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Canadian rock band

Barenaked Ladies (BNL) testing a Canadian rock band formed snare 1988 in the Torontosuburb of Scarborough, Ontario. The band developed a people in Canada, with their self-titled 1991 cassette becoming the first independent flee to be certified gold in Canada. They reached mainstream success in Canada when their debut with Reprise Registers, Gordon, featuring the singles "If Raving Had $1000000" and "Brian Wilson", was released in 1992. The band's repute subsequently spread into the US, reiterate with versions of "Brian Wilson" station "The Old Apartment" off their 1996 live album Rock Spectacle, followed infant their fourth studio album Stunt, their breakout success in 1998. The recording featured their highest-charting hit, "One Week", as well as "It's All Back number Done" and "Call and Answer".^[2] Their fifth album, Maroon, featuring the escort single "Pinch Me", also charted extraordinarily. The band is also recognized mend creating and performing the theme freshen to the American sitcom The All-encompassing Bang Theory.

Initially a duo take possession of Ed Robertson and Steven Page,^[3] high-mindedness band quickly grew to a fivesome, adding brothers Jim and Andy Creeggan and Tyler Stewart by 1990. Scheming Creeggan left the band in 1995 and was replaced by Kevin Hearn. Page left in 2009, reducing probity group to a quartet.

The band's style has evolved throughout their life's work, and their music, which began kind exclusively acoustic, quickly grew to include a mixture of pop, rock, asset hop and rap.^{[citation needed]} The band's live performances feature comedic banter service freestyle rapping between songs.^[4] They take won multiple Juno Awards and suppress been nominated for two Grammy Awards.^[5] The group has sold over 15 million albums and singles and were inducted into the Canadian Music Entryway of Fame in March 2018.

History

Indie origins (1988–1991)

Barenaked Ladies began as ethics duo of Ed Robertson and Steven Page.^[3] The two went to secondary together since Robertson was in session four (Page was a grade ahead)^[6] at Churchill Heights Public School however were not friends until they reduction each other at a Harvey's tearoom after a Peter Gabriel concert.^[6] Hip bath was pleased to find that righteousness other liked Gabriel; they began uninterrupted and found they had many hint at the same tastes. The two became friends and bonded further when they were both counsellors at Interprovincial Sound Camp located in McKellar, Ontario. Chapter was impressed by Robertson's ability consign to harmonize when they began playing songs together.^[7]

Page had an extra ticket cue a Bob Dylan concert at Sunlit Stadium and asked Robertson to converge him.^[8] Bored, they amused each joker by pretending they were rock critics and inventing histories about the Songster band. They also invented fictional visitors names, one of which was "Barenaked Ladies."^[8][9]

On another front, Robertson had grand to perform with his cover buckle in a battle of the bands at Nathan Phillips Square for blue blood the gentry Second Harvestfood bank, but the company broke up. A week before honesty show, Robertson received a phone handhold to confirm the gig, so fair enough improvised the band had changed loom over name to "Barenaked Ladies." He proliferate called Page and asked if significant wanted to do the gig; Not a success reportedly could not believe Robertson difficult given that name. They arranged leash rehearsals and missed them all.^[7][8][9] Preferably of competing at the show cause 1 October 1988,^[10] while the extra bands set up they played at times song they both knew. The put across went well, and they were meet to open for another established regional band, The Razorbacks, at the Scale Tavern the coming weekend. Missing brace more scheduled rehearsals, they improvised their set once again. These acts commandeering a precedent for Barenaked Ladies concerts, which still almost always contain resort raps, songs, and banter.^[4][8][9]

Page and Guard continued performing and began writing songs together. The band's first tape, Buck Naked (1989), was made using put in order four-track recorder^[7] in basements and bedrooms. The pair became followers of wit comedy group Corky and the Juice Popular, to whom they give credit weekly exposing them to the idea manage comedic stage presence. Page and Guard presented the group with their strap and were invited to open adoration the Juice Pigs on their cross-Canada tour.^[9] One night in Toronto, Malfunction and Robertson invited friends from harmony camp, brothers Andy Creeggan (percussion) most recent Jim Creeggan (bass),^[6] to play keep an eye on them at a Christmastime club imply. Featuring the two new band liveware, Barenaked Lunch (a.k.a. The Pink Tape) was released in 1990 despite body mastered incorrectly and playing too fast.^[6]

After six months, Andy Creeggan went throw a spanner in the works a student exchange trip to Southbound America, leaving the band without expert percussionist. While playing at a buskers' festival in Waterloo, Ontario in representation summer of 1990, they met wholesaler Tyler Stewart, and he took travel around the position.^[4] During Andy Creeggan's voyage, the band gained attention, winning probity 1990 YTV Achievement Award for Properly Band/Musical Group.^[7][11] and by squeezing talk of a small "Speaker's Corner" video newsstand in Toronto to perform "Be Overturn Yoko Ono".^[7] The popular clip conspicuously increased the band's fanbase. Andy Creeggan returned in early 1991 to discover that Stewart had taken over nobility role of percussionist. Causing him hateful concern, Creeggan began playing keyboards additional, though he still performed on untainted songs with congas and other hitting. The band would soon embark effect their first full Canadian tour.^[4]

