Army (Ben Folds) on Acappella U HD - University of Rochester Midnight Ramblers

[Noelle678]

This was my favorite song from the University A Cappella cd.

Love from the Sedoctaves at UF!

[moonyroqs1999]

lol i read U of R and thought of the Amazing Yellowjackets!

[mudslideslim555]

Sooo....how'd you break your arm?

[lleeleeblues]

wow you guys are soooo awesome!!!!!

[sikinder0341948]

a reasonable attempt ... but do keep trying!

[Njordh0]

Actually really like this, but where's the bass at 1:44??????!!?!

[lcowles]

This was recorded outdoors? Wow. Usually vocals outside just waft up and disappear into the air. This is great.

[benefits83]

bought the cd. Love it

[AlrightBub]

incredible!

[ILostTobin]

Mr. Folds picked this one good :D

[luxandyoiishishow]

AWESOME!!!!!!

[mikhasw]

You virgins sure can rock!

[jeremiel91]

You guys groove an effing lot!

Bringing such life in an acappella performance is no easy thing!

Congratulations! fav!

[TheJessicaRust]

As a huge fan of Ben Folds, and this song, I can honestly say- that I think you guys did an amazing job, it really compliments the song. It just makes me feel rather chipper, if I can say such a word. Haha! Really enjoyed it, well done!

[thawockdancr]

love you guys on the album, love you even more here, you are so fantastic!!!!!

[SkaterChick1972]

AWESOME.

you guys kick butt!!

[muziklvr1714]

that was really great!!!! you dont happen to have the sheet music for this do you?

[lacassula]

WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN­N

[Goldrosesinger]

fantastic, i love this song =) well done!

[mizzzlizzz02]

This is fantastic

[panchovans]

this just rocks! brilliant. when ye touring ireland?!

[rubix0110]

They sang: "And one Asian yeeeaaaah!", but where is he?

[DaniaylaS]

you guys are amazing. men who can sing are sexy!

[kingofscottsdale]

sounds like Flag Pole Sitta by Harvey Danger

[punkrockerextreme]

YEAH BUDDY!

[fenderchik120]

LOVE this song! You guys did great. GOD PLEASE SPARE ME MORE REJECTION!! LOL!

[whalesNcows]

wow thats amzing

[lolgurlyyy]

LOL CUTE

[MaddiCowTipping]

The. Best. EVER! :)

Y'all made me smile!!

[MCQ5150]

By far the best arrangement I have heard of this song. Amazing!!!!

[ralphcutube]

i like this alot more than i expected :]

you all sound great

loved it completely

but that dude wt the glasses had me crackin up lol

he was so into it

[richthesituation]

You my friends, are all heros.

[basedrummer06]

Did I hear the words "wallaby" and "apple juice"? I'd love to know what they are actually saying in the background.

[syncopate50]

They need to tweak the tuning here and there.  It's not always spo-on.

[yoyoben121]

great job!!!

[billbarton]

You guys did this really well, I think the guy with the lead could have presented himself better though. Sounded FANTASTIC though.

[sheenabon]

Oh my god, so gooooood :D Sounds just like Ben!

[Falli2006]

Awesome you rock.

best wishes from germany

[MaddiCowTipping]

ohmygod, this just doesn't get old. i looove y'all,

you made my favorite songs by BenFolds amazing ((:

[RTKaczor]

just awesome. rockin out in the middle of campus (or wherever) awesome

[jon6810]

haha, nice transition lenses. weirdo...

[joethemetaldude]

SICK

[sptfgpn]

What happened to his arm?

[squidwardiscool1234]

sounds good and the kid has an indians hat on. go tribe

[hehealright]

amazing. never heard of these guys before.

[Bennyboy041]

that was awesome!

did he break his arm while singing hiroshima? only true fans get that one:)

[bluejet100]

they came to my school gloria dei lutheran academy

[Megsies01]

I'm dying to know the lyrics behind the lead line! Manifesto?! I love it! (Go Tribe!)

[pianollama52]

I'm so glad you guys made it onto the album. This is easily my favorite out of them all, and I love this version of it even more than what was recorded!

Your soloist has so much enthusiasm; it makes his vocals so powerful!

[expatted]

You guys are really good!

[HoppinFreshnizzles]

lordi i saw yall when you came down to Cabrini last year in new orleans??? gish ... ill never forget that!!! i love yall susu su much!!! EEEH!!! <333

[ssfbonn]

fantastic :D

[Moogster76]

Superb!

[xsarahscareskidsx]

Ahhh. I always watch yalls videos. It makes me happy. :) So talented. And I'm your fan on facebook.

