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The Sound of the Life of the Mind by Ben Folds Five
The Sound of the Life of the Mind is an album by Ben Folds Five, released in 2012. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 7 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Do It Anyway”, on 6 lists with a best position of #9.
The Sound of the Life of the Mind, released on September 18, 2012, was Ben Folds Five's fourth album and their first since The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner back in 1999. The Chapel Hill trio had split in 2000 and got back together in 2011, and Ben Folds on piano and vocals, Robert Sledge on bass and Darren Jessee on drums pick up like they never left: pounding piano pop, sly wit and sudden turns into tenderness.
"Do It Anyway" and "Draw a Crowd" were the songs that made the countdowns. The comeback landed: it debuted at number 10 on the Billboard 200, the first top ten album of Folds' career, selling 30,000 copies that first week. The band broke up again in 2013.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from The Sound of the Life of the Mind on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Do It Anyway | 6 | #9 | – | 2012–2018 | |
| 2 | Draw a Crowd | 1 | #73 | – | 2012 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.