Song · Ben Folds Five
“Don't Change Your Plans” by Ben Folds Five
From the album The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner (1999)
“Don't Change Your Plans” by Ben Folds Five appears on 2 radio countdowns from 2 stations in 1999. It was first released in 1999 on the album The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner. Its best result is #55 on the WBER Listener Countdown 1999. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #163 alternative song of 1999.
"Don't Change Your Plans" is a Ben Folds song from The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner, the third Ben Folds Five album, released in April 1999, and it shows how far the trio had wandered from their pop-rock beginnings. Caleb Southern, their usual producer, recorded it, and it wears the chamber-music trimmings that mark the whole record: violins from Mark Feldman, Lorenza Ponce and Antoine Silverman, Jane Scarpantoni's cello and John Mark Painter on flugelhorn. Andy Wallace mixed it.
The album leaned darker and more inward, turning over regret, death and lost innocence, and it turned out to be a goodbye for a long while: the band split soon after touring it and didn't reunite until 2011, with The Sound of the Life of the Mind arriving a year later.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 58 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 1999 | 91 |
| 1999 | 55 | WBER Rochester, NY | WBER Listener Countdown 1999 | 101 |
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