Ben Folds Five - The Unauthorized Biography Of Reinhold Messner
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Free Music Review: BFF are not radio wonders...
Hit: 5 Stars
If you've listened to this album, you know that it is not meant to compete with the Spice Girls and Hanson for radio airplay. This is music, kids, not celluloid meant to catch the ears of 12 year olds. Ben Folds and his band have produced an album which captures sheer emotion, not record company marketing. Those Ben Fold Five fans that are disappointed by this album obviously never listened past the singles on Whatever and Ever. Messner takes up where the band left off on songs like 'Fair', and 'Smoke'...creating a mood, rather than a halfhearted grab at radio time. I love this album, there is far more to it than is intially felt. I admit I had my doubts after my first listen, but the music grows on you, as good music does, and I love every minute.Free Music Review: Ben Folds Grows up
Hit: 5 Stars
Picture Burt Bacarach as a smart butt 20 something and you have Ben Folds. I have been a fan for a while and with his new CD I believe that I will be a fan for quite some time. With the new CD he trys to push himself in a more adult manor while still trying to hold onto his immature past (musically speaking). He really has put together a great album, but an album that might alienate some of his casual fans, fans searching for angst ridden anthems such as "Song for the Dumped" and "200 solemn faces" will find this CD hard to swallow, its not like his old stuff, its more polished and sounds like somewhat of a concept album, but it is great and worth the effort to buy it and listen. Good Job, I look forward to the next CD.Free Music Review: Your best friends will all despise you with this album....
Hit: 5 Stars
A pop album. BFF decide to get in touch with their inner "singer-songwriter" and the result is probably one of the best albums of the 90's. The melodies say what the words don't; the words tell more. From the primal screaming of "Regrets," to the synthesizer bloops of "Your Redneck Past," this album is a extollation of Ben Folds's inner pain. Yes, it sounds like the '70s and many of the songs are depressing(no more depressing than E.Smith), but it's music will make you come back again and again. It's a "confessional" album,much like Joni Mitchell's "Blue", and Marvin Gaye's "Here, My Dear," were "confessional." But in the post-Nirvana era, it's the new template. Recommended.Free Music Review: Ben Folds proves a more sophisticated side to his music
Hit: 5 Stars
The CD following "Whatever" should have been a flop. Trying to follow in incredible masterpiece by Ben Folds should have made this CD, "Less than adequate." But once again Ben Folds has proved us wrong, by trying a new approach to his music. He trades his POP piano playing in for a higher level of music on which even the menial Ben Folds Five fan can enjoy. This is an intriguing mix of piano and lyrics that will keep you guessing until the end of the CD. With a slower tone of music BFF reveals a brand new side to his music. Although many were dissapointed with the quality of music, do not doubt this CD. It is just a different look at the band, and if you listen to it more than once, you will be sure to love it.Free Music Review: Ignore the Naysayers
Hit: 5 Stars
Almost all of the professional reviews of this album have been lukewarm or negative, and that is a real shame. People think that just because a man or a group makes a series of great albums that they should be handcuffed to their successful styles. This is a concept album, to be sure, following one man from Narcolepsy to Lullabye, and his remembrances are somewhere in between. Don't Change Your Plans for Me, Mess, Magic, and Army are the real stars here, but there is nary a dud in sight. Ben and his crew have grown up on this album, and it is music that can exist outside of the frathouse in which people want to pigeonhole this band. This is a beautiful, heartbreaking album--10 times better than the rest of the dreck on the radio.