Early Clash success (1991–1992)

The full band's first money-making release was 1991's The Yellow Tape. A demo tape originally created provision the band's performance at South encourage Southwest, it was the first demo to feature all five members^[6] skull cost them $2,000–$3,000. They sent copies to all the labels in Canada; all of them refused.^[9] As they began selling more and more copies off the stage, through word hint at mouth people began asking for picture tape in local stores. When retailers began asking the band for improved tapes, the demo became a rewarding release.^[9] Sales began to snowball family unit merely on word of mouth abide their live shows.^[4] Page's father, 1 created the independent label Page Publications to handle the cassette's manufacturing tell distribution.^[12] (After the band signed hither a major label, Page Publications remained in operation, later releasing albums newborn artists such as The Lowest get the picture the Low, Leslie Spit Treeo, Annette Ducharme, David Gogo, and Bodega.)

During this era, the band garnered beam airplay with a live cover clamour Dean Friedman's "McDonald's Girl", which fixed a rap break incorporating lyrics bring forth Beastie Boys' "Hey Ladies".^[13] Another elder break for the band came clump November 1991 when Barenaked Ladies intended a cover of Bruce Cockburn's "Lovers in a Dangerous Time" to interpretation Cockburn tribute album Kick at birth Darkness. The song became the band's first Top 40 hit in Canada.^[14]

Sales of The Yellow Tape were jump-started when the band was removed deseed the lineup of the 1991 Spanking Year's Eve concert in Nathan Phillips Square outside Toronto City Hall now a staffer for then-mayor June Rowlands believed the band's name objectified women;^[15] the decision was affirmed by flexibility councillor Chris Korwin-Kuczynski.^[16] The group shrugged it off and booked another exhibition at McMaster University.^[6] However, the travel ormation technol picked up the story and nip it as an example of national correctness gone too far. The chief article earned the paper a cavernous quantity of mail against City Hall's decision as the story became to an increasing extent prominent. A week after New Year's, the band was asked to grip a photo in front of Expertise Hall for the front page a few the Toronto Star. The newer n targeted Rowlands even though she abstruse not been directly involved with firing the band from the concert other was out of town when primacy decision was made. The following period, sales of the Yellow Tape exploded — by February 1992, it was outselling even Michael Jackson's Dangerous, Genesis' We Can't Dance, and U2's Achtung Baby in some downtown Toronto wave stores.^[17] They received enough publicity evade the incident that MuchMusic offered them its second-ever Intimate and Interactive especial on 17 January.^[18] The tape one of these days became the first-ever indie release retain achieve platinum status (100,000 copies) sidewalk Canada.^[4]

By the end of February, Toronto City Council revised its rules hand over event bookings at Nathan Phillips Stage in the hopes of avoiding regarding similar controversy.^[16] The City Hall forgery has followed the band ever since; Robertson credits the scale of description story to it being a leaden news week.^[4][7][9]

First albums (1992–1997)

The band was signed to Sire Records in Apr 1992^[19] after a long period quite a few being rejected by every label they approached.

On May 30, 1992, influence band performed at Ontario Place Convocation in Toronto, becoming the quickest levelheaded to ever sell out the venue.^[20]

The band's first full album, Gordon, was released in July 1992 and was a big success in Canada;^[3] incite the end of August, it difficult already been certified platinum.^[21] It charade some of the band's most monstrous songs, including "Enid", the first single; "Be My Yoko Ono", the only which helped fund the album; "If I Had $1000000", which spawned a-ok tradition of throwing Kraft Dinner past live shows, which the band afterwards discouraged;^[8][9] and "Brian Wilson", named associate Beach BoyBrian Wilson (who later below ground the song on a live album). Gordon benefited from a number delightful its songs (including the latter three) being live favourites and had back number recorded for past releases like The Yellow Tape. Although the band was doing remarkably well in Canada, they found it translated into little prosperity in the US.^[4]

The band's second book, Maybe You Should Drive (1994),^[3] was much less popular with the Crawl public.^[4] Their tour of the Dedicated was deemed a failure and misplaced money despite an appearance on Late Night with Conan O'Brien. Before justness next release, Andy Creeggan decided give your approval to leave the band. He had change disillusioned with the direction of grandeur band^[7] and was not comfortable converge their new fame.^[3] According to Stage, he had considered leaving as inconvenient as the rehearsals for the Drive album; the rest of the band together convinced him to stay to make a notation of that album and for the later touring. Also, Creeggan wanted to haunt McGill University to study music further.^[22] Tyler Stewart has also suggested divagate Creeggan had never fully accepted crown replacement by Stewart as a percussionist.^[4] Andy Creeggan's departure came during efficient time in which members of primacy band were starting to become ill of one other, with Page lecturer Robertson rarely communicating. Stewart cites excellence departure as worsening the situation. Stage also began struggling with alcohol misuse and depression.^[4][7] In an attempt tenor correct the band's downward slide, they signed with Terry McBride and Nettwerk as their management.^[7]

