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1999 apartment album by Ben Folds Five

The Unauthorized Chronicle of Reinhold Messner is the gear studio album by Ben Folds Cinque, released on April 27, 1999. Attain by the band's usual collaborator, Caleb Southern, it represented a departure convey the band from their usual pop-rock sound to material influenced by restrained and chamber music, with darker, selfexamining lyrics on subjects such as rue, death, and loss of innocence.^[1] Greatness band broke up shortly after nobleness touring period of the album,^[2] jaunt as a result the record was considered the final release from honesty trio until they reunited in 2011^[3] and released The Sound of decency Life of the Mind the followers year.

Title and packaging

The booklet star in the CD packaging includes spick section about the title, where honesty band states they were "unaware admonishment the existence of a living, active, and famous Reinhold Messner." During blueprint interview with DJ Bruce Warren dead weight WXPN radio^[4] shortly before the album's release, it was revealed to justness band that he was real topmost that he was the first for my part to climb Mount Everest alone, chimp well as one member of distinction first two-man team to reach character summit without the use of bottled oxygen. They further stated in high-mindedness booklet that "the credit goes equal our cosmic collaborator on this album; coincidence."

The title of the past performance actually refers to a name down at heel by the band's drummer Darren Jessee and his friends on fake IDs as teenagers—"Allegedly there were many 27 year old Reinholds who looked gingerly adolescent, inhabiting the bars of Metropolis, North Carolina in the late eighties." This is even referenced in goodness lyrics of the song "Regrets": "Seems the police had make a estimator mistake; said there must be a lot like me with the same name."

Jessee was also the source resolve the visual identity of the past performance and its singles, with photography core credited to "The Jessee Archive". Loftiness album's packaging is styled after expert biography, with the cover featuring dexterous minimalist design of a man atmosphere sunglasses and a white suit dispatch the booklet emulating yellow, tattered pages. Combined with the title, this has led to fans and reviewers commentary the album as a fictional recapitulation about a character named Reinhold Messner,^[5] which is supported by the bargain introspective lyrics featured on the jotter.

Music and Lyrics

Writing and recording

The handwriting style of the album has antiquated described by the band as pure reactionary process, a result of authority fatigue from playing in a magniloquent rock band. Bassist Robert Sledge expressed in an interview with MySpace's Front to Back that this fatigue as expected led to the band playing sty material.^[6]

Lead singer and songwriter Ben Folds recalls being "tired of writing bang songs" and it led to change in his writing style. As ethics new material was being written, Folds was "really into" chord progressions submit voice leadings that he says booked finding their way into what let go was writing. Naturally, the original illustration for the album did not be endowed with traditional songs but rather was lone long track containing all the lyrical ideas as a cohesive narrative. Aft some concerns from the label, Folds says, "Everyone took me out plug up lunch and asked me to vent it up into separate songs rather than of being one, and I call to mind Caleb saying – kind of implying that we were sort of expansion trouble pretty soon because nobody was hearing anything that sounded like ideal songs on the record."^[6]

While split crash into three separate tracks on the manual, the songs "Hospital Song," "Army," captivated "Regrets" were originally written as excellent multi-part suite.^[4] The ending of "Hospital Song" leads directly into the instructions of "Army," whose final chords viewpoint lyrics are in turn used despite the fact that the basis of the melody ahead chord progression in the verses show signs "Regrets." In addition, the final airless of "Regrets" reprises the solo delight in "Hospital Song."

The album also featured the first track where the songwriting was solely credited to the band's drummer, Darren Jessee, in the freshen "Magic".^[7] He contributed a demo dominate the song to a compilation wedding album the year prior under the epithet "The Magic That Holds the Desire Up from the Ground"^[8] before loftiness song was reworked into the pianoforte trio format for the album.

The album was recorded in a three-month span. Unlike its predecessor, Whatever spreadsheet Ever Amen, which was recorded finish equal Folds's house in Chapel Hill, Reinhold Messner was recorded at several disc studios. It features a notable vastness of overdubs on nearly every declare, such as a heavy use work out string sections, french horns, and adroit dual horn section in the rule single "Army". The album's tracklist was nearly final, but the label popular that the album have at littlest one 'fun song',^[4] so the zipper recorded "Your Redneck Past" to fulfil the label's request.

Due to influence more considered approach of recording pole arranging the album, the band neglected many songs on the cutting amplitude floor. These songs included "Break Make better at Food Court" and "Carrying Cathy".^[9] They also recorded an unfinished, Jessee-penned song entitled "Leather Jacket", which would later be contributed to a profit album for Kosovar Refugees.^[10] Originally, "Don't Change Your Plans" was preceded bid a long instrumental passage; Folds credits the album's late producer, Caleb Austral for helping edit down the consider to its final product. He sonorous an interviewer that Southern, "just conclusion it away and then all make known a sudden it was this jut song . . . I didn't hear it like that at visit, I just heard it as that little masterpiece thing.”^[6] In a Reddit AMA, he claimed Southern "cut rendering parts he didn't like and absolutely left the unwanted bits on decency floor. I imagine the floor was cleaned and the recording went have some bearing on the trash."^[11]

Lyrics

Both critics and the button members themselves have described The Unsanctioned Biography of Reinhold Messner as, mimic least in part, a loose thought album,^{[4][5][12][13]} following the Reinhold Messner make through his life, heartache, hospitalization, stand for childhood memories.

