Supersunnyspeedgraphic - The LP

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Release Date:2006-10-24
Label:Sony
UPC:886970053624
Binding:Audio CD
Published By:Sony
ASIN:B000I2KNUC
Category:Music

Tracks on Supersunnyspeedgraphic - The LP by Sony

  1. In Between Days
  2. All U Can Eat
  3. Songs Of Love
  4. There's Always Someone Cooler Than You
  5. Learn To Live With What You Are
  6. Bitches Ain't Shit
  7. Adelaide Folds
  8. Rent A Cop Folds
  9. Get Your Hands Off My Woman
  10. Bruised
  11. Dog
  12. Still

Editorial Reviews and Product Descriptions

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Once you figure out where the title comes from, it makes perfect sense. Supersunnyspeedgraphic is a convenient collection assembled primarily from limited edition EPs Super D, Sunny 16, and Speed Graphic. The 12-track release, which follows Songs for Silverman and the Over the Hedge soundtrack, also culls from The Bens EP with Bens Kweller and Lee (a word to the expectant mothers out there: if you want your son to become an alternative pop star, just name him Benjamin). Longtime listeners know what to expect from Folds--Joe Jackson-esque vocals, clever wordplay, and tuneful melodies that rely more on keyboards than strings. For the uninitiated, it all probably sounds pretty commercial, but there's some risqué material here. As with Harry Nilsson and Randy Newman, who excelled at enveloping edgy lyrics in radio-ready trappings, there are a few numbers on this rerecorded, remixed, and remastered disc that won't be rocking the airwaves anytime soon, like the piano man's stately version of Dr. Dre's "Bitches Ain't S**t." Depending on your point of view, the online sensation is either admirably ironic or unalterably offensive. Folds's more straightforward covers of the Cure's "In Between Days" and the Darkness's "Get Your Hands Off My Woman" are unlikely to ruffle as many feathers, but they're a better fit for his jaunty power pop-meets-new wave style. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

Customer Reviews

Ben Folds is a foul mouthed song writing great - Reviewed on 2008-02-22
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1 customer found this review not to be helpful.
Ben Folds seems to like to run the scales from the pretty to the profane. This is fine except there doesn't seem to be a reason for the profane other than Folds thinks it cute to write songs with bad words in them. His talent is such that this sort of acting out for his own proposes seems beneath him and his conciderable skills. Since these are older songs from an earlier part of his career my feeling is he has indeed moved beyond this sort of childishness and with later works like "Songs For Silverman" he now is in full flower. So, while this older CD of internet "goodies" is interesting it's also very hit and miss both lyrically and tunefully...
This was the first Ben folds or Ben Folds Five CD I ever bought. - Reviewed on 2007-12-16
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This was the first Ben Folds CD (or even Ben Folds Five) CD that I ever purchasted. I really started to dig his music after hearing so much of it on Satellite Radio. So since this is the CD that started me off to eventually purchasing all of the remaining Solo CD's as well as Ben Folds Five CDs that have been released (even "Fear of Pop"...heck I even purchased William Shatner's "Has Been" as Ben Folds did much work on that album). Great tunes on this CD include "There's always someone cooler than you", "All u can eat", and "rent a cop". Ben folds is an amazing piano player singer/songwriter.
great rework - Reviewed on 2007-12-06
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this is a great collection of existing eps and nonsense usually meant for his concerts. it's fun and the reworked ep songs are great!
Ben's Shot - Reviewed on 2007-06-19
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1 customer found this review helpful, 10 did not.

I loved Ben Folds Five, Ben's CD's since the breakup of the Fantastic 5 have gotten worse and worse, he has lost his edge and is too full of himself, making fun of people is cute when your an up and coming new band, but the routine is old. This CD is just o.k.
"Supersunnyspeedgraphic"? How Cute... Well, Maybe Not. - Reviewed on 2007-06-18
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7 customers found this review not to be helpful.
In my opinion, his music sounds like Jason Marz... ON SPEED.

Seeing him performing live (in John Mayer's concert in San Jose), I'm not particularly impressed either.

I like some of his songs, but the others, I'm just eyebrow raising and wondering why it sounds like he's experimenting... with, uh, too many sounds and effects, of course. ;)
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