Archive for April, 2008

Don’t let the snow dampen your spirits! (Sorry about the Hallmark greeting; this recent snowfall has me suicidal. I shouldn’t take that out on you. Happy Birthday.)

The Ben Folds Concert

Also known as, The Last Ben Folds post for a while.

In fuzzy contrast to The Bright Eyes Concert, The Ben Folds Concert was a brilliantly social experience. It began with Godfather’s Pizza, where Holli and I met Britty, Dan, David, Chris, Tyler, Tony, Nathan and Brian Granquist. We were fortunate enough to [...]

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Ben Folds One

The awesome begins.

Supersunnyspeedgraphic, The LP (2006)
You know a song is good when two of the words are mostly *s and the other one is grammatically incorrect. This is another cover. The track is originally by NWA. So, how do you take a ganstah rap song and make it a piano ballad? Very carefully [...]

Rockin’ the Suburbs (2001)
This song highlights Ben Folds’s ability to be joking at the same moment that he isn’t. This is an “angsty” song about the pressures of being white and middle class. This appeals particularly to those who ARE white and middle class because we feel left out of the “my life [...]