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Whatever and Ever Amen

~ Ben Folds
4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
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  • Audio CD (21 Mar 2005)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Sony
  • ASIN: B0007XFS20
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 88,851 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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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. --Andrew Mueller

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Think of Ben Folds as Billy Joel minus the Tin Pan Alley heritage and armed with a sweet, wry, slacker ethos. In a guitar-free trio setting, the Chapel Hill smart guy pounds the ivories with gusto while singing a tremendous batch of funny ("Kate"), poignant ("Brick," "Evaporated"), pissed-off ("Song for the Dumped"), and hugely refreshing (all 12 tunes here) songs. --Jeff Bateman

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5.0 out of 5 stars His Album's A Masterpiece, 3 April 2003
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This review is from: Whatever and Ever Amen (Audio CD)
Ben Folds writes songs like nobody else I know. 'Whatever and Ever Amen' is like a well written book. It makes you laugh, makes you cry, and when its over leaves you wanting more. I own 3 albums that I would descibe as being 'Non-Skip'... Revolver by the Beatles, August and Everything After by Counting Crows, and Whatever and Ever by Ben Folds Five. You can simply put it on, and you'll have no need to reach for the skip button until the end, when if you're like me, be frantically press it 12 times to take it back to the start.

I remember songs in terms of stand out lyrics. Great music is nothing without beautifully constructed words to fill them.

'She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly'
'When words fail she speaks, her mixed tape's a masterpiece'
'You never rest, fighting the battle of who could care less'
'The shaking voice that tells him 'go', still thinks he might, he knows he won't'
'I poured my heart out... it evaporated'

*****

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Ooh yes, missus., 31 Mar 2003
By "totkat" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Whatever and Ever Amen (Audio CD)
I love it. Almost all of it. From the pounding energy of "One Angry Dwarf..." (which I just can't get out of my head), "Song For The Dumped" and "Kate" through the reflective, mellow "Selfless, Cold and Composed" and "Missing The War" to the almost chilling "Cigarette" and "Brick", this album has a full range of wonderful tracks.

Fresh and not a whiff of cloying lovesickness in sight. A great change from the indistinguishable, guitar-led mass of stuff out there. No love-lorn puppy churning out pappy songs with sappy lyrics, Ben Folds is a youthful, refreshing and energetic Elton John/Billy Joel/10cc in places for the new millenium.

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18 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Remastered and completely refreshed. Ahhh..., 24 April 2005
By A. Knibb "alexknibb" (Bristol, UK.) - See all my reviews
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Some albums benefit from a remaster. 'Graceland' by Paul Simon was one.

Some, however, don't. Chungking's ruining of their album "We Travel Fast" only a year after its first release was nothing short of scandalous.

"Whatever And Ever Amen" thankfully falls squarely in the former category I'm happy to say.

Before we get into this, I'm not going to talk about the extra tracks, I'm afraid. Mostly because I haven't listened to them properly yet. So why, I hear you ask, am I bothering at all? Well, the reason is this - I first bought this back in 2000, after a friend of mine played me "Fair" or - as she called it - the one where they sound like chickens. Let's just say it's had to compete with 1000+ CDs in my collection, and has rarely been back in the rack. It's taken me through every stage of my difficult early twenties since then, the sad times (especially "Evaporated"), the happy times ("One Angry Dwarf", "Fair") and the Go Away I Hate Everyone times ("Song For The Dumped").

So why, then, am I bothering to review an album I've already heard literally hundreds of times before? Well, the remastering and remixing (don't be alarmed - there's no Armand Van Helden here) of this album is so good, it's breathed completely new life into the recording. You'll have to trust me. Yes, I know it's hard to believe that new life could be breathed into a CD barely out of short trousers (it was originally released in '97, I think), but every instrument has been beautifully extracted, polished with a bit of Brasso and reassembled with such care that what we're left with is a CD which will take you back to the very moment you first heard it. Every hi hat on "Fair" splashes and sparkles, the piano on "Brick" resonates like never before and "Song For The Dumped" reveals more angry off-tempo notes than you ever thought possible in a single chorus. Yet none of this ever ruins the wonderful intimacy of this great album.

Check out the non-remastered version for loads of reviews on how fine the songs are, and hopefully others will write up the bonus tracks here, but I hope I've coerced the on-the-fence audiophile saddos like me into spending a few quid they won't regret.

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'Whatever and Ever Amen' is a masterpiece. Before you deride my (admittedly pretty pretentious) statement, please bear with me for a couple of paragraphs. Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars Marvellous!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Incredible!
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