• 
  "Weird Al" Yankovic
  Alfred Matthew "Weird Al" Yankovic (; born October 23, 1959) is an American singer-songwriter, music producer, actor, comedian, satirist, and a parodist. Yankovic is known in particular for his humorous songs that make light of popular culture and that often parody specific songs by contemporary musical acts. Since his first-aired comedy song in 1976, he has sold more than 12 million albums—more than any other comedy act in history—recorded more than 150 parody and original songs, and has performed more than 1,000 live shows. His works have earned him three Grammy Awards among nine nominations, four gold records, and six platinum records in the United States. Yankovic's first top ten Billboard album (Straight Outta Lynwood) and single ("White & Nerdy") were both released in 2006, nearly three decades into his career.
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• A&R;
  http://wn.com/A&R;
• Aimee Mann
  Aimee Mann (born September 8, 1960) is an American rock guitarist, bassist, singer, and noted songwriter.
  http://wn.com/Aimee_Mann
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  Amanda Palmer
  Amanda Palmer (born Amanda MacKinnon Palmer April 30, 1976), also known as Amanda Fucking Palmer, is an American performer who first rose to prominence as the lead singer, pianist, and lyricist/composer of the duo The Dresden Dolls. She has since started a successful solo career, and is also one half of the Evelyn Evelyn duo.
  http://wn.com/Amanda_Palmer
• Angela Aki
  , born Kiyomi Angela Aki (安芸 聖世美 アンジェラ Aki Kiyomi Anjera) on September 15, 1977, is a Japanese Pop singer-songwriter and pianist from Itano, Tokushima, Japan.
  http://wn.com/Angela_Aki
• Anna Goodman
  Anna Goodman is an American songwriter who was married to Ben Folds from 1987 to 1992. She co-wrote several Ben Folds Five songs including Kate (Whatever and Ever Amen), Alice Childress (Ben Folds Five), The Last Polka (Ben Folds Five), Smoke (Whatever and Ever Amen), and Lullabye (The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner).
  http://wn.com/Anna_Goodman
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  Ben Kweller
  Ben Kweller (born June 16, 1981, San Francisco, California) is an American singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.
  http://wn.com/Ben_Kweller
• Ben Lee
  Benjamin Michael "Ben" Lee (born 11 September 1978 in Sydney, Australia) is an ARIA Award winning musician and actor. Lee began his career as a musician at the age of 14 with the Sydney band Noise Addict, but focused on his solo career when the band broke up. He appeared as the protagonist in the Australian film The Rage in Placid Lake (2003). Lee has released seven solo studio albums.
  http://wn.com/Ben_Lee
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  Billy Joel
  William Martin "Billy" Joel (born May 9, 1949) is an American musician and pianist, singer-songwriter, and classical composer. Since releasing his first hit song, "Piano Man", in 1973, Joel has become the sixth best-selling recording artist and the third best-selling solo artist in the United States, according to the RIAA.
  http://wn.com/Billy_Joel
• Charlie McDonnell
  person
  http://wn.com/Charlie_McDonnell
• Damian Kulash
  Damian Joseph Kulash Jr. (born October 7, 1975) is the lead singer and guitarist for Chicago-based rock band OK Go.
  http://wn.com/Damian_Kulash
• Darren Jessee
  Darren Jessee (born April 8, 1971 in Houston, TX) is an American rock musician. He is perhaps best known as the drummer for the alternative rock group Ben Folds Five. He is also the singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist for the band Hotel Lights.
  http://wn.com/Darren_Jessee
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  Elliott Smith
  Steven Paul "Elliott" Smith (August 6, 1969 – October 21, 2003) was an American singer-songwriter and musician. Smith was born in Omaha, Nebraska, raised primarily in Texas, and resided for a significant portion of his life in Portland, Oregon, where he first gained popularity. His primary instrument was the guitar, but he was also proficient at piano, clarinet, bass guitar, drums, and harmonica. Smith had a distinctive vocal style characterized by his "whispery, spiderweb-thin delivery" and use of multi-tracking to create vocal layers, textures, and harmonies.
  http://wn.com/Elliott_Smith
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  Elton John
  Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight; 25 March 1947) is an English singer-songwriter, composer and pianist. He has worked with his songwriting partner Bernie Taupin since 1967; they have collaborated on more than 30 albums to date.
  http://wn.com/Elton_John
• Evan Olson
  Evan Scott Olson was born in West Point, New York during the "Summer Of Love." His father was an officer in the Army Corps of Engineers. He is a rock singer and songwriter based in Greensboro, North Carolina and has recorded seven albums including "One Room" (Universal) and "Red" (LoveCat Music). His primary instrument is guitar, but he plays most of the instruments on his CDs. In the late 1980s, while still in college, he was in the group Majosha, then went on to become a member of the pop group Bus Stop. Since he started playing bars at age 16, Evan has performed thousands of gigs all over the United States. He's also written and recorded several television commercial jingles including songs for Hershey's and Mercedes Benz. His songs have been featured in numerous television shows and movies including Sex And The City, 90210, Friday Night Lights, In America, Scooby Doo and Mtv's The Hills.
  http://wn.com/Evan_Olson
• Fear of Pop
  Fear of Pop is the name of an experimental recording project by Ben Folds (of Ben Folds Five) and Caleb Southern (Ben Folds Five's long-time producer), along with John Mark Painter (of Fleming and John), William Shatner and others. Their only album was released in 1998.
  http://wn.com/Fear_of_Pop
• 
  Jesus
  Jesus of Nazareth (c. 5 BC/BCE – c. 30 AD/CE),
  http://wn.com/Jesus
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  John Mayer
  John Clayton Mayer ( ; born October 16, 1977) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, recording artist, and music producer. Raised in Fairfield, Connecticut, he attended Berklee College of Music in Boston before moving to Atlanta, Georgia in 1997, where he refined his skills and gained a following. His first two studio albums, Room for Squares and Heavier Things, did well commercially, achieving multi-platinum status. In 2003, he won a Best Male Pop Vocal Performance Grammy Award for "Your Body Is a Wonderland".
  http://wn.com/John_Mayer
• Julia Nunes
  Julia Nunes (born January 3, 1989) is a singer and songwriter from Fairport, New York. Her career has progressed online through her videos of pop songs on YouTube in which she sings harmony with herself and plays acoustic instruments, primarily the ukulele, guitar, melodica and piano.
  http://wn.com/Julia_Nunes
• Kate Miller-Heidke
