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ARTIST : Ben Folds<br />
TITLE : Way To Normal<br />
LABEL : Epic<br />
GENRE : Rock<br />
BITRATE : 209 kbps avg<br />
SOURCE : CD (LP)<br />
PLAYTIME : 00:40:24<br />
SIZE : 63.7MB<br />
STORE DATE : 2008-09-00<br />
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Track List<br />
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1. Hiroshima (B B B Benny Hit His Head) 3:37<br />
2. Dr Yang 2:30<br />
3. The Frown Song 3:37<br />
4. You Don't Know Me (feat Regina Spektor) 3:11<br />
5. Before Cologne 0:53<br />
6. Cologne 5:02<br />
7. Errant Dog 2:24<br />
8. Free Coffee 4:01<br />
9. Bitch Went Nuts 3:06<br />
10. Brainwascht 3:48<br />
11. Effington 3:32<br />
12. Kylie From Connecticut 4:43<br />
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Ben Folds is hoping to have his next album out in<br />
September, but he plans to keep previewing new songs at<br />
shows before then, including appearances at the Beale<br />
Street Music Festival in Memphis, the Bonnaroo Music<br />
Festival in Tennessee and festivals in Berlin and<br />
Britain.<br />
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"We've played most of the album here -- there's not a lot<br />
to unveil," Folds told Billboard.com during a<br />
teleconference with reporters to promote Bonnaroo. "We've<br />
got two or three songs that we were sort of holding onto,<br />
just so that someone would buy the record. But it's not a<br />
bad idea to play one of those new ones at Bonnaroo;<br />
that's kind of a special show, so we may do that."<br />
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Folds added that even with their massive crowds,<br />
festivals such as Bonnaroo provide a sympathetic<br />
environment to try out new material. "It's a music<br />
audience, and that's pretty impressive for the size of<br />
the audience," he explains. "The last time (at Bonnaroo<br />
in 2006) we played in front of a really large crowd and<br />
we were playing mostly stuff off an album that'd just<br />
been released and it all felt pretty good [and] pretty<br />
musical."<br />
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At shows already this year Folds has played a variety of<br />
songs from the new album, his first since<br />
"Supersunnyspeedygraphic" in 2006. Among the titles have<br />
been "Hiroshima," "Errant Dog," "Effington," "The Bitch<br />
Went Nuts," "Free Coffee" and "Kylie From Connecticut."<br />
The album has no title yet, however.<br />
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"That's going to be one of the last things, I think,<br />
that's going to fall together here," he said. "I'm not<br />
really sure. I may have a couple of ideas, but we've got<br />
some really good stuff going for the artwork that I'm<br />
excited about. So I kind of want to get that in order and<br />
see if that helps me make up my mind."<br />
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Know for the wry sense of humor he infuses in his lyrics,<br />
Folds told the Bonnaroo call that he's also looking<br />
forward to checking out some of the comedians who are<br />
part of the festival bill.<br />
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"I can relate to that because I'm a little bit of a<br />
clown," he said, "but I don't think I'm like 'Keystone<br />
Cops' kind of clown. The last time I met Louis Black, and<br />
he was really cool. We had a really good talk and it was<br />
fun. I get along with comedians well pretty well."<br />
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