THE MAGICAL ARMCHAIR
The Ben Folds Five Digest
Issue #1513 - May 7, 1999
Magical Armchair Digest Friday, May 7 1999 Volume 01 : Number 1513
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TOPICS IN THIS DIGEST:
band breakup rumor
Not really bentent...
I hate to disagree, but....
different versions of dr. pyser
articles online
Re: mullet
Two Cents
videos (again) - (please)
Whitlams
Park West and other ramblings
A bunch of things...
My first post!
mullets, chic-fil-a and more
cmj
(no subject)
MULLET
MULLET
Toronto tape
Re: Magical Armchair Digest V1 #1504
Sheffield Gig (England)
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Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 02:04:28 EDT
From: NedGump@aol.com
Subject: band breakup rumor
Hey, i think I know where the rumor developed. Read the lyircs to "Army":
"Citing artistic differences the band broke
up in May
And in June reformed without me
And they got a different name"
I think this solves the rumor situation, unless of course, Ben wrote that to
hint at something . . . but I really doubt that is the case
- - ned "i aint no forrest" gump
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Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 23:36:26 PDT
From: "Natalie Graham" <ncgraham@hotmail.com>
Subject: Not really bentent...
Hello to all,
I have three things to say:
1. Thankyou to EVERYONE who replied to my moshing survey. Your responses
were greatly appreciated, and all were incorporated into my essay!
2. TUBORM rocks
3. Good luck to all year 12 students in upcoming exams, CAT's etc.
Bye
Nat
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Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 01:43:09 -0500
From: stephanie janda <sbjanda@midway.uchicago.edu>
Subject: I hate to disagree, but....
Am I the only one who thinks a Dave Matthews and Ben Folds
collaberation would be a bad thing???? I think I am one of the few
people in this world that is not a DMB fan. The guy can really write
music and is great on the guitar but I there is somthing about most of
his songs that I can't stand. Please don't flame me for this...it is
just a difference of opinion.
Oh and if anyone did record the webcast I would like a copy...I
doubt anyone did, it would take up a lot of space.
Steph
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Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 23:39:45 -0700
From: Annamarie Ho <atho@uclink4.berkeley.edu>
Subject: different versions of dr. pyser
I was just wondering what version of dr. pyser is on the British army
single, if it is the one on teleconned - volume 1, on the BOWCCL single, or
another version altogether. I realize this has already been discussed on
the armchair; however, I do not recall the answer. I apologize for the
repetition. Please send answers to me privately at atho@uclink4.berkeley.edu.
Thanks, Annamarie
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Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 02:49:57 -0500
From: Jessica Brandt <jbrandt@kent.edu>
Subject: articles online
Well i'm now addicted to this site called www.musicnewswire.com , So i can
share all these BFF goodies (and not so goodies) i found there:
http://www.canoe.ca/JamMusic/may5_benfolds.html
(FOP, Shatner, Toronto, Frally & kids)
http://www.canoe.ca/JamAlbumsB/benfolds_biography.html
(Short TUBORM review, compared to Pauls Simon & McCartney, bacharach)
http://www.nme.com/reviews/reviews/19990404112846reviews.html
(TUBORM review, compared to Woody Allen, Andrew Lloyd Webber; plethora of
adjectives)
http://www.spin.com/magazine/features/1999/05/01/4/index.html
*This you cn find in print!
(Butterflies, the new album, Queen, nice pics to steal for websites)
http://cgi.pathfinder.com/ew/daily/0,2514,1424,benfoldsfivehave.html
*This you can also find in print
(Burt Bacharach crazy! also a link to another (?) EW review of TUBORM)
there's also a really crzappy review of TUBORM on www.sonicnet.com (where
they compare the whole thing to "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway"...as IF!!)
as well as an even crappier concert review of one of the Irving Plaza shows
(where they mistake John Painter for Tom Maxwell, AND call Tom Maxwell a
"delta blues originator"....tell me how a 30 year old guy can be an
originator of a music that began 100 years ago. and he is more into swing
and calypso anyway....GRR)....
Yeah, so anyway, I can't get SonicNet to work. it's all errors. So like,
you'll have to find the stuff yourself. (go to www.sonicnet.com and do a
SEARCH for Ben Folds Five)
God, journalists piss me OFF.
Speaking of journalists, didja read Ben's interview at
www.theshrubbery.com? Now THAT journalist knows her shit! ;)
Jess
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Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 17:31:23 +0930
From: Ben Williams <ben@tne.net.au>
Subject: Re: mullet
Rich Jotz <rjotz1@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I was looking in the liner notes at the lyrics and in
> "Army" Ben makes reference to growing a mustache and a
> "mullet." Does anyone know what a mullet is?
hehehe, a mullet. is this just an australian word for these hairdos?
must be, coz no one ever knows what they are on international lists like
this, except the aussies.
think 80s hair, long at the back, short on the sides, Bill Ray Cyrus
style. that's a mullet.
