THE MAGICAL ARMCHAIR
The Ben Folds Five Digest
Issue #798 - February 3, 1998
Magical Armchair Digest Tuesday, February 3 1998 Volume 01 : Number 798
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TOPICS IN THIS DIGEST:
Bad Idea Lyrics
Re: Magical Armchair Digest V1 #796
Re: Magical Armchair Digest V1 #796
BFF Tree
Need a ride from Boston to NYC
iwannawannawannabe a UPB!
flamings and stolen CDs
Re: Magical Armchair Digest V1 #795
Houston show
Pulse Magazine
is it a phone? is it a toilet? no it's super... oh i give in
films
BFF is as fine as wine.
on a related note
Aussie Brick Single/Japanese Brich Single
Ben on Lovelines
Ticket to Hammerstein show?
Hey all...
stupid radio people
Re: Magical Armchair Digest V1 #795
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Date: Sun, 01 Feb 1998 21:11:04 -0700
From: "Julie Hurst" <sledgie@mailexcite.com>
Subject: Bad Idea Lyrics
Sorry if it's already been said but it goes;
Pull over the car, Pull over the car
I think I see some swett store around
Pull over the car, Pull over the car
I think I feel like king tut again
kewlies
LOBFF
- -Julie *anti-gavin*
"GODDAMN!"
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Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 00:48:45 EST
From: F2G2@aol.com
Subject: Re: Magical Armchair Digest V1 #796
hey, an uncle plastic bitch here.
my time on the armchair's up. i refuse to write a heart-felt letter why.
anne and many of the other people who have left lately have all the reasons.
take it easy kids.
matthew
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Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 00:48:59 EST
From: F2G2@aol.com
Subject: Re: Magical Armchair Digest V1 #796
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Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 00:59:41 -0500
From: Alex Castner <s16581ac@umassd.edu>
Subject: BFF Tree
I am sick of reading the dull articles on this list. Lets do something
interesting. I have a little free time on my hands so I would like to start
a BFF tree. I have some seedworthy tapes, but no masters. SO, if you have a
HQ master DAT or analog BFF tape for seeding please let me know.
ABC
s16581ac@umassd.edu
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Alex Castner
285 Old Westport Rd
Cedar Dell Box 6040
N. Dartmouth, MA 02747 USA
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Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 01:02:09 -0500
From: George Hicks <ghicks@fas.harvard.edu>
Subject: Need a ride from Boston to NYC
Once again, I write in need of a ride:
Hello--
My friend and I have secured two tickets for the show in NYC on Friday,
2/20--now all we have to do is get down there somehow. Anyone from the
Boston area who is going to the Hammerstein show, drop me an e-mail, and we
can work something out. Or if you're going to the show but also don't know
how you're getting down there, let me know you're out there as well. So,
in short, anyone from Boston going to the NYC show, e-mail me ASAP. Thanks--
george
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Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 01:37:35 EST
From: FineExampl@aol.com
Subject: iwannawannawannabe a UPB!
well mr. angrydwarf....you really worked hard on that post so i must commend
you!
but what i really wanted to say was to all the newbie "brickheads"(the word
DUHhhhh comes to mind) that there is no hope for you little 16yr olds in
hunting down cool junk...SO GIVE IT UP! =oX oops...did i say that??
oh well anyway....my real post is this:
DONT GIVE UP in all your hunts for new and old material! in two days times
and in only checking in TWO record stores i managed to find the Where's summer
B?, Underground Pt.2, and the australian Brick single all in one weekend!! it
cost me $9.99 each due to the lousy import prices...but i feel no shame! i
also found a somewhat hard to find bent backed tulips 7in of "tie me down"
backed with a cover of the smiths "last of the famous american playboys" or
whatever its called!
do any of you know who The Bent Backed Tulips even are?? all you youngins
need to brush up on yer POWER POP bands iffin ya don't!
also...check your local GOOD record stores starting this month for the new
John Easdale CD "Bright Side" on eggBERT records!! if you like yer power pop
EXTRA ROUGH, yet surprisingly sweet you will DIE when you hear this!! John
has been known to make me laugh, cry, whimper, sneeze, and GUFFAW once even
from his talent in songwriting!
LATER,
JOhn NJ
ps-- is this whole Kate suicide thing a prank or is it real? i'm tired and a
bit confused about it!
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Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 01:41:18 -0500
From: Nhu_Nguyen@post.wesleyan-college.edu (Nhu Nguyen)
Subject: flamings and stolen CDs
i'm going to get flamed for this but really...who cares? i'm ready for it!
sorta...ha ha...joke people.
okay 1st--who CARES how people find out about benfoldsfive??? brick will just
give people a taste of the music and if they don't like it then tough...and
plus it's a bonus if they buy the CD and stuff...gives the guys lots more $$$
so don't be mean to those people...the hype'll die down...
2nd--everyone has a right to express their opinion on songs so don't
start hating them...they might just have a NEW idea and want to share...though
please read the info stuff first...
