Taking Sides: Ben Folds Five _vs_ Bruce Hornsby and the Range

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...or "Brick" vs "Mandolin Rain"
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You may begin your praise/mockery now.

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Saturday, 13 March 2004 09:08 (twenty-two years ago)

thanks custos. a smile. i have nothing to add.

― mullygrubber (gaz), Saturday, 13 March 2004 09:11 (twenty-two years ago)

hornsby easy

― cinniblount (James Blount), Saturday, 13 March 2004 09:11 (twenty-two years ago)

please elaborate.
Subquestion: Is Ben Folds just Bruce Hornsby with a sense of humour, or is he Elvis Costello without the twitchy nerve endings?

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Saturday, 13 March 2004 09:18 (twenty-two years ago)

plus he played on that great great bonnie raitt song which sounded enough hornsby that i had to look it up to find out he didn't actually write it. that said i definitely like a handful of ben folds songs - i get weepy thinking about my gf and italy and how she would play 'brick' --> 'nightswimming' --> 'levon' on her radio show and how we'd laff at the ascension of corn but also know we totally bought into the corn and if i thank god it's extremely unlikely i'm gonna hear a radio station stateside play those three back-to-back-to-back cuz i don't think i could handle it.

― cinniblount (James Blount), Saturday, 13 March 2004 09:19 (twenty-two years ago)

For some reason they never play Ben Folds version of "Satan is My Master" either. A shame really. That song is fucking hilarious.

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Saturday, 13 March 2004 09:21 (twenty-two years ago)

they have very different styles of playing also. ben folds does have that big randy newman influence so i guess that makes him ec then.

― cinniblount (James Blount), Saturday, 13 March 2004 09:22 (twenty-two years ago)

ben folds probably would've been better if he'd followed hornsby instead of newman though. he makes a much better moist towelette than handbuzzer.

― cinniblount (James Blount), Saturday, 13 March 2004 09:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Pigpen, Godchaux, Mydland...Hornsby's got concrete balls

― dave q, Saturday, 13 March 2004 09:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Ben Folds writes much better songs when one of his wives leaves him.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 13 March 2004 11:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Joe Jackson OWNZ them both

― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 13 March 2004 12:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Ben Folds Five, 'cause there's only three of 'em which is kinda cool, plus I like the grungey fuzz-bass sound his bassist occasionally utilizes. But give Hornsby credit for giving us (in "The Way It Is") the most obnoxiously memorable piano-hook in any non-Elton John song ever. (A compliment, sorta.)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Sunday, 14 March 2004 01:20 (twenty-two years ago)

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