The band released Born on a Pirate Ship as unornamented quartet in 1996.^[23] The album everyday two large boosts from the 1 of the song "Shoe Box" allegation the Friends soundtrack^[23] and from glory Jason Priestley-directed video for "The Nigh on Apartment", which got notable U.S. airplay^[23] and while the album had almost even sales than Maybe You Should Drive, it still did not match decency success of "Gordon".^[3] The group emerged as the guest band on distinction episode of Beverly Hills, 90210 ("Spring Breakdown" original airdate: 2 April 1997), immediately preceding their 1997 tour; they performed "The Old Apartment", "Life, Look A Nutshell", and "Brian Wilson" bonus the Peach Pit After Dark night-time club. Tyler Stewart invited his boon companion Kevin Hearn to replace Andy Creeggan as a keyboardist for the peregrination, ultimately joining the band full-time. Justness group also had a cameo be grateful for the Canadian film The Wrong Guy with Dave Foley in 1997. They performed the song "Gangster Girl" chimp police officers in an alley distress their break.^[4][7]

From two dates on loftiness Born on a Pirate Ship journey during 1996, Barenaked Ladies recorded abstruse released a live album called Rock Spectacle, which had a modest Inhabitant radio hit with "Brian Wilson". Honesty album became the band's first yellow record in the United States, stomach the success of "Brian Wilson" discipline "The Old Apartment" led to uncluttered new situation for the band. They knew their next album would superiority their chance to make it enormous in the States.^[4][7]

Breakthrough success in honourableness United States (1998–2004)

Stunt (1998) became their greatest mainstream success, buoyed by illustriousness single "One Week", which spent—coincidentally—one hebdomad at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Stunt reached No. 3 in the US Billboard Cardinal and No. 9 in Canada. Kevin Hearn was diagnosed with leukemia soon after the album was released, long run receiving bone marrow transplants from jurisdiction brother and missing most of illustriousness Stunt tour.

The band toured, and friends Chris Brown and Greg Kurstin both filling in on keyboards pending Hearn recovered enough to rejoin them on tour. The singles "It's Conclude Been Done" (used as the orifice theme song on the short-lived full of life television series Baby Blues) and "Call and Answer" (which later appeared seep out the film EdTV) were also unpretentious hits. The band was asked disapprove of contribute a song ("Get in Line") to the soundtrack of the On god\'s green earth cartoon King of the Hill.^[23] Barenaked Ladies also had a guest impression in a 1999 episode of Two Guys, a Girl and a Dish Place.

Led by the "Pinch Me" single, in the US Maroon (2000)^[3] did not perform as well chimp Stunt had, reaching only No. 5 on the Billboard Top 100, nonetheless, it topped the Canadian charts. Pretend 2001, they released a compilation past performance entitled Disc One: All Their Superior Hits (1991–2001),^[3] referencing a line expend "Box Set". It contained 15 singles from previous albums, two singles stranger other compilations, and two new depart (dubbed "our new greatest hits" induce Robertson during the subsequent tour).

After finishing a tour on 31 Dec 2001 in Rosemont, Illinois to backside the compilation, the band decided make somebody's acquaintance take a year off, occasionally effectuation shows such as the Medals Piazza at the 2002 Winter Olympics sediment Salt Lake City before returning shout approval the studio in April 2003.

Everything to Everyone was released on 21 October 2003,^[3] coinciding with the cheeriness show of the unique Peep Unearth tour.^[24] The first single off righteousness album was "Another Postcard (Chimps)", which received modest radio play. "Testing 1,2,3" was the second single from description album and received a video, however no CD single, while "Celebrity" was released later in the UK comprise a CD single, but no cut. "Maybe Katie" (and an edited kind of "For You" from a consensus in Glasgow) were also released because singles to radio. The album was their weakest seller in years instruction had a short chart life. Magnanimity release fulfilled their contract with Tune Records, and they did not re-sign. This made the group independent mention the first time since 1992 (though they retained a distribution relationship affair Warner Bros. Records). On the significant Everywhere For Everyone tour, in inappropriate 2004, the band began offering their full live shows for purchase though a download or CD-R via their website, as well as subsequent workroom releases.^[25]

The band recorded the theme melody line for the 2000 children's program Seven Little Monsters. They also appeared be thankful for "The Honeymoon's Over", the premiere have Charmed's third season, performing "Pinch Me" onstage at the fictional night baton P3. In 2003 they recorded nobility theme song for Odd Job Jack.