  Kate Miller-Heidke (born 16 November 1981) is a singer-songwriter from Brisbane, Australia. Although classically trained, she has followed a career in alternative pop music. Her record label in Australia is Sony Music.
  http://wn.com/Kate_Miller-Heidke
• Merton (YouTube)
  Merton is an American YouTube musician and personality who gained press attention in March 2010 after making videos of himself interacting with people he meets on Chatroulette and Omegle. In the videos, Merton sits at a piano and improvises songs about either his observations of the people he is meeting or story ideas suggested by them.
  http://wn.com/Merton_(YouTube)
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  Millard Powers
  Avery Millard Powers III (born December 24, 1965 in Greensboro, North Carolina) is an American musician, songwriter, record producer, and grammy nominated recording engineer.
  http://wn.com/Millard_Powers
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  Missy Higgins
  Melissa "Missy" Morrison Higgins (born 19 August 1983) is an Australian pop singer-songwriter, musician and actor, her No. 1 albums are The Sound of White (2004) and On a Clear Night (2007), and her Top Ten singles are "Scar", "The Special Two", "Steer" and "Where I Stood". From a musical family in Melbourne, she played piano by age six and sang at twelve. While boarding at Geelong Grammar School, she wrote a song for an assignment which was then entered into the national Unearthed radio competition for unsigned artists. Higgins won and signed recording contracts with Eleven and Warner Bros. After taking time off, backpacking in Europe, she recorded her first album The Sound of White, which was released in 2004. The album, and its first single, "Scar" both went to No. 1 on the relevant Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Charts. Its second single, "The Special Two", went to No. 2. Higgins was nominated for five ARIA Music Awards that year and won 'Best Pop Release' for "Scar". In 2005 she was nominated for seven more awards and won five. She won her seventh ARIA in 2007.
  http://wn.com/Missy_Higgins
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  Neil Gaiman
  Neil Richard Gaiman (; born 10 November 1960) is an English author of science fiction and fantasy short stories and novels, comic books and graphic novels, audio theatre, and films. His notable works include the comic book series The Sandman and novels Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book. Gaiman's writing has won numerous awards, including the Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker, as well as the 2009 Newbery Medal and 2010 Carnegie Medal in Literature. He is the first author to win both the Newbery and the Carnegie medals for the same work. The extreme enthusiasm of his fans has led Columbia Daily Spectator to call him a "rock star" of the literary world.
  http://wn.com/Neil_Gaiman
• Nicole Scherzinger
  Nicole Prescovia Elikolani Valiente Scherzinger (born June 29, 1978) is an American singer, songwriter, dancer and occasional actress who is best known as the lead singer of the Pussycat Dolls.
  http://wn.com/Nicole_Scherzinger
• Nota (group)
  Nota is an a cappella group of six male vocalists from San Juan, Puerto Rico. The group met in 1994 and started singing together occasionally. The group won the December 2009 television competition The Sing-Off.
  http://wn.com/Nota_(group)
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  Owsley (musician)
  William Reese "Will" Owsley III (March 6, 1966 – April 30, 2010), known professionally as Owsley, was an American singer-songwriter, best known as for his work as guitarist in Amy Grant's touring band. His solo albums won critical acclaim and one Grammy Award nomination. He was also a record producer and a recording engineer.
  http://wn.com/Owsley_(musician)
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  Regina Spektor
  Regina Ilyinichna Spektor (, , ; born February 18, 1980) is a Russian-born American singer-songwriter and pianist. Her music is associated with the anti-folk scene centered in New York City's East Village.
  http://wn.com/Regina_Spektor
• Robert Sledge
  Robert Sledge is an American musician, best known for his work with Ben Folds Five.
  http://wn.com/Robert_Sledge
• Sara Bareilles
  Sara Beth Bareilles (; born December 7, 1979) is an American singer-songwriter and pianist. She achieved mainstream success in 2007 with the hit single "Love Song", which brought her into the number one spot on the Billboard Pop 100 chart. Bareilles' vocal range registers from contralto to mezzo-soprano.
  http://wn.com/Sara_Bareilles
• Scott Siman
  Scott Foster Siman (born July 22, 1954) is an American country music entertainment executive based in Nashville, Tennesee. He is president of RPM Management and co-owns RPM Music Group, a Nashville music publishing company. He previously managed country music stars Tim McGraw and Julianne Hough.
  http://wn.com/Scott_Siman
• Snuzz
  Snuzz, (born Britt Harper Uzzell) is a musician from North Carolina and graduate of UNC-G. He played guitar and keyboards for Ben Folds on the tour of "Rockin' the Suburbs" and still writes and releases music under his name as well as playing in several other groups. Snuzz played in Bus Stop with Chuck Folds, Eddie Walker, and Evan Olson. Other groups from his past include resist, big kids, sociopaths, pots and pans (with Ben Folds) and Kickin' The Bucket. He is now recording and producing music as well as performing. His CD "Snuzz" (on LoveCat Music) featured Ben Folds playing piano on two songs.
  http://wn.com/Snuzz
• Sydney Symphony
  http://wn.com/Sydney_Symphony
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  Tori Amos
  Tori Amos (born Myra Ellen Amos; August 22, 1963) is an American pianist and singer-songwriter. She was at the forefront of a number of female singer-songwriters in the early 1990s and was noteworthy early in her career as one of the few alternative rock performers to use a piano as her primary instrument. Some of her charting singles include "Crucify", "Silent All These Years", "God", "Cornflake Girl", "Caught a Lite Sneeze", "Professional Widow", "Spark", "1000 Oceans", and "A Sorta Fairytale", her most commercially successful single in the U.S. to date.
  http://wn.com/Tori_Amos
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  William Shatner
  William Alan Shatner (born March 22, 1931) is a Canadian actor, recording artist, and author. He gained worldwide fame and became a cultural icon for his portrayal of James T. Kirk, captain of the USS Enterprise, in the science fiction television series ' from 1966 to 1969, ' from 1973 to 1974, and in seven of the subsequent Star Trek feature films from 1979 to 1994. He has written a series of books chronicling his experiences playing Captain Kirk and being a part of Star Trek as well as several co-written novels set in the Star Trek universe. He has also authored a series of science fiction novels called TekWar that were adapted for television.
  http://wn.com/William_Shatner

