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Postby Reyna » 8/18/2002, 2:12 am

He is awesome. Kinda like a Ben Folds/Beck/Weezer type sound. He rocks. Anyone else like BK? If you don't, you should!
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Postby megxyz128 » 8/18/2002, 7:58 am

I've heard of him, but not any songs .. any suggestions??
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Postby bort8 » 8/18/2002, 9:36 am

yeah, hes very weezerish...harriet's got a song is pretty good



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Postby Axtech » 8/18/2002, 9:38 am

Never heard of him.




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Postby defying_gravity » 8/18/2002, 10:55 am

He sounds exactly like Rivers Cuomo. It's scary. It really is.
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Postby Sufjan Stevens » 8/18/2002, 11:57 am

LOL and for some reason I love Ben Kweller and can't stand Rivers...go figure? Just download the entire Sha Sha cd if you can. It's definitely worth it.
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Postby Reyna » 8/18/2002, 3:11 pm

Songs to download: In Other Words, Sha Sha, Falling, Wasted & Ready, I Don't Know Why. Actually, all of his songs are awesome but those are a few of my favorites. He also has a cover of Undone the Sweater song, and it's really good.
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Postby Sufjan Stevens » 8/18/2002, 3:48 pm

He also does "Ice Ice Baby" too which is absolutely amazing.
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Postby bort8 » 8/18/2002, 11:42 pm

his ice ice baby cover reminds me of dynamite hack's cover of 'boyz in the hood'...classic
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ill make u make a baby,
let's make electric power,
in fear u should not cower,
cuz girl i will protect u,
i promise not to sex u,
and IiiiiIiiiiIiiiiiiIiiiiiIiiiiii...." - Dudez a Plenti

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cause you’re a friend
i blame myself
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it's such a shame..."
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Postby superrgirll » 8/18/2002, 11:47 pm

bort8 wrote:his ice ice baby cover reminds me of dynamite hack's cover of 'boyz in the hood'...classic

ahhhhhhhhhh, i have been trying to figure out forever who did the cover of boyz in the hood. Thank you so much. you don't know how much it was bothering me.
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Postby bort8 » 8/18/2002, 11:48 pm

heh, np
"Sh*t, id be f*ckin' scared if us were opening for...us"
-Dave Grohl on why the Red Hot Chili Peppers only let the Foos play a 45 minute set when they toured together

"baby, i wish you were my baby,
ill make u make a baby,
let's make electric power,
in fear u should not cower,
cuz girl i will protect u,
i promise not to sex u,
and IiiiiIiiiiIiiiiiiIiiiiiIiiiiii...." - Dudez a Plenti

"all by myself
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Postby superboots » 8/18/2002, 11:54 pm

Ben Kweller's "Wasted and Ready" song reminds me SO much of Pedro the Lion when I first hear it...

I'm gonna dl some of this stuff. :mrgreen:
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Postby Reyna » 8/19/2002, 12:30 am

superrgirll wrote:
bort8 wrote:his ice ice baby cover reminds me of dynamite hack's cover of 'boyz in the hood'...classic

ahhhhhhhhhh, i have been trying to figure out forever who did the cover of boyz in the hood. Thank you so much. you don't know how much it was bothering me.


Hahaha. Did you know your title says "waist" instead of "waste"? I find that funny for some reason.
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Postby superrgirll » 8/19/2002, 12:33 am

umm, it's supposed to say waist

i don't find it funny
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Postby Reyna » 8/19/2002, 2:14 am

There's 2 dif. versions of Wasted & Ready. I like the one with silent night in the middle. The best part of that song is "Why am I dealing with this feeling? I'm maxed out like a credit card."
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Postby superboots » 8/19/2002, 7:08 am

I kept my puter on all night and dl'ed a whole bunch of this guy's stuff...he sounds like Ben Folds minus the piano. I like :mrgreen:
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Postby bovine » 1/17/2004, 1:21 am

Has anyone ever heard of the band Radish? BK was the lead singer/guitarist before he went solo. If you like BK, definatly check out Radish. It's a bit heavier, but still has a somewhat similar sound. Oh, the CD is our of print, but it's up on ebay all the time. The name of it is Restraining Bolt if you want to search for it.

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Postby Reyna » 1/19/2004, 8:15 pm

holy crap, I saw the title of this topic and i thought "hmm, I made a topic exactly like this a long time ago" then I realized it was the same one!

yeah radish was pretty cool, but I think Ben's a lot more mature now and a lot happier doing his own thing.
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Postby bovine » 1/19/2004, 9:21 pm

Yeah, I was looking over some of the really old threads and I was like "How did I NOT post in the BK thread?!?!" so I did :D

I think there was another I revived as well, but I don't recall which one...

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Postby crustine » 12/14/2008, 5:43 pm

what i think is interesting is that Steve help produce his latest disk.
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