The Best Imitation of Myself: A Retrospective

~ Release by Ben Folds (see all versions of this release, 3 available)

Tracklist

1▶CD: The Best Imitation of Myself
2▶CD: Live
3▼CD: Rarities
#TitleArtistRatingLength
1Unrelated (unfinished song demo - 1996)
Ben Folds0:36
2Best Imitation of Myself (demo - 1992)
Ben Folds2:50
3Rocky (4 track home demo - 1993)
Ben Folds4:28
4Boxing (demo - 1992)
Ben Folds4:06
5Julianne (unreleased 1st album - 1994)
Ben Folds Five3:17
6Evaporated (unreleased 1st album - 1994)
Ben Folds Five4:19
7Alice Childress (KCRW sessions - 1996)
Ben Folds Five4:23
8Barrytown ("Me, Myself, and Irene" soundtrack - 2000)
cover recording of:
Barrytown
writer:
Walter Becker and Donald Fagen
publisher:
American Broadcasting Music, Inc., MCA Inc. (US record company and parent company for MCA publishing companies, affiliated to ASCAP), MCA Music Publishing (renamed since c. 1996 as Universal Music Publishing Group) (in 1973) and Red Giant Inc. (in 1973)
Ben Folds Five3:49
9Amelia Bright (Mitch Easter sessions - 2000)
Ben Folds Five3:23
10Tell Me What I Did
Ben Folds Five2:50
11Rock Star (demo - 2000)
Ben Folds3:23
12Losing Lisa (demo - 2000)
Ben Folds3:38
13Break Up at Food Court (demo - 2000)
Ben Folds2:53
14Hiro's Song (demo - 2000)
Ben Folds3:37
15Wandering (demo - 2000)
Ben Folds4:27
16The Secret Life of Morgan Davis (alternate mix - 2001)
Ben Folds2:41
17Such Great Heights (alternate mix from MySpace sessions - 2006)
cover recording of:
Such Great Heights
lyricist:
Benjamin Gibbard
composer:
Benjamin Gibbard and Jimmy Tamborello
publisher:
Dying Songs (publisher), Fake Songs and Where I’m Calling From Music
Ben Folds4:38
18Bitches Ain't Shit
cover recording of:
Bitches Ain’t Shit
writer:
Andre Young (Andre Young, rap producer), Calvin Broadus (aka Snoop Dogg), Delmar Arnaud (Daz Dillinger, US rapper Delmar Arnaud), Ricardo Brown (Kurupt, US rapper), Tracy Curry (The D.O.C., rapper Tracy Curry of N.W.A, fka Doc T) and Colin Wolfe
Ben Folds3:53
19Time (alternate version - 2004)
Ben Folds4:02
20Sleazy ("Download to Donate - Tsunami Relief" - 2011)
cover recording of:
Sleazy (not same as the sleazy remix)
writer:
Klas Åhlund, Benjamin Levin (producer Benjamin Levin), Łukasz Gottwald, Kesha Sebert (Kesha, American singer fka Ke$ha) and Shondraé L. Crawford
publisher:
Dynamite Cop Music, Galassi Foreign Floss Publishing Inc., Kasz Money Publishing (ASCAP affiliated), Matza Ball Music, Universal Music Publishing MGB Scandinavia AB and Where da Kasz At
Ben Folds3:20
21Because the Origami
recording engineer and mixer:
Benny Grotto
producer:
Sean Slade
piano:
Ben Folds
vocals:
Ben Folds and Amanda Palmer
recorded at and mixed at:
Mad Oak Studios in Allston, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
recording of:
Because the Origami
writer:
Ben Folds, Neil Gaiman, Damian Kulash, Jr. and Amanda Palmer
8in84:11
22Stumblin' Home Winter Blues
Ben Folds Five2:57
4▶Digital Media: Free Folds Five EP