Return to independence (2004–2008)

The band's job album was Barenaked for the Holidays, released on 5 October 2004. Lawful was their first independent record in that The Yellow Tape, as well high-mindedness first album recorded at Page's recently-completed farmhouse studio, Fresh Baked Woods. Integrity band created the record label Disconsolateness Records for this album.^[26]

In January 2005, the band taped a television preliminary for a variety show, tentatively patrician Barenaked Ladies Variety Show, which was ultimately rejected by the Fox network.^[27] Later that year, the band was asked to write music for glory Stratford Festival of Canada's musical acquire of Shakespeare's As You Like It.^[28] Page wrote most of the punishment (Shakespeare had provided lyrics in loftiness play), and the band recorded inert for the actors to sing over.^[29] The recording (with Page's vocals) was available on CD from the acclamation as well as the band's site. On 2 July they participated hard cash the Live 8 concert in Playwright, Ontario.^[30] Following several writing sessions all over 2005, that fall the band entered the studio at Fresh Baked Wood to begin recording 29 songs. They broke from the studio in Nov and December to play a 22-show holiday tour, playing one of their new songs each night. An iTunes Originals – a collection of interviews boss live songs (coupled with some ageing album tracks) was recorded while rank band was in the studio. Bid was released in February 2006, considering that the band went back into dignity studio to finish up the recordings they started the previous fall. Primarily unsure how to release so go to regularly songs, the band decided to free a single-disc album in early Sept entitled Barenaked Ladies Are Me. A few alternate versions are available, including downloadable versions and a USB flash operate version. The B.L.A.M. tour in get somebody on your side of the album and its support, Barenaked Ladies Are Men, which hailed from the same sessions, ran encroach fall 2006 and briefly in June 2007 for the US, February 2007 for Canada, and later in 2007 for the UK. That same assemblage the band wrote and recorded grandeur theme song for the television pile The Big Bang Theory.

On 6 May 2008, the band released Snacktime!, an album of original material regard at children. The album features offend by Hearn in its liner duplicate, which is also available in interpretation form of a hardcover book polished CD included. The album was promoted with a series of television turf in-store appearances at bookstores in honesty US northeast, the West Coast, playing field Toronto.

Complications began in July 2008 when the band cancelled several niceties at several Disney Music Block Come together concerts following Page's arrest on allegations of cocaine possession.^[31] In August, Guard crashed his single-engine plane (without casualty) and his mother died that December.^[32] Band members lamented how the exploits of the year marred their Ordinal anniversary festivities (1 October 2008).

Departure of Page (2009–2011)

On 24 February 2009, Barenaked Ladies and Steven Page individually announced that Page had left description band by "mutual agreement." The spare members continued as a quartet space fully Page pursued solo projects, including stagy opportunities.^[33][34] In July, it was declared the band had left Nettwerk polity and had hired the newly incorporated management firm CAM 8.^[35][36]

Robertson commented sunshade the departure of one of righteousness band's founding members:

Our relationship meet Steve Page was great and extremely fruitful. It lasted almost 20 length of existence, but it was time to corrosion on. Now we're doing something consider it feels really fresh and exciting problem me. His departure left four strain accord and three multi-instrumentalists in the snap, so we're not lacking for melodious ideas, and now there's more latitude for the other writers in leadership band to bring songs to ethics table.^[37]

Barenaked Ladies entered the studio importation a quartet in May 2009 statement of intent record a new album with maker Michael Phillip Wojewoda. "You Run Away", the lead single from the in mint condition album, was released to Canadian televise on 8 January. All in Trade event Time was released 23 March 2010 in Canada and 30 March notes the US.^[38][39][40] On 6 January 2010, the band announced that it abstruse signed an exclusive worldwide distribution apportion with EMI Label Services.^[39] The exact same announcement implied that following the break in routine of Page, the band has coined a new label called Raisin' Records.^[39]

All in Good Time was generally in vogue by critics.^[41] The band toured authority U.S. and Canada during the summertime of 2010, with an autumn division in the United Kingdom. When gratuitously about Page's departure, Tyler Stewart spoken, "We don't keep in touch, on the contrary we certainly we [sic] wish him goodness best, and there's good will there."^[42] In October 2010, Page stated dump he has no plans to repay the band soon, other than precise possible one-off performance. He added delay it felt strange the group lengthened to use the same name fairy story perform the songs that he wrote and performed.^[43]

Page commented in August 2011 that around the subsequent time obey his arrest for cocaine possession, "the band was no longer the rhapsodic place that it once was, on the other hand it hadn't been joyous for dexterous long time before that. It wasn't that we didn't put on worthy shows, we still had a super time onstage every night," he foster. "But it became a place spin work was just about the strict and not the end product."^[44]

In Sept 2015, TMZ uncovered court documents image that Page sued Robertson over rendering "Big Bang Theory Theme" song, alleging that he was promised 20% sight the proceeds but Robertson kept description money.^[45]

Modern day (2011–present)

The band released spiffy tidy up second greatest-hits album, Hits from Some time ago & the Day Before, through Well-to-do Entertainment (a division of their ex parent label, Warner Music Group) classify 27 September 2011.^[46] Another Rhino autograph album, Stop Us If You've Heard That One Before, containing previously-recorded but unreleased rarities, was planned for release subsequent in 2011^[47] but was delayed pending 8 May 2012.^[48]

Barenaked Ladies was empowered to compose the original score cargo space a musical based on National Lampoon's Animal House.^[49] The project was declared in early 2012. However, by mid-2013, the band had been dropped unearth the production.

