THE MAGICAL ARMCHAIR
The Ben Folds Five Digest
Issue #1205 - September 9, 1998
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just whining at twen-t-sumthings obnoxiousity
Re: Magical Armchair Digest V1 #1202
Hoorah for Sept 13th birthdays
mix tape's a masterpiece
Someone Needs a Valium (a.k.a. BFF sound-alikes)
yack
sounds like bff / your parents are ignorant
Jess is one angry mofo
To continue the birthday thing
just stuff
Ben's B-day, Brick EP, Semisonic
RE:soundalikes
misc.
Video Clips
soundalikes
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Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 20:07:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: Judi Smith <jsmith@bc.seflin.org>
Subject: just whining at twen-t-sumthings obnoxiousity
whye duz NE1 spel NE1 lyke thatt?
judi smith would you catch me if was falling?
jsmith@bc.seflin.org kiss me if i was leaving?
hold me cause i'm lonely without you?
-- counting crows
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Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 20:19:41 EDT
From: CyberEm7@aol.com
Subject: Re: Magical Armchair Digest V1 #1202
In a message dated 9/5/98 9:10:29 PM, you wrote:
<<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!!!! >>
Same here... sigh... I don't want to buy stuff off the internet (I've been
gyped before) And I want to hear "Air", "Half Asleep" "She don't use Jelly"
etc., ... I havn't heard anything that's not on one of the 3 basic CDs (NBP,
BF5, WAEA) HELP ME HELP ME HELP ME!!!!!!! Also, what's the deal with this...
<<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.>>
I mean, do you mind?!
Emily
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Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:57:38 -0700 (PDT)
From: Kelly Harrigan <hyllek@yahoo.com>
Subject: Hoorah for Sept 13th birthdays
My birthday is also on the 13th/
Hooray for us!!
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Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 21:44:01 EDT
From: Vwbugn5890@aol.com
Subject: mix tape's a masterpiece
<<they had this Ben Folds Five CD called "mix tapes a masterpiece." It had
like brick, kate, slnit, sftd, evaporated, and maybe one more. Has anyone
ever heard of this?>>
i saw something similar to this at vintage vinyl once....i'm not sure if
that's what it was called, but there were like 5 songs from WAEA on it...i
didn't buy it b/c i wasn't obsessed back then, just midly interested :)
however, i have never seen that cd since and i wish i had bought it...
shan
"I thought maybe there was something to be said for just finding your
place"~Ben Folds
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Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 22:00:34 EDT
From: YourPalCM@aol.com
Subject: Someone Needs a Valium (a.k.a. BFF sound-alikes)
Is it just me or is it hard to take a person that rants and raves like this
seriously?
Your Pal,
Chris Mal
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In a message dated 9/7/98 8:49:09 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Jessica Brandt
<jbrandt@kent.edu> writes:
<< Don't listen to your parents, they are ignorant.
Don't listen to your friends, they are stupid.
Don't listen to your older siblings, they are mean.
Don't listen to your younger siblings, they hate you.
Don't listen to the newscasters, they are conspirators.
Don't listen to the DJs, they are dropouts AND sellouts. >>
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Date: Mon, 07 Sep 1998 21:11:15 -0600
From: Deidre <deidre.bowie@airmail.net>
Subject: yack
This is all so ridiculous. I'm sure Ben knows his fans wish him a happy
birthday. I don't think a card is actually going to make its way into
his hands anyhow. Just type 'Happy Birthday' on this damn mailing list &
since Ben knows about it, and his brother is on it, if he cares, he'll
get the message.
That's all...
Deidre
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Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 22:03:59 EDT
From: YourPalCM@aol.com
Subject: sounds like bff / your parents are ignorant
Allison,
Oh, sure, just because it had piano in it you think it sounds like Ben Folds
Five! Well let me tell you something, don't listen to your parents, they are
ignorant! Don't listen to your younger siblings, they hate you! And not only
that, your friends are stupid! And the news is a conspiracy! Hehehehe.
Your Pal,
Chris Mal
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In a message dated 9/7/98 8:49:09 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Amff5@aol.com
writes:
<< I was listening to a classic rock station the other day. It was getting
pretty
boring, I was getting ready to turn it off, when all of a sudden a song came
on that grabbed my attention. It had the same type of sound as bff songs do,
and the singer sounded alot like Ben. I really wished the DJ would have given
the name of the song, or atleast the artist who did the song, but he didnt.