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  Australia
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  http://wn.com/Australia
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  Japan
  Japan (日本 Nihon or Nippon), officially the State of Japan ( or Nihon-koku), is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south. The characters that make up Japan's name mean "sun-origin" (because it lies to the east of nearby countries), which is why Japan is sometimes referred to as the "Land of the Rising Sun".
  http://wn.com/Japan
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  Nashville, Tennessee
  Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, music, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home to a large number of colleges and universities.
  http://wn.com/Nashville_Tennessee
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  North Carolina
  North Carolina () is a state located on the Atlantic Seaboard in the Southern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties. Its capital is Raleigh, and its largest city is Charlotte. North Carolina is now ranked as one of the top 3 leading States for Green Technology, Bio-Chemical Engineering, Medical Sciences, and Computer Engineering through the long-range research and development programs of Research Triangle Park (RTP), UNC Chapel Hill, and North Carolina State .
  http://wn.com/North_Carolina
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  Sydney Opera House
  The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts centre in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It was conceived and largely built by Danish architect Jørn Utzon, who, in 2003, received the Pritzker Prize, architecture's highest honour.
  http://wn.com/Sydney_Opera_House
• 
  Tufts University
  Tufts University is a private research university in Medford/Somerville, near Boston, Massachusetts. The university is home to the nation's oldest graduate school of international relations, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.
  http://wn.com/Tufts_University
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  University of Miami
  The University of Miami (informally referred to as UM, U of M, U Miami, Miami, or The U) is a private, non-sectarian university founded in 1925 with its main campus in the city of Coral Gables, Florida. In addition to its main campus, the University of Miami maintains a medical campus in Miami city proper at the Miami Civic Center and a marine research facility on Virginia Key.
  http://wn.com/University_of_Miami

