While many record companies and musicians ran cowering into their closet when faced with the digital music revolution, a few astute ones like Ben Folds quickly moved to embrace it, and the new opportunities it afforded to break away from the suddenly restrictive-feeling full album format.
In Folds' case this took the shape of three five-song EPs also made available through mail order via his own Attacked by Plastic imprint (and, later, partly compiled into the Supersunnyspeedgraphic, The LP CD), of which Sunny 16 was the second and arguably most consistent.
It opens with a textbook Ben Folds nerd anthem in "There's Always Someone Cooler Than You"; proceeds through the string-laden "Learn to Live with What You Are," the ruthless indictment of American intemperance, "All U Can Eat," the similarly jaded, sardonic "Rockstar," and concludes with a bittersweet "Songs of Love," originally recorded by the Divine Comedy.
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | All U Can EatBen Folds | Ben Folds | Play | 03:21 | 7 MB | 19 MB |
| 2 | RockstarBen Folds, Frally Hynes | Ben Folds | Play | 04:23 | 10 MB | 30 MB |
| 3 | Songs of LoveNeil Hannon | Ben Folds | Play | 04:30 | 3 MB | 23 MB |
| 4 | Learn To Live With What You Are. | Ben Folds | Play | 04:25 | 10 MB | 29 MB |
| 13 mins | 31 MB | |||||
| 16 mins | 103 MB | |||||
| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Joe Costa | Engineer, Vocals (Background) |
| 2 | Ben Folds | Composer, Instrumentation, Mixing, Primary Artist, Producer |
| 3 | Neil Hannon | Composer |
| 4 | Frally Hynes | Composer, Photography |
| 5 | Ted Jensen | Mastering |
| 6 | John Mark Painter | Bass, Engineer, Mixing, Producer, String Arrangements, Stylophone, Vocals (Background) |
| 7 | Jill Reynolds | Design |
| 8 | Akemi Watanabe | Packaging |
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | MP3 | 320kps 44.1kHz | MP3 is an audio coding format which uses a form of lossy data compression. The highest bitrate of this format is 320kbps (kbit/s). MP3 Digital audio takes less amount of space (up to 90% reduction in size) and the quality is not as good as the original one. |
| CD Quality | FLAC | 16bit 44.1kHz | FLAC is an audio coding format which uses lossless compression. Digital audio in FLAC format has a smaller size and retains the same quality of the original Compact Disc (CD). |