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[iciclelily]

So sucks about the scholarship, its too bad our society is so fucked up about race and gender. What the fuck is the point to a race and gender requirement for classes, if the administration are the ones who need to understand equality. Just because you have trouble getting some group of people to come to your school does not mean you should offer

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did u expect me not to get all music snob on you?

[knittinglizzie]

1. Emaline is on Ben Folds Live, not RTS, which by the way if you need a copy I'll be the first to burn you one. Also if you need a Live copy, I'll do that too.

2. It is better on Ben Folds Live because of many reasons.
a) The recording is of higher quality.
b) Ben's voice is not as developed on Naked Baby Photos. He's like a fine wine. When you watch the Sessions at W.5th DVD you wonder why anyone took a chance on this kid who says "shit yea its cool" all the time. (but then again he's always been bad asssssss)
c) The version on Naked Baby Photos is too rockin'. On Live you can really feel the emotion of the lyrics. Adding in backround singers and a drum set does nothing for a song full of emotion. I don't know if you remember the band Dynamite Hack, but they had 2 versions of this song 'Anyway' One sung as a jumpy punk song and the other sung solo with a piano. Although the lyrics fit both versions the latter was much better because you could feel the pain of the song writer.
d) i just spent 10 minutes listening to the same song and writing about it for a live journal. must have life out side of computer...

I'm sure that someone else will disagree. Some miss the Five...Me I'm glad he got rid of those two.

Re: did u expect me not to get all music snob on you?

[look_out_gatsby]

me, i could never be glad he got rid of darren and robert. don't get me wrong, he fucking rocks solo...but the five was just as great. i think as a whole, the unauthorized biography of reinhold messner was much better than rockin' the suburbs (though i'm not quite sure i'd say the same about the other two ben folds five albums--maybe about certain songs, but not the complete albums). then again, i only have one solo album to compare to three albums with the five. i do adore his solo eps, however. musically, vocally, emotionally, i'd have to say they exceed anything else he's/they've done. if his upcoming album is as wonderful as the eps, i may just have to say he's better solo than with the five. actually, i don't think he was better with the five, necessarily...i just can't say i'm glad he got rid of them. ideally, he'd do the five and his solo stuff, still put just as much effort into both, tour with the five opening up for his solo set, and not get exhausted from it. oh, and he'd lose frally hynes and marry me :D

but i do like the ben folds live version of emaline better than the naked baby photos version.

Re: did u expect me not to get all music snob on you?

[knittinglizzie]

see i think that messner is his best album too... but I don't think it is because of the five. I guess I've always considered it to be Ben Folds with random guys behind him... Even though they were not to random.