A little Ben Folds on Saturday night

I absolutely love this song, "Bastard" by Ben Folds,and Songs for Silverman is one of my most favorite albums of recent years;





The Ben Folds Five song "Best Imitation of Myself" (although this version is actually off the solo album Ben Folds Live) will always be among my favorites as well (don't be alarmed, there's no actual video component to this one);



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Excellent choices. Ben Folds is a fantastic song-writer, a great musician and, above all, an incredibly captivating showman. Anybody who hasn't seen him play live really needs to do so.