I blasted this song on repeat on the way to my high school graduation. My friends and I were screaming the lyrics out the car window and waving our caps in the air. It's one of my favorite memories! This song is the perfect soundtrack for taking on the world!!
One of my favorite songs of all time. Musically it's damn near flawless. The drums, the bass, the horns and of course a master class in pop piano from the worlds foremost expert. Don't even get me started on the lyrics. How Ben Folds never achieved super star status mystifies me.
@@fullblowngaming You and I both know how genius this man is. Sadly, most of the world does not. "Those that know" is nice, but we also both know he doesn't get the recognition he deserves.
the autotune on his vocals is a bit much tho, makes me like the live versions a bit more - but then you usually miss those horns and the crowd saying "ba ba ba ba" never comes close...
Yeah! It's so melancholy and depressing, but at the same time so absurd. The little details like Chick-Fil-A and growing a mullet see to that - it's total first-world problems, but of course when you're living them you don't have that advantage of ironic detachment. Wasting $15,000 of your parents' money is a huge thing. Getting kicked out of a band that is the only thing you have going is practically insurmountable. I love the way he digs in and makes you relate to this misery, no matter how mundane and specific it is.
I listened to this when it first came out. I can't tell you how excited I was a new Ben Folds Five CD came out. We stalked the CD shops....oh ..the days gone by!
Man this song hit home back when it dropped. I was 18 and had nothing going. I thought about the Army too and unlike Ben Folds, I have zero musical talent, and I ended up signing up and going. Such a great band!!!
ThAnk you for your service! And yours is a dynamic real story. I could not have done such but i could just (eventually) play some. i had mostly missed this music era except that "The Luckiest" was requested a few times at Weddings. Yep, gReat song and all the elements in the presentation.
It's 2024 and this is still the best pop song there's been. I'd listen to the horns and the fuzz bass for 10 minutes straight, but it only works because each "movement" passes so quickly. Pop. Perfection. Thanks, Ben.
A uni and college dropout, I can only listen to it every 20 odd years, in very specific circumstances (alone, unseen and slightly inebriated). That is how hard after all this time those lines still hit home.
Oh, Ben. Even in 1999, you were years ahead of your time. Things you sung about 15+ years ago, may it have been serious or as a spoof on nu-metal bands, the words are now more relevant today than ever.
This is hands down the best song about coming to grips with who you are and whete you want to go.basically this is lifes confusing journey in 2plus minutes.good job ben.
One of the best singalong songs of the past 25 years - best enjoyed live with plenty of audience participation ! Superb ! Quite why Ben Folds isn't one of the biggest stars in the world is beyond me - every bit as good as Billy Joel and Elton John IMO.
Sometimes I forget about the brilliance of Robert Sledge and then I revisit Ben Folds Five (I never forget Ben's brilliance) and am giddily reminded of how fucking great (and subsequently underrated) that guy is.
My dad sat me down when I was 19 at a Dennys and gave me a speech about how I should join the airforce. He was in and wanted to do 20 but got out and married. I had stupidly married at 19 and thought I knew everything and brushed it all off. As I got older I wanted to go the Marines route later in life but was blocked everytime with convenient promotions and now here I am in a career in banking years later. I wish I had taken my dads advice. This song just kills me.
I remember when this song came out. Most of my friends were off in college or in various branches of the military. I dropped out of highschool and moved to south Florida framing houses for a couple years then moved to Wyoming and spent a few years in the Tetons. When I decided it was time to do something with my life I briefly considered the military, but decided to come back home to Memphis and try my hand at playing on Beale St. for a living. Best decision I ever made.
lol I've been seeing a ton of your reddit narrations and I just randomly came across this, what the fuck. I was thinking the same thing, it's in the title of the show ffs.
I can spell it... I just used to not be able to pronounce it. One time I couldn't pronounce my R's and L's... I swear my first language shouldn't have been English because I speak it horribly! My fam says we have a bit of Irish and maybe even British in our family origin, I mean... I believe it because I'm the only one who has a strong accent, the accent sounds British too... but I was listening to british and Irish accents and they say words like garden and garage differently like me when I hear other people say it... it just feels right to say garage as (gare-idge)
Ben Folds is incredibly talented! I kind of look at him as the nineties reincarnation of Todd Rundgren. He writes and performs music so brilliantly! Happy Fifty-Third Birthday Ben! ~Dutch
I was in middle school and late elementary when I found Ben Folds Five and BF was easily one the most influential bands for me. Also, I was a piano player so seeing a Piano player rock out and have fun was great. Nobody else was really doing that at the time.
