Ben Folds - Supersunnyspeedgraphic - The LP
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Free Music Review: Ben dones it again
Hit: 5 Stars
This is yet another great ben folds cd. All the songs are great. If you have liked other ben folds music, you must buy this on too!Free Music Review: great collection but not an album
Hit: 4 Stars
I've noticed a lot of reviews compare the songs on SSSG-LP to the original versions released as internet only EP's. I haven't heard all the original versions but I have heard a few and their not all that radically different from those on this LP.
The quality and variety of the songs are high and varied, more like Rockin' The Suburbs than the more recent Songs for Silverman album. There's the energetic `In between days, Cooler than you, Rent a cop and Dog;' the ballads Learn to live with what you are, Bruised and Still; and the covers `Get your hands off my woman and the achingly honest version of bitches ain't s**t (one of the best covers - ever.) Peppered through out these songs is plenty of rude words aswell, something I sorely missed on the Silverman album.
There's no mistaking the feel of this appropriately labelled LP though because it definitely is not an album. The track listing seems alittle off, the songs don't lead into each other at all and has an overall feel of patchiness. It is a collection of songs and my only complaint is that as such, they could of fit another 4 or 5 tracks from the EP's on this disk.
Overall get this if you are a Folds fan and don't have the EP's, otherwise I wouldn't worry. 4 stars.
Free Music Review: Worth It
Hit: 4 Stars
I've been a rabid fan since Whatever and Ever Amen (Ben Folds Five). Here's the thing: you COULD go and buy the 3 EP's, and I have all of them, but I also bought this (Supersunnyspeedgraphic) and believe it or not I am glad I did. Unlike another reviewer here, I actually thought the remixing and addition of bass and extra piano and some other instrumentation really helped most of these songs, gave them a more "full," professional sound. And I gotta say, as a whole this album is much more fun than Songs for Silverman, which should have been a lot better given how good these Internet-only EP's were. Anyhow, as you can tell, I will buy anything and everything with Ben's name on it, and I found enough good stuff on this one to justify the purchase. Unlike others, I love "All You Can Eat"'s social commentary. The Dr. Dre cover, of course, is hilarious and memorable, while the Cure cover is near perfect. Buy this, it's a lot of fun, and even though the other reviewers are right about the album feeling disjointed, song for song it's better than Silverman....that's gotta be worth something.Free Music Review: Where the heck are
Hit: 4 Stars
Wandering and Kalamazoo? These are the works of genius needed to spark this baby. Kalamazoo is particularly eclectic and sad... or at least give us the original Give Judy my Notice
Adelaide is great stuff as is Rent a Cop and Bruised and Still, and B**ches is hilarious, but this compilation feels like and odds and sods. Still any Folds is good Folds. Full SuperD EP is highly recommended
Free Music Review: Could've / Should've Been Better
Hit: 3 Stars
"What could've been." That's my three-word review for Ben Folds' latest album, Supersunnyspeedgraphic. To start the gripes off right, what's with the effortless title? And the album's artwork? Thrown together, possibly by a middle school Photoshop student. A damn shame, I say, considering the origins of the songs.
In 2003 Folds gained unlimited access to a studio and recorded a no frills EP with Ben Kweller and Ben Lee under the name of "The Bens." Along the way he had an idea: "Why not record just for fun and sell whatever comes out online as MP3 files for a buck a piece?" The result is a series of four Eps, all of which were also eventually released as CDs via Folds' website.
Says Folds about the releases, "As time went on a part of me that's still stuck in the old school wanted a copy I can hold, break, scratch, throw away or use underneath the leg of the coffee table. Something I can't delete; a full-length long play record album. To be in the store!" Hearing this (after buying all of the 5-song EPs, mind you) I was excited at Folds' appreciation for the diminishing art of actual album craft ... and then I saw the pre-release tracklist. Ugh.
How Folds can leave "Wandering," his best ballad since "Brick," off of SuperSunny is bewildering. How can he include his embarrassing Dr. Dre cover and not one of his most brilliant songs ever is offensive. This is the guy that released Whatever and Ever, Amen and Rockin' the Suburbs - two seamless full-lengths - how can he botch this, a surely classic album? Well, he did, says the obsessive, opinionated music aficionado.
To most, Supersunnyspeedgraphic is just another killer Ben Folds album. And fine, it does have a lot of good tunes on it, but again, "What could've been." Starting off with a cover of The Cure's classic "In Between Days" is a fine choice, considering he meets the "if you gotta do it, do it better or do it different" criteria for a cover song. Folds - believe it or not - does it better, changing Robert Smith's new wave cult favorite into a timeless pop song.
The next four songs, "All You Can Eat," "Songs of Love," "There's Always Someone Cooler Than You" and "Learn to Live with What You Are" are classic post-Suburbs Folds, arguably creating the best top five tracks on any of his albums.
The seven tracks that follow are spotty. Had Folds chosen different songs (ahem, "Wandering") from his EPs - and maybe even "Heist," "Still" and/or "Family of Me" from his rececnt Over the Hedge soundrack - he'd have on his hands his fourth great album. Instead, we get a thrown-together time killer to hold us over until Folds' upcoming studio album. Oh, whatever and ever could've so easily been. (Greg Locke)