i loved you ‘fore i met you and i met you just in time
(or: april 27’s honey from the hive)
posted at 4:55 am by brandon in sweet you rock and sweet you roll
Ben Folds Five — “Don’t Change Your Plans”
(from The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner
I recently got an opportunity to speak with Mr. Folds, and one of the questions I asked him — as I try to ask most musicians with whom I chat — was about what he is listening to these days, and he surprised me by throwing out the names of Nat King Cole and Rachmaninoff. (Not sure what I was expecting him to say, but it sure wasn’t that!) Nonetheless, I was immediately reminded of this lovely, bittersweet beauty — the piano-driven tune with which the Five bade us farewell in ’99 — which documents a couple who can’t seem to bridge their own geographic divide. (Incidentally, the transcript of my interview with Ben will be posted here later this afternoon, so come on back.)