All I know about this song now is it had the line "back when my hair was
short" in it. Any of you think you've heard this song?
~allison >>
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Date: Mon, 07 Sep 1998 22:16:17 -0400
From: Sean Kiely <seank@CYBERNEX.NET>
Subject: Jess is one angry mofo
God, alls I've ever seen from you Jess is happy posts, and this one just
came out of nowhere. I for one do not like all the comparisons either,
but I can see the Joe Jackson thing. And yes I've been listening to him
since I can remember. There are slight similarities. As for the Lovin'
Spoonful, you are entitled to your opinion, but I think it's wrong. They
were one of the best bands out of the sixties, and they were far from
being a one-hit-wonder. If you ask anyone who lived through the sixties
what one of the dominatingly popular bands of the late sixities were,
and I'm sure you'll hear from most of them, The Lovin' Spoonful. John
Sebastian was one of the most talented songwriters of his time. They had
many hits, and they were all very good songs. That's all for now kids,
sean
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Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 22:15:19 EDT
From: SOULSIS43@aol.com
Subject: To continue the birthday thing
Everybody's talking about their birthday's and although mine unfortunately is
not September 12th, it's September 29th, which is pretty soon...anyway, I'm
gonna try to connect it to ben's...Lets see...alright...Mine's 17 days after
Ben's and I'm going to be turning 17 so I guess that gives us a pretty clear
connection already. Well, see ya!
~Libbie~
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Date: Mon, 07 Sep 1998 20:08:04 PDT
From: "Dustin O." <doneil41@hotmail.com>
Subject: just stuff
First off I was watching the New York Yankee's game today and I noticed
that Scott Brosius of the Yanks mildly resembles Ben, pretty cool. Next
I just bought the new Better Than Ezra cd, and it's VERY good, they've
really changed it seems, a few songs sound a bit like Radiohead. I
personally recommend it.
Take it easy, have fun, and be safe,
Dustin
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Date: Mon, 07 Sep 1998 20:09:02 PDT
From: "wildling ." <wildling@hotmail.com>
Subject: Ben's B-day, Brick EP, Semisonic
I think it would be great to send Ben something for his birthday (cuz
you know we all love him!).
And on the Japanese Brick EP, I believe the other tracks are all of
those present on the Australian Brick single (Smoke w/strings, ska Kate,
Mitchell Lane) with the remix of Fair with strings.
Regarding Semisonic . . . I recently picked up the CD a few days ago,
and yeah, I noticed that "Never You Mind" (one of my favourite tracks)
did sound a little Foldsish in its piano style, though I think it would
definately need to have a little more fervor and "oomph" to be mistaken
for a Five song - I found it to be sort of a BFF meets The Verve. The
whole album is pretty kewl, though; check 'em out!
~jojo
"There's plenty of other people to do now." ~Robert Sledge
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Date: Mon, 07 Sep 1998 20:09:52 PDT
From: "Noah Skaroff" <birdtrane@hotmail.com>
Subject: RE:soundalikes
How could you say such a thing? All bands have inspirations, so of
course they sound like some other people. For example, on NBP, in
Jackson Cannery, the part where the piano keep time and the base plays
segments sounds exactly like Billy Joel. You talked about uneducated
people. An educated person can recognize similarities and liken them to
other sounds. It takes an idiot like you to yell "Ben Folds Five
doesn't sound like anybody". Nobody's completely original. That's the
beauty of music. It doesn't change, it evolves. Stop being stubborn
and realize that Ben Folds is not god. He's an incredibly talented
musician who has risen to fame. That doesn't make him any worse, it
makes him human. Next time, think before you speak.
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Date: Mon, 07 Sep 1998 23:05:36 PDT
From: "Lauren Choplin" <zyah_1@hotmail.com>
Subject: misc.
Shan -- This is a response to your post about what would have happened
had Ben's girlfriend not had an abortion -- well, Ben Folds Five as we
know it might not exist today, if you think about it. That's not really
something I want to get into, or start talking about
extensively, because it is part of Ben's private life, and I'm not going
to presume to know what happened or what wouldn't have happened because
I listened to Brick or whatever. But I just wanted to say that.
