Artist: Barenaked Ladies
Genre(s):
Indie
ROck: Alternative
Rock
Alternative
Other
Discography:
Stunt
Year: 2007
Tracks: 13
Are Men
Year: 2007
Tracks: 16
Barenaked Ladies Are Me
Year: 2006
Tracks: 13
Barenaked for the Holidays
Year: 2004
Tracks: 20
Everything To Everyone (SE)
Year: 2003
Tracks: 17
Disc 1: All Their Greatest Hits 1991-2001
Year: 2001
Tracks: 19
All Their Greatest Hits: Disc 1 1991-2001
Year: 2001
Tracks: 19
Maroon
Year: 2000
Tracks: 12
Rock Spectacle
Year: 1996
Tracks: 11
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Born On A Pirate Ship [ENHANCED CD]
Year: 1996
Tracks: 14
Born On A Pirate Ship
Year: 1996
Tracks: 14
Maybe You Should Drive
Year: 1994
Tracks: 12
Gordon
Year: 1992
Tracks: 15
By combine sense of humor, songcraft, and an eclecticist mix of folk and pop/rock, the Barenaked Ladies enjoyed considerable popularity in their native Canada before acclivitous to universal condition with 1998's "Unrivalled Week." Vocalists Ed Robertson and Steve Page launched the ring in the late '80s as an acoustic roleplay, travelling to different college campuses and playing warm up gigs for comedy troupes. These early shows played an important role in the group's instauration, as Robertson and Page began injecting their performances with humourous between-song exchanges to hold their audiences' attention. The trick worked, and the band's mix of humour and musicianship was incessantly cemented.
Following the duo's tour of the college circuit, the Barenaked Ladies expanded into a tight musical group with the gain of bass human being Jim Creeggan, his blood brother Andy on keyboards, and drummer Tyler Stewart. Several cassette tapes were released and helped increase the band's regional popularity, but 1991's Yellow Tape was a different animal, marketing so quickly that it before long became the first independently released tape to get through pt status in Canada. The plug was compounded by the fact that Toronto's city manager, June Rowlands, considered the band's name to be sexist and demanding to women, and so forbade the Barenaked Ladies from playing a 1991 New Years Eve concert near City Hall. The write up institute its elbow room onto the front thomas Nelson Page of The Toronto Star, and gross revenue for Yellow Tape readily soared. In typical style, BNL laughed the debacle off and set-aside a different show. Meanwhile, record labels had begun approach the band with attractive offers, and BNL before long signed with Sire/Reprise and issued their full-length debut,Gordon, in 1992. Featuring "Be My Yoko Ono," "If I Had a $1,000,000," and "Brian Wilson," the record album stirred over one meg units and initiated BNL's reign as Canadian pop kings.
At the pinnacle of grunge's popularity, producer Ben Mink came alongside to helm the acoustically high Peradventure You Should Drive in 1994. Songs care the debonaire "Alternative Girlfriend" and the sweetly melodic "Jane" were college wireless favorites, simply changes were on the way. Before the bandmates could gather themselves for a third base album, Andy Creeggan left the lineup in order to finish college and Look People guitarist/keyboardist Kevin Hearn hopped on board for BNL's stick term of enlistment with Billy Bragg. Hearn linked the group as a permanent member for 1996's obscuro-pop album Innate on a Pirate Ship, and the band charted modern celebrity soil by coming into court on an episode of Beverly Hills 90210 to perform their Top 40 bump off "The Old Apartment." Success came immobile, and BNL sold kO'd multitudinous summer shows. This rattling havoc was captured on the band's first live album, Rock Spectacle; the uninhibited and playful travail (nail with makeshift rapping and point banter) introduced a new audience to an panorama of the banding that had been winning them fans since they started -- their live shows. Rock candy Spectacle was BNL's first gear criminal record to be qualified gold in the U.S., and it paved the way for their biggest album to date.
Stunt, the group's fourth studio drive, was issued in July 1998 and transformed the Barenaked Ladies into commercial heavyweights in both the U.S. and U.K. Buoyed by the chart-topping single "Unrivalled Week," the album debuted at number three on the Billboard charts and went on to sell all over four zillion units. The band upgraded to stadium performances for their subsequent North American term of enlistment, departure behind the theaters and clubs of their premature shows, simply unhappiness loomed all over BNL's freewheeling frothiness. Hearn had been diagnosed with leukemia in the beginning that leaping and exhausted nigh six months recuperating. Geggy Tah's Greg Kurstin and multi-instrumentalist Chris Brown, a fellow BNL brother, filled in for Hearn on the Stunt term of enlistment. After a bone heart and soul transplant in October, Hearn was liberate of all cancerous cells, and BNL were reunited at their commercial eyeshade. Maroon followed two years later on and reached pt status on the success of "Pinch Me," although the group's never-ending touring was also good. Maroon displayed a more mature (yet still funny) stripe and webbed the band two Juno Awards for Best Pop Album and Best Group, as well as a nomination for a Grammy. A greatest-hits collection, Disk One: All Their Greatest Hits (1991-2001), was issued in fall 2001 and storied BNL's work and adhesiveness as a musical fellowship.
Two age after, the band released Everything to Everyone and effectively fulfilled their constrict with Reprise Records. The album sold comparatively unwell, however, and Reprise neglected to offer an extended deal, so reversive the Barenaked Ladies to autonomous condition for the first time since 1992. Unfazed, the group soldiered onwards. A holiday criminal record, Barenaked for the Holidays, arrived in 2004, while the companion albums Barenaked Ladies Are Me and Barenaked Ladies Are Men were issued in 2006 and 2007, respectively.
