Barenaked Ladies

kmack1023

In some sort of ESP way, Tycho posted a BNL lyric and now Steven Page has left Barenaked Ladies...

SithDrummer

What?

Decius

If I had $1000000, I'd pay to never read this thread again.

Bama

I'll be surprised if the break-up lasts longer than One Week.

Quid

In three days he'll probably go back to them.

Podly

How can you leave a band that doesn't exist anymore?

Richard_Dastardly

BNL is just another tragic victim of this economic downturn.

Podly

and if they still do exist, they should have stopped existing 20 years ago

saint2e

That's fine. Page has always been their Yoko Ono.

Sentry

Podly wrote: »

and if they still do exist, they should have stopped existing 20 years ago

kindly die in a fire please.


BareNaked Ladies is a fantastic band. Sucks about Stephen Page, but to me that signals the end of the band. Of course, not having an album in four years also did the trick...

deadonthestreet

Podly wrote: »

and if they still do exist, they should have stopped existing 20 years ago

Every year they do a cruise where they invite a bunch of musicians along and then people pay to go and get really fucking drunk and watch a ton of live music.

I think that's kinda neat.

Podly

Sentry wrote: »

Podly wrote: »

and if they still do exist, they should have stopped existing 20 years ago

kindly die in a fire please.


BareNaked Ladies is a fantastic band. Sucks about Stephen Page, but to me that signals the end of the band. Of course, not having an album in four years also did the trick...

man, you have incredibly bad tastes in music and are probably both a boring and spineless person

Sentry

Podly wrote: »

Sentry wrote: »

Podly wrote: »

and if they still do exist, they should have stopped existing 20 years ago

kindly die in a fire please.


BareNaked Ladies is a fantastic band. Sucks about Stephen Page, but to me that signals the end of the band. Of course, not having an album in four years also did the trick...

man, you have incredibly bad tastes in music and are probably both a boring and spineless person

True... maybe I could borrow your copy of High School Musical 3 so I could broaden my horizons. Shouldn't you be dying in a fire right now anyway?

Legacy

Podly wrote: »

Sentry wrote: »

Podly wrote: »

and if they still do exist, they should have stopped existing 20 years ago

kindly die in a fire please.


BareNaked Ladies is a fantastic band. Sucks about Stephen Page, but to me that signals the end of the band. Of course, not having an album in four years also did the trick...

man, you have incredibly bad tastes in music and are probably both a boring and spineless person

lolopinions

Also, they've had three albums out in the last three years. Sure, 'Are Men' is almost just an EP and Snacktime is a kids album, but still.

Weird stuff. They're always fun live and I can't wait for them to get back together and go on tour. 'Cause you know they will.

Podly

please tell me what is musically interesting about BNL

please, enlighten me

Legacy

I'm not going to argue muscial opinions with you. It's nothing anyone can win because your tastes suck as well.

Unless they're the same as my tastes.

Because mine are the best.

Bama

Nah, Podly's tastes suck.

Sentry

Podly wrote: »

please tell me what is musically interesting about BNL

please, enlighten me

After clicking your sig, I've realized how wrong I was... I now bow down to your musical prowess.

Podly

opinions aren't some sort of crap shoot

Oh shit look, I like Bare Naked Ladies, Arnold Schonberg, and MC Hammer

Tell me what you like about BNL

Sentry

Podly wrote: »

opinions aren't some sort of crap shoot

Oh shit look, I like Bare Naked Ladies, Arnold Schonberg, and MC Hammer

Tell me what you like about BNL

They make good music without taking themselves seriously. They are entertaining but still able to make good, interesting songs. One Week and If I Had $1000000 are not the end all be all of their musical library... they are emblematic of one subset of their music... but there is way more to them then that. Old Apartment is more what I'm referring to here, but there are a number of other good songs in that subsection that don't get a lot of play, If You Call, others whose names I don't have in front of me due to being at work...

Plus, they are fucking hilarious live.

Astraphobia

I suppose if you like Electrohouse music BNL is probably not going to be your cup of tea.

Though I listened to a lot of techno in college and still played BNL with lady friends.. cause not all of them were rolling on E at the time (some were doing coke, however).

