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The Unauthorized Discography Of Ben Folds Five

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Title: Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack "Mr. Wrong"
Catalog Number: HR-62041-2
Record Label(s): Hollywood
Format: CD (jewel)..................................................
Release Date: February 6, 1996
Track List:
  1. 'The Things We Do For Love' (3:22) - Amy Grant
  2. 'Nothin' On Me' (3:58) - Shawn Colvin
  3. 'Kisses Good' (3:19) - Once Blue
  4. 'Since I Laid Eyes On You' (4:11) - Faith Hill
  5. 'Strenuous Acquaintances' (5:23) - Joan Osborne
  6. 'I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry' (2:36) - Cris Isaak
  7. 'Crazy Little Thing Called Love' (2:45) - Queen
  8. 'Love Stinks' (3:32) - Joan Jett and The Blackhearts
  9. 'I Gotcha' (3:42) - Sophie B. Hawkins
  10. 'Song For The Dumped' (3:32) - Ben Folds Five
  11. 'It's Not Unusual' (5:15) - The Wild Colonials
  12. Suavito' (3:38) - Arturo Sandoval
  13. 'Mr. Wrong, Main Title' (2:21)

Notes: This version is not available on any other release.

Title: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack "The Truth About Cats & Dogs"
Catalog Number: 31454 0507 2
Record Label(s): A&M
Format: CD (jewel)..................................................
Release Date: April 2, 1996
Track List:
  1. Dionne Farris - 'For Once In My Life' - 3:24
  2. Suzanne Vega - 'Caramel' - 2:55
  3. Sting - 'The Bed's Too Big Without You' - 6:04
  4. Cowbot Junkies - 'Angel Mine' - 4:00
  5. Squeeze - 'This Road' - 3:12
  6. Al Green - 'Give It Everything' - 4:58
  7. Aaron Neville - 'I Can't Imagine' - 3:58
  8. Blues Traveler - 'Run-Around' - 4:40
  9. The Robert Cray Band - 'Well I Lied' - 2:50
  10. Jill Sobule - 'Where Do I Begin' - 2:40
  11. Paul Weller - 'You Do Something To Me' - 3:38
  12. The Brand New Heavies - 'World Keeps Spinning' - 4:58
  13. Ben Folds Five - 'Bad Idea' - 1:55
  14. Howard Shore - 'Cats & Dogs' - 2:03

Notes: This version is not available on any other release.

Title: Modern Rock Live, Volume 1
Catalog Number: No Number (Promotional)
Record Label(s): Sony
Format: CD (jewel)..................................................
Release Date: 1996
Track List:
  • Disc 1
    1. Goo Goo Dolls - 'Girl Right Next to Me'
    2. Jewel - 'Who Will Save Your Soul'
    3. Ned's Atomic Dustbin - 'Floote'
    4. Pete Droge - 'Straylin' Street'
    5. Ben Folds Five - 'Philosophy'
    6. Terence Trent D'Arby - 'Holding Onto You'
    7. Bettie Serveert - 'Crutches'
    8. Dave Matthews Band - 'Jimi Thing'
    9. Victoria Williams - 'Hitchhiker's Smile'
  • Disc 2:
    1. Blues Traveler - 'Hook'
    2. Shudder to Think - 'Day Ditty'
    3. The Posies - 'Coming Right Along'
    4. Violent Femmes - 'She Went to Germany'
    5. Soul Asylum - 'Eyes of a Child'
    6. Letters to Cleo - 'Pizza Cutter'
    7. Dave Matthews Band - 'Dancing Nancies'
    8. Belly - 'Red'
    9. Massive Attack - 'Karmacoma'

Notes: This version is not available on any other release. This 2 disc set was free with the purchase of a Sony CD player in 1996. Before the song, Ben explains, "Well... it's just about... um... having your own idea of the way things work... and uh... and uh... goin' for that even if... uh... people are laghin' at ya a little bit. I mean, it could even apply to us carryin' a piano around. We certainly catch a lot of... um... a lot of flak when we show up to clubs with a grand piano. And... uh... but we've got our philosophy." I must thank Stephanie for reminding me about this one.

