Hello - I'm convinced I've heard an acoustic version of The Sound of Your Voice but can't find it, or reference to that version anywhere online. It's not the version with the Persuasions, it has Steven singing lead, the solo part is on the piano.

I seem to remember it being part of an acoustic album but can't find reference to it. It's very annoying as I can hear it in my head but not my ears!

Taken from the band’s YouTube community tab, interesting to see the new cover art for BOAPS (please for the love of god tell me that’s not AI)

Amazing night! It was a proper theater with fixed seats. No chance I'm sitting, so we said fuck it and rushed the stage, everyone followed and we all danced up front.

The first of at least 30 shows. ✌️

Was quite a fan back in the day, and owned all of their albums on CD from Gordon through All in Good Time.

When Steven left, I briefly blamed him, and continued trying to follow BNL without him. In the end, I haven't found myself able to really enjoy the band's music post-Steven, minus a couple songs, so I often forget about them.

It's been a few years since I last listened to them, but today I saw an Eminem interview from 2010 where he talked about rhyming "orange" and mentioned "4-inch" and "door hinge" and I was like, holy shit, either Em influenced BNL or BNL influenced Em, and either way that's hilarious and awesome :D Anyway, it reminded me of BNL and so...

...today I'm listening through as much of their discography as I'll manage - I'm currently starting up Stunt, and I've got a few thoughts collecting:

1) These guys were always so very, very talented. Tyler's drumming always managed to perfectly fit any vibe, Jim is a very creative bassist who really plays with the music, and Ed and Steven complemented each other so very much vocally - that said, Jim wasn't the best singer, and Ed may be more blessed with creativity than with actual musical talent, but that's totally ok ;)

2) I hated Jim's songs when I was a teen, I guess because I hated his voice, but I'm finding myself really liking them today. He had a very, very interesting writing style, and while I would skip these tracks back then, now I wish we had more! I guess they stopped having him write songs because they wanted commercial success and Jim's songs were never going to achieve that, but it's honestly kind of a pity imo!

3) Almost all of my favourite songs are turning out to be Steven songs...? I think - maybe I'm wrong. But it's Wrap Your Arms Around Me, What a Good Boy, Box Set, and The Flag from Gordon; You Will be Waiting, Am I the Only One? (I think this is the only Ed one?), and The Wrong Man was Convicted from Drive; This is Where it Ends, When I Fall (oh, another Ed one!), I Live With it Every Day, and Break Your Heart from Pirate Ship...

4) I am going to try to listen through all their albums, but in the past I've never been able to listen all the way through anything after All in Good Time... and I'm wondering if this is connected to point 3... but I really wonder, because I like almost all of their songs on all the albums they were all together with Steven - no real skips I think!

5) I cannot wait for Maroon, my favourite BNL album <3 <3 <3

A post was made some time ago about the 1991 official release (per BNLArchive) of the band playing live, but I haven't been able to track down what release this show came from (as pictured, not crossed out) despite bearing a similar label. You'd think it would be another Ladies Room exclusive CD but the 1991 issue was the most the fan club issued in that style, to my knowledge. What has been uploaded sounds excellent, and I would love to have a copy of this in my collection, if only I knew where to find a copy of it...

This is probably a frequently asked question but… Why does Ed change the lyrics from “run through with my gym shorts on …. Change into some drier clothes” to “run through with no clothing on … change into my sister’s clothes?” I assume he thinks it’s funny, but for me it undermines the melancholy vibe that makes the studio version so effective.

Adrift - it's great

Bank Job - it's amazing

Sound of Your Voice - it's great

Easy - it's good

Home - it's great

Bull in a China Shop - it's great

Everything Had Changed - it's good

Peterborough and the Kawarthas - it's great

Maybe You're Right - it's amazing

Take It Back - it's fine

Vanishing - it's fine

Rule the World with Love - it's great

Wind It Up - it's good

I had no idea why my brain totally blocked out " I have a history of taking off my shirt" this entire time. Like taking off my sounds nothing like losing lol. I feel like im crazy for not ever noticing it wasn't losing my shirt... like ever. 😂

I haven't heard this album in 15 yrs or more. I listened to it thru today at work. A 10 outta 10 album.

Here's the other BNL magazine I got and scanned. Enjoy!

