Barenaked Ladies Are Me
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Barenaked Ladies Are Me (usually abbreviated BLAM, and occasionally Are Me or BLAMe) is the seventh full-length original-material studio album by Barenaked Ladies
. It was their first original-material album since 2003's Everything to Everyone
. It was released in September 2006 internationally. The album was also the first full-length original-material album from the band following their decision not to re-sign with Reprise and become independent. The cover art was created by a group of artists called Team Macho. The name has been cited by the band as a double entendre
for "Barenaked Ladies Army".
Due to the diversity and wealth of content recorded for the album, the release of the material from the Are Me sessions became more complicated than for prior albums. The band recorded 29 songs during the sessions: The primary physical release of Barenaked Ladies Are Me is a 13-track CD. Five months after the release of Are Me, a second primary physical album, Barenaked Ladies Are Men
, was released, and included the remaining 16 songs from the same sessions. However, the line between these two releases was blurred by a series of additional releases which included songs from both releases in a variety of groupings. Thus, the entire 29-song collection could be considered the band's seventh full-length original-material studio album in its own right, or as both its seventh and eighth, taking Are Me and Are Men separately.
and Steven Page
got together at Page's home and began writing the first songs specifically intended for this album. They met again at Robertson's cottage after the summer and wrote 13-15 more songs. Kevin Hearn
was also busy writing songs at his own cabin, where he completed several songs for this album, as well as a large portion of his own album The Miracle Mile
. Additionally, Jim Creeggan
managed to complete a two-year-old idea into the song "Peterborough
and the Kawarthas
". The content provided by the latter two members continued the practice started on Everything to Everyone of including writing from band members other than Page and Robertson, and not taking in writing from outside the band.
The band gathered the more than 30 songs (far more than any past album) at a rehearsal hall in Toronto
, to learn and arrange the songs. They intended to record as many beds (initial recordings, used to record the final track over) as possible, and ultimately recorded 29 beds in the fall of 2005 (they decided to leave several songs which were previously recorded off in order to potentially use the prior recordings on an upcoming boxed set). The band also noted that there was no "naked track" (a song recorded with all the band members naked, started on Gordon
with "King of Bedside Manor") for this album, saying that it had gotten old.
The band set out after the bed-recording session at Steven Page
's farmhouse studio, Fresh Baked Woods, for their perennial Barenaked for the Holidays
tour. They returned to the studio in February 2006 and recorded their overdubs through April. In May, they began mixing the album at Toronto's Metalworks studios with mixer Bob Clearmountain
while still finishing the last overdubs.
The band took a break from the unheard songs on their 2004 Holidays tour, but on the 22-show 2005 Holidays tour, after emerging from the first studio session, they played a song from the BLAM session at every show. The first five songs listed above from the Au Naturale tour were repeated, while 17 other new songs were played. The only songs unheard (in entirety) after that tour were "One and Only", "Vanishing" (originally titled "Magician"), "Running Out of Ink", "Maybe Not", and "Serendipity". "Running out of Ink" was subsequently performed solo by Steve at a fundraising show in Toronto on May 8, 2006, and later at the All New Revue (see below). "Vanishing" was also played at the All New Revue. The other songs were not publicly played until the release of the album.
The band also took the opportunity in the studio to record three of their songs ("Easy", "Wind It Up", and "What A Letdown") in 'Simlish
' (a gibberish
language used in the Sim series of video games by Maxis
) and were released in the Sims 2 "Family Fun Stuff" expansion pack. These were the first fully released (several clips have/had been played on podcast
s) studio tracks from the album; though the mixing was not the final album mixing, and the vocals were replaced.
On May 26, 2006, the album release dates were announced, along with the revelation of "Easy" as the leadoff single for late June (the announcement came from the band's German management, and was subsequently confirmed by the band's North American official websites). On June 6, the band announced the album title, along with a remix contest.
On June 19, iTunes
released a three-track single for the song "Easy", which also included "Wind It Up", and the version of "Home" from the All New Revue. This was the first release of any complete final tracks from Barenaked Ladies Are Me. The single was also available on eMusic
, marking the band's first release on the service.
On August 17, iTunes
accidentally released the standard edition of the album plus the four associated bonus tracks on some of their music stores. For just over twelve hours, the album was available to buy in single track form (for all 17 tracks) or as an album before the mistake was corrected. On September 2, the same occurred for the 29-track presale deluxe edition, which was available for two and a half days.
