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About this product
Product Identifiers
Record LabelEpic
EAN5099748669827
eBay Product ID (ePID)18052257715
Product Key Features
LanguageEnglish
Era1990s
Release Year2000
FormatCD
InstrumentPiano
FeaturesStudio Recording
GenrePop, Alternative, Rock, Contemporary Christian
TypeAlbum
ArtistBen Folds Five
Release TitleWhatever and Ever Amen
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
DistributionSony Music/Sony Dadc
Number of Tracks12
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Additional InformationEclectic indie piano rock trio's commercial breakthrough, features alternative rock smash ballad "Brick."
ReviewsRanked #27 in the Village Voice's 1997 Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll., Included in Q Magazine's "50 Best Albums of 1997.", 4 stars out of 5 - "...Music for those who'll spend the rest of their lives 'off games', the bone-dry humor and sunny melodies still compensate for a multitude of sins.", 3.5 Stars (out of 5) - "...Folds has written another batch of sweet songs and supports each with disciplined, downright patient arrangements....This is about as close to bliss as the radio gets.", "...Guitarless, cool, and compositionally overqualified, BFF have everything you'd want out of a rock band right now except a wah-wah pedal." - Rating: A, 9 (out of 10) - "...WHATEVER AND EVER AMEN, signals a welcome return to rock as physical comedy. Like his sad-clown elders--Elton, Randy Newman--Folds knows that intense sincerity and oafish glitz are hardly incompatible. In fact, that's something we used to call entertainment..."