How Ben Folds Writes a Song: ROCKIN' THE SUBURBS Album Breakdown

22/04/2023 46 min

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Episode Synopsis

For this week's Record Club, Jake and Ryley are celebrating one of the finest piano rock and singer-songwriter records of the 2000s, Ben Folds' solo debut Rockin' the Suburbs. Aside from its tongue-in-cheek gentle parody of nu-metal machismo in its famous title track, the album is stacked with surprisingly emotional and cleverly characterized stories of pain, connection, and understanding, and we think it's a classic.

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