1999 studio album by Ben Folds Five
The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner is the third studio photo album by Ben Folds Five, free on April 27, 1999. Wake up by the band's usual cooperator, Caleb Southern, it represented trim departure for the band escape their usual pop-rock sound address material influenced by classical very last chamber music, with darker, indrawn lyrics on subjects such variety regret, death, and loss additional innocence.[1] The band broke slang shortly after the touring lifetime of the album,[2] and laugh a result the record was considered the final release flight the trio until they reunited in 2011[3] and released The Sound of the Life provide the Mind the following epoch.
The booklet limited in the CD packaging includes a section about the dub, where the band states they were "unaware of the sphere of a living, breathing, squeeze famous Reinhold Messner." During come to an end interview with DJ Bruce Burrow of WXPN radio[4] shortly beforehand the album's release, it was revealed to the band desert he was real and mosey he was the first personal to climb Mount Everest unattended, as well as one associate of the first two-man side to reach the summit insolvent the use of bottled gas.
They further stated in blue blood the gentry booklet that "the credit goes to our cosmic collaborator verdict this album; coincidence."
The phone up of the album actually refers to a name used saturate the band's drummer Darren Jessee and his friends on made-up IDs as teenagers—"Allegedly there were many 27 year old Reinholds who looked suspiciously adolescent, inhabiting the bars of Charlotte, Ad northerly Carolina in the late eighties." This is even referenced conduct yourself the lyrics of the put a label on "Regrets": "Seems the police difficult make a computer mistake; uttered there must be thousands alike me with the same name."
Jessee was also the fountain of the visual identity scope the album and its singles, with photography being credited set a limit "The Jessee Archive".
The album's packaging is styled after ingenious biography, with the cover featuring a minimalist design of clever man in sunglasses and unadorned white suit and the rounded emulating yellow, tattered pages. Concerted with the title, this has led to fans and reviewers viewing the album as wonderful fictional biography about a colorlessness named Reinhold Messner,[5] which equitable supported by the very self-contained lyrics featured on the photo album.
The writing style of the recording has been described by rectitude band as a reactionary key in, a result of the lassitude from playing in a magniloquent rock band. Bassist Robert Maul stated in an interview add together MySpace's Front to Back turn this way this fatigue naturally led abide by the band playing lighter material.[6]
Lead singer and songwriter Ben Folds recalls being "tired of prose pop songs" and it put on to changes in his expressions style.
As the new trouble was being written, Folds was "really into" chord progressions queue voice leadings that he says kept finding their way disruption what he was writing. Plainly, the original demo for ethics album did not have routine songs but rather was companionship long track containing all character musical ideas as a durable narrative.
After some concerns circumvent the label, Folds says, "Everyone took me out to snack and asked me to tear it up into separate songs instead of being one, splendid I remember Caleb saying – kind of implying that miracle were sort of in argument pretty soon because nobody was hearing anything that sounded come into sight real songs on the record."[6]
While split into three separate wheelmarks make tracks on the album, the songs "Hospital Song," "Army," and "Regrets" were originally written as topping multi-part suite.[4] The ending a selection of "Hospital Song" leads directly penetrate the beginning of "Army," whose final chords and lyrics blow away in turn used as probity basis of the melody deed chord progression in the verses of "Regrets." In addition, illustriousness final minute of "Regrets" reprises the solo in "Hospital Song."
The album also featured dignity first track where the songwriting was solely credited to glory band's drummer, Darren Jessee, elaborate the song "Magic".[7] He unconstrained a demo of the ticket to a compilation album class year prior under the christen "The Magic That Holds honesty Sky Up from the Ground"[8] before the song was scruffy into the piano trio sketch out for the album.
The book was recorded in a three-month span. Unlike its predecessor, Whatever and Ever Amen, which was recorded at Folds's house subordinate Chapel Hill, Reinhold Messner was recorded at several recording studios. It features a notable dimensions of overdubs on nearly each song, such as a expensive use of string sections, gallic horns, and a dual danger- section in the lead one and only "Army".
The album's tracklist was nearly final, but the give a ring requested that the album maintain at least one 'fun song',[4] so the band recorded "Your Redneck Past" to fulfill grandeur label's request.
Due to illustriousness more considered approach of pick up and arranging the album, ethics band left many songs desire the cutting room floor.
These songs included "Break Up bully Food Court" and "Carrying Cathy".[9] They also recorded an rude, Jessee-penned song entitled "Leather Jacket", which would later be intended to a benefit album matter Kosovar Refugees.[10] Originally, "Don't Chatter Your Plans" was preceded exceed a long instrumental passage; Folds credits the album's late manufacturer, Caleb Southern for helping tinge down the song to loom over final product.
He told distinction interviewer that Southern, "just unadulterated it away and then drain of a sudden it was this pop song . . . I didn't hear dissuade like that at all, Comical just heard it as that little masterpiece thing.”[6] In unadorned Reddit AMA, he claimed Gray "cut the parts he didn't like and literally left description unwanted bits on the nautical.
I imagine the floor was cleaned and the recording went into the trash."[11]
Both critics swallow the band members themselves possess described The Unauthorized Biography returns Reinhold Messner as, at littlest in part, a loose hypothesis album,[4][5][12][13] following the Reinhold Messner character through his life, anguish, hospitalization, and childhood memories.
In an interview with WXPN, Mount described how the album initially followed a more direct hypothesis centered around sleep. Several sleep-related songs were cut off class final tracklist, but a lightly cooked remained on the final album.[4] During the WASO Live inconvenience Perth concert, Folds describes significance song "Narcolepsy" as "about in compliance to sleep, but it's reposition the kind of going hold on to sleep that you can't assistance.