• 550 Music
• a cappella
• A&R;
• abortion
• Aimee Mann
• album
• alternative rock
• AM radio
• Amanda Palmer
• Angela Aki
• Animation
• Anna Goodman
• Answer (album)
• Army (song)
• Arrangement
• arranger
• Attacked By Plastic
• Australia
• backup vocalist
• backup vocals
• bandleader
• bass guitar
• bassist
• Battle of the Bands
• BBC
• Beelzebubs
• Ben Folds Five
• Ben Folds Live
• Ben Kweller
• Ben Lee
• Billboard 200
• Billboard magazine
• Billy Joel
• Boston Pops
• Brick (song)
• Cake (band)
• Caroline Records
• Charlie McDonnell
• Chatroulette
• Clavia Nord Lead 2
• Columbia Records
• composer
• Counting Crows
• Damian Kulash
• Darren Jessee
• drum kit
• drummer
• Duke University
• DVD
• Elliott Smith
• Elton John
• Epic Records
• Evan Olson
• Exit/In
• Extended play
• Fear of Pop
• Fleur Folds
• Frally Hynes
• frontman
• guitar
• Guster
• Has Been
• Hoodwinked!
• Hot 100
• Japan
• Jeff Buckley
• Jesus
• Jim Bogios
• Jody Spence
• John Mayer
• Julia Nunes
• Kate Miller-Heidke
• Kate Rosen
• keytar
• Loser (film)
• LP album
• Majosha
• melancholy
• melodica
• Merton (YouTube)
• Millard Powers
• Missy Higgins
• Musician
• MySpace
• Naked Baby Photos
• Nashville, Tennessee
• NBC
• Neil Gaiman
• Nick Hornby
• Nicole Scherzinger
• Nonesuch Records
• North Carolina
• Nota (group)
• Operation Smile
• Owsley (musician)
• Passenger Records
• PDF
• pianist
• piano
• Pomplamoose
• Poodle Hat
• punk rock
• Rage (TV program)
• Record producer
• Regina Spektor
• Robert Sledge
• Rock music
• Rockin' the Suburbs
• Rolling Stone
• Rufus Wainwright
• Sara Bareilles
• Scott Siman
• session musician
• Shawn Stockman
• Sin-é
• singer-songwriter
• Singing
• Snuzz
• Soft rock
• Solo album
• Songs for Silverman
• Sony Records
• Soundtrack album
• Speed Graphic (EP)
• studio album
• Sunny 16 (EP)
• Super D
• Surviving Suburbia
• Sydney Opera House
• Sydney Symphony
• Synthesizer
• The Bens
• The Bens (EP)
• The Clash
• The Dresden Dolls
• The Fray
• The Semantics
• The Sing Off
• Tori Amos
• Trio (music)
• Triple J
• Tufts University
• University of Miami
• Venetian Hotel
• Way to Normal
• Way to Normal (Fake)
• Weezer
• William Shatner