>From Ben.
- --
Boycott shampoo! Demand the REAL poo!
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Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 02:04:50 -0700
From: Kyle Smith <kjs77@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Two Cents
I have noticed two posts now of people saying that R.M. was Darren. I think that the people who thought it was the story of Bens life because he wrote the songs and he was writing the songs about himself not because they thought that he was the one with
the fake ID. I just thought I would try to clear that up. Oh ya, and BFF does need to come to seattle, I am glad to see all these seattle people posting. Seattle Rocks.
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Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 04:53:33 PDT
From: "Alice Childress" <jbpastie2@hotmail.com>
Subject: videos (again) - (please)
hello again!
please people, i really need to
know if we (australians) have
different videos to you (americans).
please let me know, if you know!
(we have VHS).
aaah! my bf5 cds are a-wanderin'.
my piano/organ teacher has my jap
import S/T,
my dad's car has whatever,
and my brother keeps nickin off
with tuborm.
eek! whadoo i do?!?
from JANET =)
<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>
(_x_) kiss my ass...goodbye
-ben folds five
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Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 20:07:26 +0800
From: "Leong" <selbi@iexpress.net.au>
Subject: Whitlams
>> by the way are there any Whitlams fans here as its the Whitlams mailing
list
>> that got me into Bff
>
>
>Me!!!!!!!!! I'm the _hugest_ whitlams fan ever, and their mailing list is
>also how I got into BFF. The two of them are my fav. bands EVER.
>
>Cap
Yup, I'm on the whitlams mailing list too. I was into bff before the
whitlams though. Hmmm thinking about it now I wish I could make this message
a little more substantial.
Jasmine
From: Jasmine Leong
E-Mail: doovette@hotmail.com
or selbi@iexpress.net.au
ICQ:20295010
AOL Instant Messenger: Friesse
My Whitlams Web Site :
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Hall/4815
"Never trust second thoughts. Next thing you know
there'll be a third and a fourth...... you'll be thinking forever!"
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Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 11:45:35 EDT
From: Soccer172@aol.com
Subject: Park West and other ramblings
First and foremost, the Park West show in Chicago was absolutely amazing.
The set list was pretty much the same as other shows, but they did Regrets
during the encore (first time live, and very good, I might add). My friend
and I snuck a peek of their setlist before the show and they were planning on
doing Innagoddadivita as part of the encore as well, but it seems they
skipped over that one to do some improv instead. For those who didn't catch
the show on webcast, SFTD turned into Ben 'singing the blues' about being on
the radio and "having nothing to cry about" followed by Ben hurling his body
all over stage and on top of his piano. Definitely the hightlight of the
night for me.
We played groupie and got autographs after the show. I've never met them
before, but as I predicted, they were all cool guys. One girl had Ben sign
her driver's license because her last name is Messner. He wrote on the back
of it "Do not arrest this woman. Ben Folds" I thought that was pretty funny.
Moving on...my school's newspaper (The Daily Iowan) did a review of TUBORM
for today's paper. They rated the album as Really Good and called TUBORM "a
beautiful and harmonious extraction of sound and style." They also named Ben
Folds Five as one of the top 3 things "on the lips" for this week saying (I
thought this was funny):
"The only 3 piece pop band to sport a lovable piano-playing frontman
with a wedge-shaped head has come out with its highly anticipated follow-up
to 1996's Whatever and Ever Amen. The album's tracks all loosely center on
the lifestory of the mysterious Reinhold Messner. Now that's a concept
album."
Wedge-shaped head?? Hmmm...never noticed it. Oh well.
Toodles,
Denise
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Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 12:12:54 EDT
From: Slk24kgj@aol.com
Subject: A bunch of things...
1. Is fair that big of a song for them to do it at every concert? I notice
they are doing it all over the place but I wasn't sure that that was as big a
song for them as they though.
2. The version of magic with Darren singing is amazing, I have about a 1
minute MP3 of it if anyone wants, Ben's version is awesome also but the one
with Darren singing it is beautiful, he really has a great voice.
