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	Ben Folds Five Albums & Lyrics @ SongLyricsLibrary.com
		And with the release of Ben Folds Fives irresistible eponymous debut album, a generation too young to know the joy of Elton John's 'Captain Fantastic' was soon learning to play the air piano.
		Ben Folds Five peacefully broke up in 1999.
		Ben Folds has since released two albums: Rockin' the Suburbs, which features 12 new songs including "Fred Jones Part 2" (Cigarette from Ben Folds Five album Whatever and Ever Amen being Fred Jones Part 1) and Ben Folds Live which features live recordings of both Ben Folds and Ben Folds Five songs, old and new.
	benfoldsfive.songlyricslibrary.com (700 words)

	Ben Folds Five
		Ben Folds Five come from North Carolina and they write songs that are simple but at the same time address the little idiosychracies that permeate all of our lives.
		Ben Folds Five have released two albums in the past 3 years, the same as Hootie and his crew, yet one seldom hears them on the radio.
		Ben Folds Five, if anything, provide a refreshing alternative to much of the garbage that one hears on the radio- they have talent, charisma, a sense of humor and a lot of creativity, some things too many of the bands getting press these days, tend to lack.
	www.trincoll.edu /zines/tj/tj10.23.97/articles/enter2.html (517 words)

	Music on NRO Weekend
		Folds' eccentric songwriting and piano-based nerd-rock style wasn't exactly in vogue among the producers and managers of the city, and it wasn't until he'd settled in Chapel Hill and cut a demo track with bassist Sledge and drummer Jessee that the trio attracted the attention of Caroline Records.
		Folds managed to skewer and honor the pretentiously hip indie roots from which he hailed, and all with a lopsidedly goofy grin.
		Ben Folds Five had made it, big time; and after all the critical acclaim, the comparisons to Randy Newman and early Billy Joel, they were left wondering if there was anywhere else to go.
	www.nationalreview.com /weekend/music/music-domenech112300.shtml (1376 words)

	Metroactive Music \| Ben Folds Five
		BEN FOLDS IS THE KIND of guy who wears Henry Fonda cardigan sweaters and listens to a lot of lounge music.
		Folds' beautiful, ultrawordy songs are, however, far less romantic than those of his musical forebears, and that's what puts him in the modern-rock bin at the record store.
		Incidentally, the name of the record refers to a famous mountaineer, although Ben Folds and his bandmates, Darren Jessee and Robert Sledge, claim they didn't know this until they named the record: they were referring instead to an "anonymous" name much used on fake IDs in their hometown.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/05.06.99/benfoldsfive-9918.html (927 words)

	George Graham Reviews Ben Folds Five
		Ben Folds Five takes their name not from someone named Benjamin creasing a quintet of something, but from its pianist, composer and lead vocalist, Ben Folds.
		Typical of Folds' view of the world are his liner notes, explaining his lyric writing style: “When possible, the last syllable of a line was manipulated to rhyme with the last syllable of the preceding line.
		Ben Folds Five are a clever and intelligent band from North Carolina who have a lot of things going for them.
	georgegraham.com /benfolds.html (1067 words)

	Metroactive Music \| Ben Folds Five
		Ben Folds Five hails from North Carolina and is actually a trio.
		But for all that, Ben Folds himself is truly the anti-Korn, a man whose music is unmarred by the taint of Sonic Youth.
		His first album, 1995's Ben Folds Five (Caroline), was also full of wonderful songs: "Philosophy" and "Where's Summer B.?" Live, he transforms the usually stodgy piano into a rockin' good time in the manner of Jerry Lee Lewis, kicking it, standing on it and just generally having a ball.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/04.24.97/ben-folds5-9717.html (608 words)

	Ben Folds Five MP3 Downloads - Ben Folds Five Music Downloads - Ben Folds Five Music Videos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The son of a carpenter, Folds was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
		Over the next two years Ben Folds Five kept their name in the press by releasing songs on soundtracks, as well as an album of outtakes, b-sides and early live appearances called Naked Baby Photos.
		Ben Folds didn't stop either, for the singer/pianist contributed "Lonely Christmas Eve" for the Grinch soundtrack as well as the cut called "Wandering" for the 2000 independent comedy 100 Girls.
	www.mp3.com /ben-folds-five/artists/327517/biography.html (610 words)