I've loved this song for a long time (love the bass). Also haven't listened to it in a while. I've recently been thinking about joining the military (Navy specifically, but I'm almost too old, so also Army), and just re-listened to this song. My mind is melted.
When I was learning to drive the album this song is on was the only one we had. So whenever I'm listening to it it reminds me of long driving trips with my dad. That makes me happy. Thanks Benny.
I didn't even know of this song until I saw the video on 90s nation a show on MTV classic (formerly known as VH1 Classic) that's plays all videos from the 1990s
Yes, we got shot a couple of years after. The troops kept knee jerk marching with the wounds for about a decade or so. However, the ripple effects of the injuries became more more obvious. Then, the injuries became like an imminent avalanche of injuries. i hear they're waiting for the drOp and then going to build back better. Like 'a new whirled odor' or sOmething. 🪖🪖🪖
Wow, listening to this again just took me back to freshman year of college, sitting in the grass watching Ben Folds play an outdoor concert at W&M. He had all of us in the audience sing the brass part in the bridge... ba da baaaa badababababaaa...
When I first heard this song, I used to giggle at the sarcastic sound of these lyrics: "three sad semesters, it was only fifteen grand..." Because I understood 15 grand to be a lot of money. Back then I thought college was way too expensive. Now, I hear those lyrics, and I'm like, "Only 15 grand!?! I wish that was all it cost!"
"Nirvanna the band the show" the show brought me here. That show's hillarious and I never really liked these guys, but the hook part "been thinking a lot today" is so fire. Glad they used it so I could dig on it.
Great track. Hadn't heard it for years until they played it live the other night. Awesome band live. Glad it's not just me noticing the auto-tune glitches.
This sounds like a totally different take from the unedited version, besides that the "vulgar" words are absent. That this album didn't get better traction and sales is sad.
You're thinking about Whatever and Ever Amen, which was recorded in Ben's house in 1997. This album was the followup, which I believe was recorded in a professional studio in 1998-1999.
The fuzz on this bass is legendary.
OHHHHHH YEAH
more than makes up for not having a mainstay guitarist
Is he playing through a McIntosh amplifier?
oui
Bobby Sledge and his Big Muff .... iconic.
I blasted this song on repeat on the way to my high school graduation. My friends and I were screaming the lyrics out the car window and waving our caps in the air. It's one of my favorite memories!
This song is the perfect soundtrack for taking on the world!!
Man, I know what you mean. That feeling of freedom being w your friends, carefree. Good for you man, great taste in music too!
And then did you join the army?
I 4-F’d in ‘96. 😒
Cool story. Thanks
One of my favorite songs of all time. Musically it's damn near flawless. The drums, the bass, the horns and of course a master class in pop piano from the worlds foremost expert. Don't even get me started on the lyrics. How Ben Folds never achieved super star status mystifies me.
but he has, to those that know,friend:)
@@fullblowngaming You and I both know how genius this man is. Sadly, most of the world does not. "Those that know" is nice, but we also both know he doesn't get the recognition he deserves.
💯💯💯
the autotune on his vocals is a bit much tho, makes me like the live versions a bit more - but then you usually miss those horns and the crowd saying "ba ba ba ba" never comes close...
Because the majority are too simple to get such artistry
This song is mad underrated!!!
it's one of my all-time favorites. I never know whether to laugh or cry at the lyrics, which adds to my intregue(sp?) abot this song.
Yeah! It's so melancholy and depressing, but at the same time so absurd. The little details like Chick-Fil-A and growing a mullet see to that - it's total first-world problems, but of course when you're living them you don't have that advantage of ironic detachment. Wasting $15,000 of your parents' money is a huge thing. Getting kicked out of a band that is the only thing you have going is practically insurmountable. I love the way he digs in and makes you relate to this misery, no matter how mundane and specific it is.
Ryan Peterson This band is underrated.
ಸಕ್ಕತ್ ಇಷ್ಟ ಆಯ್ತು ಗಾಯನ ಬೆನ್ ಫೋಲ್ಡ್ ಅವ್ರೆ
I listened to this when it first came out. I can't tell you how excited I was a new Ben Folds Five CD came out. We stalked the CD shops....oh ..the days gone by!
Man this song hit home back when it dropped. I was 18 and had nothing going. I thought about the Army too and unlike Ben Folds, I have zero musical talent, and I ended up signing up and going. Such a great band!!!