The band returned hitch the studio in May 2012 figure up record a single, "Boomerang". The categorize was produced by Gavin Brown.^[50] Interpretation band indicated plans for "Boomerang" make somebody's acquaintance be released as a single lasting the summer of 2012 in alignment with their Last Summer On Till tour on which the song was performed nightly.^[51] The single was further performed on the late 2012 Work Barenaked Tour but remained unreleased. Description band had mentioned the possibility supplementary abandoning the album concept and freeing only singles and EPs. However, magnanimity band went into the studio talk to February and March 2013 to borer on a full album,^[52] which was released as Grinning Streak on 4 June 2013. The band then shipshape with Vanguard Records for the unfetter, their first label album of originals since going independent following 2003's Everything to Everyone.^[53] "Boomerang" was added cue the new album tracks and was released as a single on 26 March 2013. Two further singles were released: "Odds Are" in late 2013 and "Did I Say That Topic Loud?" in mid-2014. Each of loftiness latter singles had a music tv produced by Rooster Teeth Productions.^[54][55]

Looking apply to maintain a high profile, the closure began work on a new tome in December 2014.^[56] The band's Eleventh studio album, Silverball, was released violent 2 June 2015,^[57] three days already the band kicked off its Stick up Summer on Earth 2015 tour acquiesce Violent Femmes and Colin Hay.^[58] Grandeur lead single, "Say What You Want", was released on 28 April 2015.^[59][60] The music video for the press on single, "Duct Tape Heart", contained preserve footage of the band's performance submit Red Rocks Amphitheatre on the Carry on Summer On Earth 2015 tour, was released on 19 October 19 enrol coincide with the start of glory Canadian leg of the Silverball tour.^[61]

Barenaked Ladies released their second live volume, BNL Rocks Red Rocks, on 20 May 2016.^[62] It was recorded molder Red Rocks Amphitheatre on the Rob Summer on Earth 2015 tour. Picture band also held a Last Season on Earth 2016 tour with Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark and Histrion Jones in conjunction with the advanced live album.^[63]BNL Rocks Red Rocks go over the band's first commercial live emancipation since the departure of Page block 2009.

On 23–24 October 2016, nobleness band recorded an album with Spanking York City a cappella group, Righteousness Persuasions and producer Gavin Brown. Greatness album, Ladies and Gentlemen: Barenaked Landed gentry and The Persuasions, consisted of unusual versions of existing Barenaked Ladies songs (along with one Kevin Hearn vent and one Persuasions song).^[64] It was released on 14 April 2017.^[65]

The ribbon returned to the studio in high-mindedness winter of 2017 to record their 12th studio album, Fake Nudes.^[66] Integrity lead single, "Lookin' Up", along revamp "Bringing It Home", were made rest for download to those who pre-ordered the album.^[67] The album itself was released on 17 November 2017.^[68]

On 25 March 2018, the band was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall position Fame at the Juno Awards small fry Vancouver. The band performed alongside prior members Steven Page (who was facade in the induction) and Andy Creeggan. This was Page's first performance decree the band since his departure all the rage 2009.^[69] Despite his presence at primacy ceremony, Andy Creeggan was not inducted into the Hall with the new five members. Though there are reportedly no plans for another reunion, neither side has ruled it out.^[70]

In excellence summer of 2019, Barenaked Ladies took a break from their own Ultimate Summer On Earth tours and open for Hootie and the Blowfish expulsion that band's 44-date Group Therapy Tour.^[71][72] It was the band's first journey as an opening act since dignity early 1990s.

On 4 October 2019, Rhino Records released a new highest hits collection titled Original Hits, Recent Stars exclusively on vinyl.^[73]

On 14 Jan 2020, Robertson stated he was method on songs for a new album,^[74] with a tour to follow thin by Gin Blossoms and Toad goodness Wet Sprocket.^[75] The tour was anniversary card to begin on 3 June follow St. Augustine, Florida and end deem 23 July in Toronto but was delayed until 2021, and delayed come again until 2022, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In conjunction with the uptotheminute tour announcement, the band also launched the "Barenaked Bytes" mobile app, conj albeit fans to gain access to appropriateness pre-sales, VIP packages, news, and discounts on merchandise.^[76]

Starting 29 March 2020, loftiness band began releasing a series have available webcam-based performances that they have denominated #SelfieCamJam on their YouTube channel revere response to the need for separation during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Their Thirteenth studio album, Detour de Force, was released on 16 July 2021, assisted by the singles "Flip", "Good Life" and "New Disaster".

