What Are You Listening To?

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BEN FOLDS "the best imitation of myself-a retrospective" cd, 2011

disc #3

the third disc in this boxset contains demo versions of songs, b-sides of singles and a couple of previously unreleased tracks...
as i dont really know much about his previous albums i have no idea how these versions compare to the original official releases so i can only score
on the basis of these ones...
the guys has very good tongue-in-cheek lyrics IMO, his melodies are often restricted and sound similar over all these discs, and his voice rarely changes
tone or octave...which can be monotonous and boring sometimes...
getting back to his tongue-in-cheek lyrics, listen to "dr.dre...bitches aint shit" where he literally takes the piss out of rap music and their stereotypical lyrics.
i actually hear sounds similar to some of Tim Finn's on some tracks, not sure if Ben was influenced by the Finn Brothers/Split Enz but there is a distinct similarity there...
at least the tracks on this disc have a bit more variation than the first two discs...

I LIKE THIS ALBUM

worst track: boxing
best track: rock star

tracks:

1. unrelated **
2. best imitation of myself **
3. boxer *
4. julianne **
5. rocky **
6. evaporated **
7. alice childress(long version) **
8. alice childress(short version) **
9. barry brown **
10.amelia birght **
11.tell me what i did **
12.rock star ***
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2fi_gLHAPc audio
13.losing lisa **
14.break up at food camp *
15.wandering **
16.hiro's song ***
17.the secret life of morgan davis ***
18.such great heights *
19.Dr.Dre....bitches aint shit ***
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjFRy8jQ_0U audio
20.time *
21.sleazy **
22.because the origami **
23.stumblin' home winter blues **

3s= 4
2s= 16
1s= 3

rating: 2.1

each disc rating:

disc #1......1.9

disc #2......1.65

disc #3......2.1

overall rating for the three discs........1.9