YOUR Folds Vault

I dunno, my favorite is from Ziggy's but perhaps you have a version I don't.

First, I was hoping for Don't Change Your Plans the original like 8 1/2 minute version that  Ben has talked about where it just all of a sudden morphs into the actual song like four minutes through......I was also hoping for just Ben Folds and a piano tour stuff....ie Don't Change Your Plans, You To Thank, and Steven's Last Night in Town....or basically anything from those three nights at the Vic Theatre. His cover of the Dresden Dolls' Jeep Song to lead off the third night was great. I think the most underrated Vault song thus far would have to be Where's Summer B Live, that was great. 

I think Ziggy's is the one I had pinned for "Ben Folds Live 2". It was such a great opener.

My vault would also most certainly have the cassette version of Uncle Walter on it

~A

So my "Rare Songs" solo "album" on iTunes has 89 tracks. My BF5 equivalent has another 38 and that doesn't include all the b-sides and demos that have their own proper "records" and the numerous bootlegs that are floating about the interspace.

That being said, things I know I'd have to include....


Ben Folds' Nuts
Rock this Bitch for Steve Irwin
Coach Paul Simmons Says No
Lullaybe (solo)
Cybernet/Chicago
Song for the Dumped (You f*cking Whore Version)
Effington (original version as a Rock this Bitch)
Columbia, MO Can Suck My Dick
Pirate Joke Song
Gracie (Rock Version)
Jesusland ("Stadium" Version)
Ain't Got No Words
Say Yes
Jeep Song (live in Chicago in '10)
f*ck it's Cold in Decorah
Race For the Prize (with Neil Hannon)
Careless Whisper (with Rufus at Summerstage)
Fair (with Guster)
Shit Day
Grey Seal
State Farm
Man Obsessed
Nobody Does it Better (with Inra George)
Short Bus Benny
Amelia Bright (demo)
Tell Me What I Did (demo)
Prince Charming (demo)
Undergound (live at the Supper Club 1997)
Bah-Bah Bonnaroo 2008
Steven's Last Night in Town (solo w/ drum solo)
Rockin the Suburbs (live with ben on the bass)
Sorry I Was Late - Rock this Bitch at Murray State
Jesus Christ Superstar Improv (in theory a studio version, but that's a dream)
Fayettville (not a Snuzz cover)
(but speaking of....) The Apology
Gracie (Minor Version)
Make Me Mommy (live at Ziggy's in 2001)
Rockin' the Suburbs (potty poo poo version from whatever TV appearance that is that I can't remember right this moment)
Kylie from CT (live in Iowa City March 2008)
Free Coffee (live at exit/in 2007)
Errant Dog (live at exit/in 2007)
Bitch Went Nuts (live in Decorah, IA 2008)
Half Asleep
Rocky
Songs of Love (with Neil Hannon)
Narcolepsy (with Nashville Symphony Orchestra)
Kalamazoo (the ORIGINAL)
Song for the Dumped (from the Freaking Out Japan "adventure")
Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down
Rachel
Best Imitation of Myself (completely acappella - happened on 9/18)
Your Most Valuable Possession (from the reunion show)
Songs of Love (with Kate Miller Heidke)
Kate (with Kate Miller Heidke)


.... to start

Is there a boot of the Decorah show?  I went to Luther '98-'02 and we tried to get Ben to come up.  was stoked to hear he finally made it, but of course I couldn't get back up there.  Would love to hear the show seeing two+ songs from it are on your request list...

Are you from Iowa?

Is there a boot of the Decorah show?  I went to Luther '98-'02 and we tried to get Ben to come up.  was stoked to hear he finally made it, but of course I couldn't get back up there.  Would love to hear the show seeing two+ songs from it are on your request list...

Are you from Iowa?

I um, maybe graduated from Wartburg in 08. I am a Wisconsinite, however.

No there's not a bootleg of the Luther Show.... but there used to be a youtube of f*ck It's Cold that I have the audio from. I just remember Bitch Went Nuts being especially hilarious at Luther.

I um, maybe graduated from Wartburg in 08. I am a Wisconsinite, however.

