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- Date Released: September 12, 2006
- Genre: Rock/Pop
- Style: Rock
- Label: Desperation Records / Nettwerk
Jason Priestley not included.
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On their seventh studio album, Barenaked Ladies continue to shy away from the corn-fed clowning that made them famous, even holding back on a story involving a flubbed heist and a bank full of nuns. It could be an issue of maturity or it could be one of stamina — this is their first double album, and 27 songs is an awfully long time to be zany. Still, principal songwriters Steven Page and Ed Robertson manage to slip in the occasional self-deprecating quip ("I'm a bottle of diet poison") among the mellowed, heartfelt tunes. More often, the quirks aren't thematic but musical, like when Page interrupts the Elvis Costello-ish "Running Out of Ink" with an operatic aria. The group could stand to be a little less serious when they give George Bush a good thrashing on "Fun and Games" — given the rebirth of the protest song, shouldn't Barenaked Ladies be our Country Joe? But while publicity photos prove the band are still a bunch of mugging goofballs, this album is more Broken Flowers than Meatballs.
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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 torchbearers for the post-R.E.M., post-Smiths sound that shares much in common with such bands as Beautiful South, They Might Be Giants and even Sloan. Once again, lead vocal duties are largely split between Steven Page and Ed Robertson although both pianist/guitarist Kevin Hearn and bassist Jim Creeggan take the lead here on their original tunes "Vanishing" and "Peterborogh and the Kawarthas," respectively. Interestingly, these tracks, along with Hearn's "Sound Of Your Voice", are some of the best on the album with both musicians displaying a true knack for writing heartfelt, literate and tuneful songs about leaving those you love, whether they are your wife or young son. Elsewhere, the band's gift for mixing the humorous and the poignant is evident on such eminently catchy tracks as "Bank Job," "Bull in a China Shop'," and "Rule the World with Love." For a band 16 years into its career, it's great to hear an album so full of sparkling, positive-minded songcraft and thoughtful revelations.
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| 01. |  |
Adrift |
3:37 |  |
| 02. | |
Bank Job |
4:29 | |
| 03. | |
Sound of Your Voice |
3:18 | |
| 04. | |
Easy |
4:33 | |
| 05. | |
Home |
3:36 | |
| 06. | |
Bull in a China Shop |
3:26 | |
| 07. | |
Everything Had Changed |
3:24 | |
| 08. | |
Peterborough and the Kawarthas |
2:42 | |
| 09. | |
Maybe You're Right |
4:29 | |
| 10. | |
Take It Back |
4:03 | |
| 11. | |
Vanishing |
3:16 | |
| 12. | |
Rule the World With Love |
3:54 | |
| 13. | |
Wind It Up |
4:28 | |
| 14. | |
Serendipity |
4:13 | |
| 15. | |
Something You'll Never Find |
4:59 | |
| 16. | |
One and Only |
3:49 | |
| 17. | |
Angry People |
4:03 | |
| 18. | |
Down to Earth |
3:48 | |
| 19. | |
Beautiful |
2:37 | |
| 20. | |
Running Out of Ink |
3:58 | |
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20 Total Tracks, 76:42 Total Length
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| 01. | |
Half a Heart |
4:29 | |
| 02. | |
Maybe Not |
3:02 | |
| 03. | |
I Can I Will I Do |
3:10 | |
| 04. | |
Fun & Games |
3:47 | |
| 05. | |
The New Sad |
2:36 | |
| 06. | |
Quality |
4:17 | |
| 07. | |
Another Spin |
4:05 | |
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07 Total Tracks, 25:26 Total Length
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Credits
- Kim Mitchell - Guitar (Electric) // Kim Mitchell - Soloist // Bob Clearmountain - Mixing // Susan Rogers - Engineer // Jim Creeggan - Assistant // Terry Promane - Trombone // Kevin Turcotte - Trumpet // Kevin Hearn - Engineer // Paul Forgues - Engineer // Paul Forgues - Assistant // Keith Rudyk - Assistant // Rob Carli - Sax (Tenor) // Robert Menegoni - Cymbals
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