| Product Summary | | Label: Wea/warner Bros. | | UPC: 00093624807520 | | Release Date: 11/13/2001 | | Buy.com Sku: 60509444 | | Item#: MRMS9P | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 25268 | Format:  CD |
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| Nineteen of Barenaked Ladies' most popular songs are included in this compilation album, plus two brand new tracks and two songs that have never appeared on a BNL album before. This collection also includes a special 20-page booklet with an in-depth look at the band's 10 year history together, plus an exclusive song-by-song commentary written by Stephen Page. The new songs: "It's Only Me (The Wizard of Magicland)," described by Stephen as "...brand new, recorded just this past spring. When did we turn into a New Wave rock band? I don't know, but I like it. The title is Kevin's. Sing it along with the riff. The bracket's are our manager's. Sing them along with the riff, too." Of the second new song, "Thanks That Was Fun," Stephen says, "I think that this song features some of Ed's best singing on the record, and the whole process made us excited about making a new album. We hope that in the meantime you will be sated by this. Enjoy in the comfort of your automobile, home theatre, retail-shopping outlet, or hospital waiting room with someone you love or with a light Sauvignon Blanc." For long-time fans, as well as those just discovering the band, Disc One: All Their Greatest Hits (1991-2001) is the ultimate Barenaked Ladies experience.
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Barenaked Ladies: Ed Robertson (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars); Kevin Hearn (vocals, guitar, piano, keyboards); Jim Creeggan (vocals, bass); Tyler Stewart (vocals, drums); Steven Page (vocals). | | Producers include: Jim Scott, Michael Phillip-Wojewoda, Don Was, Ben Mink, Susan Rogers. | | Includes liner notes by Howie Klein, Larry Le Blanc, and Steve Page. | | Personnel: David Kahne (programming). | | Audio Mixer: Jim Scott. | | Audio Remixers: Tom Lord-Alge; Ben Grosse. | | Liner Note Authors: Larry LeBlanc; Howie Klein. | | Recording information: Phase One Studios, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. | | Photographer: Robert Sebree. | | In the decade since Barenaked Ladies entered CFNY's "Modern Music Search" contest and waked away the recipients of the $100,000 grand prize (which financed their debut GORDON), have quietly gone from cult phenoms to international pop stars. Led by the double-barreled threat of singer-songwriters Steven Page and Ed Robertson, BNL have amassed an impressive canon of music packed with clever lyrics, an embarrassment of hooks and super-tight arrangements. DISC ONE: ALL THEIR GREATEST HITS serves as a treat for die-hards and casual fans alike with its mix of the familiar ("Pinch Me"), rare (an acoustic version of Bruce Cockburn's "Lovers In A Dangerous Time") and the newly recorded (the new wavey "It's Only Me (The Wizard of Magicland)"). | | Amid all this manna are true gems like the jaunty acoustic jangle of "Be My Yoko Ono", stream-of-conscious catchiness that defines "One Week" and live-favorite-turned-Lotto-theme song "If I Had $10000000. Elsewhere, Two of the Ladies' most poignant cuts - "Brian Wilson" and "What A Good Boy" - are represented with stellar in-concert versions. Fans of breezy, exuberant pop are also directed to the brassy "Enid" and runaway brilliance of the infectious "Falling For The First Time". |
Engineer: Jim Scott |
| | Artist Overview | | Most alternative rock of the 1990s was based on purging one's demons over a wall of distorted power chords, but bands like Barenaked Ladies showed that tunefulness and carefree pop ditties weren't completely extinct. Hailing from Canada, this purposefully nerdy group built a solid fanbase throughout the '90s who spread the word of the band's raucous shows and dashing pop through word of mouth and traded tapes, before breaking through commercially with 1998's STUNT and its number one single, "One Week." |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 11/13/2001 | | Original Release Date : 2001 | | Catalog ID : 48075 | | Label : Reprise | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00093624807520 |
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