but people are always playing it at weddings and shit

[Edited on December 20, 2011 at 11:43 PM. Reason : actually it's probably the 2nd worst. the title track is pretty bad]

12/20/2011 11:43:06 PM

agree to disagree

not saying it's the best

but certainly not the second worst

12/20/2011 11:46:00 PM

this song reminds me of an ex-boyfriend, so I can get behind this thread.

12/20/2011 11:46:22 PM

btw, Still Fighting It makes me cry

12/20/2011 11:48:59 PM

never heard of this song

12/20/2011 11:49:37 PM

ugh

12/20/2011 11:53:28 PM

his best stuff was with William Shatner.


There, I said it.

12/20/2011 11:59:40 PM

ugh to you

12/21/2011 12:00:43 AM

my ugh was not for you

it was for what i edited out

12/21/2011 12:12:52 AM

mmhmm

12/21/2011 12:32:40 AM

The Luckiest is definitely the most obnoxiously appreciated

Losing Lisa and Carrying Cathy are just as strong contenders for worst track on the album, though

12/21/2011 12:44:47 AM

i like Losing Lisa but i'm not a huge fan of Carrying Cathy

why does he have to name all his songs like that

12/21/2011 12:46:49 AM

Annie Waits
Zak & Sara
Fred Jones
Ascent of Stan
Carrying Cathy
Losing Lisa

and also...
Jackson Canery
Juliane
Alice Childress
Uncle Walter
Eddie Walker
Emaline
Dick Holster
Tom & Mary
Kate
Steven's Last Night in Town
Jane
Gracie
Give Judy My Notice
Dr Yang
Kylie from Connecticut

dude digs songs with named characters

12/21/2011 1:02:17 AM

god this is suck

12/21/2011 1:35:03 AM

I used to really like Ben Folds but dude kinda sucks really

12/21/2011 2:40:25 AM

His chord progression on Luckiest is whack, yo. And he took the nasally voice to a whole other level.

I like this one off his latest album though. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5peqCDJi0A


[Edited on December 21, 2011 at 2:56 AM. Reason : .]

12/21/2011 2:48:43 AM

"Fred Jones Part 2" always makes me sad

12/21/2011 7:41:25 AM

^

12/21/2011 7:49:14 AM

We played it at our wedding.


I agree though, it's played out. But bitches love The Luckiest so I let her pick out The Luckiest.

12/21/2011 8:01:44 AM

12/21/2011 8:06:55 AM

^I have that tshirt

It was the hot seller at the merchandise tent when he opened for John Mayer in 2007 at Walnut Creek

12/21/2011 8:58:15 AM

you crazy. there is no worst song on any of his albums.

[Edited on December 21, 2011 at 10:27 AM. Reason : kate it the best song ever written/performed......ever.]

12/21/2011 10:26:31 AM

disagree. that whole album is good.

12/21/2011 10:27:53 AM

dooooooown byyyy Rosemary and Cameron
she hands out the Bhagavad Gita

12/21/2011 10:48:39 AM

Quote :

"^I have that tshirt"

Me too!

12/21/2011 10:53:53 AM

did you guys go to the reunion show at UNC where they played all of Reinhold Messner?

that ruled

I thought that show was supposed to come out on DVD

edit: oh, it was a myspace thing

Quote :

"He also was the first artist chosen by Myspace in 2008 for their "Front to Back" program which asks artists to perform live one of that artist's seminal albums in the same sequence as the original recording. For this, Ben Folds reunited Ben Folds Five to their last album together, The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner, in their home state of North Carolina. "

[Edited on December 21, 2011 at 10:59 AM. Reason : e]

[Edited on December 21, 2011 at 11:04 AM. Reason : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmljQmRUZUw]

12/21/2011 10:55:59 AM

yup, I was there

up until this year, I had seen Ben Folds at least once a year since 2007

12/21/2011 11:04:41 AM

yea that front to back show was amazing.

he put some of the other tracks they played that night on his new retrospective album

12/21/2011 11:10:18 AM

^yup, I have that cd

12/21/2011 11:16:46 AM

Don't Change Your Plans breaks my heart every time

EVERY TIME

12/21/2011 11:22:43 AM

Quote :

"NO SLEDGE NO DICE"

12/21/2011 11:38:21 AM

SHE'S A BRICK AND I'M DROWNING SLOWLY

12/21/2011 11:43:16 AM

I had only heard Rocking the Suburbs and Luckiest before this thread. Listened to several of the songs suggested in here on Youtube and thought they were alright. But as a father of two sons Still Fighting It and the music video really got to me. About to tear up at work shit. I guess I need to settledown.

12/21/2011 1:23:33 PM

I had the opportunity to introduce Ben Folds Five on stage at Walnut Creek in '97 but I was too big of a pussy to do it

12/21/2011 1:32:24 PM

ben folds is a prick

12/21/2011 1:54:48 PM

YOU SHUT YOUR WHORE MOUTH


I became a BFF fan in 1998 b/c my neighbor that drove me to school would play "Naked Baby Photos" every single day in the Fall.

I fell in love with them.

Eventually he grew tired of them and moved on to Aqua ( ) so he gave me his BFF cd.

I went out and bought the other two BFF cds that same day.

And I've been a fan ever since.

12/21/2011 2:01:25 PM

haha

of all the albums to become a fan because of......

12/21/2011 2:07:53 PM

I keep thinking this thread was dated mid-2000s, but it was definitely started yesterday. Fucking time warp.

12/21/2011 2:32:52 PM

I love, love, love "Not the Same"

(side note: Bitches Ain't Shit is one of my favorite songs ever and I wish I could blast it every day, all around me)

12/21/2011 2:35:02 PM

I have the Ben Folds Retrospective cd and "Bitches Ain't Shit" is on one of the CDs

I need to find my old BFF cds and upload them to Itunes

[Edited on December 21, 2011 at 2:38 PM. Reason : f]

12/21/2011 2:36:53 PM

this thread is about someone's penis

or, as it were, about someone's NOT penis

12/21/2011 2:57:58 PM

"Philosophy" was written about Ben Folds' penis

12/21/2011 3:00:13 PM

12/21/2011 3:00:47 PM

Quote :

"NO SLEDGE NO DICE"

12/21/2011 4:18:09 PM

that needs to be on a t-shirt

12/21/2011 4:18:36 PM

well, sledge is back.

12/21/2011 4:35:47 PM