Geez, don't you some of you ever *read* the Armchair? I agree with
Sarah (I think that's who it was?). Some people are getting a little
redundant. Here's a better idea -- keep up with the digests, at least
skim them or something -- that way you won't repeat. Otherwise what's
the point of even subscribing?
Question: I haven't been, um, keeping up on my MTV (Do I really "want
my mtv" anymore, anyway?) and I'm a little confused -- are BF5 up for
some sort of award? Otherwise why else would they be on the fanatic
Nominee Retrospective?
And I was thinking -- while they may not be in very good musical company
on the Sabrina soundtrack, they will probably get a lot of money out of
it, right? Judging from the fact that most of the bands/artists
contributing rented out some Top 40 space at some point (not necessarily
a good thing) and are almost guaranteed to "bring in the bucks"? Who
knows. But maybe BF5 will inspire some of them. ? Do we want that ?
Oh, the new Kate Bush album (I don't know, a compilation? Not really
familiar with her) is called "I Wanna Be Kate." :) I was skimming
Alternative Press and I thought I had found something BFFrelated.
Lauren
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Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1998 00:25:24 PDT
From: "Natalie Graham" <ncgraham@hotmail.com>
Subject: Video Clips
Hey there!
The only video clips I have of BFF are Underground, Song For The Dumped
and Brick.If anyone's willing to send me anymore, please email me at
<ncgraham@hotmail.com>
Thanx
Nat
(P.S: my birthday's August 19th, if only I had been born 24 days later)!
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Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 07:28:36 EDT
From: JGreenb106@aol.com
Subject: soundalikes
In a message dated 98-09-07 21:22:28 EDT, you write:
<<Get a Joe Jackson CD from the 99 cent bin and find out that he is good in
his OWN way.>> (etc.)
I can't agree more...although if people hear a genuine resemblence that's ok.
still, I was amazingly mad when I read in YM through a friend that "if you
like Dave Mathews Band, you will like Ben Folds Five." GRR. Can't anybody be
themselves anymore??? I'll admit that i do think certain Elton John and BFF
songs sound the same, but I would not go as far (as certain magazines, TV
shows have done) to say that they sound similar as musicians. Back at the
last BFF show in Philly, there was a guy in front of me who didn't seem to
know the songs too well. After Kate or something, he said something the
effect of, "hey, this kinda sounds like Billy Joel..." ????
ari
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Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 12:11:08 -0400
From: "Usher, Alycia Lynette" <ushera@ccds.cincinnati.oh.us>
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> BFF: MUCHMUSIC SPOTLIGHT (repost)
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> Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 18:24:45 -0400 (EDT)
> From: echap@netcom.ca
> Subject: BFF: MUCHMUSIC SPOTLIGHT (repost)
>
> Sorry to repost, but a couple of people have requested that I
> repost this (important? is this truly important?) request, so here ya
> go...
>
> OK, for those of you that don't know, there is a music video
> station originating from Toronto, and broadcasting around the world
> called MuchMusic. Anyways, MuchMusic has a daily special called
> 'Spotlight', in which they devote 30 minutes to an artist, and play
> 5-odd music videos, with interview and live clips spliced in. Well, as
> far as I can remember, our boys have not appeared on Spotlight, yet
> they have done interviews, and played live on Muchmusic. So, that
> leads me to thinking that us BFFans can get Soptlight to feature the
> boys. 'So, how does this benefit me?' you ask? Well, us fans who can
> will tape the show, and we can mail copies to fans across the world
> who have still not seen the video for Uncle Walter (among
> others...yes, it DOES exist).
> So, here's the deal. Please, everyone just take a minute out of
> your day to just write a Muchmusic a simple Email. Here is the info.
>
> Email address: spot@muchmusic.com
> Subject: Ben Folds Five Spotlight (or something to that effect)
>
> It will be more effective is you send short letters often that one
> really big letter, but feel free to do both. Also, if you have nothing
> better to do with your life, make a picture website, as those make up
> many of the request on their All-Request shows. I figure that if each
> member of the Armchair sends one Email per day, they'll want to shut
> us up and they bow to our demands (wishful thinking is beautiful).
>
> So, to sum up, PLEASE Email MuchMusic once a day asking them to
> air a BFF spotlight. Every Email counts. Start writing today: Aug.
> 26th (um, I guess September 3rd is more accurate now). Thanks for your
> help,
> Robbie C.
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