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Whatever and Ever Amen

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Lead Performance: Ben Folds Five

By Chris Willman

Chris Willman

Chris Willman is a senior music writer for Entertainment Weekly

BEN FOLDS FIVE Whatever and Ever Amen (550 Music) The wittier pedal stompers from piano man Folds' power trio pack a definite Ferrante-&-Teicher-go-moshing punch. But his real alt-pop genius emerges in pretty, apathy-defying anthems for the lovelorn like ''Battle of Who Could Care Less'' and ''Selfless, Cold and Composed.'' Guitarless, cool, and compositionally overqualified, BFF have everything you'd want out of a rock band right now except a wah-wah pedal. A

Posted Mar 28, 1997

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