Title: Launch #14
Catalog Number: Launch #14
Record Label(s): Launch
Format: CD-Rom..................................................
Release Date: 1997
Contribution:
    One Angry Dwarf And 200 Solemn Faces (live)

Notes: This is not an audio track. It is only accessable on CD-Rom.

Title: KCRW: Rare On Air, Volume 3
Catalog Number: MR0162-2
Record Label(s): Mammoth
Format: CD (jewel)..................................................
Release Date: February 25, 1997
Track List:
  1. COWBOY JUNKIES state trooper
  2. PATTI SMITH dancing barefoot
  3. REMY ZERO twister
  4. FIONA APPLE never is a promise
  5. BOOTH & THE BAD ANGEL fall in love with me
  6. BEN FOLDS FIVE alice childress
  7. GUIDED BY VOICES the official ironmen rally song
  8. STEREOLAB spinal column
  9. TINDERSTICKS she's gone
  10. LUNA 23 minutes in brussels
  11. ME'SHELL NDEGEOCELLO ecclesiastes: free my heart
  12. THW WALLFLOWERS angel on my bike
  13. GONZALO RUBALCABA imagine
  14. JAMES TAYLOR WITH DON GROLNICK secret o'life

Notes: "Alice Childress" was recorded live on October 17, 1995. This version was later released on Naked Baby Photos (CAR 7554).

Title: Lounge-a-palooza
Catalog Number: HR-62072-2
Record Label(s): Hollywood
Format: CD (jewel).................................................
Release Date: October 7, 1997
Track List:
  1. Combustible Edison and Esquivel! - 'Miniskirt'
  2. Fastball - 'This Guy's In Love With You'
  3. Ben Folds Five - 'She Don't Use Jelly'
  4. Poe - 'A Rose Is A Rose'
  5. Steve & Eydie - 'Black Hole Sun'
  6. Pizzicato Five - 'The Girl From Ipanema'
  7. P. J. Harvey & Eric Drew Feldman - 'Zaz Turned Blue'
  8. Fun Lovin' Criminals - 'I'm Not In Love'
  9. Glen Campbell & Michelle Shocked with Texas Tornados - 'Wichita Linerman'
  10. Edwyn Collins - 'Witchcraft'
  11. Jimmy Scott & Flea - 'Love Will Keep Us Together'
  12. The James Taylor Quartet - 'Music To Watch Girls By'
  13. Cossandra Wilson - 'The Good Life'
  14. Chris Ballew - 'Robert Goulet (On The River Nile)'

Notes: 'She Don't Use Jelly' is a cover of the Flaming Lips hit song. Recorded at Ben's house and John's house, Nashville Tennessee. Produced by Ben Folds Five and John Mark Painter. Mixed by John Mark Painter at John's house. Strings on track 3 by The Love Sponge Strings: David Davidson, David Angel, Kristin Wilkinson, and John Catchings. Percussion by Todd Collins. String arrangement, horns, percussion, muzak backing vocals, and double bass by John Mark Painter. Opera backing vocal by Fleming McWilliams. Percussion by Shawn McWilliams. From the liner notes: "Ben Folds Five, in a move as successful as it is daring, twists the Modern Rock camp of the Flaming Lips' "She Don't Use Jelly" into a propulsive horn and dtring drenched cosmopolitan Petula Clark-style romp. It's "Don't Sleep In The Subway" meets "Lump." Brilliant." This version is also available on the CD Singles for Brick (665661 5 ), Song For The Dumped (666031 2), and Air (ESCA 7324).

Title: Teleconned, Volume 1
Catalog Number: TRG 89380-2
Record Label(s): No Alternative
Format: CD (jewel)..................................................
Release Date: May 5, 1998
Track List:
  1. 'Lazy Bones' - Soul Coughing
  2. 'Songs For The Gang' - Thrush Hermit
  3. 'Blue Elektra - Matt Wilson
  4. 'Shake' - Kristin Hersh
  5. 'Underwear' - Triplefastaction
  6. 'Jump The Bay' - His Name Is Alive
  7. 'Feel' - Dead Hot Workshop
  8. '32 Flavors' - Ani DiFranco
  9. 'I Still Love You, Judas' - Firewater
  10. 'What I Want For Christmas' - Nicole Blackman with Scanner
  11. 'Blue Eyed Devil' - Low
  12. 'Theme From "Dr. Pyser"' - Ben Folds Five
  13. 'Made For Trouble' - Magnatone
  14. 'Erasable You' - Walt Mink
  15. 'I'll Be Famous' - The Lemon Merchants
  16. 'Crybaby Crusade' - Dylan Hicks