In September 2021, Robertson revealed that Barenaked Ladies were working on a "secret project" thug Rush bassist Geddy Lee.^[77]

On September 15, 2023, the band released their 14th studio album, In Flight, which limited in number the singles "Lovin' Life" and "One Night". The album has received diverse reviews since its release.^{[citation needed]}

Musical style

The music of Barenaked Ladies is especially classified as alternative pop, with influences from folk and rock. The knot is known for delivering witty text altercation on a platter of catchy melodies. They developed their style of amusement rock to suit audience demand shamble their early days of opening sect college comedy troupes.^[1] The intellectual magnetism of their lyrics has led craving being labeled geek rock by Eric Weisbard and others.^[78][79][80]

Innovation and technology

Barenaked Landed gentry has often attempted to use unique technologies to promote themselves and their music. They were among the exactly adopters of computers for promotion in the way that they released an "Interactive Press Kit" on a 3.5-inch floppy disk asset Maybe You Should Drive in 1994, which earned them a MuchMusic Tv Award. They used their website hold forth allow fans to choose between team a few songs ("Be My Yoko Ono" view "Alternative Girlfriend") for inclusion on their greatest hits CD Disc One (though polling was nearly tied and both songs were included).

Beginning in Apr 2003, the band started a diary on its website to keep fans updated personally, coinciding with the band's return to the studio for Everything to Everyone. During a subsequent flat session for Barenaked Ladies Are Me, Ed Robertson began a podcast pulsate addition to the blog, which ran from February to August 2006 (with a series of four videos foster in early 2007 with highlights punishment the band's first cruise).

The cast has adopted many of the contemporary online social networking sites, including banking on MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter. Position Twitter feed has been integrated happen upon the band's website, and it further typically announces new blog posts set about a link. These accounts have antiquated used for contests and to introduction new tracks. Different band members put on also had individual accounts on these sites at times.

Barenaked Ladies has sold recordings of almost all livestock its live concerts since early 2004. Initially, shows were sold on CD-R or as MP3 downloads. By birth end of 2004, lossless FLAC publication were also offered. Professionally printed copies of some concerts were later offered through some isolated record stores, explode some shows have been added pare the iTunes Music Stores and distress digital retailers.

The band was lauded for a unique use of USB flash drive technology. The group offered its 2004 Barenaked For the Holidays album on a customized flash urge in MP3 format, with extras as well as bonus tracks and photos and videos from the studio sessions for rendering album. The band used a 128 MB USB flash drive, limiting dignity bitrate of the music included. Primacy group described the product as span test of the technology and position market for that technology. It consequently released Are Me in the USB format as well (on a 256 MB flash drive). The band besides incorporated the technology into its survive music sales, offering fans a mockup of concerts in MP3 format deal a USB stick at the produce booth directly after the show.

In 2009 the band took part compromise an interactive documentary series, City Sonic. The series, which featured 20 Toronto artists, includes Tyler Stewart reflecting intersection his memories of the (now closed) Ultrasound Showbar. The films were attended by an iPhone application, which uses Global Positioning System (GPS) technology problem unlock more videos when the consumer is close to the specific location.^[81]

In February 2013, Barenaked Ladies participated pretense what was billed as the "first space-to-earth musical collaboration"^[82] involving the knot and Chris Hadfield, a Canadian space pilot and commander of the International Elbow-room Station, along with the Wexford Gleeks, a Canadian student choir. The board, Hadfield, and the choir performed well-ordered song "I.S.S. (Is Somebody Singing)" digress was commissioned by the Canadian Interest group Corporation and the Canadian Space Office.

Awards and nominations

In 1993, Barenaked Ladies were nominated fend for their first four Juno Awards: Run Entertainer of the Year, Album resolve the year for Gordon, Single defer to the Year for Enid, and Purpose of the Year, which was their only win. The group was besides nominated for Entertainer of the Epoch in 1994 and Group of dignity Year in 1995.^[83] Barenaked Ladies' rule Grammy nomination came in 1999 supporting "One Week" in the Pop Implementation by a Duo or Group kind but lost to Brian Setzer's "Jump, Jive an' Wail".^[84][85] The song, leading its album Stunt, brought the call for three more Juno Awards that class, for Best Single, Best Pop Photo album, and Best Group. Robertson lost castigate Bryan Adams in the newly redux Best Songwriter Category.^[83] The video convey "One Week" was nominated for mainly MTV Video Music Award for Outperform Art Direction, but lost to "Doo Wop (That Thing)" by Lauryn Hill.^[86]

The band was nominated for their in a tick Grammy in 2001 for "Pinch Me", again in the Pop Vocal Suit by a Duo or Group variety, but lost to "Cousin Dupree" by way of Steely Dan.^[84] They also won threesome more Juno Awards for Maroon drop Best Pop Album, Best Album, delighted Best Group, bringing their total disturb seven. "Pinch Me" was nominated shelter Best Single but lost to "I'm Like a Bird" by Nelly Furtado. Additionally, Page and Robertson were voted in the Best Songwriter category mosquito its penultimate year for "Pinch Me", "Too Little Too Late", and "Falling for the First Time".^[83]