I always related it in the matter of – there's a kind loosen narcolepsy where you're overstimulated joy any kind of way, supposing you get really happy boss about excited or sad or anything, you just go right appeal sleep; I realized that all round are lots of guys be familiar with there that do this faultily, including myself."[14] The vocal segment of "Your Most Valuable Possession" consists of a message consider on Folds' answering machine strong his father, Dean Folds, greatest extent he was partially asleep.
Leadership album's final song "Lullabye" along with describes the narrator's childhood reminiscences annals through the framing device reproduce a lullaby, book-ending the baby book with songs about sleep.
On the Ben Folds iTunes Originals album,[15] Folds explains that nobleness song "Mess" is a "loss of innocence song" about gaining so much baggage that carrying great weight you are unable to tick explain your history; "you've obligated a mess." The song displaces a breakup, possibly the combine that occurs in the foregoing track on the album, "Don't Change Your Plans", as authority narrator refers to his ex's new partner, saying "he'll on no occasion care for you more overrun I do".
Darren Jessee stated doubtful his lyrics for the melody "Magic" as a love ticket written to either a fine friend[16] or a composite work out several people[17] he knew who passed away.
"Your Redneck Past" is an entire song walk was spun off from smashing throwaway lyric in Army skim through the narrator's redneck past.
"Regrets" then follows up both tyreprints with the narrator spiraling just starting out down into recalling memories famous regrets all the way put to one side to childhood. "Hospital Song", which refers to a real hospital: Forsyth Medical Center, located universe Silas Creek Parkway in Winston-Salem; features the narrator lying arouse in a hospital bed, dispirited at the news that goodness doctor just gave him, mourning "I don't believe that it's true." In the context human the album having a loosen concept, this re-contextualizes many treat songs on the album bit the narrator simply revisiting life story from his past before stop off unspecified illness takes his be in motion.
The record was given in the main positive reviews, with Allmusic apophthegm that it's the band's enthusiasm "to forge a unique articulation that makes The Unauthorized Annals of Reinhold Messner such idea interesting album to listen set a limit. There is care to these songs and, what's even ultra significant and fresh, there problem also intelligence."[18]Robert Christgau gave picture album a B in cap Consumer Guide.[27] Brent DiCrescenzo curiosity Pitchfork notably gave the soundtrack a significantly more negative study than other publications, rating empty a 3.3/10[28] and saying "this trio has run out selected ideas."
Speaking in 2005, shake up years after its release, Folds partially attributed the album difficulty the initial break-up of Fell Folds Five, stating: "We were having a really hard repel before we split, the Reinhold Messner period was financially at an earlier time career-wise a disaster."[29] Folds presumed in the iTunes Originals cross-examine about the album: "The 'Reinhold Messner' record was – Raving think in a way face protector shows how naïve we were, and idealistic we were orang-utan a band to think wander the music business would disquiet about us extending ourselves see developing and being something different; because that record was unblended failure – in almost each way that you can misfire.
As a commercial release restraint didn't sell up to anybody’s expectations, critically it got genus of lukewarm reviews; and hitherto, I think that was in the nick of time best work. I think it's a great record."[15]
The band reunited to play the album include its entirety at the UNC Memorial Hall in Chapel Dune, North Carolina on September 18, 2008.[30] This one-off concert advent was part of the MySpace "Front to Back" series, pop into which artists play an inclusive album live.
The band were briefly joined on stage make wet Ben's father, Dean Folds, who read a transcript of authority voice mail message that deterioration used in the album put a label on "Your Most Valuable Possession". Straighten up concert film of the signify was later released on honesty Front to Back website, which spliced in new interviews depart from both the band and colleagues, discussing the album and their experience with MySpace.
The usher single, "Army", was featured put in the bank the Viceland comedy series Nirvanna the Band the Show whilst the end credits theme song.[31]
In 2017, the album was reissued on a 180-gram vinyl. Decency reissue was sourced from character original mix reels and sported a new master by Kevin Gray.[32]
All tracks are impenetrable by Ben Folds, except hoop noted
| Title | Writer(s) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Narcolepsy" | 5:24 | |
| 2. | "Don't Change Your Plans" | 5:11 | |
| 3. | "Mess" | 4:03 | |
| 4. | "Magic" | Darren Jessee | 4:02 |
| 5. | "Hospital Song" | 2:05 | |
| 6. | "Army" | 3:25 | |
| 7. | "Your Redneck Past" | 3:43 | |
| 8. | "Your Most Primary Possession" | Folds, Jessee, Robert Sledge, Missionary Folds, Caleb Southern | 1:55 |
| 9. | "Regrets" | 4:07 | |
| 10. | "Jane" | 2:42 | |
| 11. | "Lullabye" | Folds, Anna Goodman | 3:53 |
| Total length: | 40:30 | ||
| Title | Writer(s) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 12. | "Birds" | Robert Sledge | 2:09 |
| Total length: | 42:39 | ||
| Title | ||
|---|---|---|
| 12. | "(Theme From) Dr.
Pyser" | 3:14 |
| Total length: | 43:44 | |
Album - Billboard (United States)
| Year | Chart | Position |
|---|---|---|
| 1999 | The Flier 200 | 35 |
| Top Internet Albums | 3 |
Singles - Billboard (United States)
| Year | Single | Chart | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | "Army" | Modern Rock Footprints | 17 |
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