Notes: This version is not available on any other release. Recorded live on "Morning Becomes Eclectic" KCRW in Los Angeles on July 17, 1997. Mixed by Leo Overtoom. String players : Jan Scorpantoni, cello. Lorenza Ponce, violin. Heather Paanwe, violin. Dylan Williams, viola.

Title: Godzilla: The Album
Catalog Number: EK 69338
Record Label(s): Epic Soundtrax
Format: CD (jewel)..................................................
Release Date: May 19, 1998
Track List:
  1. Heroes - The Wallflowers
  2. Come With Me - Puff Dady featuring Jimmy Page
  3. Deeper Underground - Jamiroquai
  4. No Shelter - Rage Against The Machine
  5. Air - Ben Folds Five
  6. Running Knees - Days Of The New
  7. Macy Day Parade - Michael Penn
  8. Walk The Sky - Fuel
  9. A320 - Foo Fighters
  10. Brain Stew (The Godzilla Remix) - Green Day
  11. Untitles - Silverchair
  12. Out There - Fuzzbubble
  13. Undercover - Joey DeLuxe
  14. Opening Titles - David Arnold
  15. Looking For Clues - David Arnold

Notes: 'Air' written by Ben Folds, Darren Jessee, and Robert Sledge. Produced and mixed by Brendan O'Brien. Recorded by Nick DiDia at Southern Tracks in Atlanta, Georgia. This version is also available on the CD Singles for Air (ESCA 7324 ) and Army (667122 2 and 667218 2)

Title: Sabrina, The Teenage Witch
Catalog Number: GEF-25220
Record Label(s): UNI/Geffen
Format: CD (jewel)..................................................
Release Date: October 27, 1998
Track List:
  1. Spice Girls - "Walk Of Life"
  2. Backstreet Boys - "Hey, Mr. DJ (Keep Playin' This Song)"
  3. Sugar Ray - "Abracadabra"
  4. Melissa Joan Hart - "One Way Or Another"
  5. Ben Folds Five - "Kate" (Ska Remix)
  6. Robyn - "Show Me Love"
  7. 'N Sync - "Giddy Up"
  8. Five - "Slam Dunk (Da Funk)"
  9. Matthew Sweet w/ Lindsey Buckingham and Susana Hoffs - "Magnet & Steel"
  10. Phantom Planet - "So I Fall Again"
  11. The Murmurs - "Smash"
  12. Aqua - "Doctor Jones"
  13. Chumbawamba - "Amnesia"
  14. The Cardigans - "Blah, Blah, Blah"
  15. Pure Sugar - "I Know Boys Like"
  16. Britney Spears - "Soda Pop"

Notes: This is a remix version featuring string arrangements recorded at Suma Studios in Cleveland, Ohio on August 4, 1997. Mixed by Andy Wallace. Additional engineering by Leo Overtoom. String players: Jan Scorpantoni, cello. Lorenza Ponce, violin. Heather Paanwe, violin. Dylan Williams, viola. This version is also available on the CD Singles for Brick (ESCA 6897 and 665235 2).

Title: The Garden Place: Songs By Our Friends
Catalog Number: YEP 2009
Record Label(s): Yep Roc
Format: CD (jewel)..................................................
Release Date: September 22, 1998
Track List:
  1. I've Found A New Baby - Squirrel Nut Zippers
  2. The Wars - Glory Fountain
  3. If Broken Hearts Were Gold - Two Dollar Pistols
  4. Hurricane Warning - Portastatic
  5. Me And My Ticket - Whiskeytown
  6. Let Me Live - Hobex
  7. Devil In The Whiskey - Hawk's Eye Pope
  8. Sick Bird Tweed - Shark Quest
  9. Feels New - Faustina
  10. Cherished Delusions - Barisal Guns
  11. Lullaby - Tift Merritt
  12. Hey Kid - Glass
  13. The Magic That Holds The Sky Up From The Ground - Darren Jessee
  14. My, My - Jumpstarts
  15. From The Rooftop - Trailer Bride
  16. The Long Road Home - Joey Howell

Notes: This is an early version of what would become the song "Magic" on the album The Unauthorized Biography Of Reinhold Messner (BK 69808). Performed solo by Darren Jessee. Written by Darren Jessee. This version is not available on any other release.