	Ben Folds Five (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Diverse and accomplished playing is one of the aspects of Ben Folds Five which sets the band apart.
		Folds effortlessly drops in lines recalling everyone from Gershwin to Fats Waller, the band switces mood and dynamics convincingly, and they are not afraid to include non-rock elements such as the guest appearance by The Klezmatics on "Steven's Last Night In Town."
		Ben Folds Five formed at a point when Folds was almost ready to quit music.
	www.penduluminc.com /MM/articles/benfolds.html (2411 words)

	CREEM ONLINE: Ben Folds — Not Ben Folds Five (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		It is true that Ben Folds was once leader of "the Five," who were unfortunately a pop-culture landmark because of the song "Brick" (many other compositions could have easily represented the band in a brighter light).
		Ben: I just finished an EP called Super D…the opening track is a cover of the Darkness' "Get Your Hands Off of My Woman, Motherfucker." I sent it over to those guys, and they liked it a lot.
		Ben: Yeah, lots of paper for one print…depending on what the negative looks like, and if you really want the print, it can be like 3 or 4 days.
	www.creemmagazine.com /BeatGoesOn/BenFolds/NotBFF001.html (1139 words)

	Ben Folds rocks out at UCONN - Entertainment
		Folds has not performed an entire show with a band since 1999, when his former band, Ben Folds Five, broke up.
		Ben Folds, though, wailed on his Steinway & Sons ebony grand piano with such passion and intensity Thursday that after only 2 hours of playing, it could no longer hold a sufficient tune.
		Folds has been known to cover such piano-based classics as "Tiny Dancer" by Elton John, which is perfectly fitting.
	media.www.fairfieldmirror.com /media/storage/paper148/news/2005/02/24/Entertainment/Ben-Folds.Rocks.Out.At.Uconn-876009.shtml?sourcedomain=www.fairfieldmirror.com&MIIHost=media.collegepublisher.com (452 words)

	Entertainment Ave! The Concert Hall - A concert review of Ben Folds Five from the Q101 Jamboree 1998 - Tinley Park, IL ...
		Each member with a distinctive personality, it was Ben who really seemed to know where to lead the masses, and that can only be done with energy and attitude which he kept to a height through every correct spot, while dipping it just enough when the time was right.
		Ben Folds sort of reminded me of the likes of the people you always remember behind a piano, your Billy Joel, Elton John, and Jerry Lee Lewis, but combine Ben Folds with the rest of the band and they overblast the pop quality associated with Joel, Elton, or Lewis.
		So, Ben Folds Five was enjoyable for me, another band that knows how to work it past their radio hits.
	www.entertainmentavenue.com /concert_hall/reviews/q/q101/jamboree_1998/bff.htm (423 words)

	Ben Folds Five: New Geeks On the Block (NY Rock)
		In fact, Folds has become so accustomed to music biz rejection you'd wonder what kind of masochist he is to have stuck it out.
		While Folds is every inch the piano virtuoso – whether sitting at, beating up or dry-humping his tool of trade – Sledge and Jessee eagerly kept pace.
		Yet beneath Ben Folds Five's barnstorming melodies, savvy musical chops and Vegas-meets-Chapel-Hill showmanship lurks a rampant angst that may just be lost on their preppy acolytes.
	www.nyrock.com /reviews/benfoldsfive.htm (419 words)

	Smartass.org \| Spotlight \| Ben Folds Five
		Ben: All of them are based on...what I usually do is take someone's name that I know and insert it into someone else's situation, or my own.
		Ben: It was in the middle of the night in the middle of nowhere, pitch fl dark.
		Ben: Well, if you take a scene that has almost a parable-like quality to it, or something that you can derive something else from, then you can be thinking of a lot of different things and use one thing to personify what you're talking about.
	www.smartass.org /archive/Spotlight/BenFoldsFive.html (1262 words)