[7forthewin7]

i seriously found myself grooving along at points :)

great job

and props to the soloist. a true TROOPER

[FlameHeadJen]

love it! :D

[aka1darkknight]

ben-ben-ben-ben what?

[lookitsbri]

you guys are the shit. i wanna be you

[oxygene65]

BRILLIANT !! I would give 10 stars too if I could !

[Blizzart22]

That definetly was a Ten-Star-Performance. I am sorry that I can give you only five.

[zacandcheese]

this is awesome

[BreakdownsAreLove]

You guys are incredible. Excellent.

[MentalGap]

That's awesome guys. Love this song...play it on piano and sing.

[hollynevinger]

this is so so so awesome!!! great job, I know rochester so well

[boymeetsuniverse69]

fuck

i love a man who can sing.

this is hot.

[kazzprods]

saw you on Meliora Weekend. Amazing. Just amazing. You sang Hallelujah and four people in the row behind me were in tears. Purely amazing.

[kirakirastudio]

I've never quite been able to hear or understand...what are the words the others are singing while the lead sings the "Woah, think I'll write a screenplay!" section?

[MidnightRamblers]

Hey kirakirastudio:

The words are:

"Nizz chugged a beer and now he's on the floor"

...."buy our CD manifesto"

"If he were Dan, he'd puke and chug ten more"

..."shimmer and wonderwall wild whenever you call"

"we have four jews whatcha gonna do? and one asian yeahhhhhh..."

[kirakirastudio]

That's fantastic! Just makes me love you guys even more XD

[MidnightRamblers]

hahaha :)

[itsmeconor]

@MidnightRamblers

Actually Genius, Much respect from Belfast. Ireland!

[AndrewKThorpe]

@MidnightRamblers Thanks, I was also wondering what the words were!

[gyrader]

Well, here's a reason to go to Rochester.

[whoisthispianist01]

very cool

[Brandpowerrr]

this is fantastic.

[lululalou]

I want to learn a same University, that's cool, i love this. :) Good job!

[dualnerdaction]

the lead even kinda looks like ben, eerie

[kpkpw]

Guys, I think this is fantastic and love listening to it repeatedly. ... And thanks for the help at the candlelighting ceremony last night!

[mark1800]

ps. the lead must have grown up listening to ben folds - the guy has got his voice timbre DOWN!!! uncanny. and rocking the cast pretty much makes this video. trooper.

[mark1800]

this is so fucking awesome. and i hate acapella groups, usually.

[2jea6]

Wonderful. Love it.

[cypress454]

this video has made my life

its amazing!

tha guy singing is fantastic and the rest of the band just amazing well done guys

[NYCbound]

THIS IS FANTASTIC! why am i not going to rochester in the fall?? oh, this made my life better today. thank you. :)

[VannTango]

I really like this song. It's great and all. But I can't understand what the background voices are saying for most of the song. For instance, at 1:15, during the bridge. At 1:18, the bass says, "something something manifesto." And I can hear the background voices at the end (2:58) saying, "G.I. Joe, The American Hero." I assume all the other lines the backup voices throw in are just as clever, but I really have no idea what they're saying.

[etad987]

hmmm, this is amazing i especially love the guys at 2:16 doing the bah bah thing

[ERG1008]

This is ace. Great work guys!

[NarutoGroopies]

You guys are awesome. I can't stop watching this video.

Everytime I go on youtube, I have to watch this video like....5 times. :D It's so addicting, great rendition!

[ndmyk]

props to the guy in the medeski martin and wood shirt

[TimOaks]

That's really good. Nice energy.

[ChaliDragonscale]

I wish I could meet you all! TOPS!

[liquidmetalrob]

This sounds really good, guys, I'm loving it. The best is at 0:41 when you see this girl in the background just looking on in awe.

[Chudhole]

Nice job guys.  I actually prefer this recording to the one that was done for the CD. I just think you guys are having more fun or something in this version. Is there an mp3 available of this version somewhere? The demo of "You Don't Know Me" has a cool loser feel on youtube.

[dorylovewelldelph]

im loving the bouncy hair on that one dude haha

[PeterZeeke]

SOO UNCOOL, WHICH MAKE IT SOO COOL

[segerbaseball11]

AWW he broke his arm :( lol in all the others it was fine

[heyyoucantsing]

Love the Ramblers.

[mim194]

This is spectacular!

[longhornbrian33]

awesome

[parameciumbrain]

I love your version of this song!

I do have a question though, what are you singing behind the actual lyrics "I think I'll write a screenplay, I think I'll take it to LA" ?

I've picked out parts of it, but I'm just curious...

[kschonert]

That was simply amazing.

[okonh0wp]

you can just hear that this is a good group in 3 seconds. the sound is just so polished. good thing ben folds selected them. and they do a lot of community service too, that's neat

[Nickelodeon2002]

Great Job guys!

