Ben Kweller!

Reyna · Post by **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!

megxyz128 · Post by **megxyz128** » 8/18/2002, 7:58 am

I've heard of him, but not any songs .. any suggestions??

bort8 · Post by **bort8** » 8/18/2002, 9:36 am

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

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Axtech · Post by **Axtech** » 8/18/2002, 9:38 am

Never heard of him.

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defying_gravity · Post by **defying_gravity** » 8/18/2002, 10:55 am

He sounds exactly like Rivers Cuomo. It's scary. It really is.

Sufjan Stevens · Post by **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.

Reyna · Post by **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.

Sufjan Stevens · Post by **Sufjan Stevens** » 8/18/2002, 3:48 pm

He also does "Ice Ice Baby" too which is absolutely amazing.

bort8 · Post by **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

superrgirll · Post by **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.

bort8 · Post by **bort8** » 8/18/2002, 11:48 pm

heh, np

superboots · Post by **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:

Reyna · Post by **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.

superrgirll · Post by **superrgirll** » 8/19/2002, 12:33 am

umm, it's supposed to say waist

i don't find it funny

Reyna · Post by **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."

superboots · Post by **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:

bovine · Post by **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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Reyna · Post by **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.

bovine · Post by **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

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

:::troy:::

crustine · Post by **crustine** » 12/14/2008, 5:43 pm

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