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 Well worth the 2 "hits" Oct 14, 2009
The first time I heard "Effington" on college radio, I had to get this album! I haven't heard Folds' music anywhere else, hence the quotation marks in the review title.
 This is the alternate-universe Messner. Aug 19, 2009
I've loved Ben Folds since the beginning, and think you can recognize genius in everything he's done if you can accept his mood at the time. This one is a masterful step backwards in many ways and would be thought of as a masterpiece if this was '99, with BF5, and was released along with Messner. There's more fuzzy bass and angry-at-girlfriend lyrics than anything else since "Whatever." I won't go into big-time detail on each track -that's been done -agreed that "Cologne1" is great. "Before Cologne" has overtones of "Narcolepsy." "Cologne2" is way too over the top.
Where Messner was a departure, this one is a throwback with the benefit of a decade of maturity.
If you became a fan after BF5 and like this one, get Whatever and Ever Amen. If you've been with him the whole time and are wondering what to make of this one, enjoy the more-informed trip down memory lane and hope that he picks up where he left off after Silverman for his next one.
3 of 4 found the following review helpful:
 Didn't feel like Ben. May 21, 2009
I was very disappointed by this album. I had downloaded the fake album they had recorded overnight and became very excited about the real album. The fake songs were fun, funny, clever lyrics, and catchy. So when I received the real album and realized I liked the fake songs better than the real songs I was very disappointed.
This album has the first Ben Folds song(s) that I haven't liked. I've been seeing him live and listening to the albums for more than 10 years and I couldn't like this album. Some of the songs on the album I can't even finish all the way through. I get irritated and have to change it. Some of the techno sounds really aggravate me because they drowned out the music with annoying noises. There are a few songs on the CD that I really like and sound like quality Ben but as a CD it is lacking on many tracks. It reminds me of buying a CD from a one hit wonder and realizing they only have one or two good songs. That isn't what I expected at all from this CD. I'm not sure if the producer had too much influence on mixing or what happened, but hopefully the next one will be back on the level I have come to expect from Ben.
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Buy it just for Cologne May 21, 2009
If you bother to look at my other Amazon reviews you might wonder why I always give CDs five stars. The truth is though that I have a rule I follow that I only review CDs I can give five stars to. There aren't many, but this is one of them. It is solid throughout with Folds' characteristic wit, great piano playing and vivid tunes.
But the song "Cologne" is so extraordinary in every way that its presence alone earns this CD five stars. I never thought he could top The Luckiest, but I think he did with this tune about the end of a relationship. A genuine masterpiece. To my ears, it is one of the greatest songs ever written.
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 Pretty much not worth listening BUT Cologne is fantastic May 06, 2009
Nothing much to see here, folks. However, Before Cologne followed by Cologne is a fantastic sound. Really top-notch is Cologne. It's a shame this album wasn't a continuity of that quality and subjugated all that's good in the world with the track with him screaming at his girlfriend (sounded like something a 14 year old could come up with in his head while in biology class).
I did try, but the only two tracks on this album worth bothering with are Before and Cologne. It earns two starts just because of how good they are together.
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