3rd--if you're going to flame me or anyone, why not send it to
my/their/whoever's PERSONAL email address? it's right there on the email
anyway...what's more annoying than reading 10 sections on how you hated that
someone flames someone/thing/how? i mean REALLY! lots of juvenile email
torching someone just cause they can...
that's it...and whoever took my BF5 cd from my room, i hope you're happy okay!!
sheesh...get your own! oh wait...you have mine...well...gimme mine back and
then get your own!
- --debbie
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Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 01:45:10 EST
From: YLimeHere@aol.com
Subject: Re: Magical Armchair Digest V1 #795
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Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 01:54:35 EST
From: Shan111111@aol.com
Subject: Houston show
If anyone has access to two extra tickets to the Houston show on Feb 12, let
me know....please!!!!
I just got my new CMJ in the mail...yippie!! Ben Folds Five on the cover.
Nice, since I found the band through the magazine with Underground as a
single....
shanna
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Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 02:30:10 EST
From: KJeon4003@aol.com
Subject: Pulse Magazine
hi everyone,
i was at tower records yesterday and i was thumbing through their free
magazine PULSE and found that BFF has an ad in it for naked baby pictures.
it's the same pix as on the cover but it's still pretty cool. since the
magazine is FREE, i grabbed like three copies. anyways, go down to tower and
see what's up. brick also is one of their songs on their listening bar
thingy. pretty cool!
see some of you at the la concert. less than a week to go!
adios,
Sandra
http://www.members.aol.com/KJeon4003/index.html
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Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 12:16:52 +0000 (GMT)
From: Richard Cheng <richard.cheng@st-edmund-hall.oxford.ac.uk>
Subject: is it a phone? is it a toilet? no it's super... oh i give in
> Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 15:41:11 -0500
> From: Jessica Brandt <jbrandt@kent.edu>
>
> >>P.S.: I know it has been discussed ad naseum, but here goes... I think the
> >>phone that rings in SLNIT is a AT&T cordless phone. It sounds just like
> >>mine.
> >it sounds alot like my pager to me!
> I think it's a toilet flushing.
Nono. It's definitely a phone. It's got that tell-tale bring-bring kinda
sound.
rich
hahaha. I am completely impervious to sarcasm. It just bounces right
offa me.
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The kindest truths are often spoke and never heard.
Ben Folds Five
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Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 14:13:59 +0000 (GMT)
From: ER Burningham <u7g83@ugg.keele.ac.uk>
Subject: films
hey y'all,
to kevin, i hope you were being sarcastic. i would have mailed you but your
address doesn't work. cool film though.
has anyone got any videos of bff they'd like to give (ok sell or swap or
something) me???? i think we should all write to the guys and ask them to
release a video of some tours & the music videos - i have only seen about 1
minute of a couple of them on the web site, but want a proper copy. sorry,
whinge over.
see yah
love mad em
"who's got the looks, who's got the brains, who's got everything?" not me.
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Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 09:32:31 -0500
From: Brendan Noone <bnoone@junosystems.com>
Subject: BFF is as fine as wine.
Subject: Some thoughts on Ben folds five's new found popularity.
>
>OK-- here are my feelings about Ben Folds Five's sudden popularity:
>(1) I am so happy for the guys; they definitely deserve to be big, BUT.....
>
>(2) They have released so many other great songs to the American public. The
>fact that everyone has caught on to Brick, instead of like Underground, or
>Best Imitation, or Battle, or Angry Dwarf (which were all released in the US
>for any new BRICK fans who care to know), shows a great deal about American
>mainstream. I just can't believe that they had been neglected with all those
>other, wonderful songs that REALLY display their amazing talent.
>
>(3) Lastly, I guess that I am just a bit selfish. I liked having MY band
>that not too many other people even knew who they were. Like at concerts, It
>was so nice to be among other real fans. Now, there will be kids who are
>bored throughout the whole show and sing the words to Brick while tears well
>up in their eyes.
>
>Oh Well, I really am happy for Ben, Darren and Robert. Really.
>
>That is it for now.
>
>Suzanne
Dear Suzanne,
It is our job to educate the masses who are easily told what to devour by
the mainstream. Ben and the boys are not mainstream but, they are on the
fringe. They will always be on the outside looking in. And for that they
will always be OURS.
Here is an idea, buy someone you trust: WEAEA or BFF. Make them listen to
the other songs like Jacksons, Evaporated or Eddie Walker. Wag their tail
a little just like the America music institution pushes the Spice Sluts or
Matchbox Blowfish down our throats. But please don't drown them with Ben.
If they don't like it, then don't waste your energy. Its probably too
late, they are probably already brainwashed on familiar hooks and MTV looks.
BFF is like a fine red wine, when aged well and aired properly they are
both delicious and easy to swallow. Its hard to believe that WEAEA has
been out for a 11 months and still holds its flavor. It still hold the
reigns on my CD player.