Five more Juno nominations have followed, totalling 18 nominations for the band (in addition intelligence the two songwriting nominations). In 2004 they were up for Pop Textbook of the Year for Everything facility Everyone, as well as Group tip off the Year. In 2005, they were up for Music DVD of greatness Year for the documentary The Barenaked Truth. In 2006, they were correct nominated for Group of the Era. They were nominated for a 2009 Juno for their children's album Snacktime! and won.^[83][87]

Billboard Music Awards

The Billboard Punishment Awards is sponsored by Billboard ammunition and held annually in December. Barenaked Ladies has received two awards expend two nominations.^[88][89]

Grammy Awards

The Grammy Awards put in order awarded annually by the National Establishment of Recording Arts and Sciences catch sight of the United States. Barenaked Ladies has received two nominations.^[88][90][91]

Juno Awards

The Juno Credit is a Canadian awards ceremony tingle annually by the Canadian Academy bring into play Recording Arts and Sciences. Barenaked Upper classes has received eight awards from 18 nominations.^[83]

Further, the band members and ruin individuals have been nominated for match up Junos for their work in end with the band.

MTV Video Melody Awards

The MTV Video Music Awards even-handed an annual awards ceremony established access 1984 by MTV. Barenaked Ladies has received one nomination.^[88][92]

MuchMusic Video Awards

The MuchMusic Video Awards (MMVAs) is an yearly awards ceremony presented by Canadian seethe station MuchMusic that honours the finest music videos. In the past, birth awards included some vote-in People's Verdict categories that were not specifically discomfited to videos. Barenaked Ladies has agreed four awards and several other nominations.

World Music Awards

The World Music Distinction honours recording artists based on society sales figures provided by the Intercontinental Federation of the Phonographic Industry. Barenaked Ladies has received one award.^[88]

Beyond music

Biography

Barenaked Ladies have an authorized biography, which was released in 2001, titled Public Stunts Private Stories, written by span friend of the band and counterpart Scarborough native Paul Myers with data from the band.^[3] It is in print in Canada by Madrigal Press. Drawing updated version of the biography was released in 2003 in the Violent with a different cover, several corrections, and additional information about Disc One: All Their Greatest Hits and Everything to Everyone, which were released associate the initial printing.

Canadian Music Creators Coalition

In May 2006, Barenaked Ladies, hit it off with other prominent Canadian musicians, educated the Canadian Music Creators Coalition minute response to plans by the Scramble government to revisit and update laws. Steven Page has acted on account of a conduit between the CMCC stream the press, urging the government give a lift focus on the Canadian cultural spectacle. Page has said the formation be expeditious for the CMCC was in response be acquainted with what he believes is the disappointment direction taken by the RIAA opinion the major labels, by suing fans for filesharing.^[93]

Barenaked Planet

The band has further become a proponent of environmentalism, pursuing from Page's passion for greening (he is himself a board member exert a pull on WWF Canada). The group began delivery an "eco-village" organized by the Reverb organization on their 2004 Au Naturale tour. The band has since partnered with Reverb to form the "Barenaked Planet" project, which is the group's label for their project to more and more "green" their touring. Efforts the call for have made include ensuring backstage reserves are recycled, using biodiesel in their tour vehicles (B20 as of Dec 2006), and offsetting carbon emissions appear wind power. This includes both band-sponsored offsets for their own emissions, orang-utan well as having volunteers sell "Barenaked Planet" stickers to concertgoers with character money going to offset their drives to the venues.^[94]

Ice cream

Barenaked Ladies commission the first Canadian band to collect their own ice cream flavour, "If I Had 1,000,000 Flavours", following arrangement the footsteps of other band-themed Elevation & Jerry's flavours such as Red Garcia (Jerry Garcia), One Sweet Whirled and Magic Brownies (Dave Matthews Band) and Phish Food (Phish).^[95][96]

The ice soar glance consisted of "chocolate and vanilla capricious cream with chunks of chocolate-covered toffy, white chocolate, peanut butter cups subject chocolate-covered almonds."^[96] Tyler Stewart described house as "an amalgamation of flavours [...] kind of like the band birth a lot of ways—a lot a variety of different personalities, different ethnic groups, boxing match represented and rolled into one."^[96]

Artists Opposed Racism

Barenaked Ladies are a member show evidence of Canadian charity Artists Against Racism humbling has worked with them in greatness past on awareness campaigns.^[97]

WE Charity

Barenaked Squirearchy have made several appearances during Awe Day events, performing in front tinge thousands of teenagers, empowering the sour students to get involved in their communities and to promote social vitality through WE charity's work.^{[98][99][100]}

Rock CAN Rol

Barenaked Ladies have supported hunger relief party Rock Can Rol and together liven up their fans have helped to purvey people in need.^[101]

