Ben FoldsBest Ben Folds Albums Ranked
6.0
Avg Score
7
Opinions
12
Albums
5
Reviewers
Summary from 7 ratings
On Rate.fm, fans have rated Ben Folds’s catalog across 12 albums from 7 opinions, with an overall average of 6.0/10. The top-rated Ben Folds album is Rockin' the Suburbs (2001) with a 7.2/10 average from 2 ratings, followed by Sleigher and Songs for Silverman. The discography on Rate.fm spans 2001 to 2024. Family of Me ranks as the highest-rated Ben Folds song on Rate.fm with a 8.0/10 average.
Ben Folds Live
“The name Ben Folds Five was not, in fact, a goofy misnomer, despite the fact that the band numbered only three. Nah, besides Folds, drummer Darren Jessee, and bassist Robert Sledge, there were two invisible members equally integral to the BFF sound: Folds' considerable ego, and his almost equally considerable songwriting talent. Argue if you must, but anyone who goes the eponymous route with his b”
Rockin' the Suburbs
“I grew up in the suburbs. We lived about 30 minutes outside of fabulous downtown Hartford, Connecticut, in a little burg crisscrossed by the interstate and assailed by fast food restaurants dying to get a piece of property in our little town. I lived in the part of town where all the farms were slowly being conquered by developments, a pretty lengthy bike ride from anything of interest. Overall, ”
Songs for Silverman
“Back when he was Five, Ben Folds made punk rock for wussies. With a goofy drawl and sloppy piano-fisting (SFW, natch), Folds alternately threw stones and built glass houses. He'd mock a too-cool coterie of nose-ringed goths and closeted ex-Cure fans (ah, those innocent pre-Killers 1990s!), then let his guard down for ballads about heartbreak and, yes, the abortion that hurtled the Five through fam”