So the next time a friend comes over and says, "I just bought that really
groovy TiTanic soundtrack or that ultra-hip Puff Daddy loop," tell them
about a little threesome from the Carolina's that rock. And after you open
the door for them and they, by some freak accident, are not hooked and say
"They sound like Elton John" then tell them to go buy "Candle in the Wind
97" for the 8th time. They are probably to far gone already.
BFF rules!
later,
B
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Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 10:10:12 -0500 (EST)
From: Glitter Girl <starfish@email.unc.edu>
Subject: on a related note
Hello hello...
For those of you who saw Ben Folds Five in Charlotte on December 5,
you probably saw Marcy Playground open for them. Well, I saw Marcy
Playground again last night at Cat's Cradle in Carrboro, NC, and just
wanted to say that it was an amazing concert! If MP heads to your town,
go see them. Besides, they played Ben Folds Five as the pre-show music - not
bad! But the real surprise of the evening was Lincoln, the opening band.
You know, after Venus Flytrap Girls, my expectations of opening bands has
been significantly lowered, but I was blown away by Lincoln. Their music
is quite catchy but yet original (which is so refreshing), and my bro
chatted with the lead singer afterwards, and he was a very nice,
down-to-earth kind of guy. So two enthusiastic thumbs up for Lincoln and
Marcy Playground. The whole evening would have gotten an A+ except for
the noxious teenyboppers next to me who were so excited to be at the very
front for "Mercy Playground." They also knew all the words to Brick - I
was impressed. (Sorry - my bitterness sometimes gets the best of me.)
Anyway, to echo the sentiments of another Armchairian, I think the Brick
single is a good investment. I love the Kate ska remix, and Mitchell Lane
is beautiful. Smoke, though not one of my personal faves, is very good - but
I got my copy for $9.99, and I'm not sure I'd pay $21.99 for it. I'd look
around for a better price - check CDNow, they may have it.
There's my two cents...
Lee
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Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 10:10:24 EST
From: MeandMrRay@aol.com
Subject: Aussie Brick Single/Japanese Brich Single
Hello All,
This weekend I purchased the Australian Brick single to have the
"Ska" version of Kate. To my disapointment, when I but it on.....Its the same
version as the "String version" on the Japanese brick single (that I allready
have). Just a warning to all of you who have the Japanese Brick single. I'm
wondering if the "Disco" version of Fair is the same as the "String version"
on the Japanese single. I bet it is.....anyone know? Also, check out my list
of Ben Folds Five live shows at:
<A HREF="http://members.aol.com/meandmrray/benfolds.html">MeandMrRay's Tape
List - Ben Folds Five</A> (http://members.aol.com/meandmrray/benfolds.html)
If anyone has shows I need, and would like to trade...please email me, and let
me know.
Hope you are all doing well
Greg.
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Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 10:29:34 -0500 (EST)
From: Frank Maynard <maynard@mail.oeonline.com>
Subject: Ben on Lovelines
Ben Folds will be doing Lovelines on Los Angeles radio station KROQ
tonight (Monday, Feb. 2), by himself because he happens to be in LA
today. The show is carried live and syndicated in about 25-30 markets.
For a list of stations, check http://www.ADAMandDREW.com/stat.htm (this
is an unofficial page). The scheduled time is 10PM to Midnight.
-fjm
But there are some things that you would change if it were up to you
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Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 07:41:02 PST
From: "joanna walker" <joannawalker@hotmail.com>
Subject: Ticket to Hammerstein show?
I have a sad story for ya'll. I bought my ticket to the NYC show at the
Hammerstein Ballroom a couple of weeks ago-just to be sure it didn't
sell out. NOW, I cannot find my ticket anywhere, and think that one of
my roomates accidentally threw it out!!!!! Does anyone have an extra
ticket to sell, PLEASE? The show is now sold out, and I am as sad as any
one person can be.
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Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 11:06:07 -0500 (EST)
From: marc s kaplan <mkap@wam.umd.edu>
Subject: Hey all...
Been a while since I posted so Hi Yall..
I think that angrydwarf@aol has a good idea.
But It would be kinda weird, and AAish to say for example:
Hello I am Marc and I am an EMALINE.
WHo is going to the DC show??
"I wanna borrow an allen rench, I wanna borrow some duct tape" -BFF
-/\/\arc
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Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 11:07:58 -0500
From: Rebecca.Cole@mail.cc.trincoll.edu (Rebecca Cole)
Subject: stupid radio people
Last week, 96.5 here in scenic Hartford, a cheesy top-40 station,
introduced "Brick" like this:
"Here's a classic tale of boy meets girl, boy falls in love with girl, girl
breaks up with boy, boy gets revenge...this one is Ben Folds Five's
version..."
Has this DJ even HEARD the song? Sigh.
- -Rebecca
***
"When money talks, I hate to listen. But lately it's been screaming in my
ear..." -Ben Folds Five
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Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 12:06:08 EST
From: Kako007@aol.com
Subject: Re: Magical Armchair Digest V1 #795
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