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Barenaked Ladies - "If I had $1000000, I'd buy you a green dress"
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Barenaked Ladies at Live 8
Barenaked Ladies (often abbreviated BNL) is a Canadian
alternative rock band composed of Kevin Hearn, Ed Robertson, Steven Page,
Tyler Stewart, and Jim Creeggan. Barenaked Ladies formed in 1988 in Scarborough,
Ontario, a suburb of Toronto. BNL has a reputation as an excellent live
band, and are particularly well-known for improvising amusing songs during
their shows.
Barenaked Ladies first tape, Buck Naked, released in 1989, was recorded
in basements and bedrooms, and featured only Steve and Ed. Barenaked Lunch
(also known as the Pink Tape) was released in 1990, and featured two new
band members, Andy and Jim Creeggan. Unfortunately, the tape was mastered
incorrectly and plays too fast. As there were very few copies made of
both, these tapes are now extremely rare.
While Andy was on a trip to Ecuador and the Barenaked Ladies was lacking
a percussionist, Tyler Stewart took over the position, and retained it
after Andy's return.
The full band's first release of note was the 1991 independent Yellow
Tape, the first indie release to achieve platinum status in Canada. Sales
of the tape were jumpstarted when BNL were taken off the bill of a concert
at Toronto City Hall because a staffer for then-mayor June Rowlands saw
the band's name and felt it objectified women, which catapulted BNL into
a media frenzy.
Also in 1991, the Barenaked Ladies contributed a cover of Bruce Cockburn's
"Lovers in a Dangerous Time" to the Cockburn tribute album Kick
At the Darkness. That song became the band's first Top 40 hit in Canada.
Barenaked Ladies first album, Gordon, released in 1992, was a smash hit
in Canada and included some of the band's most well-known songs, including
"Be My Yoko Ono" (the single which helped fund the album), If
I Had $1,000,000 (which spawned a Kraft Dinner-throwing tradition at live
shows that the band has recently been trying to discourage), and "Brian
Wilson" (named after the Beach Boy who later covered the song on
a live album).
Barenaked Ladies second album, Maybe You Should Drive, released in 1994,
fared considerably less well with the Canadian public. After the release,
Andy Creeggan left the band to begin college and to separate himself from
the infighting that had taken place after the album's failure.
Barenaked Ladies released Born on a Pirate Ship in 1996 as a quartet.
The album received two large boosts from the Jason Priestley-directed
video for "The Old Apartment" and the inclusion of the song
"Shoebox" on the Friends soundtrack. Kevin Hearn was hired as
the keyboardist for the subsequent tour and then was asked to join the
band.
From two dates on the Born on a Pirate Ship tour during 1996, BNL recorded
and released a live album called Rock Spectacle, which had a modest radio
hit with "Brian Wilson."
Barenaked Ladies's greatest success to date and greatest recognition within
the United States has come from their fourth album, Stunt, released in
1998, buoyed by the #1 single "One Week". Immediately after
Stunt was released, however, Kevin Hearn was diagnosed with leukemia and
had to spend several months in the hospital recovering. The band toured,
but with friends Chris Brown and Greg Kurstin on keyboards until Kevin
recovered enough to rejoin them on the road. The singles "It's All
Been Done" (used as the opening theme song on the short lived animated
TV series Baby Blues) and "Call and Answer" also came from this
highly successful album. The band has also collaborated with singer Tom
Jones for a track on his 1999 album Reload.
Maroon, released in 2000, also did fairly well in stores, led by the single
"Pinch Me". In 2001, they released a compilation album, entitled
Disc One: All Their Greatest Hits 1991-2001. It contains 15 tracks from
previous BNL albums (all of them have been a single, have had their own
video, or both), two tracks from other albums that the band contributed
to, and two new tracks, "It's Only Me (The Wizard of Magicland)"
and "Thanks, That Was Fun". The latter was thought by some fans
to be a break-up song, because of its title, the fact that it was the
last song on the CD, and because its video featured clips from previous
videos, but used the Syncro-Vox technique so that the people would lip-sync
to the new song.
Everything to Everyone was released October 21, 2003. The first single
off the album was "Another Postcard," which received modest
radio play. "Testing 1, 2, 3" was the second single off of the
album and received a video, but no CD single, while "Celebrity"
was released later with a CD single, but no video. "Maybe Katie"
and an edited version of "For You" from a concert in Glasgow,
Scotland were also released as singles to radio. Unfortunately, the album
was their weakest-seller in years, with a short chart life, despite positive
reviews.
With the release of Everything to Everyone, Barenaked Ladies has fulfilled
their contract with Reprise Records, which has allowed the band to try
internet distribution and an independent album release.
In early 2004, the band began offering full live shows for purchase as
either download or CD off of an eponymous website. More recently, the
latest studio album as well as a single from it have been added.
The band's most recent album is "Barenaked for the Holidays,"
which was released on October 5, 2004. It is their first independent record
since the Yellow Tape and was distributed by Warner Music.
BNL just recently completed a pilot for a variety show, tentatively titled
Barenaked Ladies Variety Show, and have submitted it to the FOX network.
Steven Page also wrote the music for the Stratford Festival's musical
production of Shakespeare's "As You Like It," and the band's
recording of the music is available on CD from the festival. They are
also working on an album at Steven Page's farm.
On July 2, 2005 BNL took part in the Live 8 concert at Barrie in Toronto.
Barenaked Ladies have authorized a biography, Public Stunts Private Stories,
written by friend of the band and fellow "Scarberian" Paul Myers,
brother of actor Mike Myers. It is published in Canada by Madrigal Press.
An updated 2003 version includes a different cover, information about
Disc One and Everything to Everyone, and fixes several typos found in
the original version.
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