Title: Burt Bacharach: One Amazing Night
Catalog Number: NK2 - 10008
Record Label(s): NK2
Format: CD (jewel)..................................................
Release Date: November 17, 1998
Track List:
  1. 'One Less Bell To Answer' - Sheryl Crow
  2. 'Always Something There' - All Saints
  3. 'God Give Me Strength' - Elvis Costello
  4. 'Baby It's You' - Chrissie Hynde
  5. 'What's New Pussycat?' - Mike Myers
  6. 'Anyone Who Had A Heart' - Wynonna
  7. 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head' - Ben Folds Five
  8. 'The Windows of the World' - Luther Vandross
  9. 'Wives and Lovers' - David Sanborn & George Duke
  10. 'Walk On By' - Dionne Warwick
  11. 'Alfie' - Burt Bacharach

Notes: Recorded live at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City. This song is not available on any other release.

Title: WXPN: Live at the World Cafe, Volume 7
Catalog Number: WC9807
Record Label(s): World Cafe
Format: CD (jewel)..................................................
Release Date: 1998
Track List:
  1. "Are You Out There?" - Dar Williams
  2. "The Way" - Fastball
  3. "Gimme A Stone" - Largo
  4. "Brick" - Ben Folds Five - 4:36
  5. "Smiling Up The Frown" - Agents Of Good Roots
  6. "James" - Huffamoose
  7. "Zachary" - Sonia Dada
  8. "Rain, Rain Beautiful Rain" - Ladysmith Black Mambazo
  9. "As The Rain" - Jeb Loy Nichols
  10. "Sunflowers" - Francis Dunnery
  11. "Superhero" - Garrison Starr
  12. "My Before And After" - Cotton Mather
  13. "DND" - Semisonic
  14. "32 Flavors" - Alana Davis
  15. "Jockey Full Of Bourbon" - Moxy Fruvous
  16. "Blue Glass Fall" - David Poe
  17. "Better Part Of Me" - Grey Eye Glances
  18. "Silver Lining" - Steve Poltz

Notes: Compilation CD released in 1998 by WXPN, member supported radio from the University of Pennsylvania. For more info, go to wxpn.org. "Brick" was recorded at CFNY Studios in Toronto (Canada) on February 17, 1997. This version is not available on any other release.

Title: This is Alice Music Volume 2: A Collection Of Songs For The Fight Against Breast Cancer
Catalog Number: ALIS-32
Record Label(s): Alice Radio
Format: CD (jewel)..................................................
Release Date: September 29, 1998
Contribution:
  1. Shawn Colvin - Sunny Came Home (Special Alice Studio Version)
  2. Third Eye Blind - How's It Gonna Be
  3. Sixpence None The Richer - Kiss Me
  4. Semisonic - Closing Time
  5. Meridith Brooks - What Would Happen
  6. Edwin McCain - I'll Be
  7. Sarah McLachlan - Building A Mystery (Special Alice Studio Version)
  8. Train - Meet Virginia
  9. B-52's - Summer Of Love
  10. Naked - Raining On The Sky
  11. Natalie Merchant - Jealousy
  12. Fastball - The Way (Acoustic Version)
  13. Fiona Apple - Never Is A Promise
  14. Ben Folds Five - Brick
  15. Lisa Loeb - I Do (Acoustic Version)
  16. Billy Mann - Earthbound

Notes: Released by KLLC, 97.3, a radio station in San Francisco, CA on their Alice Radio label(discontinued on October 7, 1998). Thanks to Michael A. Gartland for the info.