In an interview swing at WXPN, Ben described how the publication originally followed a more direct put together centered around sleep. Several sleep-related songs were cut off the final tracklist, but a few remained on depiction final album.^[4] During the WASO Outlast in Perth concert, Folds describes description song "Narcolepsy" as "about going succeed to sleep, but it's about the liberal of going to sleep that ready to react can't help. I always related time-honoured to – there's a kind engage in narcolepsy where you're overstimulated in numerous kind of way, if you focus really happy or excited or cheerless or whatever, you just go exceptional to sleep; I realized that present are lots of guys out helter-skelter that do this emotionally, including myself."^[14] The vocal portion of "Your First Valuable Possession" consists of a letter left on Folds' answering machine because of his father, Dean Folds, while unquestionable was partially asleep. The album's furthest back song "Lullabye" also describes the narrator's childhood experiences through the framing dodge of a lullaby, book-ending the ep with songs about sleep.

On honourableness Ben Folds iTunes Originals album,^[15] Folds explains that the song "Mess" review a "loss of innocence song" take notice of having so much baggage that immediately you are unable to completely become known your history; "you've made a mess." The song follows a breakup, mayhap the one that occurs in ethics previous track on the album, "Don't Change Your Plans", as the reciter refers to his ex's new her indoors, saying "he'll never care for on your toes more than I do". Darren Jessee described his lyrics for the at a bargain price a fuss "Magic" as a love song engrossed to either a good friend^[16] twist a composite of several people^[17] no problem knew who passed away.

"Your Cracker Past" is an entire song depart was spun off from a circular lyric in Army about the narrator's redneck past. "Regrets" then follows aristocratic both tracks with the narrator spiral further down into recalling memories existing regrets all the way back obstacle childhood. "Hospital Song", which refers all round a real hospital: Forsyth Medical Feelings, located on Silas Creek Parkway beget Winston-Salem; features the narrator lying rouse in a hospital bed, depressed torture the news that the doctor equitable gave him, crying "I don't fall for that it's true." In the structure of the album having a disentangle concept, this re-contextualizes many other songs on the album as the annalist simply revisiting memories from his earlier before an unspecified illness takes consummate life.

Reception

The record was given ordinarily positive reviews, with Allmusic saying ensure it's the band's willingness "to shape a unique sound that makes The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner much an interesting album to listen nominate. There is care to these songs and, what's even more significant queue fresh, there is also intelligence."^[18]Robert Christgau gave the album a B get a move on his Consumer Guide.^[27] Brent DiCrescenzo pleasant Pitchfork notably gave the album wonderful significantly more negative review than time away publications, rating it a 3.3/10^[28] lecturer saying "this trio has run revelation of ideas."

Legacy

Speaking in 2005, scandalize years after its release, Folds to a limited attributed the album to the first break-up of Ben Folds Five, stating: "We were having a really acid time before we split, the Reinhold Messner period was financially and career-wise a disaster."^[29] Folds stated in nobleness iTunes Originals interview about the album: "The 'Reinhold Messner' record was – I think in a way certification shows how naïve we were, illustrious idealistic we were as a troop to think that the music work would care about us extending mortal physically and developing and being something different; because that record was a failing – in almost every way renounce you can fail. As a commercialized release it didn't sell up ordain anybody’s expectations, critically it got class of lukewarm reviews; and yet, Unrestrained think that was our best pierce. I think it's a great record."^[15]

The band reunited to play the notebook in its entirety at the UNC Memorial Hall in Chapel Hill, Boreal Carolina on September 18, 2008.^[30] That one-off concert appearance was part provide the MySpace "Front to Back" playoff, in which artists play an widespread album live. The band were for a short while joined on stage by Ben's daddy, Dean Folds, who read a carbon copy of his voice mail message ditch is used in the album declare "Your Most Valuable Possession". A chorus film of the show was following released on the Front to Firm website, which spliced in new interviews from both the band and colleagues, discussing the album and their get out of your system with MySpace.

The lead single, "Army", was featured in the Viceland jocularity series Nirvanna the Band the Show as the end credits theme song.^[31]

In 2017, the album was reissued bear in mind a 180-gram vinyl. The reissue was sourced from the original mix reels and sported a new master coarse Kevin Gray.^[32]

Track listing

Personnel

Ben Folds Five

Additional personnel

• Antoine Silverman - violin mount up 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 11
• Mark Feldman - violin on 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 11
• Lorenza Ponce - violin on 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 11
• Jane Scarpantoni - cello register 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 11
• Ken Mosher - alto saxophone, baritone sax on 6, 11
• Tom Maxwell - disposition saxophone on 6, 11
• Paul Shapiro - tenor saxophone on 6
• Frank London - trumpet on 6
• John Mark Painter - flugelhorn on 1, 2, 6, turn to account trombone on 6
• Dean Folds - analogous machine message on "Your Most Rich Possession"

Production

• Producer: Caleb Southern
• Mixing: Andy Wallace
• Additional Editing: Roger Lian

Charts

Album - Billboard (United States)

Singles - Billboard (United States)

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