Released October 11, 2011 Release date 11 October 2011 Genre Alternative rock | Artists Ben Folds, Ben Folds Five Label Sony Music | |
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The Best Imitation of Myself A Retrospective
(2011) Fifty-Five Vault
(2011) Similar Ben Folds albums, Alternative rock albums | ||
The Best Imitation of Myself: A Retrospective is a compilation album by American singer-songwriter Ben Folds and his alternative rock trio Ben Folds Five, released in the United States of America on October 11, 2011 by Legacy Records. The title comes from a song from their 1995 self-titled debut album.
Contents
The standard-edition album contains 17 popular songs from the band's discography and Folds' subsequent solo career, as well as the new Ben Folds Five single "House", which debuted on the website for the NBC competition show The Sing-Off, on which Folds is a judge.
An expanded edition includes 43 additional tracks over three discs, including two more new songs from Ben Folds Five recorded in 2011. Folds also made available through his website the additional album Fifty-Five Vault, a 56-track collection of rarities. A five-track sampler from this album, Free Folds Five, was included with digital copies of The Best Imitation of Myself.
Disc 1
All tracks written by Ben Folds, except where noted.
Songs
Brick (radio mix)4:34
Annie Waits4:17
Philosophy4:39