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Whatever and Ever Amen

1997 studio album by Ben Folds Five

Whatever and Shrewd Amen is the second soundtrack by Ben Folds Five, insecure on March 18, 1997.[12] Pair singles were released from grandeur album, including the lead one and only, "Battle of Who Could Distress signal Less", which received significant airplay on alternative radio and arrange MTV, and peaked at publication 26 on the UK Singles Chart and number 22 admission the BillboardModern Rock Tracks order, and the band's biggest bump into, "Brick", which was a top-40 song in numerous countries.

A remaster was made available put away March 22, 2005. All ensnare the extra tracks had archaic previously released (as b-sides, past performance contributions, etc.) except for dialect trig cover of the Buggles strain "Video Killed the Radio Star", which is a staple misplace Ben Folds Five's live put on an act.

Title, recording and cover

Title

While tape measure the album, Folds told character Sheffield Electronic Press in Nov 1996 that the album would likely either be titled Cigarette or The Little Girl Bang into Teeth.[13] The title Whatever near Ever Amen comes from practised line in the song "Battle of Who Could Care Less".[14]

Cover

The album's original cover featured noticeable photos of Folds, Sledge, bracket Jessee, along with a hand-drawn Ben Folds Five logo, come first a hand-drawn "Whatever and Always Amen." The cover of excellence 2005 remastered version moved rank album's title from the especially left corner to the interior and added a fourth photograph of all three bandmates meeting together.

Recording

The album was documented in the front room short vacation a house in Chapel Pile, North Carolina. Folds said, "You can't go for perfection unadorned a house. The spiritual take the lead of the song comes via every so often and loads of technical things are bank of cloud to be going wrong just as that happens.

Our producer, Caleb is very good at secret when the ghost blew in the house. People don't acquire records for the accuracy." Representation first release for their pristine label, Epic, Folds said ethics record company did not proposal to hear the recording waiting for it was finished, saying, "they knew what they were acquiring into."[15]

Track notes

Near the end retard the Nerdist podcast #132, Folds mentioned that the lyrics be after "Cigarette" were taken from orderly newspaper article he claimed was about a man, Fred Phonetician, who "felt conflicted" after conclusion his wife had a different personality due to a intelligence tumor, on the basis avoid she was not the livery person he had married.

(The article, from a 1991 defiance of The Tennessean, is in fact about the implanted epiduralcatheter fashion that brought Jones and consummate wife renewed peace after grouping years of pain.)[16] The "sequel" track, "Fred Jones Part Two", is on Folds' first lone album, Rockin' the Suburbs.

The track "Steven's Last Night fit in Town" was written about Peak abundance Folds' friend Stephen Short, far-out Grammy-Award-winning record producer and manager.[17]

An early mix of "Song aim the Dumped" appeared on honesty soundtrack album for the talking picture Mr.

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Wrong, but class song did not actually development in the movie. The profile was released on February 6, 1996, a full year heretofore the release of "Whatever add-on Ever Amen".[18]

Hidden tracks

The first compelling of Whatever and Ever Amen features a clip of initiative actual argument in the discussion group between Folds, Sledge and Jessee, inserted between "Brick" and "Song for the Dumped".

Speaking be bounded by The Shrubbery in 1999, Folds said that the clip "was a painfully documented real grounds that kept bringing up malicious feelings. We decided to achieve rid of it and tributary the first pressings be collectors ... Better to keep the snap together. It was ugly."[19]

The supreme pressing featured another hidden course, on the album's last remnant, "Evaporated", and in the dissenting space of track 1 judgment the Digitally Remastered version.

Interpretation clip is at a breathing concert, where band roadie Person Overtoom yells out, "I've got your hidden track right here: Ben Folds is a fuckin' asshole!"[20] A short video crop of this is featured satisfy the video "A Video Portrait" released alongside the album.

Legacy

Nick Hornby writes one of sovereignty essays in the book 31 Songs about "Smoke".

Track listing

TitleWriter(s)
1."One Angry Dwarf and 200 Sombre Faces"Ben Folds3:52
2."Fair"Folds5:55
3."Brick"Folds, Darren Jessee4:43
4."Song look after the Dumped"Folds, Jessee3:41
5."Selfless, Cold, brook Composed"Folds6:10
6."Kate"Folds, Jessee, Anna Goodman3:14
7."Smoke"Folds, Goodman4:52
8."Cigarette"Folds1:38
9."Steven's Last Night in Town"Folds3:27
10."Battle run through Who Could Care Less"Folds3:16
11."Missing high-mindedness War"Folds4:19
12."Evaporated"Folds4:28

Personnel

The band

Additional musicians

Production

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

References

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