eye WEEKLY Review of Ben Folds Five
From: eye4@interlog.com (eye SITE)
Newsgroups: eye.news,rec.music.misc
Subject: MUSIC: So you wanna be a modern rock star
Date: 3 Jan 1996 21:51:17 -0500
Organization: eye -- Toronto's Arts Newspaper
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eye WEEKLY January 4 1996
Toronto's arts newspaper .....free every Thursday
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[much content deleted - interesting, but not BFF-related]
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JASON "THE JACKAL" ANDERSON'S PICKS
* BEN FOLDS FIVE/Ben Folds Five (Virgin/EMI) ODDS: 9 to 2
The rock critz were just using the wrong angle on these dapper North
Carolinans. Though acclaimed along with Sub Pop's Eric Matthews as the
highly evolved, orchestral-pop spawn of the exotica/cocktail scene
(like Combustible Edison... but with vocals!), Mr. Folds' group sound
uncannily like two more commercially viable precedents: Squeeze and
Night And Day-era Joe Jackson. According to Billboard's Hottest Hot
100 Hits, Squeeze's "Hourglass" is the 4574th biggest hit of all-time!
C'mon, Ben, you can beat that!
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