Editing Whatever and Ever Amen (section)

==Title, recording and cover==
===Title===
While recording the album, Folds told the ''Sheffield Electronic Press'' in November 1996 that the album would likely either be titled ''Cigarette'' or ''The Little Girl With Teeth''.<ref name="sheffield">{{cite web|website=michaelbluejay.com|url= http://michaelbluejay.com/bf5/i-sheffield.html|title=Ben Folds Five, Four, Three...|first=John|last=Allison|date=November 23, 1996|publisher= Sheffield Electronic Press}}</ref> The title ''Whatever and Ever Amen'' comes from a line in the song "[[Battle of Who Could Care Less]]".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://genius.com/Ben-folds-five-battle-of-who-could-care-less-lyrics|title=Battle of Who Could Care Less|publisher=[[Genius (website)|Genius]]|access-date=April 5, 2020}}</ref>

===Cover===
The album's original cover featured individual photos of Folds, Sledge, and Jessee, along with a hand-drawn Ben Folds Five logo, and a hand-drawn "Whatever and Ever Amen." The cover of the 2005 remastered version moved the album's title from the top left corner to the center and added a fourth photo of all three bandmates sitting together.

===Recording===
The album was recorded in the front room of a house in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Folds said, "You can't go for perfection in a house. The spiritual comet of the song comes by every so often and lots of technical things are going to be going wrong when that happens. Our producer, Caleb is very good at knowing when the ghost blew through the house. People don't buy records for the accuracy." The first release for their new label, Epic, Folds said the record company did not get to hear the recording until it was finished, saying, "they knew what they were getting into."<ref>{{cite web| work= [[Rock's Backpages]] | title=Interview with Ben Folds (December 1997)|first=Kit |last=Aitken | url=https://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Article/interview-with-ben-folds-december-1997}}{{subscription required|s}}</ref>