Ben Folds Five - 1997 - Whatever And Ever Amen

Artist....: Ben Fold Five

Title.....: Whatever and ever Amen

Rel. Date.: 1997

Type/Genre: Rock

Size......: 68mb

Format....: mp3

Bitrate...: 192



Tracklist:



1. One angry dwarf and 200 solemn faces

2. Brick

3. Song for the dumped

4. Selfless cold and composed

5. Kate

6. Cigarette

7. Steven's last night in town

8. Battle of who could care less

9. Missing the war

10. Evaporated



Ben Folds' Five's Whatever and Ever Amen is a fantastic collection of songs from a band beginning to believe in itself as something more than a novelty act. Having excised much of their regrettable tendency to flippancy with their first album, the three members of Ben Folds Five delivered a classic follow-up: the single "The Battle of Who Could Care Less" is a witheringly witty character study of middle-class wasters that could be thought of as an American companion piece to Pulp's "Common People". Angry and articulate, Whatever and Ever Amen is a rewarding exploration of the hitherto virgin territory between Elvis Costello and Jerry Lee Lewis. It also contained the instant live favourite "Song for the Dumped", which in one transcendentally splendid moment--Folds' exuberant yelp of "Well, fuck you, too / Give me my money back, you bitch"--managed to make the rest of rock's vast canon of unrequited affection feel somewhat redundant.