3. Is it just me or does anybody else feel like they are at a completely
different concert of Ben Folds Five when they do there new stuff as compared
to when they do the old stuff. I love the fact that they can silence a room
with beauty in Magic and then the next minute, get the crowd going with
Steven's Last Night in Town. The best example of this was at the URI Show
4/25, for the encore, they did Lullaby which everyone thought was the encore
and it get everyone in a nice calm mood, but then they come out with Song for
the Dumped, an amazing difference. I think that when you pay for tickets to
a Ben Folds Five concert, you really are getting twice what you paid for
cause you get two concerts in one. One of the reasons that Ben Folds Five is
the greatest band in the world to see live (that's just my opinion, don't
shoot me).
thanks everyone for listening to me...Doug
Kaplan...Slk24kgj@aol.com
PS I am trying to prove that something intelligent can come from an AOL user.
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Date: Thu, 6 May 99 17:52 BST
From: slegg@cix.compulink.co.uk (Steve Legg)
Subject: My first post!
Hey Everyone!
Wow! This is my first day on the armchair and it's really great to see so
many people who all think BFF are great. Most people I know haven't even
heard of them (although I have converted two of my friends).
I know this sounds weird, but I was looking at the cover of (one of) my
(UK)singles of Army (I bought both versions of course for all the b sides
(falling for record company marketing but so what)) and noticed that the
'R' from the word 'store' (at least, that's what I presume it says) in the
background was missing. I then saw the picture on the actual CD of TUBORM
and the 'R' was there! Strange or what? Was it intentionally removed on
the singles or intentionally added for the album? Maybe we will never
know...
Anyway, the new album in fantastic and I've hardly stopped listening to it
since I got it on the 26th, I want the video pack version though, do I
have to order it to get it in the UK?
Susie
ICQ:23329203
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Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 12:58:44 EDT
From: KamalaICB@aol.com
Subject: mullets, chic-fil-a and more
<>
short in the front and long in the back.....it's the haircut of choice for
most backwoods/redneck/truckdriver/heavy metal wannabe guitarists types...the
beastie boys have a song all about it on the Clueless Soundtrack (as well as
an article by mike d (i think) in the Grand Royal Magazine), a friend of mine
even just did a documentary on the things.....quite a pop culture type
reference by ben and the boys...hee hee
and chic-fil-a
i'm addicted, i swear they put crack or something in the batter of their
nuggets, but since i was like 4 it's the only fast food place in the malls at
King Of Prussia, PA and the Granite Run Mall accross the street from Y100
that i eat at....esp. now....everyday i am at Y100 i go and get my "#5 12
pack with a coke"....they know me by name there...it's kinda embarrasing :)
oh well...yum yum yum
lets see, there was something else that i meant to write too....and i don't
remember what it was...oh well, it'll come to me later
casey-girl
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Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 15:06:44 -0400
From: Jody Clark <U_jclark@umassd.edu>
Subject: cmj
hey kids, take out your copy of the may 1999 issue of cmj with our boys on
the cover. doesn't it look like rob is going to grab the green lady's bum?
just thought i'd share that...
jody
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Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 15:34:21 EDT
From: BenF0lds05@aol.com
Subject: (no subject)
is it just me, or has there been a shitload of "my two cents"??
just my two cents,
(i love you, goodbye.)
dan
(ps: tickets for STL show on sale *THIS* friday)
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Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 15:40:56 -0400
From: Evan Quinto <evan@dc.jones.com>
Subject: MULLET
A mullet is a type of 'UGLY' hair-style! I searched the internet and found
this very informationl page about it!
http://www.gilson1.demon.co.uk/index.html
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Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 15:49:52 -0400
From: Evan Quinto <evan@dc.jones.com>
Subject: MULLET
Here is a better page about MULLETS!
http://users.wantree.com.au/~shicks/mullet/mullet.html
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Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 12:54:32 PDT
From: "Alex Ring" <web_in_front@hotmail.com>
Subject: Toronto tape
hey boys and girls!!
Toronto was an awesome show...oh my lord!! I'll go into deatil maybe in
another post but...
Did anybody tape the show (besides Radiosonic) ???
Thanx Alex
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Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 21:02:38 +0100
From: "Gav Allen" <gavin@a-allen.freeserve.co.uk>
Subject: Sheffield Gig (England)
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Hello Everybody (Hi Doctor Nick),
First Mail to the Armchair. Think BFF are F@#k'in Awsome, I'm =
still a Concert virgin (until 9th May in Sheffield).Have noticed that =
there are one or two english Fans who submit to the Armchair which is =
cool as I know about 3 people in my whole world who have even heard of =
BBF.
Top Five responses when telling people you listen to BFF.
1/ Good for him.
2/ What is he some kind of magician.
3/ Does he not know that will make him go blind if he persists.
4/ You Fkin Weirdo!!!!
5/ But there is only three of them......ouch!!!!
Any how, gotta go C U all in Sheffield.
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