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Item number:170400399314
Item location:Mason City, IA, United States
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Artist: Ben FoldsRelease Date: Jan 01, 2008
Format: CDRecord Label: Epic (USA)
Number of Discs: 2 DiscsUPC: 886973573327
Genre: RockDuration: Album or EP
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Track listing
1. Hiroshima (B B B Benny Hit His Head)
2. Dr. Yang
3. Frown Song, The
4. You Don't Know Me - (featuring Regina Spektor)
5. Before Cologne
6. Cologne
7. Errant Dog
8. Free Coffee
9. Bitch Went Nuts
10. Brainwascht
11. Effington
12. Kylie From Connecticut

DISC 2:
1. Cologne [Piano Orchestra Version]
2. Effington [DVD Take] - (take)
3. Errant Dog [DVD Take] - (take)
4. Frown Song [DVD Take], The - (take)
5. Kylie From Connecticut [DVD Take] - (remix)
6. Hiroshima

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Contributing artists:Regina Spektor
Producer:Andrew Deerin, Corn Mo, Dennis Herring, Joe Costa
Distributor:BMG (distributor)
Recording type:Studio
Recording mode:Stereo
SPAR Code:n/a

Album notes
Personnel: Ben Folds (vocals, piano, Wurlitzer organ, Mellotron, Moog synthesizer); Jared Reynolds (vocals, electric bass); Sam Smith (vocals, drums); Joshua Motohashi (spoken vocals); Lovesponge Quartet (strings).
Audio Mixers: Will Hensley; Joe Costa; Michael Brauer.
Arranger: Ben Folds.
While the delightfully silly opener, "Hiroshima (B B B Benny Hit His Head)," is a particularly obvious nod to Elton John, one of the many dynamic pop keyboardists Ben Folds has frequently been compared to (also see: Billy Joel, Todd Rundgren), WAY TO NORMAL brings to mind another pianist who rose to power in the 1970s. With its quirky, witty wonderings about the neuroses of love and God and country, Folds's third record recalls Randy Newman post-LITTLE CRIMINALS--bright, bouncy, and buoyant, yet subtly twisted.
On "You Don't Know Me," Folds softly trades a cooing call-and-response with Regina Spektor, as perfect rapport and playful rhapsody disguise lyrics of human isolation in destructive love. The ultra-hooky "Brainwascht" fools around in the "You're So Vain" vein as Folds continues a beef with an unnamed busybody songwriter friend, all while a deceptively perky Bacharach-esque plays behind him. While he's still able to romp in the just plain goofy style that originally brought him attention in the Ben Folds Five days, particularly on the pun-happy Midwest walkabout "Effington," Folds is at his mature best when confronting exhausted honesty as on closing track, "Kylie From Connecticut."

Editorial reviews
These 12 songs are more of an anthropological study of aberrant human behavior, idiosyncratic news stories and bizrre chapers of the musician's own autobiography, all observed with the same unstinting absurdist eye as J.D. Salinger when he penned NINE STORIES more than 50 years ago.
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3 stars out of 5 -- Folds crashes about on piano and throws in string arrangements that lurch from melancholy to chaotic discord...
Mojo  

[T]he piano man pounds the ivories with undiminished fervor -- and lyrical venom....Folds shows off his gentler side on the confessional tune 'You Don't Know Me'... -- Grade: B+
Entertainment Weekly  

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