. The band initially announced plans to play all 29 new songs at the show (they were still mixing at the time). However, the plan was revised shortly before the show when the band decided that 29 songs would not be feasible, and ultimately decided on a final list of songs for the physical CD album. They played only 15 songs, explaining that approximately 12-14 of those songs would be the songs making up the initial physical release. The show was audio and video recorded, and an audio CD of the 13 songs which ultimately became the primary album was a pre-order bonus, and later available on iTunes. The video has not currently been used. The CBC apparently has their own access to the audio recording of the show, as they played a differently ordered, differently mixed version of the show during a radio interview on Definitely Not the Opera
with Steven Page in early September.
The main releases, available through the band's download site, and werkshop.com, contain each track from the song's mix. Shortly after each's release, the songs were available to download split into four mp3 tracks on the band's myspace.com page. Each file grouped similar tracks, such as all the vocals, or all the guitars, in order to divide the songs tracks four ways. Wind It Up's Myspace split lacked some of the song's elements including the guitar solo and the keyboard tracks.
Fans can submit remixes of each song and the band will ultimately select one of each for inclusion on a special EP, whose proceeds will go to charity. Though discussed in March 2007 on an interview with University Radio York
, no plans for this release were ever announced; and with the band's 2009 departure from Nettwerk Management, it is unlikely that it ever will be.
citing both cost and a potential overload of too much music. They indicated a likely plan to release a normal-length album, and save other songs for future shorter EP releases. The band, however, ultimately settled on a 13-track physical album, with a second physical album entitled Barenaked Ladies Are Men
. The latter album was originally pre-released exclusively in Canadian Starbucks
locations on October 3, 2006. This version of Are Men contained 12 of the remaining tracks, plus Are Me's two singles. The four songs not included on either of those releases were deemed as digital-download "bonus tracks" and it was implied that they were not going to be made available physically. This was consistent with the "Deluxe Edition" of the Are Me album, which compiled the 25 tracks into a two-disc package that excluded the "bonus tracks". However, when Are Men officially received widespread release on February 6, 2007, it contained all 16 tracks not on Are Me, including the "bonus tracks"; This tracklist was not announced until shortly before Are Men's release.
A bonus All New Revue CD was offered to fans if they preordered the Are Me album. The CD contained the same 13 songs as the basic Are Me album performed live and acoustic at the Glenn Gould Theatre in Toronto. A 5.1 surround sound
deluxe edition of all 29 songs was released in the US on December 12, 2006, and alongside Are Men in Canada on February 6, 2007. Fans were offered several additional format and content options for purchasing the Are Me session material.
The following is a list of all release versions of the Are Me sessions material:
+Bonus for buying entire album (on standard and deluxe editions).
‡Pre-order only bonus (on both standard and deluxe editions - currently iTunes and USB only).
Downloads from iTunes, and at least some other stores, include an interactive quicktime movie file which contains the album art, lyrics and credits called the "interactive booklet".
Barenaked Ladies
Barenaked Ladies is a Canadian alternative rock band. The band is currently composed of Jim Creeggan, Kevin Hearn, Ed Robertson, and Tyler Stewart. Barenaked Ladies formed in 1988 in Scarborough, Ontario, then a suburban municipality outside the City of Toronto...
. It was their first original-material album since 2003's Everything to Everyone
Everything to Everyone
Everything to Everyone is the sixth full-length original-material studio album by Barenaked Ladies. It was released in 2003 and was produced by Ron Aniello. Singles from the album include "Another Postcard", "Testing 1, 2, 3", "For You", "Celebrity" and "Maybe Katie"...
. It was released in September 2006 internationally. The album was also the first full-length original-material album from the band following their decision not to re-sign with Reprise and become independent. The cover art was created by a group of artists called Team Macho. The name has been cited by the band as a double entendre
Double entendre
A double entendre or adianoeta is a figure of speech in which a spoken phrase is devised to be understood in either of two ways. Often the first meaning is straightforward, while the second meaning is less so: often risqué or ironic....
for "Barenaked Ladies Army".