ThAnk you for your service! And yours is a dynamic real story.
I could not have done such but i could just (eventually) play some.
i had mostly missed this music era except that "The Luckiest" was requested a few times at Weddings.
Yep, gReat song and all the elements in the presentation.
It's 2024 and this is still the best pop song there's been. I'd listen to the horns and the fuzz bass for 10 minutes straight, but it only works because each "movement" passes so quickly.
Pop. Perfection. Thanks, Ben.
This song is mad underrated!!!
"Three sad semesters, it was only fifty grand."
That would be a more fitting line in today's world.
A uni and college dropout, I can only listen to it every 20 odd years, in very specific circumstances (alone, unseen and slightly inebriated). That is how hard after all this time those lines still hit home.
❤@@barthollevoetkbr961
Pretty sure he says $15 grand. Either way, expensive!
He said 15 grand, which was a lot 25 years ago.
state schools would be about 30k ish...free if you were an eligible minority
Two of my kids work at Chick-fil-A.
I shared this song with them😊
I also work at Chick Fil A, I herd my dad listening to this song and asked him about it!
I love Chick Fil A. May have to grow a mustache and a mullet.
Were they "thinking" about the Army? 🪖
Oh, Ben. Even in 1999, you were years ahead of your time.
Things you sung about 15+ years ago, may it have been serious or as a spoof on nu-metal bands, the words are now more relevant today than ever.
Now be fair. The song was recorded in 1998😉
Seriously, this song has aged line fine wine honestly!
Ben folds five was a damn special band, nobody else sounds anything like this. Truly a unique style and awesome talent. Love Ben so much!
Ben Folds has had moderate success, but I'm surprised he wasnt more popular. This is good stuff.
This is hands down the best song about coming to grips with who you are and whete you want to go.basically this is lifes confusing journey in 2plus minutes.good job ben.
Agreed! Actually, the album this song is featured on follows the same theme.
I’m still listening in 2023. Great song!!!! Greetings from México.
@Muchos cariños, Señor de Mexico!
Cómo sé díce Army en Español por favor??
One of Ben's freaking best! He's always been a big inspiration for our piano-driven indie music.
One of the best singalong songs of the past 25 years - best enjoyed live with plenty of audience participation ! Superb ! Quite why Ben Folds isn't one of the biggest stars in the world is beyond me - every bit as good as Billy Joel and Elton John IMO.
In my opinion Ben's music is superior. Some of the finest music I have ever heard has been composed by Ben Folds.
I remember seeing this video late night on MTV when I was a kid. This sounds sad but I miss music like this greatly.
One of the greatest and most underrated tunes of the 90s
My husband & I were at a Folds show in Philly & he sung, "Y'all been drinkin' a lot today!" Good times...
What a great band, come back please !!
max6っていうCD聴いて1番耳に残った名曲！20やけどめっちゃ好きな曲です！！
Chick-fil-A recently arrived in Canada and I’m excited to go for just 1 reason…
So much packed into this song…. Just love it more every time…
My 88year old father starts Signing this tune when the community Kids ask for his wisdom.
Been thinking a lot today about Nirvanna the Band. That's all I knows.
i found out about them a couple months ago and finished the webseries today, wish i had found out about their stuff sooner, i need more
Sometimes I forget about the brilliance of Robert Sledge and then I revisit Ben Folds Five (I never forget Ben's brilliance) and am giddily reminded of how fucking great (and subsequently underrated) that guy is.
I love the way he sings "no."
Man, Ben Folds is great!!
My dad sat me down when I was 19 at a Dennys and gave me a speech about how I should join the airforce. He was in and wanted to do 20 but got out and married. I had stupidly married at 19 and thought I knew everything and brushed it all off. As I got older I wanted to go the Marines route later in life but was blocked everytime with convenient promotions and now here I am in a career in banking years later. I wish I had taken my dads advice. This song just kills me.
Funny how parents aren't as stupid as we often think they are. :) All the best, hope it all works out for your.
???
0:56 when you don’t get a show at your local music bar
Hahahaha
One of the most glorious songs I have had the fortune to have heard.
One of the greatest songs and videos of all time
On the CD he sings "...Son, you're fucking high"
Genius. I'll never forget seeing this performed with the WA symphony orchestra.
Me: Thanks for going into music instead of continuing to work at Chick-fil-A.
Ben: My pleasure.
