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August 13, 2008

Why I Leaked It: Ben Folds Comes Clean About His Fake (And Real) New Album, "Way To Normal"

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Way To Normal

Call it "Revenge of the Nerds, Part 7." On Folds' seventh studio album, the keyboard-banging singer-songwriter remains one of pop's angriest men — an übergeek in a permanent state of high dudgeon. When he's not "Flipping off the asshole/Who pulled into my lane" ("Free Coffee"), he's raili...

2008 RS: 2.5of 5 Stars

Songs For Silverman

2005

Ben Folds Live

2002

Rockin' The Suburbs

2001

The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner

1999

Whatever and Ever Amen

1997

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When North Carolina trio Ben Folds Five arrived with its self-titled debut in 1995, a still grunge-heavy modern-rock climate made the guitarless group seem almost a novelty. But actually, Folds' aggressive piano playing falls in line with ivory-pounding rockers from Jerry Lee Lewis through Elton John, and the group's keyboard-based pop quirks draw from Todd Rundgren and Joe Jackson, among others. ...

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