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"Stop the bus! I want to be lonely," Ben sings on the opening track "Jackson Cannery." Folds' words are those of a man who lived through the depressing Goth phase that almost every fan of 1980s modern rock experienced, and came out okay on the other side. Other evidence lies in "Underground," a sly ribbing of the modern rock scene as it then existed. Folds pokes fun at his own lack of self esteem with the line "There was a girl that passed me by / She gave a smile but I was shy, and I looked down / So down." "The Last Polka" is one of the fastest songs ever done in a minor key, telling the story of a couple about to implode. "The cruelest lies are often told without a word / The kindest truths are often spoken, never heard." The album closes with "Boxing," an imaginary letter from Muhammad Ali to Howard Cosell that's incredibly touching. Ben Folds Five was a welcomed breath of fresh air in a music scene that was choking itself to death with grunge and the inevitable nothing-alternative-about- it-alternative rock movement (Dishwalla, Verve Pipe, etc.) that succeeded grunge. It may not have been a huge seller, but the sissies didn't mind. ~David Medsker dmedsker@bullz-eye.com
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