Ben Folds Five – The Unauthorized Biography Of Reinhold Messner (1999/2017) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

The follow-up to the popular Whatever and Ever Amen, Ben Folds Five’s third LP, The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Mesner, continues the eclectic and clever songwriting that has become the group’s trademark. Like other piano-based rock composers such as Randy Newman and Todd Rundgren, principal songwriter and de facto leader Ben Folds combines an off-beat world view with equally off-kilter musical arrangements to create a thoroughly original sound. The pseudo-lounge break in “Regrets,” for example, or the downright silliness of “Your Redneck Past” set the Ben Folds Five apart from the hundreds of soundalike bands that the group competes with for radio space. What makes Ben Folds Five, and The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Mesner, relevant is their willingness to take musical risks, an anomaly in today’s scene. On an album where there is a lack of instantly catchy hooks, Folds has the audacity to add a bizarre Burt Bacharach-ish horn section to “Don’t Change Your Plans,” one of the few radio-friendly tracks on the album. And in “Most Valuable Possession,” the band uses studio trickery and an answering machine message left by Folds’ father to create a bizarre spoken word pastiche. It is this willingness to forge a unique sound that makes The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Mesner such an interesting album to listen to. There is care to these songs and, what’s even more significant and fresh, there is also intelligence. ~ Steve Kurutz

Tracklist:
1. Narcolepsy 05:24
2. Don’t Change Your Plans 05:11
3. Mess 04:03
4. Magic 04:02
5. Hospital Song 02:05
6. Army 03:25
7. Your Redneck Past 03:43
8. Your Most Valuable Possession 01:55
9. Regrets 04:07
10. Jane 02:42
11. Lullabye 03:53

Personnel:
Ben Folds, vocals, piano
Ken Mosher, baritone saxophone, alto saxophone
Paul Shapiro, tenor saxophone
Tom Maxwell, tenor saxophone
John Mark Painter, Flugelhorn, valve trombone
Bucky Baxter, guitar
Jane Scarpantoni, cello
Antoine Silverman, violin
Lorenza Ponce, violin
Mark Feldman, violin
Jared Reynolds, bass, vocals
John Mark Painter, bass
Lindsay Jamieson, drums, vocals

Recorded at Sound City Studios (Los Angeles), Grandmaster Studios (Los Angeles), Water Music (Hoboken, NJ) and RPM Studios (NYC), November 1998 – January 1999
Producer and recorded by Caleb Southern

Digitally remastered

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