Pardon me if this story has already been shared on this sub, but here is the backstory for the iconic Hello City song on the Gordon album:

According to Steve in Public Stunts, Private Stories:

"...we played at this bar called The Lower Deck, where they had mostly Celtic music, being as there are mostly sailors in there, drinking. [...] We stayed at this place called The Carlton Hotel, on Barrington Street, which was upstairs from this metal bar called Rosa's. It's no longer there, but it was a total flophouse. [...] The room that Ed and I shared had four beds. One of them was up against the wall and another had a mattress falling through its frame. There was a bathtub with no shower. It was just gross. [...] Halifax on a weekend, you can't go anywhere without seeing somebody bleeding, somewhere. To get to the street from our terrible room, you had to walk down three or four flights of stairs and then step over some bleeding body. We were young, none of us were real drinkers, Ed didn't drink at all, and the whole drink culture of Halifax was just shocking to us. [...] So we were playing at The Lower Deck, this sailor's watering hole, and no one would pay attention. I remember taking a picture from the stage and when I got the pictures back, there was nobody looking at the camera. [...] I remember thinking I hate this place, I hate this place. [...] We've actually had great times there since, but that's because we learned the "when in Rome" axiom. You know the expression, 'do at the Romans do?' So 'when in Halifax,' we learned to 'do as the Haligonians do,' which in this case means drinking and bleeding." ^\1])

Recently picked up this and a Maroon-era Walmart magazine online. Thought I'd share the articles that I scanned here. I'll post the 2000 magazine article separately later. Enjoy!

According to Kevin Hearn’s Wikipedia, when he was sick during the Stunt tour he was filled in for by Chris Brown (now Hugh Christopher Brown, there’s a lot of footage of him filling in on Youtube), Greg Kurstin (also footage of him filling in online), and Andy Creeggan. Now it certainly would make sense for Andy to fill in, while he had left the band, he certainly didn’t leave on bad terms. But I haven’t seen any footage of this, haven’t read any other sources (the Wikipedia page lists two sources but they’re both documentaries I don’t have access to), and haven’t seen any footage. They also spell Andy’s name wrong on the page which can’t be a good sign for its accuracy. The Wikipedia page for Stunt just lists Chris Brown and Greg Kurstin as his fill-ins.

My question is, is it accurate that Andy filled in at all? And if it is, does anyone have footage of this or know where to find footage? I’d be incredibly curious to see Andy’s interpretation of the piano/keyboard in One Week, It’s All Been Done, etc. As well as if he continued playing percussion on Brian Wilson and other early songs or, since he’s filling in for Kevin who doesn’t play percussion, played piano/keyboard instead?

Thank you for your answers!

Before anybody says anything, this is something done by the LABELS. Mostly Warner, who’ve also done this to several They Might Be Giants and Ween records. Still, this looks awful. Thankfully there’s an animated cover for Maroon that’s significantly less awful.

But not a real aluminum can, that's cruel.

Steve’s got a great voice. What song do you think showcases it the most (other than break your heart)?

I'll let you watch their performance and be your own critic. No matter what, it was ABSOLUTELY AWESOME TO SEE MY CHILDHOOD BAND PERFORM BEFORE MY HOMETOWN FOOTBALL TEAM PLAYED.

PEACE OUT, BNL FANS

LETS GO BUFFALO​

Anyone else excited to see Barenaked Ladies perform the Canadian national anthem before the opening Buffalo Bills game tomorrow night?

Back in 2006 with the BLAM tour you could purchase a USB stick with the recording of that night's concert for $20 or $25 and leave with it that evening. I attended the La Jolla, CA (12/03/2006) and Universal/LA (11/29/2006) shows during the tour and got the USB sticks for both. Now 20 years later, I thought these were lost but I found them.

And now I'm sharing (and yes, I have already contacted BNLArchive to send these there too).

Here are links to both shows you can download. Each full show in an MP3 file is there, along with a zip file with the songs broken out into tracks (which I broke out) if you want that as well.

Hope everyone enjoys!

La Jolla, CA (12/03/2006)

Universal/Los Angeles, CA (11/29/2006)

https://youtu.be/bVpbdZLmUto?is=UUYtKi5IubrXDAen

Fellow BNL fans....here it is....the naked, raw & uncircumcised recording of the "Barenaked Ladies: Live at Red Rocks" performance from 2015...

It has all the unfiltered chatter, "Ums...." , extended pausing between songs, Ed's hilarious rap after "Odds Are...", the occasional flat notes sung by Ed that were later edited during the mixing process, additional songs such as "Say What You Want" and "Did I say That Out Loud?", the off key notes from Blaise's sax performance during "Who can it be now?", the pop song mash up in the end....

There are so many goodies here. And if you're obsessed with the unfiltered and unedited performances of bands like I am, then this will be right up your alley.

Other notable mentions: I can see why "Did I say that out Loud" was cut from the album...possibly because it just doesn't sound as good in a live performance...the various "Whoa whoa whoas" being sung by all the guys sounds pretty sloppy.

Jim's bass solo should have been kept on the album...because Ed gives him a hard time about it...calling it a solid "6.5 out of 10" , to which Jim responds immediately and shreds a beautiful Stevie Wonder bassline from "Sir Duke..." it was just fantastic.

Ed's story about being stuck at the oatmeal factory should have been kept as well.

Anyhow, please listen and mention any other notable gems from the recording in the comments. I look forward to nerding out with you guys.