Folds, Ben Filmography

• (#1.330) (2009)
• The Finale (2009)
• Big Hits & Guilty Pleasures (2009)
• Pilot (2009)
• William Shatner's Gonzo Ballet (2009)
• Ben Folds: Way to Normal (2008)
• (2006-10-19) (2006)
• Nice Package (2006)
• William Shatner in Concert (2006)
• Follow My Voice: With the Music of Hedwig (2006)
• I Love the '70s: Volume 2 (2006)
• (2005-05-30) (2005)
• Ben Folds/Ray LaMontagne (2005)
• (#8.9) (2005)
• (2005-10-06) (2005)
• I Love the 80's 3-D (2005)
• (2005-05-03) (2005)
• (2005-04-26) (2005)
• (#1.72) (2005)
• (2005-08-19) (2005)
• Ben Folds, Songs for Silverman (2005)
• Maroon 5/Ben Folds (2003)
• (2005-11-27) (2003)
• (#6.157) (2003)
• I Love the '80s (2002)
• (#2.22) (2002)
• (#1.6) (1999)
• Burt Bacharach: One Amazing Night (1998)
• (1998-07-17) (1998)
• Surprise (1996)

• Brick (live acoustic, 2003)
• Adelaide (live, 2011: Adelaide, Australia)
• Air
• All Shook Up
• Ascent of Stan (live, 2002: New York, NY, USA)
• Birds
• Bitch Went Nutz (live, 2008: Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
• Bizarre Christmas Incident
• Cologne (piano orchestra version 2008)
• Dr. Yang (live, 2008: Belgium)
• Evaporated (demo 1992)
• Family of Me
• For All the Pretty People
• Free Coffee (live, 2008: Germany)
• Girl
• Golden Slumbers (live, 2001: New York, NY, USA)
• Hava Nagila (live, 1997)
• Heist
• Hiro's Song (shaker version) (live, 2011: Melbourne, Australia)
• Honey Don't (alternate take 2000)
• Hospital Song (live, 1999: Philadelphia, PA, USA)
• House (original mix 2011)
• I Knew That 'cha Could (demo 2000)
• In Between Days (live, 2005)
• Champagne Supernova (live, 1996)

• Unrelated
• Best Imitation of Myself
• Rocky
• Boxing
• Julianne
• Evaporated
• Alice Childress
• Barrytown
• Amelia Bright
• Tell Me What I Did
• Rock Star
• Losing Lisa
• Break Up at Food Court
• Hiro's Song
• Wandering
• The Secret Life of Morgan Davis
• Such Great Heights
• Bitches Ain't Shit
• Time
• Sleazy
• Because the Origami
• Stumblin' Home Winter Blues

• Effington
• Frown Song
• Dr. Yang
• You Don't Know Me (feat. Regina Spektor)
• Free Coffee
• Bitch Went Nuts
• Hiroshima
• Kylie From Connecticut
• Errant Dog
• Brainwascht
• Cologne

• Evaporated
• Not the Same
• Jesusland
• Brick
• You Don't Know Me
• Still Fighting It
• Boxing
• Selfless, Cold and Composed
• Magic
• Landed
• Time
• Effington
• Fred Jones, Part 2
• Army
• Fair
• The Luckiest

• In Between Days
• All U Can Eat
• Songs of Love
• There's Always Someone Cooler Than You
• Learn to Live With What You Are
• Bitches Ain't Shit
• Adelaide
• Rent a Cop
• Get Your Hands Off My Woman
• Bruised
• Dog
• Still

• Bastard
• You to Thank
• Jesusland
• Landed
• Gracie
• Trusted
• Give Judy My Notice
• Late
• Sentimental Guy
• Time
• Prison Food

• In Between Days
• Gone
• Hiro's Song
• You to Thank
• Weather Channel Music
• Evaporated
• There's Always Someone Cooler Than You
• Rockin' the Suburbs
• Radio Jingles for Tokyo Inter-FM
• Side of the Road

• Hiroshima (B B B Benny Hit His Head)
• Dr. Yang
• The Frown Song
• You Don't Know Me (featuring Regina Spektor)
• Before Cologne
• Errant Dog
• Free Coffee
• Bitch Went Nuts
• Brainwascht
• Effington
• Kylie From Connecticut
• Cologne [Bonus]
• Cologne

• Hiro's Song
• One Down
• The Secret Life of Morgan Davis
• Make Me Mommy