THE MAGICAL ARMCHAIR
The Ben Folds Five Digest
Issue #950 - April 20, 1998
From owner-armchair@ford.il.fontys.nlFri May 22 15:53:41 1998
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 02:01:07 +0200
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Magical Armchair Digest Monday, April 20 1998 Volume 01 : Number 950
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TOPICS IN THIS DIGEST:
BFF covering the Smiths?
icq #s...
Ben's Armchair Q&A Session
For Emily with the Robert Sledge Interview
chicago cybercast
Raindrops...
UK: THE ben folds five. grrr.
hey, what's with all the jingoisms....?
Raindrops mp3 and more
Stuff
Ben Folds Five/DMB St. Louis.
[none]
Re: Magical Armchair Digest V1 #949
FEAR OF POP LOWDOWN
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Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 22:52:23 -0600
From: Deidre
Subject: BFF covering the Smiths?
Does anyone know if BFF cover a Smiths song? A friend of mine swears
they do, but I have yet to find anything. If you know of such a
recording, please email me. =)
Thanks,
Deidre
*I'm not Jesus but I have the same initials* -Pulp
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Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 01:02:39 -0400
From: Jen Chen
Subject: icq #s...
i don't know if this has been proposed before, but a way for bff fans to
get in touch with each other is by icq. my icq # is 11230080, so page
me if you want. my idea was that we could compile a list of everybody's
icq #s so people could chat with each other if they wanted. so if you
want, email me your icq # and i'll start up a list. PLEASE DON'T POST
IT TO THE ARMCHAIR! that would be bad and very, very evil. after you
email me your #, i'll get all the numbers i can and then i will mail the
final list to everybody who emailed me about it. or i'll just post it
to the list if frank doesn't mind.
just an idea...if you don't like it, don't flame me please. just kick
your wall or something.
have fun,
jen
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Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 22:41:11 -0700 (PDT)
From: Eric Matsuda
Subject: Ben's Armchair Q&A Session
Back in 1996 I believe, Ben took time out of his busy schedule to
individually answer a whole bunch of questions that people on this list
came up with. Does anyone know if this is archived somewhere, and where i
could I retrieve it? There were a LOT of questions, I think.
Eric Matsuda
ejmatsuda@ucdavis.edu
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Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 02:25:07 EDT
From: Rachw2as
Subject: For Emily with the Robert Sledge Interview
I hate to leave a personal messages on the armchair, BUT, I recently had to
change my email, and lost all my old saved letters. SO, this is directed to
EMILY (I believe) who I sent tapes to under the screenname of Higeary on AOL.
Please email me and let me know if you recieved them....I sent them weeks ago.
Also, I am still waiting on the copy of the all ROBERT interview. I don't
mean to be impatient, but I am moving at the end of the month....so, if you
could email me privately, that would be great.
Thanks!
Rachael
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Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 03:16:23 -0400
From: Seth Frumkin
Subject: chicago cybercast
could someone please tell me where i could get a copy of the cybercast
from chicago. please reply to my e-mail adress because i no longer have
time to read every armchair.
thanks,
seth
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Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 06:37:07 PDT
From: "Kel Lane"
Subject: Raindrops...
..keep fallin' on my head...as we all know was done by our boys on the
Bacharach tribute. Anyway, when BF5 toured down here in Oz, they were
supported by a band called "Cordrazine"...WHO, are doing the exact same
song for the Oz "To Hal and Bacharach" tribute CD...
anywhooooooooooo, I just thought it was weird/cool/spooky...whatever
~Kel "Drummer_Gal" Lane
ICQ# 4321387 aka PsyChick
My 5 fav bands...
1) Ben Folds Five
2) Radiohead
3) R.E.M.
4) Weezer
5) The Superjesus (All you non-aussies better watch out for this
band!!!)
"My cat's breath smells like cat food"
"...used to do surgeryyyyyy, for girls in the eiiiiiighties, but gravity
aaaaaallllllllways wins..."
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Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 17:35:14 +0100 (BST)
From: Richard Cheng
Subject: UK: THE ben folds five. grrr.
was listening to the top forty earlier, and was incensed to hear judge
bloody jules introduce the ben folds five. ignoramus. but after the record
he called them ben folds five, so i'll just shut up now.
and what's more it was at number thirty-seven. dammit. and half an
hour or so later they played "dr jones" by aqua which has been out for
about two monthes. (not to mention being "dr jones" by aqua)
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA how funny is that?
in an ironic sort of way.
rich
what, you want a moral? ok:
don't listen to radio one in the daytime. it bites.
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Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 18:23:33 +0100
From: paul.leung@virgin.net (paul.leung@virgin.net)
Subject: hey, what's with all the jingoisms....?
Well, I've yet to get tickets for the KENTISH TOWN Forum, in London,
because I don't have a clue as to what options I've got. So, if anyone
wants to tell me what the best tickets to get are, I'd be really
grateful. Anyway, hopefully, the atmosphere will be great cos we'll
have some fans this time.
