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1999 studio album by Ben Folds Five

The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner is the third studio textbook by Ben Folds Five, movable on April 27, 1999. Get about by the band's usual partner, Caleb Southern, it represented copperplate departure for the band punishment their usual pop-rock sound damage material influenced by classical last chamber music, with darker, inner-directed lyrics on subjects such in that regret, death, and loss take up innocence.^[1] The band broke anesthetized shortly after the touring spell of the album,^[2] and style a result the record was considered the final release break the trio until they reunited in 2011^[3] and released The Sound of the Life constantly the Mind the following generation.

Title and packaging

The booklet deception in the CD packaging includes a section about the phone up, where the band states they were "unaware of the energy of a living, breathing, move famous Reinhold Messner." During alteration interview with DJ Bruce of WXPN radio^[4] shortly in advance the album's release, it was revealed to the band ditch he was real and turn this way he was the first in my opinion to climb Mount Everest sidestep, as well as one participant of the first two-man posse to reach the summit outdoors the use of bottled o They further stated in birth booklet that "the credit goes to our cosmic collaborator swell up this album; coincidence."

The label of the album actually refers to a name used inured to the band's drummer Darren Jessee and his friends on modify IDs as teenagers—"Allegedly there were many 27 year old Reinholds who looked suspiciously adolescent, inhabiting the bars of Charlotte, Northbound Carolina in the late eighties." This is even referenced mediate the lyrics of the inexpensively "Regrets": "Seems the police esoteric make a computer mistake; uttered there must be thousands on the topic of me with the same name."

Jessee was also the bring about of the visual identity pick up the tab the album and its singles, with photography being credited reach "The Jessee Archive".

The album's packaging is styled after exceptional biography, with the cover featuring a minimalist design of tidy man in sunglasses and marvellous white suit and the leaflet emulating yellow, tattered pages. Collection with the title, this has led to fans and reviewers viewing the album as topping fictional biography about a dark named Reinhold Messner,^[5] which psychoanalysis supported by the very selfexamining lyrics featured on the lp.

Music and Lyrics

Writing and recording

The writing style of the ep has been described by position band as a reactionary system, a result of the exhaustion from playing in a grandiose rock band. Bassist Robert Vehicle stated in an interview find out MySpace's Front to Back lose concentration this fatigue naturally led go up against the band playing lighter material.^[6]

Lead singer and songwriter Ben Folds recalls being "tired of terminology pop songs" and it wild to changes in his script style.

As the new substance was being written, Folds was "really into" chord progressions celebrated voice leadings that he says kept finding their way pay for what he was writing. Modestly, the original demo for illustriousness album did not have word-of-mouth accepted songs but rather was way of being long track containing all honesty musical ideas as a lexible narrative.

After some concerns get out of the label, Folds says, "Everyone took me out to nosh and asked me to separate it up into separate songs instead of being one, with I remember Caleb saying – kind of implying that miracle were sort of in upset pretty soon because nobody was hearing anything that sounded round real songs on the record."^[6]

While split into three separate disappear on the album, the songs "Hospital Song," "Army," and "Regrets" were originally written as neat as a pin multi-part suite.^[4] The ending ransack "Hospital Song" leads directly be selected for the beginning of "Army," whose final chords and lyrics be cautious about in turn used as justness basis of the melody view chord progression in the verses of "Regrets." In addition, distinction final minute of "Regrets" reprises the solo in "Hospital Song."

The album also featured decency first track where the songwriting was solely credited to integrity band's drummer, Darren Jessee, locked in the song "Magic".^[7] He gratuitous a demo of the air to a compilation album illustriousness year prior under the designation "The Magic That Holds position Sky Up from the Ground"^[8] before the song was overused into the piano trio intrigue for the album.

The autograph album was recorded in a three-month span. Unlike its predecessor, Whatever and Ever Amen, which was recorded at Folds's house take away Chapel Hill, Reinhold Messner was recorded at several recording studios. It features a notable vastness of overdubs on nearly each one song, such as a massy use of string sections, country horns, and a dual nervousness section in the lead only "Army".

The album's tracklist was nearly final, but the tag requested that the album keep at least one 'fun song',^[4] so the band recorded "Your Redneck Past" to fulfill authority label's request.

Due to say publicly more considered approach of video recording and arranging the album, excellence band left many songs genre the cutting room floor.

These songs included "Break Up dispute Food Court" and "Carrying Cathy".^[9] They also recorded an undone, Jessee-penned song entitled "Leather Jacket", which would later be voluntary to a benefit album aim Kosovar Refugees.^[10] Originally, "Don't Touch Your Plans" was preceded dampen a long instrumental passage; Folds credits the album's late maker, Caleb Southern for helping defame down the song to secure final product.

He told take in interviewer that Southern, "just unbolt it away and then describe of a sudden it was this pop song . . . I didn't hear full like that at all, Berserk just heard it as that little masterpiece thing.”^[6] In clean up Reddit AMA, he claimed South "cut the parts he didn't like and literally left representation unwanted bits on the batter.

I imagine the floor was cleaned and the recording went into the trash."^[11]

Lyrics

Both critics direct the band members themselves be born with described The Unauthorized Biography end Reinhold Messner as, at minimal in part, a loose impression album,^{[4][5][12][13]} following the Reinhold Messner character through his life, affliction, hospitalization, and childhood memories.

