Barenaked ABCs - Alphabetical Barenaked Ladies Catalog

Episode 32: Born Human 

Aren’t we all born human?  I suppose?  Am I making a false assumption here?  We are all born human, right?  I don’t think we have any wolves listening tonight.  But we do have a special guest, Saker from the “it’s All Been Done” podcast.  How many possible theories about this song can we come up with?  We examine both versions of the song and, yes, get a little of topic at times.   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6jqBOZX7T0 

Kevin Hearn and Thin Buckle playing song live in Boston (although it is slightly different than the album version from “Night Light”) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Fblkqh6RqA 

Plug: 

Don’t abandon us and make us go out into the deep dark woods of podcasting, but please do listen to Saker and Evan over at It’s All Been Done, anywhere you get podcasts, as well as

https://www.facebook.com/beendonepod/ 

These guys are seriously funny. 

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You came BACK!  You seem to keep doing that.  And for that we thank you.  This week we discuss an object that, if thrown right, keeps coming back.  Welcome to “Boomerang” week.  This week, during our Summer of Bs (#SummerofBs), we have another guest: Victor from Unofficial: Barenaked Ladies.  We discuss “Where was Ed?” during our Summer of ’88 section.  

Official Lyric Video (Clearwater version of song) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTDgy9EdIl8 

Official Video (Endert version) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6_SbPyxIYE 

Boomerang – Live version (acoustic) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sg72OJ47Ww 

Zac Maloy – co-writer of this song, was with The Nixons.  Here was their biggest hit: 

“Sister” off their first album Foma.  Their sound is nothing like this one. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wxcWLgOfNA 

Solo version from live in concert of just Zac:  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1Uu2_9VFCc 

Plugs/Guest 

Unofficial: Barenaked Ladies 

https://youtu.be/fhPtL4DF9R4 

https://www.facebook.com/unofficialBNL/ 

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Episode 30: Blame It On Me

We have reached our 30th episode, and if you think that is a bad thing or if you think this episode is not good, you can blame it on me. After all, Bobby isn’t around right now and we don’t have any Milli Vinilli, and tonight it isn’t raining, so if you have to blame it on someone, blame it on me. Or Aaron. Matter of fact, he’s not here this week, but we do have a guest. Don’t blame him though. or Aaron.

GUEST

Feb 2013:

Versions

Yellow Tape at 7:45

Vareity Recordings at 7:15

Gordon

Blame It On Me – Steve states that he feels “that Ed’s guitar part is really influenced by Kurt Swinghammer (for example “Theory of Relativity”).

No appearance/fact this week.

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Episode 29: Blacking Out 

I’ve been a little stressed lately.  Okay, very. Some people compensate with Alcohol (not this week’s song).  Sometimes they compensate too much and Black Out.  But we don’t do that anymore. So instead we’ll discuss BNL’s song “Blacking Out”. We are missing Aaron, who is busy doing Time Travel.  He stole the TARDIS, but we get a little feed from him.  But we start off our month of guests with Andy Hermann, music writer extraordinaire.   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9KpfCzMS60 

Ian was part of the band Starling, later The Hundreds and Thousands. 

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/sustainer-starling/3998070?ean=0709304353521 

All We Are – Warlock (ARGH!!!!) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcMt6zI7VkM 

Kim Mitchell – All We Are 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLsCZo4xLdY 

!5 year old Ed is an extra  (must be in the audience and I couldn’t pick him out 

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Episode 28: Big Bang Theory Theme 

My whole universe doesn’t revolve around the Ladies, but they are like the Sun.  And tonight we explore an essential song in their catalogue.  It was inspired by “Big Bang” by Simon Singh (https://www.amazon.com/Big-Bang-Universe-Simon-Singh/dp/0007162219/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1531441848&sr=8-1&keywords=big+bang+simon+singh) 

Official video 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzhIfN4UQv8 

BNL Rocks Red Rocks version 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x60kMCLnf0 

Appearance:  

BNL in cartoon form on Odd Job Jack 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpMrxNsmp04 

Covers: 

Bristols – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBir_gTwOvM&t=14s 

TraxBurner 2015 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylfGQ13LGrk 

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We wish BNL would be our friends, but tonight me and my best friends sit down and talk about Best Friend from “Grinning Streak”. 

Live performance of this song 

Chicago, IL from July 2013 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmaBq_IQezI 

Appearance / Facts: 

Elevator Interviews on New York Live, interview for Grinning Streak 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63hiwMa9jpM 

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Episode 26: Beautiful 

What can I say about this week’s episode?  It is pretty superficial at first but then it gets deep when we really delve into it.  Will you fall in love with us at first listen or will you have to listen a few times before the full magnitude of the discussion becomes evident?  We avoid man-splanning while we explore different interpretations of this song. I think, personally, this is one of our best discussions to date.   

Original song 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoDUrvgpouM 

Bathroom session 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQV9wIW5tFM 

Appearance: 

1996 Ed does backing vocals on a song called “Tell You Stories” by Melanie Doane 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8wkXNbOWtY 

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Episode 25: Be My Yoko Ono 

Welcome back to Barenaked ABCs.  And a big welcome back to always friend, and automatic member of the podcast, Bobby.  This week, we cover one of the most influential songs the band has ever created. And, just as you never knew what Yoko was going to do next, we are very spontaneous in this episode.  But man, did we have fun. 