Oh, and one small thing I forgot to mention, I was watchin Top of the
Pops, and suddenly, out of nowhere, fuck me bit WHO is on? '6am...' -I
just exploded. Who'd have thought it? Top of the Pops. They weren't even
played that much on Radio 1. Nice of Jo Whiley to put in an extra
mention about how good they sounded, but she said that about Ultra
too...
Got a tape of it the next day, so that's an offering for the management
who are collectin local appearances.. that's along with the Big Stuff
interview. Alright?
Anthony
P.s. Whatever and Ever Amen is now at number 29 in the MVC charts....
P.S. i'm not too sure I want to get into the transatlantic fight, but
hey, we gave you Sting (ok, strictly speaking, Andy Summers), but then
you give him back with Puff daddy on top...
P.p.s. sorry, one last thing, what about this compilation of Ben Folds
Five fans who do either a) covers of their songs (but in a different
style), or b) other songs in the style of Ben Folds Five? I wouldn't
mind co-ordinating the effort, just write to me if you're interested...
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Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 13:02:10 -0500
From: "Chad Sarles"
Subject: Raindrops mp3 and more
Hello all,
Once again I have updated the Audio Archive. I have added the Raindrops
Keep Falling on my Head performance from the Burt Bacharach special on
TNT... Also I have added more mp3s from the Chicago show (6 total now, I
believe).
If you don't have the Audio Archive bookmarked yet, here's the URL:
http://php.indiana.edu/~wsarles/bffmp3.html
If you are having problems with the page, and want to download the songs
through FTP, here ya go:
149.159.95.98
L: ben
P: folds
Enjoy!
- -Chad
wsarles@indiana.edu
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Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 15:57:48 EDT
From: SouperDv
Subject: Stuff
Howdy armchair people! I'd like info on Ben's solo project if anyone could
write me. I haven't kept up with Ben Folds related stuff lately. And I hear
tell of a tour with They Might Be Giants...whats this...sorry that I'm so out
of it.
5 bands?
1. Soundgarden
2. Led Zeppelin
3. U2
4. Alice in Chains
5. Foo Fighters
"The words you say never seem to live up to the ones inside your
head"...obviously
Soundgarden
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Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 16:32:33 EDT
From: Musick Nut
Subject: Ben Folds Five/DMB St. Louis.
Hey y'all,
To the person was asking about Ben Folds Five opening for DMB in St. Louis,
Riverport on May 31, this is what the DMB has on it: May 31 Riverport St.
Louis, MO
Poi Dog Pondering April 3 SOLD OUT.
So, there you have it. That's what I'm going by.
Dade
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Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 16:52:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: benfoldsfive_rocks@iname.com
Subject: [none]
Had to tell you about this bit of serendipity that put a big-ass smile on my face today. I was out ridin my Specialized crossroad this afternoon (best bike for the money, IMHO) and was wearing my Ben Folds Five T-shirt. It's the one with "Ben Folds Five" in big blue letters in front and "Whatever and Ever Amen" in smaller black letters. The crew neck collar is black and on the back there's this big reddish pictogram. Anyway, I was "blowin' away" by all the smiles, stares, couple of thumbs-up and even one "go Ben". It had to be the T-shirt as the fly on my shorts was still zipped and the beatup ol' cap I had on sure as shit didn't do anything. Fuck, I knew the boys were getting more popular but this just blew me away. Who knows, maybe it was partly the warm sun and cool breeze... I don't know and don't care but it was a rush while it lasted.
That's it.
Matt
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Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 14:09:15 PDT
From: "Chandra Hicks"
Subject: Re: Magical Armchair Digest V1 #949
okay, just thought i'd share, i've been getting over a cold, so i'm very
sensitive to anything that happens around me. anyway, i was shopping in
target, and who do i see on the "great hits" section? ben folds five,
whatever and ever amen, featuring the hit song brick. and i started to
cry and my friends who were there with me where like, what, what? and i
could barely point to the cd's and then they were like, oh. i sure got
a lot of funny looks from the target people. especially when i kept
repeating, "damn them, the over propagation of the media, it's all over"
i might seem a little insane, but it was late, and it wasn't like a
total mental collapse, and maybe i'm exaggerating a bit too.
also, i bought the brick single, though thankfully not at target, and i
love smoke, and i've never heard mitchell lane before so it was an
experience. also, i love the ska remix of kate, but it's not really
ska. oh and here's an interesting factoid: the person who plays cello
on smoke and kate on the single, is the SAME person who plays cello on
fuel's song "shimmer".
go fig, anyway, i've taken up too much space.
chandra
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Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 17:31:26 EDT
From: Keyserdan1
Subject: FEAR OF POP LOWDOWN
OK!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I've heard from Ben's brother on Fear of Pop a FEW TIMES. he
says there AER some weird experimental sounds and there's SOME talk of some
spoekn word. But he also said there's some REALLY cool instrumental stuff. Not
Techno SHIT. Hope this clears things up.
- -Dan
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