Ben Folds Five are a rock band with a difference: though they do rock, they've replaced the all-too-common lead guitar with a piano. This would help them stand out from the crowd even if they didn't write bitingly funny songs alternated with poignant, affecting tunes. It's not every band that can compare a crumbling relationship to a burning book, let alone cite Faulkner in the process. But, as mentioned previously, when they rock they rock. Song for the Dumped is one of the most hilariously anti-romantic songs ever pounded out of a keyboard, and the Battle of Who Could Care Less hits just the right note of sarcastic contempt for the song's apathetic subject. I like this kind of smart pop, too bad they broke up before I bought the album.

Track listing:
1. One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces
2. Fair
3. Brick
4. Song for the Dumped
5. Selfless, Cold and Composed
6. Kate
7. Smoke
8. Cigarette
9. Steven's Last Night In Town
10. Battle of Who Could Care Less
11. Missing the War
12. Evaporated