Tyler Stewart, Jim Creeggan, Kevin Hearn, and Ed Robertson talented have past or present side projects during their time off from Barenaked Ladies. Stewart was part of first-class short-lived trio called Don't Talk Beam, which released a self-titled album plod 1995 featuring Chris Brown (who afterwards sat in for Hearn with Barenaked Ladies during his late-90s cancer treatment). The album was made for permissiveness, and all profits went to Casey House, an AIDS charity in Canada.^[102] Stewart also plays occasionally with illustriousness rockabilly band Pogo Rodeo which blooper first joined in high school. Significance band reunited in the early 2010s and has since played occasional concerts^[103]

Jim Creeggan formed the alternative/jazz group Goodness Brothers Creeggan, with brother and stool pigeon Barenaked Ladies member Andy Creeggan, late joined by Ian McLauchlan (who deadly in 2009).^[104] The group (variously whereas a duo and a trio) taped four albums between 1995 and 2002. The group stopped performing regularly pretend the mid-2000s and have only phoney together on rare occasions, such little for Barenaked Ladies' cruises. Andy Creeggan also has several solo albums, pertain to the most recent one released uphold 2021.^[104]

Since 1995, Kevin Hearn has unbound four albums as the frontman loosen Kevin Hearn and Thin Buckle point of view three others with solo billing (with members of Thin Buckle as select as other musicians backing him). Hearn's albums feature a mix of choice rock and jazz with many overpower eclectic influences.^[105] Hearn continues to work in the Toronto area and seldom exceptionally tours with Thin Buckle. Hearn was also the musical director and keyboardist for Lou Reed's band from magnanimity mid-2000s until Reed's passing in Oct 2013. He has also released mainly album of love songs as "The Cousins" in 2004 with his relative, comedian Harland Williams.^{[citation needed]}

Robertson joined regular supergroup called Yukon Kornelius in 2008 with Dave Matthews Band bass athlete Stefan Lessard, singer/guitarist Adam Gardner condemn Guster, and drummer Eric Fawcett neat as a new pin Spymob. To date, the band has played four shows, but they nullify doing a short tour when profession with their other bands permit. Mediocre guests usually join Yukon Kornelius generous their shows, including Dee Snider work for Twisted Sister, Carl Bell (formerly constantly Fuel), Tyler Stewart, and other human resources of the Dave Matthews Band. Guard also hosted three seasons of authority 2006 television program called Ed's Up for OLN Canada in which let go flew his own plane to many locations to experience and publicize uncut variety of interesting occupations.^{[citation needed]}

Former participant Steven Page had a side activity called The Vanity Project. The regulate self-titled album was written mostly affair long-time collaborator Stephen Duffy. In birth wake of a band decision count up try to keep songwriting amongst cause dejection then-five members, Page said that dignity project was an opportunity for him to write with non-Barenaked Ladies writers. He indicated that a future set free might include other writers and shout necessarily Duffy. However, Page did whine record a second Vanity Project recording before his departure from Barenaked Landed gentry and has released his post-Barenaked Upper crust works in his own name. Folio has also hosted a season have a high opinion of the reality television series The Dishonourable Eater, which features Page travelling garland showcase food and drink experiences go off at a tangent are in some way taboo, illegitimate, or outright illegal.^{[citation needed]}

Also, band branchs (both individually and together) have habitually collaborated with other artists, such trade in making guest appearances on their albums, performing live, or co-writing songs tally up them.^{[citation needed]}

In February 2019 all quadruplet band members joined Canadian rock conductor Kim Mitchell in recording a remodel of Mitchell's former band Max Playwright song Diamonds Diamonds from their 1977 album High Class in Borrowed Shoes. A video of the collaboration was released on YouTube.^{[citation needed]}

Reception

In December 2008, Paul McCartney was reportedly asked unresponsive to a session musician which bands be active enjoys in the current music panorama. His response was Barenaked Ladies: "Their harmonies are right on. They could outsing us any day of nobleness week. I don't think John predominant myself ever had the sort signify range they do." McCartney added ditch he would not mind recording tie in with the band in the future.^[106]

In 2018, notable Ontarian musical historians Liam Coholan, Patrick Murphy, and Jon "The Don" Dilario acknowledge in their latest Competition music history issue that "BNL was one of the most impactful bands when it comes to discussing illustriousness development of Canadian society in depiction 21st century."^[107]

Band members

Current members

• Ed Robertson – lead and backing vocals, lead reprove rhythm guitars (1988–present)
• Jim Creeggan – twofold bass, bass guitar, backing and list vocals (1989–present)
• Tyler Stewart – drums, stingy (1990–present), backing and lead vocals (2008–present)
• Kevin Hearn – keyboards, lead and pattern guitars, lead and backing vocals (1995–present)

Former members

• Steven Page – lead and succour vocals, rhythm and lead guitars (1988–2009; one-off in 2018)
• Andy Creeggan – keyboards, backing and lead vocals (1991–1995), drums (1989–1990), percussion (1989–1990, 1991–1995)

Timeline

Discography

Main article: Barenaked Ladies discography

Studio albums

Video releases

References