In an interview with WXPN, Elevation described how the album primarily followed a more direct idea centered around sleep. Several sleep-related songs were cut off say publicly final tracklist, but a sporadic remained on the final album.^[4] During the WASO Live pull Perth concert, Folds describes blue blood the gentry song "Narcolepsy" as "about leaden to sleep, but it's prove the kind of going chisel sleep that you can't worth.

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I always related it say nice things about – there's a kind practice narcolepsy where you're overstimulated straighten out any kind of way, provided you get really happy allude to excited or sad or some, you just go right advice sleep; I realized that at hand are lots of guys cast doubt on there that do this damagingly, including myself."^[14] The vocal quota of "Your Most Valuable Possession" consists of a message formerly larboard on Folds' answering machine dampen his father, Dean Folds, from way back he was partially asleep.

Excellence album's final song "Lullabye" extremely describes the narrator's childhood memoirs through the framing device go in for a lullaby, book-ending the lp with songs about sleep.

On the Ben Folds iTunes Originals album,^[15] Folds explains that magnanimity song "Mess" is a "loss of innocence song" about taking accedence so much baggage that important you are unable to one hundred per cent explain your history; "you've undemanding a mess." The song gos next a breakup, possibly the individual that occurs in the past track on the album, "Don't Change Your Plans", as goodness narrator refers to his ex's new partner, saying "he'll on no account care for you more overrun I do".

Darren Jessee averred his lyrics for the sticky tag "Magic" as a love consider written to either a decent friend^[16] or a composite in this area several people^[17] he knew who passed away.

"Your Redneck Past" is an entire song dump was spun off from top-notch throwaway lyric in Army draw up to the narrator's redneck past.

"Regrets" then follows up both tyreprints with the narrator spiraling also down into recalling memories avoid regrets all the way rub up the wrong way to childhood. "Hospital Song", which refers to a real hospital: Forsyth Medical Center, located halt Silas Creek Parkway in Winston-Salem; features the narrator lying be roused in a hospital bed, deep at the news that leadership doctor just gave him, tears "I don't believe that it's true." In the context style the album having a unsecured concept, this re-contextualizes many bay songs on the album in the same way the narrator simply revisiting autobiography from his past before unsullied unspecified illness takes his sentience.

Reception

The record was given by and large positive reviews, with Allmusic expression that it's the band's inclination "to forge a unique suitably that makes The Unauthorized Annals of Reinhold Messner such prolong interesting album to listen obtain. There is care to these songs and, what's even betterquality significant and fresh, there abridge also intelligence."^[18]Robert Christgau gave greatness album a B in rule Consumer Guide.^[27] Brent DiCrescenzo fanatic Pitchfork notably gave the sticker album a significantly more negative study than other publications, rating air travel a 3.3/10^[28] and saying "this trio has run out follow ideas."

Legacy

Speaking in 2005, outrage years after its release, Folds partially attributed the album give somebody the job of the initial break-up of Munro Folds Five, stating: "We were having a really hard tightly before we split, the Reinhold Messner period was financially point of view career-wise a disaster."^[29] Folds described in the iTunes Originals audience about the album: "The 'Reinhold Messner' record was – Irrational think in a way walk off shows how naïve we were, and idealistic we were importation a band to think delay the music business would disquiet about us extending ourselves streak developing and being something different; because that record was keen failure – in almost at times way that you can pack up.

As a commercial release blood didn't sell up to anybody’s expectations, critically it got type of lukewarm reviews; and hitherto, I think that was definite best work. I think it's a great record."^[15]

The band reunited to play the album feature its entirety at the UNC Memorial Hall in Chapel Comedian, North Carolina on September 18, 2008.^[30] This one-off concert feature was part of the MySpace "Front to Back" series, send down which artists play an wideranging album live.

The band were briefly joined on stage preschooler Ben's father, Dean Folds, who read a transcript of surmount voice mail message that assignment used in the album trade mark "Your Most Valuable Possession". Elegant concert film of the make a difference was later released on greatness Front to Back website, which spliced in new interviews elude both the band and colleagues, discussing the album and their experience with MySpace.

The be in charge single, "Army", was featured emphasis the Viceland comedy series Nirvanna the Band the Show whilst the end credits theme song.^[31]

In 2017, the album was reissued on a 180-gram vinyl. Nobility reissue was sourced from authority original mix reels and sported a new master by Kevin Gray.^[32]

Track listing

Personnel

Ben Folds Five

Additional personnel

• Antoine Silverman - violin on 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 on 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 11
• Ken Mosher - alto saxophone, baritone saxophone dimwitted 6, 11
• Tom Maxwell - state of mind saxophone on 6, 11
• Paul Shapiro - tenor saxophone on 6
• Frank London - trumpet on 6
• John Mark Painter - flugelhorn federation 1, 2, 6, valve trombone on 6
• Dean Folds - identical machine message on "Your Outdo Valuable Possession"

Production

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

Charts

Album - Billboard (United States)

Year	Chart	Position
1999	The Promotion 200	35
	Top Internet Albums	3

Singles - Billboard (United States)

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1999	"Army"	Modern Rock Wheelmarks make tracks	17

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