Edit: Brian Wilson, A, When You Dream.. all great stuff. I have played A so many times during fights with my wife and it usually wins the day when coupled with some flowers and a copious amount of apologies.

Proto

BNL were only good before you americans found out about them.

Local H Jay

seriously, if the barenaked ladies got into a car accident with dave matthews and john mayer i might jizz myself.

Sentry

Local H Jay wrote: »

seriously, if the barenaked ladies got into a car accident with dave matthews and john mayer i might jizz myself.

Sweet... then you could listen to Avril Lavigne all day without having to worry!

Podly

They make good music without taking themselves seriously.

This is something you like about them? I asked a reason. When you flip through your music collection you go, hrmmmm, what would I like to listen to today? Well, I'd like to listen to good music. Yesterday I wanted to listen to bad music, but today I want good music! However, I want good music from a band that doesn't take themselves too seriously, what with my mood not being too serious today.

That was an inane statement and hardly a reason for calling a band good. Oh, they don't take themselves seriously! Really? Good, because neither do I.

hey are entertaining but still able to make good, interesting songs

What the fuck does this even mean. If they are entertaining, by definition their songs are good. That would be like saying "yes it's fun and interesting, but I wouldn't call it good." Again, not a reason for liking a band.

One Week and If I Had $1000000 are not the end all be all of their musical library.

I sincerely hope not

If You Call,

Oh yippee! Key modulation!

Shadowfire

Legacy wrote: »

Podly wrote: »

Sentry wrote: »

Podly wrote: »

and if they still do exist, they should have stopped existing 20 years ago

kindly die in a fire please.


BareNaked Ladies is a fantastic band. Sucks about Stephen Page, but to me that signals the end of the band. Of course, not having an album in four years also did the trick...

man, you have incredibly bad tastes in music and are probably both a boring and spineless person

lolopinions

Also, they've had three albums out in the last three years. Sure, 'Are Men' is almost just an EP and Snacktime is a kids album, but still.

Weird stuff. They're always fun live and I can't wait for them to get back together and go on tour. 'Cause you know they will.

My wife is a huge BNL fan.. I think seeing this thread broke her heart.

I bought Snacktime for her for Christmas last year, and it was the first BNL album I really enjoyed. -shrug-

Sentry

Podly wrote: »

They make good music without taking themselves seriously.

This is something you like about them? I asked a reason. When you flip through your music collection you go, hrmmmm, what would I like to listen to today? Well, I'd like to listen to good music. Yesterday I wanted to listen to bad music, but today I want good music! However, I want good music from a band that doesn't take themselves too seriously, what with my mood not being too serious today.

That was an inane statement and hardly a reason for calling a band good. Oh, they don't take themselves seriously! Really? Good, because neither do I.

hey are entertaining but still able to make good, interesting songs

What the fuck does this even mean. If they are entertaining, by definition their songs are good. That would be like saying "yes it's fun and interesting, but I wouldn't call it good." Again, not a reason for liking a band.

One Week and If I Had $1000000 are not the end all be all of their musical library.

I sincerely hope not

If You Call,

Oh yippee! Key modulation!

I guess if you just like a band because you are a giant fucking douche, then you probably wouldn't understand. But I'm sure if I got a retarded chimp to pound on an electic pinano while I waved a flashlight in your face, you'd be all over it.

Anyway, about you dying in that fire....

deadonthestreet

Now here is a very low quality video of Steven Page singing a Mountain Goats song, with the Mountain Goats

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxuNDpCYj_E

Podly

Sentry wrote: »

I guess if you just like a band because you are a giant fucking douche, then you probably wouldn't understand.

Yeah, just like your love of BNL, this statement makes no sense.

Shadowfire

Podly wrote: »

Sentry wrote: »

I guess if you just like a band because you are a giant fucking douche, then you probably wouldn't understand.

Yeah, just like your love of BNL, this statement makes no sense.

Why the fuck are you even here?

deadonthestreet

Podly can you name a band that involves guitars that you enjoy?

Astraphobia

Sentry wrote: »

Podly wrote: »

They make good music without taking themselves seriously.