Appearances 

Speaker’s Corner 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgaxC5j-oNM 

“Official” Be My Yoko Ono video 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5YIJ1pZEBc 

Song was used on “Big Bang Theory” 

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5oarjp 

I want to apologize in advance. We were having audio problems this week, so I had to bump up the audio and compress it.  In the process, there are people talking in the background that became amplified, so you can hear them a little.  I was not able to fully diminish the effect, especially since it is 1+ hours this week.  

This show is my Yoko Ono. It means a lot to me.  So we always want to hear constructive criticism on how to improve the show.  We love to know when people are listening to the show, like Tyler Harper.  So please send us electronic postcards by visiting us on Facebook or Twitter at Barenaked ABCs, visiting us at Bowling Stormtrooper Entertainment.com, or writing us the barenaked truth of the matter at [email protected].  

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Episode 24: Bank Job 

Tonight we mug for the camera on a podcast while we discuss a bank job gone wrong.  What would stop each of us if we committed a bank job?  And like the bank robbers in the song, there is dissention in the ranks as we rank this song.   

Bank Job on YouTube 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8dMIzfp8HM 

Bank Job on Bathroom Sessions 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oKkdqTjk2A 

Appearance: 

Barenaked Ladies take over Kids WB 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mqJ-ZUjegg 

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Tonight’s song is not a song, but a Ballad.   No, it’s not the Ballad of Plain D by Gordon Lightfoot.  It’s not the Ballad of John and Yoko (but stick around for Beatles galore in two weeks).  Nor is it the Ballad of Gordon and Lily. We are discussing Ballad of Gordon, which is actually a Public Service Announcement for FOX.  We discuss what would we feed an alien and what Public Service Announcement we would commission BNL to do.   

Appearance / Facts: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtXoKOwTo2M 

Referenced:  

Ballad of Gordon and Lily 

https://www.amazon.com/Ballad-Gordon-Lily/dp/B01JDANQIA 

By the way, here is a complete listing of all the “Ballad of” songs available on iTunes, including 4 called just “Ballad of”. 

Ballad of Ira Hayes (Johnny Cash)  Indian marine at Iwo Jima,  

Ballad of a Teenage Queen (Johnny Cash) 

Danny Bailey (Elton John) 

Well Known Gun (Elton John) 

Blind Tom (Elton John) 

Of a Thin Man (Bob Dylan) 

Hollis Brown (Bob Dylan) 

Frankie Lee and Judas Priest (Bob Dylan) 

*Sir Frankie Crisp (George Harrison) 

*John and Yoko (Beatles) 

*Ballad of Sweeny Todd (disco song about Sweeny Todd) 

*Ballad of a Southern Man (Whiskey Myers) 

Ballad of Mona Lisa (Panic! At the Disco) 

Curtis Loew (Lynard Skynard)

Olaf and Sven (Frozen, Christopher Beck) 

Beaconsfield Miners (Foo Fighters) 

*Ballad of the Green Berets (Sgt Barry Sadler)  

Ballad of Jayne (L.A. Guns) 

Me and My Brain (The 1975) 

*Davy Crockett (Disney, Fess parker) 

Tommy clayton and the Rawdog Millionaire (Of Mice and Men) 

Billy the Kid (Billy Joel) 

Dorothy Parker (Prince) 

Balad (Toby Keith)

Dead Soulja (2Pac) 

Mr. Jones (Jake Bugg) 

Four Walls: Ballad of Perry Smith (Bastille) 

Dwight Fry (Alice Cooper) 

*Farquadd (Shrek, Christopher Sieber) 

*Johnny Butt (Sublime) 

Of a Politician (Regina Spektor) 

Larry Webb (JJ Grey and Mofro) 

Of a Dying Man (Father John Misty) 

Easy Rider (The Byrds) 

Chasey Lane (Bloodhound Gang) 

The Mighty I (Noel Gallagher) 

St. Augustine (Disciple) 

NoBeard (Jason Isbell and the 400 unit) 

John Henry (Joe Bonamassa) 

The fox hunter (Lorenna McKennitt) 

A Broken Man (Miss May I) 

Sacco and Venzetti (Joan Baez) 

Of the nova Corp (Guardians of the Galaxy) 

Davy Crockett in Outer Space (They Might Be Giants) 

Love and Hate (Avett Brothers) 

Of the Lonely Hearts (Black Veiled Brides) 

Lucy Jordon (Marianne Faithfull) 

*Klimpaloon (Phineas and Ferb) 

Great Eastern (Sting) 

Heisenberg (Los Cuates de Sinaloa) 

Scarface (Stephen Lynch) 

Spider John (Jimmy Buffet) 

Space Babies (Jim Guthrie) 

Young Alban and Amandy (Eastmountainsouth) 

*The Blue Cyclone (Ray Stevens) 

Mad Dogs and Englishmen (Leon Russell) 

Wild Bill (George Canyon) 

Ballad of (Biota) 

*Ballad Of (The Habit) 

Ballad Of (Enzo Garcia) 

Ballad Of (august grimm) 

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