Barenaked ABCs (Alphabetical Barenaked [Ladies] Catalog

Pinch me!  Tonight we don’t review a song. Tonight, I interview STEVEN PAGE himself!!! That’s right! We’ve had our questions and we had the chance to ask them. Thank you’s to Rey Roldan (@reybee), who gave me this opportunity; and to BNL ABCs cast for helping me develop the questions. Please go out next week and buy Steven’s new album, Heal Thyself Part II: Discipline, out Sept. 14! If you don’t own them already, buy Page One. It’s an amazing album. (There were audio problems during the phone call, so I have re-recorded some of my questions to decrease the majority of the feedback).

Episode 34: Break Your Heart (with Blake Reilly) 

I’m a little late on today’s song due to an upcoming event that I hope you all enjoy (should be next week).  I hope that it didn’t “Break Your Heart”.  But we have Blake Reilly from “Clerks Minute” joining us today for a really fun episode that should rise your spirits.

Rock Spectacle version  (are you saying “Rock Spectac” in your head now as you read that?) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11AnXGIwXa4 

Live version between “MYSD” and “BOAPS” 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-xcSZ7Ba4c 

Live version from 2004 Au Naturale tour 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvfwQU_YYww&feature=youtu.be 

Appearance 

“The Wrong Guy” 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YDpPJD4-o8 

Plugs 

https://www.facebook.com/clerksminute 

Download anywhere you get podcasts! 

Tonight we discuss “Box Set” with some Canadians, the men from Monster Squad Minute. So, this isn’t my best intro.  Are you wanting me to go back and do my greatest intro?  Is that all you want?  I can’t be my best all the time.  Some of these are just going to be mediocre.  Hopefully, some day another label will buy us and then our intros will be written by them.  In a few weeks, we’ll only be discussing a demo song.  How much do you think I’ll have to say on that one?  This is a really long episode, so there is no appearance/fact tonight.  Seriously, enjoy, though… these guys are great. 

Video from 1993 Junos  

Dressed as clowns and Andy at piano 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUC-IuXcjgo 

Ship and Dips V cruise, but it has Andy. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4gQgMv-czM 

Plugs 

Monster Squad Minute:   

available anywhere you download podcasts! 

https://www.facebook.com/MonsterSquadMin/ 

Twitter.com/MonsterSquadMin  : @MonsterSquadMin 

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. 

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/ 

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.

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 

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 

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 

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