	TrouserPress.com :: Ben Folds Five
		A witty piano-pumping wildman from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Ben Folds is a keyboard virtuoso with an artlessly sincere voice and a knack for well-constructed songs that flirt convincingly with mainstream pop and soul sensibilities.
		Piano is such a distinctive rock instrument (and, for obvious reasons of do-it-yourself touring, almost unknown in alternaland) that Folds is typecast the minute he sits down to play, but Ben Folds Five matches mature music to a bratty sensibility.
		If Folds' melodic sense and ivory-tinkling are strictly traditional, the pluck of his just-past-nerdy lyrics and the fuzzed-up punch of his rhythm section (the careful observer will note that Ben Folds Five is, in fact, a trio) leads him into a world hipper than most sitdown rockers ever know.
	www.trouserpress.com /entry.php?a=ben_folds_five (225 words)

	Amazon.ca: Ben Folds Five: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Folds, based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, borrows from everywhere but lends new inspiration and insight to the instrument's possibilities--he's the Jimi Hendrix of the baby grand.
		This being Ben Folds Five's first CD, I expect that Folds, Jesse, and Sledge wanted this to be a debut that wouldn't fade within a year like so many other first albums.
		Ben Folds is lucky enough to have some incredible back-up singers (with some surprisingly high voices), but Folds himself carries a lot of power with his ranging voice, spanning great depths of power.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000000IDJ (800 words)

	Julie's Australian Ben Folds Five website
		Australia is lucky enough to have three fabulous musicians named Ben, touring together for some mega special shows, during March.
		That's right, our buddy Ben Folds and his friends Ben Lee and Ben Kweller, will be playing together all over the country.
		The Ben Folds Five Underground is in no way affiliated with Ben Folds Five as a whole or in part, their record company, or associates.
	www.angelfire.com /me/katefolds (188 words)

	Ben Folds Five - Self-Titled \| Album Review @ Music-Critic.com : the source for music reviews, interviews, articles, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		It also doesn't hurt much that Ben Folds is one of the best pop piano players I have ever heard.
		Ben's verse-chorus style is classic musical style, but somehow they pull it off without sounding like a ripoff.
		Ben Folds Five are one of the bands doing it in the 90s.
	www.music-critic.com /rock/benfoldsfive_eponymous.htm (573 words)

	ben folds five in the nine seven
		And the Band was known by the name Ben Folds Five, and verily, their numbers were not great upon the face of the earth.
		Ben: My mom tried to convince me that it was good because all her friends like it.
		Ben: Well, like on "Selfless, Cold and Composed," we knew from the beginning that it would be a longer song, and that we wanted to have a big jazz waltz string interlude in the middle.
	www.gridmagazine.com /html/bff97.html (1550 words)

	newburycomics.com - Ben Folds Five : The Unauthorized Biography Of Reinhold Messner
		When Ben Folds and his oddly-named trio crashed the guitar-heavy grunge party dominating the early part of the '90s, he did so by melding unerring pop sensibilities with acerbic lyrics.
		REINHOLD MEISSNER finds Folds using more orchestrations on a record full of pop confections that was unknowingly named for the first man to climb Mt. Everest without an oxygen tank.
		Folds avoids filling REINHOLD solely with such nakedly emotive numbers like "Magic" and "Hospital Song" by fiercely rocking the '88s.
	www.newburycomics.com /rel/v2_viewupc.php?storenr=103&upc=07464698082 (506 words)

	Ben Folds Five: Interviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Maybe this is why Ben Folds Five had such a hard time finding their first gigs.
		You would not expect many of these people to be touching Ben Folds' sissified piano music with an 80-foot stick; and yet there they all are, jumping and grooving and rubbing their bodies all over it.
		As it happens, the Five end their set by blasting through a perfect recreation of The Buggles' 'Video Killed the Radio Star'--the very song that pounded the last nail in the coffin for seventies AM radio Top Twenty back in 1982.
	michaelbluejay.com /bf5/i-grid.html (1618 words)

