Grex Music2 Conference

Item 49: Barenaked Ladies: why they are totally kewl

Entered by jiffer on Mon Jun 16 03:36:40 1997:

Barenaked Ladies: why we love them so much? you explain
25 responses total.
#1 of 25 by orinoco on Mon Jun 16 15:11:32 1997:

Because they're NUTS!  'Nuff said.

I ran into them a couple years ago, when some friends from Canada played me
Gordon, and fell in love.

#2 of 25 by senna on Tue Jun 17 06:33:44 1997:

I probably met them, but I don't remember because i was a little young at the
time.

#3 of 25 by jiffer on Tue Jun 17 12:09:16 1997:

 Met them? nono steve, not literal bare naked ladies!  ;)

#4 of 25 by senna on Wed Jun 18 06:49:27 1997:

No, the band, Jen.  You forget.  I've done quite a bit in Toronto.

#5 of 25 by jiffer on Wed Jun 18 21:25:25 1997:

i don't wanna know! please! keep my ears innocent!

#6 of 25 by kewy on Thu Jun 19 13:41:24 1997:

i love the barenaked ladies.. they're just cool enough not to take themselves
so seriously like so many people do, and many of there songs are with no
conciquence (no i can't spell), for the most part it's happy music.  i have
born on a pirate ship b/c while i was at wazoo, i was trying to decide between
gordon, the other one, and boapc... born on a pirate ship's pretty good, but
i kinda wish i would have gotten another one, or still hope to get one, once
i get money...

#7 of 25 by orinoco on Thu Jun 19 19:10:59 1997:

Hmm...gordon's the only one I've heard...how does it compare to the others?

#8 of 25 by senna on Thu Jun 19 20:30:49 1997:

If i was in a band I'd never take myself seriously :)  I love all sorts of
art that doens't take itself seriously (such as The Lost World, which I liked
but many others didn't.  Doesn't matter, because it was tongue-in-cheek most
of the way).

#9 of 25 by jiffer on Thu Jun 19 21:46:37 1997:

 if you ever get _Rock Spectacle_ you have to listen to the very end! And the
_Uncle Erwyn_ song!  they recorded that one live in Chicago! its a total
laughing trip!

#10 of 25 by kewy on Tue Jun 24 17:49:41 1997:

is that the first album?

#11 of 25 by jiffer on Tue Jun 24 23:47:14 1997:

i don't think it is.... i think its recent. Cos they have some of the same
songs on that as the _Raised on a Pirate ship_ album.

#12 of 25 by bce on Thu Aug 20 21:09:58 1998:

The first is "Gordon".  Then came "Maybe you Should Drive".  Then came
"BOAPC".  Then Rlock Spectacle, then Stunt.  Gordon and MYSD are still my
faves, but Stunt is also got some great stuff on it.

#13 of 25 by senna on Fri Aug 21 14:16:05 1998:

Heh.  You'll be lucky if popularity doesn't kill them.

#14 of 25 by pez on Sat Oct 3 19:42:49 1998:

I've begun listening to lots of Barenaked Ladies.. good stuff

#15 of 25 by kewy on Mon Nov 30 04:30:47 1998:

Yeah, Barenaked ladies are my favorite.  And I finally got to see them 
live this summer, after wanting to since June of '94.  They are *GREAT* 
I'll be seeing them again on Dec. 27th, and I'm already so excited about 
the show.
Maybe you should drive seems to be my favorite, but Gordon, BOAPS and 
Rock Spectacle are really close behind.  Stunt, I wasn't too impressed 
with at first, but now after pulling it back out and listening to it a 
little bit more, I've recently come to like it.

#16 of 25 by lumen on Mon Mar 8 23:56:58 1999:

I do hope they don't get ruined by crass commercialism.

Radio stations played "Two Weeks" to the point of saturating the market.
brrrrr...I grew to loathe that song

I mean, where are other bands like Crash Test Dummies and They Might Be 
Giants, which I think could be in the same folk rock category?

#17 of 25 by orinoco on Tue Mar 9 02:01:19 1999:

Both those bands had their 15 minutes of fame too.

#18 of 25 by lumen on Wed Mar 10 22:16:02 1999:

Excuse me, that should be "One Week."  Apologies to all Barenaked Ladies 
fans.  I mentioned the bands that I did because I see them belonging to 
a similar movement in music-- They Might Be Giants makes political 
references, Crash Test Dummies made references to English literature, 
and Barenaked Ladies make references to other songs.  So why aren't they 
in the limelight in the same year?

btw, I think They Might Be Giants lasted a little longer than 15 mins, 
but I'm nitpicking.

#19 of 25 by bookworm on Fri Mar 12 06:02:39 1999:

They Might Be Giants are Americans.  
Bare Naked Ladies are Canadian.
So far as I know, and I'm seriously out of the information loop, Bare 
Naked Ladies only recently became popular in the US.  They're 
megapopular in Canada.

This recent song, One Week, is their first release in the US, anyway.  
Maybe they wanted to try us out and see what happened.

#20 of 25 by lumen on Fri Mar 12 06:32:43 1999:

Uh, no, it wasn't their first release-- they did play "If I Had A 
Million Dollars" from _Gordon_ from time to time.

#21 of 25 by katie on Fri Mar 12 07:01:16 1999:

...and "Enid" and "Yoko Ono"...

#22 of 25 by bookworm on Fri Mar 12 07:23:47 1999:

Okay.  Like I said.  I'm *seriously* out of the information loop.

I only got hooked on BNL a few years ago when I made a trip to Canada.

#23 of 25 by orinoco on Fri Mar 12 21:42:52 1999:

Yeah, I found out about them from Canadian friends back when "Gordon" first
came out.  I actually don't really like anything I've heard of theirs since,
but there were a few songs on Gordon that I really liked.

#24 of 25 by kewy on Sun Mar 14 22:02:54 1999:

I'm really curious now to see what their next album is going to sound 
like... It's hard to describe their change in sound, but things really 
have changed from Gordon to Stunt.  I must say I like everyone of their 
almbus though, even if Stunt gets the least praise.  I'm really hoping 
they come around again this summer because the fact remains, whatever is 
on their album at the time, the Barenaked Ladies live shows are awesome.

#25 of 25 by bookworm on Wed Mar 17 18:19:05 1999:

OO  me too.

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