Due to the diversity and wealth of content recorded for the album, the release of the material from the Are Me sessions became more complicated than for prior albums. The band recorded 29 songs during the sessions: The primary physical release of Barenaked Ladies Are Me is a 13-track CD. Five months after the release of Are Me, a second primary physical album, Barenaked Ladies Are Men
Barenaked Ladies Are Men
Barenaked Ladies Are Men is the eighth full-length original-material studio album by Barenaked Ladies, and the second release of material from the 29-song session that bore the companion album Barenaked Ladies Are Me...
, was released, and included the remaining 16 songs from the same sessions. However, the line between these two releases was blurred by a series of additional releases which included songs from both releases in a variety of groupings. Thus, the entire 29-song collection could be considered the band's seventh full-length original-material studio album in its own right, or as both its seventh and eighth, taking Are Me and Are Men separately.
Creative process
Reflecting their new independence, the album saw changes in the creative process of the Barenaked Ladies. The band began 2005 with several songs already written, many of which were performed, recorded, and released on the 2004 summer Au Naturale tour (see below for details). In the spring of 2005, Ed RobertsonEd Robertson
Lloyd Edward Elwyn Robertson , better known as Ed Robertson, is the Canadian lead singer, as well as a guitarist and songwriter in the band, Barenaked Ladies...
and Steven Page
Steven Page
Steven Jay Page , is a Canadian musician. Along with Ed Robertson, he was a founding member, lead singer, guitarist, and a primary songwriter of the music group Barenaked Ladies ; he left the band in 2009 to pursue a solo career....
got together at Page's home and began writing the first songs specifically intended for this album. They met again at Robertson's cottage after the summer and wrote 13-15 more songs. Kevin Hearn
Kevin Hearn
Kevin Neil Hearn is a Canadian musician who is currently the keyboardist of Barenaked Ladies and his own group, Kevin Hearn and Thin Buckle. He is also a former member of Rheostatics.-Early life:...
was also busy writing songs at his own cabin, where he completed several songs for this album, as well as a large portion of his own album The Miracle Mile
The Miracle Mile
The Miracle Mile is the third album by Kevin Hearn and Thin Buckle. It was released in Canada and July 11, 2006. The first single from the album will be "In The Country". This is the band's first album on the Warner Music Canada label...
. Additionally, Jim Creeggan
Jim Creeggan
James Raymond Creeggan, better known as Jim Creeggan , is the bassist for Canadian band Barenaked Ladies...
managed to complete a two-year-old idea into the song "Peterborough
Peterborough, Ontario
Peterborough is a city on the Otonabee River in southern Ontario, Canada, 125 kilometres northeast of Toronto. The population of the City of Peterborough was 74,898 as of the 2006 census, while the census metropolitan area has a population of 121,428 as of a 2009 estimate. It presently ranks...
and the Kawarthas
Kawartha lakes
The Kawartha lakes are a band of lakes in south-central Ontario, Canada that form the upper watershed of the Trent River. The lakes all lie upon the boundary between the Paleozoic limestone regions of the Golden Horseshoe, and the Precambrian granite Canadian Shield of northern and central...
". The content provided by the latter two members continued the practice started on Everything to Everyone of including writing from band members other than Page and Robertson, and not taking in writing from outside the band.
The band gathered the more than 30 songs (far more than any past album) at a rehearsal hall in Toronto
Toronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
, to learn and arrange the songs. They intended to record as many beds (initial recordings, used to record the final track over) as possible, and ultimately recorded 29 beds in the fall of 2005 (they decided to leave several songs which were previously recorded off in order to potentially use the prior recordings on an upcoming boxed set). The band also noted that there was no "naked track" (a song recorded with all the band members naked, started on Gordon
Gordon (album)
Gordon is the debut album by Canadian band Barenaked Ladies. It was released through Sire Records on July 28, 1992. After The Yellow Tape was certified platinum in Canada, the group won a contest hosted by a local radio station. With the winnings, Barenaked Ladies were able to hire producer Michael...
with "King of Bedside Manor") for this album, saying that it had gotten old.
The band set out after the bed-recording session at Steven Page
Steven Page
Steven Jay Page , is a Canadian musician. Along with Ed Robertson, he was a founding member, lead singer, guitarist, and a primary songwriter of the music group Barenaked Ladies ; he left the band in 2009 to pursue a solo career....
