Ben Folds Five - She Don't Use Jelly

A Flaming Lips cover, but one of the best pieces they did. I enjoyed Ben Folds's first solo outing and I thought The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner was some of their best work, but this one that came about between BFF's first and second album is one of their best. Ben Folds writes wonderfully honest songs and my highlighting a cover should not be taken as an effort to diminish his catalog which is superb. The musicianship on this one is just tight and it was obviously recorded at a point before the Five had their "creative differences" and parted ways.
I once had a girlfriend who didn't like Ben Folds because she hated his singing voice. Not sure what to make of that really cause the man works the piano like few others. His are some of the most honest songs I've ever heard and maybe they don't come out in the prettiest fashion but a couple of songs he has written can bring me to tears if I've had a few or am in the right mood. I won't name them by name because I don't want to admit it on my blog.