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Artist: Ben Folds FiveEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1995-07-25
Music Label: Passenger
Soundtracks:
- Jackson Cannery
- Philosophy
- Julianne
- Where's Summer B?
- Alice Childress
- Underground
- Sports & Wine
- Uncle Walter
- Best Imitation of Myself
- Video
- The Last Polka
- Boxing
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Free Music Review: 20-Somethinghood
Hit: 5 Stars
Ben Folds Five's first self-titled album is a homage to what seems to be a new stage in life: 20-Somethinghood, the period between adolescence and "real life." Many albums have covered adolescence, dating, cliques, fashions, finding yourself amid changes. But Ben Folds attacks the period after when all these questions are supposed to be dealt with, but in today's world a lot still go unanswered.
You think you have a secure identity, but you find the people around you changing until you second guess yourself. It's a time when you have your closest friends, but they always seem to slip in and out of your life as everyone tries to make their path. Everyone keeps moving, including yourself. You chase "the" relationship. You pass from crappy job to crappy job. You try to finally conquer the demons of High School. You try to regain your lost childhood.
Many of Ben Folds's lyrics read like letters, especially the brilliant "Alice Childress" and "Where's Summer B?" songs so intimate you think you've opened someone's mail. Ben sprinkles his songs with delicious humor as on "Juliane," a celebration of a mistake of a one-night stand, and "Uncle Walter," a song about a tongue scolding Ben receives from an absent girlfriend's drunken uncle. Ben assaults the trends of the mid-90's, the Grunge Era in "Underground" and Yuppie Psuedo-sophisticates in "Sports and Wine." Ben has a wonderful flair for making the little things people take seriously seem absolutely ridiculous and the tiny minutiae seem incredibly profound and intimate. All this culminates in "Best Imitation of Myself," where he simultaneously proves and debunks his own genius.
All this set to vitruoso piano refreshingly devoid of pretension with Robert Sledge serving as both Bass and Guitar with the same instrument to amazing effect. Darren Jesse completes the groove (Whither the other two?) of a trio that, in the day, was one of the 90's most captivating, rocking live acts. Folds caresses, attacks, seduces and kerplunks his 88 mistresses into Sonata, Honky-Tonk, Pinball Wizard, Sunday School Sing-A-Long, Wrecking Ball, Lounge Lizard and Kiddy Toy Piano often all within the same song.
"Ben Folds Five" is nearly to post-Adolescence what "Quadrophenia" was to adolescence. It captures the Mid-90's 20-Something experience without getting mired in its clichés, like a bad episode of "Friends." Its sardonic time capsule should stand the test of time. Even when the particulars of Grunge and Sports Bars are as dead as Zoot Suits and Leapers, you can still feel the timeless emotions of the period through them. There will always be the stupid trends you follow for no reason. The Cool Guys you can't ever believe you thought were cool. The endless routines and rituals you go through waiting for that one minute of connectedness that will show you your real path.
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