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- Posted: 12/12/2022 21:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#4376): Whatever And Ever Amen
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Today's album of the day
Whatever And Ever Amen by Ben Folds Five (View album | Buy this album)
Year: 1997.
Country: 
Overall rank: 1,232
Average rating: 76/100 (from 242 votes).
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Tracks:
1. One Angry Dwarf And 200 Solemn Faces
2. Fair
3. Brick
4. Song For The Dumped
5. Selfless, Cold And Composed
6. Kate
7. Smoke
8. Cigarette
9. Steven's Last Night In Town
10. Battle Of Who Could Care Less
11. Missing The War
12. Evaporated
About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.
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HoldenM
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MadhattanJack
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- Posted: 12/12/2022 21:50
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| HoldenM wrote: | | Very '90s. |
In terms of attitude, definitely. Lyrical content, sure... but let's not forget that pretty much nobody in that 90's rock milieu was recording albums and playing gigs with just a real piano, and with no guitars, and not even any synthesizers (at least when they toured to support this LP).
Or at least if anybody else was, they weren't succeeding at it. It's true that some people at the time dismissed Ben Folds as some sort of "Alternative Billy Joel," but that struck me as really unfair. To me he seemed more indebted to Jerry Lee Lewis, or even somebody like Al Stewart, only with a much more punkish/alt-rock attitude of course.
I wouldn't go so far as to call BF5's stuff "revolutionary," but personally I'll credit him with getting me interested in playing the piano again, after about 15 years of barely touching one.
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RockyRaccoon
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- Posted: 12/13/2022 00:49
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I'm a huge Ben Folds fan, so I love just about anything he's ever been involved with, but I do really love this album.
I think their debut is still my favorite of the BFF stuff, but this album is pretty darn close. It's some of Ben's best songwriting - Brick is a masterpiece of storytelling, Song for the Dumped is fabulous, Kate, Evaporated, One Angry Dwarf, there are just a ton of great songs.
Also, if anyone else is a big Ben Folds fan, his memoir from last year A Dream About Lightning Bugs is well worth the read
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