Ben Folds

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2008

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Singer-songwriter Ben Folds' new album is called Way to Normal.

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0:00.0	I'm Emily from San Francisco. The Sound of Young America is an independent
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0:07.6	support the show, like I did, visit MaximumFun.org and click on donate.
0:11.8	Live on tape from my house in Los Angeles. I'm Jesse Thorn and this is the
0:15.9	Sound of Young America from MaximumFun.org.
0:19.2	I'm Jesse Thorn. My guest on the Sound of Young America is singer-songwriter Ben Foulds.
0:44.6	Foulds has a brand new album called Way to Normal. Here's the first single you
0:51.4	don't know me, which features Regina Spector.
1:14.1	You don't know me, you don't know me at all, you don't know me, you don't know me, you don't know me at all, you don't know me, you don't know me at all, you don't know me, you don't know me at all, you don't know me, you don't know me at all, you don't know me, you don't know me, you don't know me at all, you don't know me, you don't know me, you don't know me, you don't know me at all, you don't know me, you don't know me, you don't know me, you don't know me, you don't know me, you don't know me, you don't know me, you don't know me, you don't know me, you don't know me, you don't know me, you don't know me, you don't know me, you don't know me, you don't know me, you don't know me, you don't know me
1:44.1	all in the Koma End. It was weird the cliche, but we carried out anyways. I can just both lies. yeah sure case a memorize, but can you go back once you know me, you don't know me, you don't know me, you don't know me, you don't know me at all, you don't know me
2:07.8	Yes, on the program, Ben Fultz is a piano playing singer songwriter.
2:13.6	His brand new album is called Weighted Normal.
2:16.5	Ben, welcome to the Sound of Young America.
2:18.2	Good to be here.
2:19.2	Thank you.
2:20.2	It's a pleasure to have you.
2:21.2	We were just talking about someone outside the window playing drums on a table.
2:25.7	And I had just been reading about you playing drums on a basketball as a kid.
2:31.3	How did you end up being a percussionist?
2:34.5	Well, I knew I wanted to play music and that was just the opportunity, I guess, it was to play in the school band.
2:43.5	Who's it like a handing out instrument's day kind of thing?
2:46.5	Yeah, I mean, everyone wanted to play drum.
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