THIS JOKE IS THE BEST THING ON THE INTERNET RIGHT NOW!
This song is one of the great live music experiences.
How have I missed this guy and this band?
Renee Clark Ben Folds Five was unappreciated even in their time. check out the self titled album
I remember when this song came out. Most of my friends were off in college or in various branches of the military. I dropped out of highschool and moved to south Florida framing houses for a couple years then moved to Wyoming and spent a few years in the Tetons. When I decided it was time to do something with my life I briefly considered the military, but decided to come back home to Memphis and try my hand at playing on Beale St. for a living. Best decision I ever made.
Listening to this band makes me wanna learn how to play instruments
yeah... i've been playing piano for 16 years and i still struggle to get the continuous broken chord properly
Hoping to pick up piano again after not playing for 2 years. Wish me luck!
My goal is to play this song, even a simplified version.
@@ezrac704 good luck with the triplets! i've been playing for ages and still struggle getting them even at full speed
I picked up bass because of Robert Sledge. No regerts!
God, this is still such a bloody great song!
Forgot how good we had it in the 90s. Rocking my play list in 2021
Nothing like a good feeling.
These guys are great, but have they played The Rivoli?
The amount of people that can't spell Nirvanna The Band is infuriating.
lol I've been seeing a ton of your reddit narrations and I just randomly came across this, what the fuck. I was thinking the same thing, it's in the title of the show ffs.
In the original episodes it wasn't spelled with two N's. The other people are spelling it the correct way, son.
Lol its you
I can spell it... I just used to not be able to pronounce it. One time I couldn't pronounce my R's and L's... I swear my first language shouldn't have been English because I speak it horribly! My fam says we have a bit of Irish and maybe even British in our family origin, I mean... I believe it because I'm the only one who has a strong accent, the accent sounds British too... but I was listening to british and Irish accents and they say words like garden and garage differently like me when I hear other people say it... it just feels right to say garage as (gare-idge)
abbi Sullivan turns a simple comment into an autobiography....
When that horn section comes in...hell yeah!!
i think i saw this band play once at the rivoli toronto...
~Thinking a lot today, about this song.
Ben Folds is incredibly talented! I kind of look at him as the nineties reincarnation of Todd Rundgren. He writes and performs music so brilliantly!
Happy Fifty-Third Birthday Ben!
~Dutch
Hearing this played live with the WA Symphony Orchestra is one of my all-time favourite musical moments. One of my all-time top favourite songs.
"Three sad semesters, it was only fifty grand."
That would be a more fitting line in today's world.
He said 15. Times have changed but he’s talking about when he was younger. (He’s older than me and I’m 40).
yes we know what he's talking about
Depending on the school, it can be 75 grand
Scholarships.
I thought he said 15 grand...
Best 90s music video that came from 1999
headbanging while playing the piano. truly badass
2022 and your music is still so relevant, Ben fan for life 💯❤️
I was in middle school and late elementary when I found Ben Folds Five and BF was easily one the most influential bands for me.
Also, I was a piano player so seeing a Piano player rock out and have fun was great. Nobody else was really doing that at the time.
Ben is a phukkin genius. I was lucky to see him in a small venue concert... maybe the best show i've ever been to.
The bonding experience some guys from Australia can have to this is awesome
I've loved this song for a long time (love the bass). Also haven't listened to it in a while. I've recently been thinking about joining the military (Navy specifically, but I'm almost too old, so also Army), and just re-listened to this song. My mind is melted.
When I was learning to drive the album this song is on was the only one we had. So whenever I'm listening to it it reminds me of long driving trips with my dad. That makes me happy. Thanks Benny.
Being a Ben Folds fan since 2000 brought me here.
I didn't even know of this song until I saw the video on 90s nation a show on MTV classic (formerly known as VH1 Classic) that's plays all videos from the 1990s
I absolutely love this song. Got to hear him perform it with the WA Symphony Orchestra at Kings Park Gardens in Perth. Never forget it.
I'm here from Perth also - Nirvanna the band the show brought me here
Swan river forwver lol
Omg i remember this to be hella played on MTV2 it was oike 25 years ago, i remembered the video but not the name of this band
1999: the year the world was safe and clean
Says who? Things were also messy back then
Yes, we got shot a couple of years after.
The troops kept knee jerk marching with the wounds for about a decade or so. However, the ripple effects of the injuries became more more obvious.