's farmhouse studio, Fresh Baked Woods, for their perennial Barenaked for the Holidays
Barenaked for the Holidays
Barenaked for the Holidays is a full-length holiday-themed album released by Canadian band Barenaked Ladies on October 5, 2004. The album includes Christmas and Hanukkah songs as well as "Auld Lang Syne", which is traditionally sung on New Year's Eve. There are also several songs that are simply...
tour. They returned to the studio in February 2006 and recorded their overdubs through April. In May, they began mixing the album at Toronto's Metalworks studios with mixer Bob Clearmountain
Bob Clearmountain
Bob Clearmountain is an award-winning American music engineer, mixer and producer. He has worked with many prominent names in music including Bruce Springsteen , The Rolling Stones , Bryan Adams , Robbie Williams Bob Clearmountain is an award-winning American music engineer, mixer and producer. He...
while still finishing the last overdubs.
Initial exposure of songs
In the summer of 2004, the band continued to build upon the setlist variations they began on the Peepshow tour. The band decided to play one song at every show that they had never played before, or had not played in many years. Among these songs were unreleased B-sides, and newly written songs, including seven that became part of the 29-song BLAM sessions ("Adrift", "Bull in a China Shop", "Beautiful", "I Can, I Will, I Do", "What a Letdown", "Take it Back", and "Half a Heart").The band took a break from the unheard songs on their 2004 Holidays tour, but on the 22-show 2005 Holidays tour, after emerging from the first studio session, they played a song from the BLAM session at every show. The first five songs listed above from the Au Naturale tour were repeated, while 17 other new songs were played. The only songs unheard (in entirety) after that tour were "One and Only", "Vanishing" (originally titled "Magician"), "Running Out of Ink", "Maybe Not", and "Serendipity". "Running out of Ink" was subsequently performed solo by Steve at a fundraising show in Toronto on May 8, 2006, and later at the All New Revue (see below). "Vanishing" was also played at the All New Revue. The other songs were not publicly played until the release of the album.
The band also took the opportunity in the studio to record three of their songs ("Easy", "Wind It Up", and "What A Letdown") in 'Simlish
Simlish
Simlish is a fictional language featured in EA Games' Sim series of games. It debuted in SimCopter, and has been especially prominent in The Sims, The Sims 2 and The Sims 3. The Sims development team created the unique Simlish language by experimenting with fractured Ukrainian, French, Latin,...
' (a gibberish
Gibberish
Gibberish is a generic term in English for talking that sounds like speech, but carries no actual meaning. This meaning has also been extended to meaningless text or gobbledygook. The common theme in gibberish statements is a lack of literal sense, which can be described as a presence of nonsense...
language used in the Sim series of video games by Maxis
Maxis
Maxis is an American company founded as an independent video game developer in 1987. It is currently a subsidiary of Electronic Arts . Maxis is the creator of one of the best-selling computer games of all time, The Sims and its first sequel, The Sims 2...
) and were released in the Sims 2 "Family Fun Stuff" expansion pack. These were the first fully released (several clips have/had been played on podcast
Podcast
A podcast is a series of digital media files that are released episodically and often downloaded through web syndication...
s) studio tracks from the album; though the mixing was not the final album mixing, and the vocals were replaced.
On May 26, 2006, the album release dates were announced, along with the revelation of "Easy" as the leadoff single for late June (the announcement came from the band's German management, and was subsequently confirmed by the band's North American official websites). On June 6, the band announced the album title, along with a remix contest.
On June 19, iTunes
ITunes
iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad....
released a three-track single for the song "Easy", which also included "Wind It Up", and the version of "Home" from the All New Revue. This was the first release of any complete final tracks from Barenaked Ladies Are Me. The single was also available on eMusic
EMusic
eMusic is an online music and audiobook store that operates by subscription. It is headquartered in New York City with an office in London and owned by Dimensional Associates. As of September 2008 eMusic has over 400,000 subscribers....
, marking the band's first release on the service.
On August 17, iTunes
ITunes
iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad....
accidentally released the standard edition of the album plus the four associated bonus tracks on some of their music stores. For just over twelve hours, the album was available to buy in single track form (for all 17 tracks) or as an album before the mistake was corrected. On September 2, the same occurred for the 29-track presale deluxe edition, which was available for two and a half days.
All New Revue
On May 19, 2006, the band performed an intimate acoustic performance at Toronto's 341-seat Glenn Gould Studio in the Canadian Broadcasting CentreCanadian Broadcasting Centre
The Canadian Broadcasting Centre, located in Toronto, Ontario, is the broadcast headquarters and master control point for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's English-language television and radio services...