[bhflint85]

Andy Bernard and Here Comes Treble?

[ForYourFreeMind]

i just read how ben folds is making a whole acappella album of covers because of these kids

[Chudhole]

that was great!

[hiiilly45]

awesome...so great

[omnislash1212]

I <3 Bandi!!!

[omnislash1212]

Wow what fucking flamers.... they should all go DIAF

[soowatsup]

i love this cuz they are like actually having fun its hilarious

[damian0224]

it's great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[KBertsch08]

love this!

[sare311]

for the record...the eighth comment down was not me and babystephen...

love sarah.

[evilfuzziebunnies]

I love this.

There for I love you.

Great job!

[DSAhmed]

it goes "Dad said: Son you're fuckin' high"

[indiansfan303]

Yeah, they probably know and were censoring it because of where they were preforming and/or that the singer doesn't like swearing. That's my guess.

[indiansfan303]

Besides, he even says that in the music video himself.

[itzcaroline]

I love it!!

[FAYMprod]

nice transitions -- I'm talking about the lead's glasses.

[quark587]

Hehe thanks, glad you like them :)

[sarahandstephen]

I just heard about this contest, and have spent the day surfing the submissions- I keep coming back to your video. Seen it 3 times.

Love the G.I. Joe reference at the end.

[h8rsk8r]

Great stuff guys. Whoever did the arranging and made up the "lyrics" for all the background stuff is brilliant. I'm addicted to listening to this track and now I've got my 11 year old daughter hooked on it too. Great arrangement. Enthusiastic delivery. Can't wait for the album version. Hope it manages to capture the energy that you guys put into this.

[onyxhart]

I saw this last nite at the Ben Folds Show at Waterstreet .. and Loved you guys.. I was quite impressed.. * Thanks *

[radioheadradio]

you guys are all very talented! amazing vid

[MadamSneff]

Thanks for coming to New Orleans, guys. I figured I'd check out the video since you mentioned it in class. Congrats again on being included on the album!

[aztecaXV]

awesome stuff guys!

[dasulis]

A little too busy, but quite good!

[nprdizz]

really cool stuff guys ! i was lucky enough to live near ben folds when he was in Australia.. just never had the kohunas to talk music with him..!

[philos2323]

Front man rocks.

[charlyxpunkx4eva]

awesome! i saw u on sky news !

[petgbro]

I 2nd that motion! Saw the same on sky news here in uk. some of u r sexy too!!

[PinkFloydFan74]

I've just seen this on Sky News in the UK today. I'd never heard the song before, but I love it now thanks to you guys. Good job :)

[gregroh]

fuckin quality tune, one of, if not the best acappela group goin for that album!!!

[hatcher772]

thanks for the positive feedback everyone, i'm excited.

[nh0477a]

this is a really incredible arrangement and performance guys! can't wait to hear your recording on Ben Folds' album!!

[aksnails]

please please please try to capture the minor at "in june reformed with out me" this is brilliant - love it.

[lwk38w]

I live in Rochester and this is by far the coolest thing to come out of there. These guys actually submitted this to Ben Folds and are in the finals of his acappella contest!

[goss0027]

Awesome!

[beckstraordinary]

Hot.

[doublem9876]

You guys just killed all the other competition for Army. Even the group from Muhlenberg, who I thought would have the vote for sure.

[concretedonkey12]

this one has my vote for army for the acapella cd. good luck guys!

[sportsbiz]

Hokey arrangement by a hokey group. This is what Disney would put together if it wanted to create an acapella sensation that covers Benn Folds songs. Might just have chance...

[LazEstrada]

i think you're a douche and do not know anything about a capella. they sound great. don't let jealousy come over you. the ramblers sound great!

[sportsbiz]

Wow. That really hurt my feelings. (pout, pout)

[Flex3182]

Well well...it's probably gonna be on the album now...

[palamonandarcite]

I also think you're a douche and this acapella group got to record with ben folds.

[musicgamer10]

yeah definitely they are great.

my friends in newtones got to record with him today also

[MegaLiz25]

Ahhh...my favorite group ever! So glad you posted another video! <3 it!

[TinaTheTerrible]

Haha, I was wondering what happened with that arm :p

Beautifully done... the song, I mean

[cambryn]

Well done, fellas!

You guys have great timing, the arrangement was really impressive, and you lot have a great assortment of voices.

the soloist sang incredibly well!!

Criticisms:

(the basses in 1:15 could have been stronger and more clearly on pitch- they were clearly reaching for notes that aren't really in their 'safe' range.)

(The ending got a bit pitchy)

But other than that- really pitch perfect, and well done!!!