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Way To Normal | 
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| Artists: Ben Folds, Regina Spektor
Label: Epic Records
Category: Music
List Price: £16.99
Buy New: £6.98
You Save: £10.01 (59%)
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Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 411
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 709849
UPC: 886970984928
EAN: 0886970984928
ASIN: B001E1DJ9S
Release Date: September 29, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Tracks:
| • | Hiroshima (B B B Benny Hit His Head) | | • | Dr Yang | | • | Frown Song | | • | You Don't Know Me - Folds, Ben & Regina Spector | | • | Before Cologne | | • | Cologne | | • | Errant Dog | | • | Free Coffee | | • | Bitch Went Nuts | | • | Brainwascht | | • | Effington | | • | Kylie From Connecticut |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 7 more reviews...
 Best Folds? September 30, 2008
J. Roper (Blackwood, S. Wales)
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
Ben Folds is a classic songwriter. No one can argue with that. Personally I've preferred his solo work to that of Ben Folds Five but I know a lot of his fans would say the complete opposite.
Rockin' The Suburbs is one of my most played albums since buying it back in 2001 but I've got a sneaky suspicion that could soon change.
Way To Normal is such a refreshing album that I think I need to put it back on right now. Hold on... Right, the first thing that hits you with this album as a whole is that it far more upbeat (musically anyway) than Songs For Silverman.
The lyrics are always Ben's forte and once again he is witty, sweary, hard hitting and never, ever boring. Highlights, if I must choose some are Hiroshima, You Don't Know Me (duet with Regina Spektor), Free Coffee & B*tch Went Nuts.
I doubt it will happen but hopefully this album will get Ben Folds the recognition he deserves.
Back on Track October 1, 2008
M. J. Retout (Hampshire)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm a massive Folds' fan but walking in store to buy the cd I was praying that Ben was going to furnish us with something substantially different to Songs for Silverman, which contained some undeniably quality tracks (Jesusland, Landed etc) but just lacked that certain something. That certain something that always jumped out at you back in the golden years. As a complete album, in my view, this is better than Songs for Silverman. A lot better. It finally seems that he's beginning to echo the greatness of The Five and tapped back into that certain something. And it's only taken a decade. The brilliant Folds' wit is here too and seems to have stepped up a gear - no more apparent than in 'free coffee' which seems to hit home on something so simple, it's powerful - also the synth stuff going on in this track is nothing if not addictive.
And yes, the language is course and explicit but that is Ben Folds, and it really shouldn't suprise anyone anymore. He's one of the most un-pc unapologetic muscians alive. Example - Bitch Went Nuts - perhaps won't go down especially well with the feminists, of which take up about 0% of Ben's fan base anyway - but it's just undeniably good.
Favourite track at this exact moment - Effington - it's strangely compelling. If i had to choose a track to cut and there was a gun held to my head, I'd choose Dr Yang. I just hope no-one ever holds a gun to my head.
This won't get the recognition Ben deserves, but we're all used to that by now anyway, and no fan should be dissapointed with this effort - it's just too un-boring.
Folds back to his constant best. October 5, 2008
Paul Reynolds (Warrington, UK)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This album has everything I love about Folds' music - it's witty, sarcastic and acerbic, but when you least expect it - after tracks matching that description such as Hiroshima, Free Coffee, Dr Yang - out of nowhere comes Cologne, which is a little more 'Songs for Silverman' and delivers like an emotional blow to the chest.
I love Ben Folds, and 'Way to Normal' shows why you should, too.
Ben Fold's strongest solo album, best album of 2008? October 4, 2008
Mr. Stuart Wood (Newark, Nottinghamshire United Kingdom)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was apprehensive at first, the production seemed flat and bland, and only a couple of tracks hit the spot. But like all great albums this is a grower, and one that I can now listen to from beginning to end with a smile on my face. It has funny, bitter, ironic lyrics and musically harks back to the old BF5 on some tracks, with more up-tempo energy than his previous release Songs for Silverman. It also contains some of his strongest work, in particular Cologne and Bitch Went Nuts are immediate standouts. So if you're an old fan or new to Ben Fold's this album is a must-own!
Well worth a listen October 2, 2008
Richard Winfieldale (Ripley, Derbyshire United Kingdom)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Ben Folds is virtually a nobody in the UK, yet he is supremely talented and writes lyrics that few others would even attempt. Yes, there is a lot of swearing on this album, and some of it seems gratuitous, but the tunes and the musicianship are excellent. Hiroshima, You Dont Know Me, Cologne, Kylie and Effington are as good as anything he has ever done IMO.
As a whole the album is not as good as Songs For Silverman, but for less than a Tenner this is great fun - but don't play it when the children are around !
BTW, he produced 5 great songs for the Over The Hedge childrens' film soundtrack - that's worth getting too.
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