Ben Folds Five - The Unauthorized Biography Of Reinhold Messner
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Free Music Review: Just plain good music
Hit: 5 Stars
This is the first Ben Folds Five album that I purchased. I'd heard "Brick" on the radio, and saw Ben perform "Army" on live tv some where - it was Letterman or Leno or something. "Biography" is a rare album these days - thematic, thoughtful, upbeat when it needs to be, completely ENGROSSING. I bought their first two cd's and love them. "Biography" is definitely a "growth" album for them -- all good bands evolve as they go on. Ben Folds is on the track of the great bands - Ben is honing his craft and perfecting the sound. "Biography" is not like the first two albums - it demonstrates the band's ability to excel in more ways than that. BF5 will be one of the great bands of the next decade. I look forward to everything they have yet to produce.Free Music Review: The most refreshing music in years.
Hit: 5 Stars
Upon first listening to the new album, I was completely taken aback at how strange and distant it sounded from their previous works -- however.. one can't linger on the past, and after another perusal of the tracks I realized that what I had bought was possibly one of the best compact discs to hit the shelves this year.This is _the_ album to have in your collection if you're a Ben Folds Five fan. The mustic transports you to a dimension where bad clichéd pop music is stepped on and swept under the bed. The so called 'radio songs' make other recordings that get air time seem like outtakes from a live concert with unskilled musicians.
This was definately worth the money; it's the model other bands will have to follow this year to please their legions of fans -- 'power chords died years ago!'.
Free Music Review: Ben Folds Five finds a new direction
Hit: 5 Stars
Ben Folds Five have established themselves as one of Alternative music's most witty and original bands, mixing classical piano with hard edge pop music, the result of which is always a highly listenable and enjoyable album. "The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner" proudly holds that tradition. Some of the songs take a more subtle approach, and they pull it off fine, thought it might not be as instantly likeable as songs like "Julianne" and "Song for the Dumped". The latter songs on the album are a drawback to the earlier Ben Folds Five music, with songs like "Army" and "Your Redneck Past".
The lyrics, as always, are brilliantly written. I highly recomend this album for anybody, and it stands as the most accessable album to date.
Free Music Review: Brilliant
Hit: 5 Stars
This is the best CD by Ben Folds, and the last album under Ben Folds Five.
Now, I've heard comments that Reinhold Messner was meant to be a "concept album", actually I heard that there was meant to be an epic definitive story of a "slacker". The song was supposed to be recorded in movments like 2112 or Jesus of Suburbia. But producer Brendan O'Brien decided to break up the epic re-work the movements as regular songs and space then out through the album.
If you think about it, A "concept album" about a "slacker" where the story is unresolved is a pretty funny idea.
But as a stand alone album it is a masterpiece.
This was Ben Folds at his prime.
He still puts out good music, but nothing on this level.
Free Music Review: True alternative and true rock
Hit: 5 Stars
If you have never heard Ben Folds Five before, this album is the real alternative. You will be amazed at the new way Ben and the boys put a sound together from a piano, a bass, and a drummer. Don't pass it up, you'll love it. If you have heard Ben Folds Five before, listen to this one. It's more over-the-top than anything they've done previous, evoking the grand rock operas of Queen at times, and other times reminding us of Chicago during the horns-and-orchestra era. You can access the album through "Army," the album's first radio track, a good example of BFF's earlier work. Then find "Narcolepsy" and "Jane-" they are great tracks- and fall in love with the rest of the album. It's one to buy. You won't be disappointed.