. The band initially announced plans to play all 29 new songs at the show (they were still mixing at the time). However, the plan was revised shortly before the show when the band decided that 29 songs would not be feasible, and ultimately decided on a final list of songs for the physical CD album. They played only 15 songs, explaining that approximately 12-14 of those songs would be the songs making up the initial physical release. The show was audio and video recorded, and an audio CD of the 13 songs which ultimately became the primary album was a pre-order bonus, and later available on iTunes. The video has not currently been used. The CBC apparently has their own access to the audio recording of the show, as they played a differently ordered, differently mixed version of the show during a radio interview on Definitely Not the Opera
Definitely Not the Opera
Definitely Not the Opera is a magazine-style radio program focusing on aspects of pop culture. The program is broadcast on CBC Radio One on Saturday afternoons, 1 p.m. – 3 p.m. . An abridged version of each weekly program is available for download as a weekly podcast...
with Steven Page in early September.
Remix contest
On June 6, the band announced a contest for their fans. They plan to release five songs from the album in the form of separate instrument tracks for the purpose of remixing. The first song released was "Easy"; the second, released on July 13, was "Wind It Up"; the third, released on August 16, was "Bank Job"; the fourth, released on September 2, was "Rule The World With Love"; "I Can I Will I Do" rounded off the five songs. On September 27, the band released a sixth song for remixing, "Maybe You're Right".The main releases, available through the band's download site, and werkshop.com, contain each track from the song's mix. Shortly after each's release, the songs were available to download split into four mp3 tracks on the band's myspace.com page. Each file grouped similar tracks, such as all the vocals, or all the guitars, in order to divide the songs tracks four ways. Wind It Up's Myspace split lacked some of the song's elements including the guitar solo and the keyboard tracks.
Fans can submit remixes of each song and the band will ultimately select one of each for inclusion on a special EP, whose proceeds will go to charity. Though discussed in March 2007 on an interview with University Radio York
University Radio York
University Radio York is a campus radio covering the campus of the University of York. It was the first legal independent radio station in the United Kingdom.-About:...
, no plans for this release were ever announced; and with the band's 2009 departure from Nettwerk Management, it is unlikely that it ever will be.
Release versions
The band was not sure how to release so much material, initially opposing suggestions of a double albumDouble album
A double album is an audio album which spans two units of the primary medium in which it is sold, typically records and compact discs....
citing both cost and a potential overload of too much music. They indicated a likely plan to release a normal-length album, and save other songs for future shorter EP releases. The band, however, ultimately settled on a 13-track physical album, with a second physical album entitled Barenaked Ladies Are Men
Barenaked Ladies Are Men
Barenaked Ladies Are Men is the eighth full-length original-material studio album by Barenaked Ladies, and the second release of material from the 29-song session that bore the companion album Barenaked Ladies Are Me...
. The latter album was originally pre-released exclusively in Canadian Starbucks
Starbucks
Starbucks Corporation is an international coffee and coffeehouse chain based in Seattle, Washington. Starbucks is the largest coffeehouse company in the world, with 17,009 stores in 55 countries, including over 11,000 in the United States, over 1,000 in Canada, over 700 in the United Kingdom, and...
locations on October 3, 2006. This version of Are Men contained 12 of the remaining tracks, plus Are Me's two singles. The four songs not included on either of those releases were deemed as digital-download "bonus tracks" and it was implied that they were not going to be made available physically. This was consistent with the "Deluxe Edition" of the Are Me album, which compiled the 25 tracks into a two-disc package that excluded the "bonus tracks". However, when Are Men officially received widespread release on February 6, 2007, it contained all 16 tracks not on Are Me, including the "bonus tracks"; This tracklist was not announced until shortly before Are Men's release.
A bonus All New Revue CD was offered to fans if they preordered the Are Me album. The CD contained the same 13 songs as the basic Are Me album performed live and acoustic at the Glenn Gould Theatre in Toronto. A 5.1 surround sound
Surround sound
Surround sound encompasses a range of techniques such as for enriching the sound reproduction quality of an audio source with audio channels reproduced via additional, discrete speakers. Surround sound is characterized by a listener location or sweet spot where the audio effects work best, and...
deluxe edition of all 29 songs was released in the US on December 12, 2006, and alongside Are Men in Canada on February 6, 2007. Fans were offered several additional format and content options for purchasing the Are Me session material.