No there's not a bootleg of the Luther Show.... but there used to be a youtube of f*ck It's Cold that I have the audio from. I just remember Bitch Went Nuts being especially hilarious at Luther.

I'll forgive you for attending Wartburg on two counts- you being a Ben Folds fan and also that you went to the show at Luther

This is what would be on my vinyl Ben Folds retrospective, in no particular order. Yes, I realize that it would be like 11 LPs. But fine.

You Don't Know Me (with Kate Miller-Heidke)
Christian Life
Things You Think
Picture Window (Pop Version)
Silver Street studio demo
Gracie (Rock Version) (better quality live version)
Vegoose
Tiny Dancer studio rehearsal tape (if such a thing exists)
Such Great Heights
Golden Slumbers
Careless Whisper
Nobody Does It Better (with Anara George)
Man Obsessed (better quality live version)
Champagne Supernova
Hava Nagila
Rock for Freedom
Gracie (Minor Version) (better quality live version)
You Don't Know Me (with Missy Higgins)
Family Of Me
Heist
Lost in the Supermarket
Still
Rockin' the Suburbs (Over the Hedge Version)
Prologue
Still (Reprise)
Rockin' the Suburbs (Remix '06)
The Inherent Violence of Badminton (better quality live version)
Death is Lighter Than a Feather (better quality live version)
Physics (better quality live version)
Funky, Sexy, Nudeman (better quality live version)
Pirate Joke Song (better quality live version)
Shut the f*ck Up (better quality live version)
State Farm (better quality live version)
Coach Paul Simmons (better quality live version)
The Bitch Song (better quality live version)
Tony Bago (better quality live version)
New York Times Song (better quality live version)
Chicago (better quality live version)
Grey Seal (better quality live version)
Rock This Bitch Stoopid Version (better quality live version)
Rock This Free Bird Bitch (better quality live version)
Rock This Bitch for Free Coffee (better quality live version)
Rock This Bitch for Steve Irwin (better quality live version)
Rock This Bitch in Berlin (better quality live version)
Bizarre Christmas Incident
Doctor My Eyes
Hiro's Song
Lonely Christmas Eve
Hideaki's Song
Red is Blue
Weather Channel Music
Radio Jingles
In Between Days
Give Judy My Notice (EP Version)
Protection
Dog
Wandering (EP Version)
Wandering (Soundtrack Version)
Cologne (Piano Orchestra Version)
Bitch Went Nutz
Way to Normal
Free Coffee Town
Lovesick Diagnostician
Frowne Song (Feeble Anthem)
Hiroshima (Japanese Version)
Brainwashed
All U Can Eat
Learn to Live With What You Are
Rockstar
Songs of Love
There's Always Someone Cooler Than You
Get Your Hands Off My Woman
Kalamazoo
Adelaide
Rent A Cop
Them That Got
Bitches Ain't Shit
Bitches Ain't Shit (full version of hidden track remix version at the end of Supersunnyspeedgraphic LP)
Life Is A Masquerade
Clueless
Burning
Half Asleep
Situation
Lydian Song
Where's Bohemia
I Paid My Money (1990 Demo Version)
Secret Life of Morgan Davis
One Down
One Down (Rhapsody Originals Version)
Girl
Make Me Mommy
Shit Day
Cool Whip
Song for the Dumped (Minor Version)
Song for the Dumped (Demo Version)
Listening to Kim
Video Killed the Radio Star
Barrytown
All Shook Up
Honey Don't
Leather Jacket
Rocky
Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down (better quality live version)
She Don't Use Jelly
The Ultimate Sacrifice
Eddie Walker
Emaline
Tom & Mary
Satan is My Master
Song for the Dumped (Japanese Version)
Smoke (Strings Version)
Kate (Strings Version)
Birds
Tell Me What I Did
Prince Charming
Amelia Bright
For All the Pretty People
Mitchell Lane
Theme from Dr. Pyser
Air

Shut the f*ck up??

Shut the f*ck up??

If I'm not mistaken, that's from the 9/21/01 show at the House of Blues in New Orleans where there was a group of obnoxious attendees behind/to the right of Ben that would not shut up. He started telling a story, kept getting interrupted, kept restarting the story and then finally broke into a short song.

At least that's what I remember happening when we were there that night.