Barenaked Ladies Albums for song lyrics and biography.

Barenaked Ladies BNL is an alternative rock band. The band members are Kevin Hearn, Ed Robertson, Steven Page, Tyler Stewart, and Jim Creeggan. They formed in 1988 in Scarborough, Ontario, a suburb of Toronto. BNL has a reputation as an excellent live band, and are particularly well-known for improvising amusing songs during their shows. Barenaked Ladies have authorized a biography, Public Stunts Private Stories, written by friend of the band and fellow "Scarberian" Paul Myers, brother of actor Mike Myers. It is published in Canada by Madrigal Press. An updated 2003 version includes a different cover, information about Disc One and Everything to Everyone, and fixes several typos found in the original version.

The band's first tape, Buck Naked, was recorded in basements and bedrooms, and featured only Steve and Ed. Barenaked Lunch, or the Pink Tape, was released in 1990, and featured two new band members, Andy and Jim Creeggan. Unfortunately, the tape was mastered incorrectly and plays too fast. As there were very few copies made of both, these tapes are now extremely rare. While Andy was on a trip to Ecuador and the band was lacking a percussionist, Tyler Stewart took over the position, and retained it after Andy's return. The full band's first release was Yellow Tape, the first indie release to achieve platinum status in Canada. Sales of the tape were jumpstarted when BNL were taken off the bill of a concert at Toronto City Hall because a staffer for then-mayor June Rowlands saw the band's name and felt it objectified women, which catapulted Bare Naked Ladies into a media frenzy. Also in 1991, the band contributed a cover of Bruce Cockburn's "Lovers in a Dangerous Time" to the Cockburn tribute album Kick At the Darkness. That song became the band's first Top 40 hit in Canada.

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The band's first album, Gordon, was a hit in Canada and included some of the band's most well-known songs, including "Be My Yoko Ono", "If I Had $1,000,000", and "Brian Wilson" (named after the Beach Boy who later covered the song on a live album). BNL's second album, Maybe You Should Drive, fared considerably less well with the Canadian public. After the release, Andy Creeggan left the band to begin college and to separate himself from the infighting that had taken place after the album's failure. Barenaked Ladies released Born on a Pirate Ship as a quartet. The album received two large boosts from the Jason Priestley-directed video for "The Old Apartment" and the inclusion of the song "Shoebox" on the Friends soundtrack. Kevin Hearn was hired as the keyboardist for the subsequent tour and then was asked to join the band. From two dates on the Born on a Pirate Ship tour during 1996, BNL recorded and released a live album called Rock Spectacle, which had a modest radio hit with "Brian Wilson." The band's greatest success to date and greatest recognition within the United States has come from their fourth album, Stunt, buoyed by the #1 single "One Week". Immediately after Stunt was released, however, Kevin Hearn was diagnosed with leukemia and had to spend several months in hospital recovering. The band toured, but with friends Chris Brown and Greg Kurstin on keyboards until Kevin recovered enough to rejoin them on the road. The singles "It's All Been Done" (Baby Blues) and "Call and Answer" also came from this highly successful album. The band has also collaborated with singer Tom Jones for a track on his album Reload.

Maroon also did fairly well in stores, led by the single "Pinch Me". Barenaked Ladies then released a compilation album, entitled Disc One: All Their Greatest Hits 1991-2001. It contains 17 tracks from previous albums, and two new tracks, "It's Only Me (The Wizard of Magicland)" and "Thanks, That Was Fun". The latter was thought by some fans to be a break-up song, because of its title, the fact that it was the last song on the CD, and because its video featured clips from previous videos, but used the Syncro-Vox technique so that the people would lip-sync to the new song. Everything to Everyone was released October 21, 2003. The first single off the album was "Another Postcard," which received modest radio play. "Testing 1, 2, 3" was the second single off of the album and received a video, but no CD single, while "Celebrity" was released later with a CD single, but no video. "Maybe Katie" and an edited version of "For You" from a concert in Glasgow, Scotland were also released as singles to radio. With the release of Everything to Everyone, BNL has fulfilled their contract with Reprise Records, which has allowed the band to try internet distribution and an independent album release. In early 2004, the band began offering full live shows for purchase as either download or CD off of an eponymous website. More recently, the latest studio album as well as a single from it have been added. The band's most recent album is "Barenaked for the Holidays," which was released in October 2004. It is their first independent record since the Yellow Tape and was distributed by Warner Music. BNL just recently completed a pilot for a variety show, tentatively titled Barenaked Ladies Variety Show, and have submitted it to the FOX network. Steven Page also wrote the music for the Stratford Festival's musical production of Shakespeare's "As You Like It," and the band's recording of the music is available on CD from the festival. They are also working on an album at Steven Page's farm.

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Both Jim Creeggan and Kevin Hearn have side projects that are worked on during hiatus from BNL touring and studio time. Jim is part of the alternative jazz trio The Brothers Creeggan, with brother and former Barenaked Ladies member Andy Creeggan and friend Ian McLauchlan. Kevin is the frontman of Kevin Hearn and Thin Buckle, who play a mix of alternative rock and jazz with many other eclectic influences. Thin Buckle features players from several other Canadian alternative bands, such as Rheostatics. Steven Page also has a side project with collaborator Stephen Duffy called The Vanity Project. Their first album featuring the single "Thats All Thats All" was released in June 2005.