Then, the injuries became like an imminent avalanche of injuries.
i hear they're waiting for the drOp and then going to build back better. Like 'a new whirled odor' or sOmething. 🪖🪖🪖
"Coffee... makes you sleepy"
I think we found our hacker.
Wow, listening to this again just took me back to freshman year of college, sitting in the grass watching Ben Folds play an outdoor concert at W&M. He had all of us in the audience sing the brass part in the bridge... ba da baaaa badababababaaa...
When I first heard this song, I used to giggle at the sarcastic sound of these lyrics: "three sad semesters, it was only fifteen grand..." Because I understood 15 grand to be a lot of money. Back then I thought college was way too expensive. Now, I hear those lyrics, and I'm like, "Only 15 grand!?! I wish that was all it cost!"
So did I. One of the best show's I have seen in a long time.
-J
I joined this on this date in 1985. Not the Ben Folds Five version but the U.S. one.
I didn't realize this was a 90s song!! But that makes total sense, one of my songs on repeat lately, such a good fuckin tune 🎺🎷
This is one of those songs that Sounds Happy, but is actually kinda bitter if you listen carefully...must be the melody that tricks 'ya.
So is Springsteen's "Born in the USA"
It's Ben fucking Folds. That's his trademark. :p
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@Calvin any smiths song
I fucking woke up and now, I'm 40 and this is now as old as my life when it was new. That was fast.
Shit you’re right. I’m 39... where the hell did the years go?!
@@svenmikals4649 I don't know but they were good years. For me at least.
Just listened to this song for the first time yesterday live at a concert for his encore.
I saw these guys at The Rivoli
The only privilege I've ever experienced in my life is that i was a young adult in the 90's. Best musical decade in history.
The horn section is sick
If you don't live for Ben's piano breaks you're not a true fan...
I prefer the bass guitar so I guess I am a dishonest fan
shutup ThyMAB
I live for his suits
Thanks Ben Folds
"Dad said son, *you must be* high"
That's censored. XD
I think it works better tbh
“Ahhh... shit”
Im planning for singing for a school talent show and Im changing the lyrics to "son you've lost your mind"
I was just thinking that! They also censored where he says "Ahhh shit!"
"Nirvanna the band the show" the show brought me here.
That show's hillarious and I never really liked these guys, but the hook part "been thinking a lot today" is so fire.
Glad they used it so I could dig on it.
So fire?
So fire - what is this a methamphetamine review on silk road?
Majic Freeman did you just say "so fire"?
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@@kmaz8329 Can I get that in English please?
Such a great song!
What a great song and the video is good as well
I love the coy admission of "I took my old man's advice."
Blaze it.
"My peers they criticise me,
and ex-wives all despise me"
Fans love you unconditionally though Ben, you would've made a fine soldier 🤙
Great track. Hadn't heard it for years until they played it live the other night. Awesome band live. Glad it's not just me noticing the auto-tune glitches.
Been thinking a lot today
Absolute genius.
Love that '60's fuzzed-up Bass line beginning 1:10!
This sounds like a totally different take from the unedited version, besides that the "vulgar" words are absent.
That this album didn't get better traction and sales is sad.
+murielsartre
I'm watching his videos for the first time and it seems like they are all remastered with a better, fuller sound.
I'm guessing the horrible name, font and album artwork on the cover had something to do with it.
@@JesseColton I always liked the cover haha
The version I remember had "Dad said, son you're fu@#&$g high".
Honestly though nirvana the band the show is such an underrated show...
Jc Cummins probably my favorite tv show of all time tbh
It's a great show
Nirvanna
one of the most under rated shows i've ever watched. Everyone i show it to, fall in love with it.
Jc Cummins chipotle may neon bible the suburbs 4030....
Saw them back in the 90s in Chapel Hill. 👏👏🥰🎶
"Coffee... makes you sleepy"
God I love this song
God I love this song
ben performing army on prarie home companion w chris thile was one of the best things ive EVER heard. instant goosebumps
Robert Sledge & Darren Jesse are goddamn GODS
Woke up with this song in my head this morning. A great way to start the day :D
Love this song! Going to do a piano cover of this.
Thanks for making my night. what a banger
they made a full version of that song from nirvana the band the show :) awesome!
this is an amazing bass line! and so fun to play.
You're thinking about Whatever and Ever Amen, which was recorded in Ben's house in 1997. This album was the followup, which I believe was recorded in a professional studio in 1998-1999.
thanks for the banger tonight. make my day
Such a great song
God I love this song
Kingbopit wgat us going on..