Mysterious New Songs?

Maybe someone recorded Ben's voice and then used a program to make his own voice sound like Ben's (like in Mission: Impossible 3) and then made up dumb songs and sang them and then recorded the instruments or made them on a computer and then put them together and then put the tracks on the web. 

a likely possibility.   

Dr Yang - I actually really like this. It's very simple (Ben, Jared, Sam and Tambo Man), and I really don't see why it should be a fake apart from the production values... But everyone else seems to hate it and say "obvious fake!" Maybe I'm missing something?

it's got no hook, it's boring, theres no fancy piano work or vocal work... it's a sh*tty song...

PS- they'd give a cease and desist no matter what because you don't know me is real

Quote from: draw / drawing / drawn / will draw / drew on July 18, 2008, 10:19:31 AM

Maybe someone recorded Ben's voice and then used a program to make his own voice sound like Ben's (like in Mission: Impossible 3) and then made up dumb songs and sang them and then recorded the instruments or made them on a computer and then put them together and then put the tracks on the web. 

a likely possibility.   

i thought we were a little bit short on conspiracy theories and... i don't know, it just came to me!

"The Frown Song" is so hilarious.

"Amen to love."
So hilarious.

This keeps getting more and more ridiculous.

And what a perfect way to get the pot simmering.

I haven't listened to the songs yet, but it could just be a leak of early unfinished songs.  When I was running bffclubhouse.com, I had a legit prerelease version of TUBORM that wasn't finished, had a different track order, and wasn't fully mastered.  Sounds were missing and some other processing was missing that was in the final version.  This could be a CD for some executive at the label that is 8 months old or something.  Just early versions with unfinished writing.

well a friend of mel and mines on last.fm said this about what happened to her brother in the business

he got an unmarked cd from epic telling him to share this "fake" leak with people. he's convinced it's fake & that the new songs he's playing at his shows are to confuse us, but i think folds is goofing on us and that these may be some of the new songs...i'm impressed so far!

What a great move, no matter what, by Mr. Folds. Far better than my other BF's moves recently. So much that I'm almost willing to unclaim him. Ugh. Mr. Favre. WHY?

When I was running bffclubhouse.com, I had a legit prerelease version of TUBORM that wasn't finished, had a different track order, and wasn't fully mastered.  Sounds were missing and some other processing was missing that was in the final version.

do you still have that?

Kyle! An honour to have you back!

~A

It is still in the family, but I gave it to my Dad years ago because he's a big fan too.  It's pretty neat, but it is a near final version.  There was also a version of RTS that was leaked that was mixed differently and didn't have some of the stool creaks and cricks in it (especially in The Luckiest).

Kyle! An honour to have you back!

~A

Thanks, but I never left!  I still visit regularly, just not much posting.

You, Kyle, sir, do you want posting access to wokeup? I'm sure you have a landmine of goodies.

Just a thought about this whole thing- the first we heard of Cologne was that it was "recently finished" and for this "DVD" what if this DVD that they're talking about, and Eef even knew about it, not much, but he knew it was happening.... is all some big joke fake-music thing? I mean, we just assumed that Cologne was on the next album cause it was the next new one we heard about.... but a video for that song? When he's been talking about a Hiroshima video at shows since February?

I'll kill Ben if he doesn't include Errant Dog and Effington on this album.

If it's what we were expecting (those songs, plus a few new ones, plus originals of Brainwashed, Bitch Went Nuts, Hiroshima, etc.), then it will be some of Ben's best work yet.  If it's anything like this leak, we're f*cked.

I need this to be clarified soon because I'm nervous 

read back what you just wrote alison and consider the reality of it. that would be a f*cking lot of effort just for a 'joke'

and all you saying he wacked up these tracks in half an hour, uh uh. they'd take much longer than that to record (hours and hours), and then there's the matter of writing the melody, lyrics, some structure, harmony etc. you can't just shit them out (and especially ben considering the lack of SFS b sides and struggle to write original music for OTH)

yeah, but you've gotta consider the RtS b-sides when you say that.  he did all of those in a few days.  it's not like Ben doesn't know his way around the studio and he's got plenty of capable men working with him.  they could easily shit this out in no time, imo.