Fear of Pop - Volume 1
- Fear of Pop
- Kops
- Slow Jam '98
- Blink
- In Love
- Interlude
- Avery M. Powers Memorial Beltway
- I Paid My Money
- Rubber Sled
- Root to This
- Still in Love
- Format
- Vinyl LP
- Genre
- Rock
- Tracks
- 11
Vinyl LP pressing. 1998's Volume I is the lone album from Fear of Pop featuring Ben Folds (Ben Folds Five) and Caleb Southern (Ben Folds Five's long-time producer), both of whom are from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Folds and Southern set out to destruct and rebuild, cajole and swindle, refine and regenerate that simple form of music simply called pop. No sub-genres or image filled classifications - just a concerted effort to return us to yesteryear's yearnings of delightful, hummable pop songs. Darting between warped, melancholic, dreamy pop and subtle jocularity, Volume I is an in-joke everyone knows the directions to, easy to digest self-indulgence for all who are even mildly daring. The Ben Folds melodies, post-slacker musings and odes to song styles past are all present. Enhancing the show are the raucous (I Paid My Money), the underground (Kops), the mesmerizing (Avery M. Powers Memorial Beltway) and the delectable (In Love). The William Shatner-featuring In Love may be the gem of all gems - a grooving, half-sane, half-baked rant of relationship gone crooked.
- Fear of Pop
- Kops
- Slow Jam '98
- Blink
- In Love
- Interlude
- Avery M. Powers Memorial Beltway
- I Paid My Money
- Rubber Sled
- Root to This
- Still in Love
- Format
- Vinyl LP
- Genre
- Rock
- Tracks
- 11
Limited color vinyl LP pressing, released in celebration of the album's 20th anniversary. Giving it the full SRCHIFI treatment, Volume I has been mastered for vinyl and lacquers created by Kevin Gray, Cohearent Audio and pressed at RTI. The record is housed in a matte LP jacket and include a dull text 11 x 22 insert. Volume 1 is the name of the first album by the experimental band Fear of Pop. The album was a project of Ben Folds, John Mark Painter, Fleming McWilliams, and others. It was originally released on November 17, 1998 on 550 Records (with distribution from Sony Records). Although Folds, Southern and Painter were the primary contributors to the records, a large cast of other musicians were included as well. William Shatner provided vocals on In Love (as well as the reprise, Still in Love). Painter's wife, Fleming McWilliams, sang on several tracks. Frally Hynes, Folds' Australian then-girlfriend (and wife from 1999 to 2007) performed frantic lead vocals on Root to This (root being a crude Australian slang term for sexual intercourse). Folds sang on a number of songs as well.t.
- Fear of Pop
- Kops
- Slow Jam '98
- Blink
- In Love
- Interlude
- Avery M. Powers Memorial Beltway
- I Paid My Money
- Rubber Sled
- Root to This
- Still in Love
- Format
- CD
- Genre
- Rock
- Tracks
- 11
Fear of Pop is a collaboration between Ben Folds (from the platinum-selling Ben Folds Five) and producer Caleb Southern. Recorded over the past year, Fear of Pop's Volume I is an album of instrumental and spoken word tracks by Ben Folds featuring melancholic, dreamy pop and subtle jocularity. The Ben Folds melodies, post-slacker musings and odes to song styles are all present. Highlights include the 1st single, In Love, featuring William Shatner (yes, Captain Kirk). [Note: This product is an authorized CD-R and is manufactured on demand].
