Barenaked ABCs (Alphabetical Barenaked [Ladies] Catalog

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].  

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 

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) 

Episode 22: Bag of Bones 

ARGH!!!!  We are being chase by BIG DOGS.  BARKING DOGS! BITING DOGS!  No time for an episode this week, so here is sound clips of us just running from dogs for an hour.  I hope you enjoy our howls of pain.  Seriously, we recorded an episode about “Bag of Bones” last week, so that will be more enjoyable…. maybe.   

YouTube version of “Bag of Bones” 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy76-9GZ6fc 

For this week’s discussion, join us with: 

#BridgeToNowhere 

#SummerOfTheBs 

As you may have seen, we have spammers.  This has just been a bad day.  And coincidentally, that is today’s song.  This week, we review “Bad Day” off “Snacktime”.  I know some of us (ahem, not Tracy) have been harsh on this album so far, but maybe this won’t be a bad day for Snacktime.  Tune in to see. 

Appearances: 

Juno Awards (again) in 2008. This time though, they received a Juno for Best Children’s Album for “Snacktime”.  During the press junket, an interviewer asks them to create an improv rap on the spot.  So Ed starts freestyling at about 1:25. 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vduNuC_XJGQ 

Welcome “back” to the Barenaked ABCs, where tonight’s song is “Back”, a B-side on the “Brian Wilson 2000” CD. We discuss this rare “B-side” and if it should have been more. 

“Back” – YouTube “video” of this song.  Not a real video, but a fan-made one. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSsFbJ4cgHQ 

Appearance / Facts: 

Junos award 2002  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HexQg1czJa0 

Promos 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVz1Szz4QjM&list=PLxfxthv4C_iRayuADANx9F0fLaleoHgB_&index=2 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7918o0epQQ&list=PLxfxthv4C_iRayuADANx9F0fLaleoHgB_ 

We look forward constructive criticism on how to improve the show, or just add to our discussion.  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].  Also, if you are from Canada, especially the Scarborough area, we would love to have you on to discuss your experience with being in that town, espeically if you went to the same school as the boys. 

Tonight is a big night.  We move into the Bs!!!! Now that we are out of the A’s, we feel that we are out of the baby phase, maybe into the toddler phase.  It is time for us to get out of the baby seat.  And tonight we discuss Baby Seat. Aaron starts referencing music all over the place.  This song is drum heavy and so is this episode at times.  We name drop so many names, basically everyone who has ever lived is now invited on the show.15

The song that Aaron was talking about is “4 Chords” by Axis of Awesome.  Coincidentally, “Auld Lang Syne” is also with those 4 chords. 

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

Appearance: 

Junos award 2002  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmSvII7SDyU 

Background music: Thank you to Epidemic.com.  The song was “Nothing To Lose 3” by Johan Svensson 

Appearances song is “Inglewood” by k.d. Lang. 

Episode 18: Auld Lang Syne 

It’s the end of the year as we know it.  It’s the end of the year as we know it.  It’s the end of the world as we know it.  And it is MAY!  Ok, so our calendar is a little off.  But I wasn’t about to wait another 8 months to start the podcast just to line up this song.  So instead, we are talking about New Years in May (better than Christmas in July).  Being the first episode of the New Barenaked Year…. Hey!  I like that. Let’s start that petition…. We discuss all the other firsts with this song.  Listen in as we talk about Barenaked Ladies’ rendition of this holiday classic and then rewind to 2002 to discuss the Juno appearances.  

Appearance: 

Junos 2002 Introduction and hosting by Barenaked Ladies  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW33lPXxchI 

Thanks to Shutterstock for the Auld Lang Syne that you hear in the background (arranged by Loren Marie). 

Bite not your frenulum at me, good sir. We are discussing a whole album this week, as we take on “As You Like It”.  It is a tome of an episode, with five Acts. There is adventure, love, betrayal, and the horns, the horns, the lusty horns. So, come hither, come hither, come hither.

Whole Album 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UAjdSJciKIA 

The notes underneath, if you select “Show More” has the breakdown of when they show by minute. 

BNL playing “Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind” later in the year live

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

For those of you that struggle with Shakespeare, Sparknotes.com does a wonderful thing where they not only analyze each scene but also provide a modern English version of each line next to the actual line.  And it is pretty accurate by my meager reading. 

Tonight we try another spin at another Another song. It is Another Spin, another song off the 2007 album Barenaked Ladies are Men (BLAME)  

Appearance  

Kevin can be heard on the Rheostatics live album “Calling Out The Chords Vol 1.”  when he was performing with the band.  he can be heard on “I Am Drumstein”, “Boxcar Song”, and “Kevin’s Waltz” “Weiners and Beans”  It was only released in digital format, so if you have a copy of it, please send it along to us at [email protected].   

Plugs 

Again, please listen to our friends over at the “Weird Al” phabet (see last week’s liner notes).   

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