The following is a list of all release versions of the Are Me sessions material:
Physical discs
- 13-track Barenaked Ladies Are Me (Primary album, in CD format, or as a 2-LP vinyl set)
- 16-track Barenaked Ladies Are Men (Primary album, containing the 16 remaining tracks)
- 14-track Barenaked Ladies Are Men Starbucks exclusive pre-release
- 25-track Barenaked Ladies Are Me Deluxe Edition (2-CD version containing both albums without the four "bonus tracks")
- 29-track Barenaked Ladies Are Me Deluxe Edition 5.1Surround soundSurround sound encompasses a range of techniques such as for enriching the sound reproduction quality of an audio source with audio channels reproduced via additional, discrete speakers. Surround sound is characterized by a listener location or sweet spot where the audio effects work best, and...
(DVD-AudioDVD-AudioDVD-Audio is a digital format for delivering high-fidelity audio content on a DVD. DVD-Audio is not intended to be a video delivery format and is not the same as video DVDs containing concert films or music videos....
)
Digital versions
Two versions of the album were available for digital download at Are Mes initial release: The releases are equivalent to the Are Me 13-track primary album, and the 25-track deluxe edition, both with the addition of two of the "bonus tracks" for a 15- and 27- track digital download release respectively. Each of these releases initially added the two remaining "bonus tracks" if the buyer preordered. The download editions are available at various online digital music retailers. The bonus tracks were announced as only available through a whole-album purchase, but different retailers are inconsistent on this issue. The deluxe edition was also not to be buyable as individual tracks, but that decision was apparently reversed. Coinciding with physical release, the 16-track Are Men became available online, allowing purchase of all remaining songs.- 13-track Barenaked Ladies Are Me download +2 bonus tracks if you buy the whole album (see above).
- 25-track Barenaked Ladies Are Me deluxe edition +2 bonus tracks if you buy the whole album (see above).
- 16-track Barenaked Ladies Are Men
- Barenaked Ladies Are USB - A USB stick sold at shows and at werkshop.com containing (in variable bit rate mp3 format):
- 29 studio tracks
- 4 live tracks from the All New Revue
- "Easy" (studio acoustic version)
- 5 Adlibs
- 2 video tracks (studio home video)
- 2 promo photos ("dog shot" and "diner shot")
- 5 IM Icons
Tracks recorded
Tracks 1-13 are the physical Barenaked Ladies Are Me album; Tracks 1-25 make up the physical deluxe edition. Tracks 26-27 were added to both versions for online download purchases. Tracks 28-29 were added to downloads on iTunes for those who preordered. Tracks 14-29 were released as Barenaked Ladies are Men.| Track # | Song | Composer(s) | Length | Lead singer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Adrift" | Hearn, Page, Robertson | 3:35 | Ed Robertson | originally recorded for Everything to Everyone Everything to Everyone Everything to Everyone is the sixth full-length original-material studio album by Barenaked Ladies. It was released in 2003 and was produced by Ron Aniello. Singles from the album include "Another Postcard", "Testing 1, 2, 3", "For You", "Celebrity" and "Maybe Katie"... , rearranged for a slower/mellower rhythm. |
| 2 | "Bank Job" | Page, Robertson | 4:27 | Ed Robertson | |
| 3 | "Sound of Your Voice" | Hearn | 3:16 | Steven Page | originally sung by composer Hearn, but passed to Page |
| 4 | "Easy" | Page, Robertson | 4:31 | Ed Robertson | |
| 5 | "Home" | Page, Robertson | 3:34 | Steven Page | completed at the spring 2005 writing session |
| 6 | "Bull in a China Shop" | Page, Robertson | 3:24 | Steven Page | supposedly written after Everything to Everyone, but frequently played by Steven solo, and by the band. |
| 7 | "Everything Had Changed" | Creeggan, Page, Robertson | 3:22 | Steven Page | |
