| “"Army"” | |||||
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| Single by Ben Folds Five from the album The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner |
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| Released | 1999 | ||||
| Genre | Pop | ||||
| Label | 550 | ||||
| Writer(s) | Ben Folds | ||||
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Army is an alternative rock song by the band Ben Folds Five from their 1999 album The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner, and reached #28 on the charts in the UK. Ben Folds Five was a piano-based rock trio formed in 1993 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner is the fourth and final studio Album by Ben Folds Five, released April 27, 1999. A music genre is a categorical and typological construct that identifies musical sounds as belonging to a particular category and type of music that can be distinguished from other Popular music is Music belonging to any of a number of musical styles that are accessible to the general public and are disseminated by one or more In the Music industry, a record label can be a Brand and a Trademark associated with the Marketing of music recordings and Music 550 Music is a defunct Imprint of Epic Records, a Subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment. A songwriter is someone who writes the Lyrics to songs the Musical composition (chords or Melody to songs or both Benjamin Scott Folds (born September 12, 1966) is an American Singer-songwriter and the former frontman of the Band Ben Folds Five Ben Folds Five was a piano-based rock trio formed in 1993 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. " Brick " is a song performed by Ben Folds Five released on their 1997 album Whatever and Ever Amen and later on Ben Folds Live Alternative rock (also called alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative; known primarily in the UK as indie) is a genre of Ben Folds Five was a piano-based rock trio formed in 1993 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner is the fourth and final studio Album by Ben Folds Five, released April 27, 1999. The song is extremely popular among fans of the band and even after the band's break up, the song is still almost always performed at Ben Folds' solo concerts. Benjamin Scott Folds (born September 12, 1966) is an American Singer-songwriter and the former frontman of the Band Ben Folds Five The song deals with indecision, independence, conflict, and freedom, and contains many memorable moments, including the opening line ("Well I thought about the army, dad said 'Son, you're fucking high!'") and the bridge, which consists of a horn ensemble. The ensemble parts are often performed by the crowds during concerts in an audience participation bit which Folds "conducts".
On the live album Ben Folds Live Folds introduces the song to the audience by saying: "This one goes out to anyone who actually signed up and is in - is gone into the armed forces. Ben Folds Live is a live Album by Ben Folds, released in 2002 (see 2002 in music) Thanks a lot. I tried, I went down to the recruiting center and I talked to them, and I thought about it, but at the end of the day, I think I was genetically inclined to be a musician. " He then goes on to instruct the audience in singing the horn parts: "We've got enough people in here to get a bitchin' horn section, so let's cut the audience down the middle. This side, saxophones, this side's trumpets. "
On the DVD Sessions at West 54th, in the Spare Reels footage, Ben Folds Five can be seen recording the song. The lyrics are slightly different, and the horn parts are either scat sung by Folds or omitted.
Folds has explained at live performances that the entire song is based on personal experiences, with a few exceptions (most notably that he never grew a mullet). A mullet is a Hairstyle that is short in the front top and sides but long in the back
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