?"
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Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 23:21:02 EST
From: SunfireQT <SunfireQT@aol.com>
Subject: My 1st posting
Hey y'all:
This is the first time I'm posting, so I hope I'm doing it right.
I have two things I'd like to say.
I knew that BF5 was going to be my favorite band as soon as I heard "Alice
Childress" for the first time. I had recently moved to Texas and I love it
here but it really bites that I'm so far from all my buds up in Connecticut.
Then, through the old speakers of my long-gone Dodge, I heard Ben say, clear
as a Texas summer "...think about my friends, sometimes I wish they lived down
here but they wouldn't dig this town".
Thanx alot, Ben, for being in the right place for me at the right moment.
Secondly, I would like to thank my boyfriend, Steven Good, for giving me
Ben's autograph after the show in Dallas at Deep Ellum Live. I had to leave
right after the show because of my stupid English class the next morning.
And if anyone ever asks, if you had the chance to get tix to a BF5 concert
but you'd have to wake up to a 104 fever the next day, the show is defenately
worth suffering for! Trust me, I did it!
Thanx for listening,
Erica
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Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 23:12:16 -0600 (CST)
From: Skip Allums <mallums@tiger.lsu.edu>
Subject: BF5 Airplay in louisiana
greetings fellow armchairites!
thought ya'll would find this interesting... my school's radio station
(KLSU) has caught BF5 Fever- but in a good way! in the past 3 days they've
been playing:
Song For the Dumped
Underground
Jackson Cannery
Kate
and get this! Tom and Mary!
yup. no Brick. not that that's good, but at least they're not
overplaying it. they're giving the listeners a good open look into BF5.
Skip Allums... President of Skipland.
Beatles Fan... Root Beer Man.
"Gloria in Vanillum" (glory be to vanilla)
"qui me amat, amat et canem meam" (love me, love my dog)
mallums@tiger.lsu.edu www.angelfire.com/mi/mwa3/index.html
"I soiled my armor I was so scared!" - Sir Robin, Monty Python's Holy Grail
"A thingy! A fiendish thingy!" -George Harrison, Help! (the movie)
Mandy is my master.
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Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 00:23:56 EST
From: Phisher XC <PhisherXC@aol.com>
Subject: Band name?
Does anyone know what the five actually means? Is it like Folds Five, as in a
poker type thing? Just wondering, or is it a weird thing in Ben's mind.
Because on "The Morning Goes Eclectic" bootleghe calls the sting quartet a
brass band...well I don't know...I'm just looking for an answer. Thanks
Ryan
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Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 22:07:04 PST
From: "Chandra Hicks" <chanfifteen@hotmail.com>
Subject: i too, feel this way sometimes
Here's my thing: i too am experiencing a little possessiveness towards
bff, and i should want everyone to experience the unique greatness of
their music, but i am selfish, because people are loving them as a one
his wonder, brick is good, but ONLY if you truly appreciate bff. oh
yeah, battle of who could care less should have recieved sooooo much
more exposure than it did in the states, that was my favourite song.
jat, chandra
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Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 02:24:34 EST
From: SASH37 <SASH37@aol.com>
Subject: ok why did rich steal tommy's quote?
hey rich find your own quote ok? thanks man. dont be a ripper.
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Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 02:29:21 EST
From: SASH37 <SASH37@aol.com>
Subject: Y100 cage match
song for the dump beat shitty smashmouth to be the champions i hope they go to
the hall of fame......
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Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 20:06:35 +1100
From: Anna <z2211303@student.unsw.edu.au>
Subject: Brick on 96.1
Just letting peopleknow that I heard Brick this evening on a commercial
radio station. It was on 96.1 fm. The radio announcer was saying how they
wanted to call it prick or something but they thought "brick" would be better.
So, brick is making it here in Australia.
I also tried getting the video on its own but the guy at hmv said the video
was packaged with the cd and they could not separate them. Also they
couldn't sell it separately cos there is no bar code. Isn't that so crappy?
Something about the recording company not allowing it as well.
Oh well, that it!
Seeya
Anna
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Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 08:55:14 CST
From: "shoehorn with teeth" <JMJONES@Athena.valpo.edu>
Subject: Re: Magical Armchair Digest V1 #911
I never have time to read the list, but I was reading today and came
across someone's comments about BFF popularity, and I can't help but
agree. My roomates have bad taste in music, and listen to this bad
radio station that plays nothing but celine dion and spice girls and
shit. I thought I would crawl into a hole the other day when I heard
BRick on there the other day. I feel your pain. Yeah, I know they
deserve popularity, and maybe even want it, but it's hard to believe
(or i don't want to believe) that the band is really flattered to be
played next to the damn backstreet boys. It's depressing.
Just a thought
Hanna
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Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 10:45:13 -0500
From: DCleary@cldx.com (Cleary, Deborah)
Subject: waaaaaahhhh
<<<<... but when I see and hear Brick
EVERYWHERE, I start to get slightly pissed off. Im starting to see thirteen
year old oasis lovers buying WEAEA and it
is extremely depressing. I know BFF deserve popularity, they are, after
all, brilliant, but I wish it were the old days when they were the fans
special secret. I guess I just have to deal with it.,>>>>
UGH....just get OVER it already. What impact does the fact that BFF is
making some freakin cash have on YOUR life??? It's been said over and over
and over on this list.....there is nothing wrong with these guys having some
modest success. And it is just that...MODEST success so far. Brick was the
first BFF song I ever heard and it inspired me to go out and buy WEAEA,
which in turn inspired me to buy NBP. NBP still blows me away.....those are
the songs that have made me a hardcore BFF fan. SO WHAT if 13 year olds are
buying the CD too??? Why in the world would THAT depress you?? Get some
therapy, do whatever but spare us the WHINING!!!!
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Date: Fri, 27 Mar 98 17:18:51 +0100
From: Bengt Stenstr=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=f6m?= <bengt.stenstrom@swipnet.se>
Subject: Jools Holland
Late last year there was an announcement that BFF would appear on the
Jools Holland show. Anyone know if they did? What did they play?
BENgt
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Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 13:59:02 -0500 (EST)
From: Kelly Mcghee <ocosmic@email.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: Magical Armchair Digest V1 #910
Hi...I'm new, this is my first post, blahblah...I'm Kelly, 20, junior
psych/engl major for anyone that's interested :)
here's my question...I know bff is playing at Duke in April, and that it's
a free show, but is it open ONLY to Duke students? Cause I go to Chapel
Hill (GO TAR HEELS!!!), and I REALLY wanna go! So if anyone knows,
please pass on the word.
Thanks,
Kelly
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Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 16:02:53 EST
From: XCTRACNH <XCTRACNH@aol.com>
Subject: Re: Magical Armchair Digest V1 #910
so bff is playing in foxboro. when exactly and how do i go about getting
tickets.
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Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 16:11:02 EST
From: Rocket no8 <Rocketno8@aol.com>
Subject: i know that in a moment we'll be shooting up heroin
<< 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. >>
sorry if someone else posted about this, but:the sound comes right after the
line "he sees the children smoking pot" and the sound is someone inhaling
smoke out of a bong. the sound might have been simulated, but from what i've
heard about the band's personal habits, it's probably real. there are
references to pot in several of the band's songs(battle, kate, summer B,
mitchell lane). i hope this doesn't start a big discussion about drugs.
- -al
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Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 18:33:15 -0500
From: phaedonely@juno.com (J. M Donely)
Subject: This has ALWAYS confullded me
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
~Elisabeth
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