It's probably safe to say that fans of Barenaked Ladies have never found a holiday album to suit their tastes until now, when the notoriously quirky Canadian quintet released Barenaked for the Holidays. This will likely satisfy that portion of their audience (however large or small it is) that has wanted a holiday album delivered with that ...
Canada's beloved funny guys the Barenaked Ladies have proved to be more than just a novelty act. Four albums into their wavering career, Stunt was golden for American fans and BNL found themselves chiefing the mainstream scene during the late '90s. So to issue a greatest-hits collection might be appropriate for those fans who caught on late, but ...
Canada's favorite musical comics the Barenaked Ladies didn't get distressed by the mainstream success of their fifth album, 1998's Stunt. The single "One Week" catapulted the five-piece into the homes of TRL diehards and their self-defined cheeky pop sound captured pop music at its finest. They had only been crafting their freewheeling musical ...
As if to acknowledge that Barenaked Ladies' third album, 1996's Born on a Pirate Ship, was a blunder that wouldn't do much to advance the Canadian group's U.S. image, Reprise Records quickly followed it up with the live set Rock Spectacle. This was a wise move, as years of nearly nonstop touring had helped the group transform from a jokey folk ...
Barenaked Ladies' third album, Born on a Pirate Ship, was recorded during a period of personnel instability and misgivings over the band's artistic direction. The Toronto group attempts humor in the manner of 1992's Gordon and include reworked versions of early material like "Shoe Box," which had originally appeared on the band's 1990 demo. The ...
Barenaked Ladies are a little less interested in the quirky and comic on their second album, perhaps recognizing that They Might Be Giants have that niche covered. Instead, though, they are showing their sensitive folk-pop roots, which makes them winning, if a little wet. (XTC, anyone?) But one thing they aren't is "alternative," a matter dealt ...
Continuing in the mature, reflective vein of 2003's Everything to Everyone, the Barenaked Ladies' seventh studio album Barenaked Ladies Are Me features more of the band's trademark wit and melodic folk-rock. Never straying too far afield from the formula they've been using ever since their breakthrough 1998 album Stunt, Barenaked Ladies are true ...
Barenaked Ladies took their time in following up their almost commercial flop Maroon. Having Don Was in the production seat wasn't enough to flesh out Barenaked Ladies' bright musical humor, although "Pinch Me" and "Falling for the First Time" were moderate radio hits. Opting to shake things up (as much as they can for being jokesters), Barenaked ...
Totally Hits 3 doesn't have quite the variety of its predecessors, since it completely excises the hard rock/heavy metal wing of previous installments (which, granted, had already dwindled on the second volume). What's left is a selection of dance-pop, urban R&B, adult alternative rock, and a touch of contemporary country -- and, actually, the ...
By trying to mask their smart-ass humor in a big pop production, the Barenaked Ladies attempt to set themselves up for the big crossover that they nearly achieved with such past singles as "Be My Yoko Ono" and "Brian Wilson." Nothing on Stunt, the group's fourth studio album, is so clearly jokey (although "Alcohol" comes close), but they still ...
Jock Rock 2000 carries the popular series into the new millennium with hits from Prodigy, Local H, Republica, Bush, Fatboy Slim, CIV, and BTK. ~ Heather Phares, All Music Guide
While 2006's Barenaked Ladies Are Men was an enjoyably melodic and heartfelt album, Barenaked Ladies' 2007 companion album Barenaked Ladies Are Men bests its predecessor by throwing in just a bit more wit, sparkle and pop. Where Are Men was low-key and mature, Are Men is a just a bit more energized and in some ways features a few more memorable ...
Friends successfully targets the same demographic of the television show -- twentysomethings that have grown too old for the noise and clutter of college life, yet reluctant to give up the commraderie (and, indeed, friendship) that stress creates. So, it's a collection of '80s college rock favorites (R.E.M., Paul Westerberg), '80s college rock ...
There are eight volumes in the various-artist Best of Mountain Stage series produced by the Nashville label Blue Plate, and all offer rare live tracks that feature "sublime moments of serendipitous musical brilliance." Volume six is among the shortest in the series and includes "World Leader Pretend" by R.E.M., "What a Good Boy" by Barenaked ...
This volume of Martha Stewart Living is, not surprisingly, about putting children to bed, so the music is devoted to quiet NPR lullabies, balancing songs by new acoustic merchants like Nickel Creek, Alison Krauss, Tuck & Patti, and David Wilcox with adult alt-rock favorites like Barenaked Ladies, Lucinda Williams, and Everything but the Girl, plus ...
Essentially a Now That's What I Call Music! for grown-ups, Grammy Nominees 2001 gathers songs from the year's Grammy-nominated pop, rock, and contemporary R&B artists. Not surprisingly, the collection concentrates on the most mainstream nominees -- you won't find any Metallica, Rage Against the Machine, or Deftones here. Eminem's "The Real Slim ...
The soundtrack to Drive Me Crazy features lots of appropriately teen-friendly artists like Britney Spears, who performs the film's theme song, the Backstreet Boys, Jars Of Clay, Plumb, the Donnas, Less Than Jake and the Barenaked Ladies. Don Phillips's "Sugar" and Steps' "One For Sorrow" are also featured singles from the album. ~ Heather Phares, ...
Gordon picks up where the Barenaked Ladies' famous demo "The Yellow Tape" left off and moves them into majors. Their first for Reprise, this witty songbook finds the Canadian five-piece to be a clever group -- charming, but not childish, yet the Barenaked Ladies are pretty close to overstepping the boundaries of silliness. The thing that keeps ...
The Burt Bacharach revival began simmering in 1994, when Oasis featured his portrait on the cover of Definitely Maybe, but it truly reached its apex in 1998. Not only did Rhino release a lavish three-disc box set of his best work, he made a genuine artistic comeback with his collaboration with Elvis Costello, Painted from Memory, and was still ...
Barenaked Ladies took their time in following up their almost commercial flop Maroon. Having Don Was in the production seat wasn't enough to flesh out Barenaked Ladies' bright musical humor, although "Pinch Me" and "Falling for the First Time" were moderate radio hits. Opting to shake things up (as much as they can for being jokesters), Barenaked ...
Like most of its installments, Now!, Vol. 4 is a solid sampling of pop hits from its moment in time, filled out with a few ringers and stinkers. In 1999, nobody could escape the New Radicals' "Get What You Give," Sugar Ray's "Every Morning," or Edwin McCain's "I'll Be." But what about the minor Spice Girls entry "Goodbye," or the brief hit run for ...
Totally Hits collects an array of totally contemporary chart-toppers from artists like TLC, Monica, Sugar Ray, and 'N Sync. Tracks from Madonna, Barenaked Ladies, Third Eye Blind, Whitney Houston, Brandy, and Faith Hill complete this concise look at pop hits of the late '90s. ~ Heather Phares, All Music Guide
Do they have the worst band name since Haircut One Hundred? Yes. Are they one of the finest pop groups in the world? Almost certainly. Their debut album was a tuneful, slapstick adolescent romp and their second was a remarkably mature folk-rock outing filled with as many irresistible hooks as a good Beach Boys album. This four-song EP previews a ...
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