“Ben Folds Five’s The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner Should Be Considered among the Elite Classic albums of the 1990s”

Now, I realize I’m kind of preaching to the choir, in a sense, as the only major journal that didn’t like this album was Pitchfork, whose divinely ordained scribe Brent Dicrescenzo also bad-mouthed Billy Joel and Vaudeville and chastised Steve Albini for being at the same Star Wars screening he was, in his BFF review. … Continue reading “Ben Folds Five’s The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner Should Be Considered among the Elite Classic albums of the 1990s”