	Ben Folds Five (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		When the Ben Folds Five bounded into our consciousness a couple of years ago, all of the talk was pretty predictable.
		Behind the musical nods to Squeeze or Queen or Gershwin, Ben Folds is the 30-year-old guy who, in fine indie rock tradition, can still take inspiration from childhood playground hurts and write a revenge tune called "One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces" (or maybe the title refers to what a BFF gig is like).
		There may be a lot of "down songs" on what Folds calls a second album that's "more of a serious experience" than the self-titled debut, but Ben does try valiantly to make a break with the bleak.
	www.montrealmirror.com /ARCHIVES/1997/060597/music2.html (335 words)

	Michael Bluejay's Guide to Ben Folds Five \| Order sheet music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Ben's second solo album, Rockin' the Suburbs, has been released, and Ben is touring with members of Snüzz in his band.
		Ben married Frally Hynes in May 1999, and Frally gave birth to twins in July (Louis Frances Folds and Gracie Scott Folds).
		I became pathetically obsessed, and got Ben to autograph my Roland JV-35 keyboard with an engraver at their SXSW show in April '96, and got a tattoo of the stick piano logo from their first album shortly thereafter.
	michaelbluejay.com /bf5 (1064 words)

	Amazon.com: Naked Baby Photos: Music: Ben Folds Five
		Suggesting Caroline's lack of faith in Ben Folds Fives' career longevity, the label trudged out its collection of early singles, live performances, album outtakes, and obscure covers at the first signs of the group's commercial breakthrough (rather than wait until these odds and ends were actually old enough to be of archival interest).
		This is Ben Folds Five before they `matured', but still, the band's catchy lyrics, their obvious musical virtuosity and Ben Folds' natural falsetto voice - it's still there and more outrageous than ever.
		Ben Folds Five's "Naked Baby Photos" prominently displays this band's most endearing qualities, namely, their ability to not take themselves too seriously, and their desire to...
	www.amazon.com /Naked-Baby-Photos-Folds-Five/dp/B000000I3B (991 words)

	Ben Folds Five
		Formed in 1994 in the keyboard-unfriendly environs of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Ben Folds Five started out with one big advantage over rival piano-led rock quintents; there were only three of them.
		And with the release of Ben Folds Fives irresistable eponymous debut album, a generation too young to know the joy of Elton John's 'Captain Fantastic' was soon learning to play the air piano.
		Ben's first solo album, Rockin' The Suburbs, was released on September 11th, 2001; along with the launch of his first solo tour.
	oak.cats.ohiou.edu /~js101500/benfoldsfive.html (533 words)

	Ink 19 :: Ben Folds Five
		Ben Folds Five are, if you haven't heard by now, three guys without a guitar in sight.
		Well, Ben thought he was gonna move to LA and he didn't.
		Ben was playing bass, and when you play bass really loud in a room and the mic volume is really low because the amp volume is so high, and you're trying to get a word in on the arrangement, you can't.
	www.ink19.com /issues_F/99_08/ink_spots/009_ben_folds_five.shtml (1885 words)

	Pollstar -- HotStar Ben Folds Five
		We left William Morris to go with her." He said the band has that kind of confidence in its entire team now and can't even envision the day when they'd break up the family.
		Folds is so not serious, he can't even choke back his own laughter when he's making fun of people.
		Folds will be visiting Australia sans piano for the first time, Jessee (who is positively miserable upon waking) is taking a long winter's nap and Sledge said he's seeking treatment for post traumatic stress disorder.
	www.pollstar.com /news/viewhotstar.pl?Artist=BENFOL (721 words)

	Amazon.com: Ben Folds Five: Music: Ben Folds Five (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Like the best guitar heroes, Ben Folds, pianist and leader of a guitarless trio called the Ben Folds Five, commands and fuels his small, tightly wound ensemble with an authoritative, nearly virtuosic style.
		Folds, based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, borrows from everywhere but lends new inspiration and insight to the instrument's possibilities--he's the Jimi Hendrix of the baby grand.
		The rest of Ben Folds Five's debut achievement just does what any other timeless summer record should: it makes you feel sunny enough inside to last all through the year.
	www.amazon.com /Ben-Folds-Five/dp/B000000IDJ (988 words)

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