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Whatever And Ever Amen (Remastered),Ben Folds Five

- Whatever And Ever Amen (Remastered)
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Ben Folds Five
Released 2005

Mitchell Lane
03:42
904 plays

Theme From Dr. Pyser
03:15
897 plays

Song For The Dumped (Japanese Version)
05:04
868 plays

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- 1
- One Angry Dwarf And 200 Solemn Faces
- 03:52
- 5,784 plays

- 2
- Fair
- 05:55
- 4,296 plays

- 3
- Brick
- 04:31
- 12,890 plays

- 4
- Song For The Dumped
- 03:51
- 6,574 plays

- 5
- Selfless, Cold And Composed
- 06:10
- 4,051 plays

- 6
- Kate
- 03:13
- 4,811 plays

- 7
- Smoke
- 04:52
- 3,523 plays

- 8
- Cigarette
- 01:38
- 3,370 plays

- 9
- Steven's Last Night In Town
- 03:27
- 3,539 plays

- 10
- Battle Of Who Could Care Less
- 03:16
- 4,576 plays

- 11
- Missing The War
- 04:19
- 3,132 plays

- 12
- Evaporated
- 04:28
- 3,388 plays

- 13
- Video Killed The Radio Star
- 03:41
- 1,553 plays

- 14
- For All The Pretty People
- 03:23
- 855 plays

- 15
- Mitchell Lane
- 03:42
- 904 plays

- 16
- Theme From Dr. Pyser
- 03:15
- 897 plays

- 17
- Air
- 03:20
- 1,031 plays

- 18
- She Don't Use Jelly (Lounge-A-Palooza Version)
- 04:13
- 1,063 plays

- 19
- Song For The Dumped (Japanese Version)
- 05:04
- 868 plays

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album review

Music in the mid-2000s seems more diverse and stratified. But in the general guitar-bass-drum format of '90s alternative rock, the Ben Folds Five piano-and-rhythm show really was an anomaly. This is a point of pride for Folds in his notes for the expanded, newly remastered edition of Whatever and Ever Amen, his band's 1997 commercial breakthrough. "We...had moved my baby grand all by ourselves for three years into every punk rock club in America that didn't want us there," he writes. "Singing Broadway harmonies and playing pretty chords to upset the indie kids." "Brick" was the unlikeliest of hit singles, a sad piano story nevertheless propelled by its poignant chorus and Folds' delivery as the slacker forced by circumstance to grow up fast. And a Todd Rundgren/Joe Jackson nod like "Selfless, Cold and Composed" wasn't going to be mistaken for some of the louder songs of the era. But Whatever still had loads of alt-rock swagger, mostly in Folds' smart, smug lyrics. In that category, "Battle of Who Could Care Less" was a masterpiece. "You think Rockford Files is cool/But there are some things that you would change," he sings over a track mixing '70s pop schlock with grimy '90s rhythm. "So think about your masterpiece/Watch The Rockford Files/Call to see if Paul can score some weed." The 2005 Whatever and Ever Amen is remastered, and features testimonials from bassist Robert Sledge and drummer Darren Jesse in addition to Folds' notes. It includes seven B-sides and non-LP tracks, the highlights being a Japanese-language version of "Song for the Dumped" ("You bitch" evidently doesn't translate), "For All the Pretty People," and a cover of the Flaming Lips' classic "She Don't Use Jelly," and features an enjoyable, previously unreleased version of "Video Killed the Radio Star." And now we meet in an abandoned studio; we hear the playback and it seems so long ago. ~ Johnny Loftus, All Music Guide