Ben Folds

Nasal-voiced pop-rock songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Ben Folds helmed Chapel Hill alt-rock band Ben Folds Five (actually a trio) until their dissolution around 2000, after which Folds launched a solo career shockingly quickly, with the quirky hit "Rockin The Suburbs" doing exactly as promised upon its release on September 11, 2001. (An atrociously bad time to release such a quirky record, you'd think, but to this day it remains his most popular). This is not to gloss over the fact that Folds can have remarkable depth as a songwriter, however, when he's not in doofus mode (rare) – for proof, look to "Still Fighting It" from that same album or perhaps "Don't Change Your Plans" from the earlier Five era. 5:1 odds say he doesn't play "Brick," though.