| 8 | "Peterborough Peterborough, Ontario Peterborough is a city on the Otonabee River in southern Ontario, Canada, 125 kilometres northeast of Toronto. The population of the City of Peterborough was 74,898 as of the 2006 census, while the census metropolitan area has a population of 121,428 as of a 2009 estimate. It presently ranks... and the Kawarthas Kawartha lakes The Kawartha lakes are a band of lakes in south-central Ontario, Canada that form the upper watershed of the Trent River. The lakes all lie upon the boundary between the Paleozoic limestone regions of the Golden Horseshoe, and the Precambrian granite Canadian Shield of northern and central... " |
Creeggan | 2:40 | Jim Creeggan | |
| 9 | "Maybe You're Right" | Page, Robertson | 4:26 | Steven Page (with Ed Robertson) | |
| 10 | "Take It Back" | Page, Robertson | 4:00 | Ed Robertson | |
| 11 | "Vanishing" | Hearn | 3:14 | Kevin Hearn | originally called "Magician" |
| 12 | "Rule the World With Love" | Page, Robertson | 3:52 | Steven Page | completed at the spring 2005 writing session. |
| 13 | "Wind It Up" | Page, Robertson | 4:26 | Ed Robertson | completed at the spring 2005 writing session; guitar solo by Kim Mitchell Kim Mitchell Joseph Kim Mitchell is a Canadian guitarist. He was the lead singer and guitarist for the band Max Webster before going on to lead a solo career. He is currently a radio show host for CILQ-FM in Toronto.... . |
| 14 | "Serendipity" | Hearn | 4:11 | Kevin Hearn | |
| 15 | "Something You'll Never Find" | Page, Robertson | 4:57 | Steven Page | |
| 16 | "One and Only" | Robertson | 3:47 | Ed Robertson | |
| 17 | "Angry People" | Page, Robertson | 4:02 | Steven Page | |
| 18 | "Down to Earth" | Page, Robertson | 3:46 | Ed Robertson | |
| 19 | "Beautiful" | Page, Robertson | 2:35 | Ed Robertson (with Steven Page) | |
| 20 | "Running Out of Ink" | Page, Robertson | 3:58 | Steven Page | |
| 21 | "Half a Heart" | Page, Robertson | 4:27 | Ed Robertson | originally recorded for Maroon |
| 22 | "Maybe Not" | Page, Robertson | 3:00 | Ed Robertson | |
| 23 | "I Can I Will I Do" | Page, Robertson | 3:08 | Steven Page | originally recorded for both Disc One: All Their Greatest Hits (1991–2001) Disc One: All Their Greatest Hits (1991–2001) Disc One: All Their Greatest Hits is a greatest hits compilation spanning Barenaked Ladies' first decade as a band; It contains a version of almost every single they had released to that point, along with two newly recorded tracks: "It's Only Me " and "Thanks That Was Fun", the latter of which was... and Everything To Everyone |
| 24 | "Fun and Games" | Page, Robertson | 3:45 | Ed Robertson | |
| 25 | "The New Sad" | Page, Robertson | 2:34 | Steven Page | completed at the post-summer 2005 writing session. |
| 26 | "Quality"+ | Page, Robertson | 4:21 | Ed Robertson | ends with six seconds of faint drumming, rewinded singing, and light tenutos, accompanied by a three-noted bass guitar tune, followed by a high scream. On the BLAM deluxe edition, these seconds are replaced by silence. |
| 27 | "Another Spin"+ | Hearn | 4:05 | Kevin Hearn | |
| 28 | "What a Letdown"‡ | Robertson | 3:49 | Ed Robertson | |
| 29 | "Why Say Anything Nice?"‡ | Page, Robertson, Stewart | 3:42 | Steven Page |
+Bonus for buying entire album (on standard and deluxe editions).
‡Pre-order only bonus (on both standard and deluxe editions - currently iTunes and USB only).
Downloads from iTunes, and at least some other stores, include an interactive quicktime movie file which contains the album art, lyrics and credits called the "interactive booklet".
Personnel
- Rob Carli – Sax (Tenor)
- Bob Clearmountain – Mixing
- Jim Creeggan – Assistant
- Paul Forgues – Engineer, Assistant
- Kevin Hearn – Engineer
- Robert Menegoni – Cymbals
- Kim Mitchell – Guitar (Electric), Soloist
- Terry Promane – Trombone
- Susan Rogers – Engineer
- Keith Rudyk – Assistant
- Kevin Turcotte – Trumpet
Response to release
Barenaked Ladies Are Me reached #17 on the US Billboard 200Billboard 200
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chart and #7 in their native Canada.
Singles
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"Easy"
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| "Wind It Up"
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| "Sound of Your Voice"
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- Easy was the last successful single with Steven Page, reaching #1 on the Canadian adult contemporary chart.