This is something you like about them? I asked a reason. When you flip through your music collection you go, hrmmmm, what would I like to listen to today? Well, I'd like to listen to good music. Yesterday I wanted to listen to bad music, but today I want good music! However, I want good music from a band that doesn't take themselves too seriously, what with my mood not being too serious today.

That was an inane statement and hardly a reason for calling a band good. Oh, they don't take themselves seriously! Really? Good, because neither do I.

hey are entertaining but still able to make good, interesting songs

What the fuck does this even mean. If they are entertaining, by definition their songs are good. That would be like saying "yes it's fun and interesting, but I wouldn't call it good." Again, not a reason for liking a band.

One Week and If I Had $1000000 are not the end all be all of their musical library.

I sincerely hope not

If You Call,

Oh yippee! Key modulation!

I guess if you just like a band because you are a giant fucking douche, then you probably wouldn't understand. But I'm sure if I got a retarded chimp to pound on an electic pinano while I waved a flashlight in your face, you'd be all over it.

Anyway, about you dying in that fire....

You only have to be certain that said chimp won't try and pull out your eyes and claw off your nose.

Sentry

Podly wrote: »

Sentry wrote: »

I guess if you just like a band because you are a giant fucking douche, then you probably wouldn't understand.

Yeah, just like your love of BNL, this statement makes no sense.

Look, we have a difference of opinion. The fact that yours is wrong doesn't prevent you from vehemently defending it, and I respect that.

matt has a problem

Local H Jay wrote: »

seriously, if the barenaked ladies got into a car accident with dave matthews and john mayer i might jizz myself.

If Dave Mathews survived he'd just write a song about it. Something about crashing into me, coming into you.


Oh wait...

Morgenstern

Podly, you could just not post in this thread. This is a novel concept.

Local H Jay

no it's cool

i know some people who like BNL too

except they're 6

deadonthestreet

Local H Jay wrote: »

no it's cool

i know some people who like BNL too

How do you feel about They Might Be Giants?

Wonder_Hippie

Jump to 6:52

BNL should be included in that bit.

Elki

Tycho wrote:

It's amazing the things you can find at junk sales.

Feel free to digest this interview with the executive producer, but chances are good you know about the new Fallout game, developed and published by Morrowind's Bethesda Softworks. Understand that this does not refer to Interplay's previously floated Fallout MMO thing - we might not know anything significant until E3, significant as in "is it turn-based" or "is it first person." This paucity of genuine data lends itself to wild speculation, but we can look at Morrowind and say that non-linear gameplay is their bag, or if not their bag itself, we can feel confident that it is at least stored in a bag of some kind.

For the same reason that I can muster enthusiasm for Half-Life 2 though I know fuck all regarding anything about it, Fallout 3 can receive the same treatment, and for the same reason - I have faith that, like Morrowind, potent content creation tools will come along with, or shortly thereafter. There is always (to my mind) a sort of challenge implicit in distributing the suite involved in creating a game, and I want desperately to know who would rise to the occasion and precisely what would result from it. Could the High Council of Fallout Forum Purists deliver the sequel they always dreamed of? I'm curious.

As far as whether or not I think the glory days of Fallout are back, would ever be back, that is not something I expect out of this new series - and that's not an insult. The original games strike me as such oddities that I have a hard time believing they ever existed, even in retrospect. I think of Fallout as a wonderful accident of history, not some endlessly refreshed fountain, I don't believe that The Fallout Spirit projects from some eternal, unsullied coordinate in the heart of man. The SPECIAL system, that old warhorse, and the post apocalyptic yet somehow naive world they baked at Black Isle is to me emblematic of a different age of PC game development, epitomized in Planescape - and it's no coincidence that both of these games emerged from the same development house.

Action RPGs took the day at the last E3, just as stylish, ersatz Dantes percolated an entire generation of leaping action stars the year prior. When I played Fallout, and its inheritor, initiating combat and managing my inventory, did I enjoy it enough? Did I enjoy it as though the preconditions for such entertainments were disappearing? There was something precious and indiosyncratic about PC roleplaying games that I do not currently detect. We scions of that heritage are aware of the void.

(CW)TB out.

if by random chance one occurs to me