Title: The Southern Edge, Volume 1
Catalog Number: BELO-21021
Record Label(s): Beloved
Format: CD (jewel)..................................................
Release Date: January 26, 1999
Track List:
  1. Savory - Jawbox
  2. Tough It Out - Webb Wilder
  3. Sam - Meat Pupets
  4. Jackson Cannery - Ben Folds Five
  5. Time To Pray - Reverend Horton Heat
  6. Miss America - Agents Of Good Roots
  7. Sam Cooke Sang The Gospel - Doug Hoekstra
  8. Blue (Live) - The Jayhawks
  9. Southern Girl - Better Than Ezra
  10. Rock & Roll Lifestyle - Cake
  11. Slow - Reverend Horton Heat
  12. White Trash - Southern Culture On The Skids
  13. Manta Ray - Man...Or Astroman?

Notes: "Jackson Cannery" is taken from the album Ben Folds Five (PSR 9501).

Title: No Boundries
Catalog Number:
Record Label(s): Sony
Format: CD (jewel)..................................................
Release Date: June 15, 1999
Track List:
  1. Last Kiss - Pearl Jam
  2. Baba (live) - Alanis Morissette
  3. The Ghost Of Tom Joad - Rage Against The Machine
  4. War Of Man (live) - Neil Young
  5. Freak On A Leash (Freakin' B Mix) - Korn
  6. Psycho Man (Danny Saber Remix) - Black Sabbath
  7. Come Down (Acoustic) - Bush
  8. Leather Jacket - Ben Folds Five
  9. Take Me Away - Oasis
  10. Mary (live) - Sarah McLachlan
  11. Go - Indigo Girls
  12. Used To Be Lucky - The Wallflowers
  13. Wolf In Sheep's Clothing - Jamiroquai
  14. Merman - Tori Amos
  15. Black Paintings - Peter Gabriel
  16. Soldier Of Love - Pearl Jam

Notes: "Leather Jacket" is also available on the singles for Army (667122 2, 667218 5, and 36 79186).

Title: Launch #29
Catalog Number: Launch #29
Record Label(s): Launch
Format: CD-Rom..................................................
Release Date: July, 1999
Contribution:
    Don't Change Your Plans (live)

Notes: This is not an audio track. It is only accessable on CD-Rom.

Title: Me, Myself & Irene
Catalog Number:
Record Label(s):
Format: CD (jewel)..................................................
Release Date: June 13, 2000
Track List:
  1. Totalimmortal - The Offspring
  2. Breakout - Foo Fighters
  3. Do It Again - Smash Mouth
  4. Deep Inside Of You - Third Eye Blind
  5. Any Major Dude Will Tell You - Wilco
  6. Bad Sneakers - Pushstars
  7. Bodhisattva - Brian Setzer
  8. Reelin' In The Years - Marvelous 3
  9. Barrytown - Ben Folds Five
  10. Only A Fool Would Say That - Ivy
  11. Leave A Light On - Better Than Ezra
  12. Strange Condition - Peter Yorn
  13. What He Can Hide - Tom Wolfe
  14. Razor Boy - Brian Goodrum
  15. World Ain't Slowing Down, The - Ellis Paul
  16. Can't Find The Time To Tell You - Hootie And The Blowfish


Notes: Barrytown is a Steely Dan cover song.


Title: Best Of Hard Rock Live
Catalog Number:31069
Record Label(s):London-Sire
Format: CD (jewel)..................................................
Release Date: July 18, 2000
Track List:
  1. Middle Of The Road - The Pretenders
  2. Brian Wilson - Barenaked Ladies
  3. Kind & Generous - Natalie Merchant
  4. I Don't Want To Wait - Paula Cole
  5. Busload Of Faith - Lou Reed
  6. Outta Site, Outta Mind - Wilco
  7. I Do - Lisa Loeb
  8. Little Plastic Castles - Ani DiFranco
  9. Sooner Or Later - Fastball
  10. I Will Still Be Laughing - Soul Asylum
  11. Hold My Hand - Hootie & The Blowfish
  12. Low Rider - Blues Traveler
  13. Song For The Dumped - Ben Folds Five


Notes: All tracks are from different performances on VH1's Hard Rock Live show.

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