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Barenaked Ladies, frequently abbreviated BnL, are a Canadian alternative rock band formed in 1988. The band got their name when founding members Ed Robertson and Steven Page were discussing [[Good Name for A Rock Band|good names for a band]] during a Bob Dylan concert. They're mostly known for humorous lyrics, a tendency to improvise, and a light-hearted stage show.
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* [[Brick Joke]]: "I'd buy you a fur coat but not a real fur coat, that's cruel." In the next verse, they sing "I'd buy you a green dress, but not a real green dress, [[Brick Joke|that's cruel]]."
* [[Calling the Old Man Out]]: "Great Provider".
* [[The Cameo]]: The song "Snacktime!!" features several friends of the band stating some of their favorite snacks via phone call, including [[Rush|Geddy Lee]], [[Beverly Hills, 90210|Jason Priestly]], and [["Weird Al" Yankovic]].
** And [[Gordon Lightfoot]], who wrote the Canadian Railroad Trilogy. Snacktime is part one of the Canadian Snacktime Trilogy.
* [[Captain Obvious]]: "If I had $1000000...I'd be rich." Despite the obvious Canadian currency jokes in the 90s, one million in Canadian was still worth a lot. Nowadays it's almost exactly as much as a million American dollars, and often more than that in the years since the 2009 recession.
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** "It's All Been Done" is basically a song about romantic clichés.
* [[Creator Breakdown]]: Analyzed in "Brian Wilson," with multiple [[Shout-Out|shout outs]] to different major signposts in Wilson's actual Creator Breakdown. Later turned meta when [[The Beach Boys|Brian Wilson]] covered "Brian Wilson."
* [[A Date
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: The song "Bank Job" was about a gang of bank robbers who call off a job when they enter the bank, only to find the bank was full of nuns.
* [[Everything's Better
** Also, the entire point of "Another Postcard."
* [[Executive Meddling]]: Discussed in "Box Set": "Disc Two, it was all brand new, an album's worth of songs/But we had to leave the whole disc blank 'causesome other label bought 'em."
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** Also the opening syllable in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAnyjfTapWc "Eraser"]
* [[The Insomniac]]: "Who Needs Sleep?"
* [[Intercourse
** Then there's "In The Drink".
{{quote| "Back and forth like a choo-choo train."}}
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[[It's Fake Fur, It's Fine|(But not a real fur coat that's cruel)]] }}
** The titular line to "Half a Heart" goes from "even someone who barely cares would help me" to "even someone who doesn't care would hurt me" in each chorus.
* [[It Is Pronounced "Tro
* [[It's Been Done]]: "It's All Been Done", obviously.
* [[Long Runner Lineup]]: The time between their first roster change and the second was 14 years.
* [[Loony Fan]]/[[Stalker
** The object of said affections is Anne Murray
* [[Lyrical Cold Open]]: "I Know", "Break Your Heart", "Have You Seen My Love?", "One and Only", "Jerome", "The Love We're In", several tracks on ''Snacktime!'', and most famously, "One Week" and the theme song to ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]''.
* [[Lyrical Dissonance]]: All too common. One example that springs to mind is [[Exactly What It Says
** "In the Drink". An easy-going, jazzy little song in which Jim Creeggan declares, "I want to drink your blood".
** The king of this must be "I'll Be That Girl", a rather bouncy song about pining over an overly self-absorbed person, and what he'd do if he were her.
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And if I were the sun. you would be in shadow<br />
And If I had a gun, [[Spurned Into Suicide|there'd be no tomorrow]]" }}
** ''Alcohol'' is an upbeat little ditty about [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Miniscule Rocking]]: "Little Tiny Song", [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Mondegreen]]: "Tonight Is The Night I Fell Asleep At The Wheel" makes deliberate reference to one of the more famous ones, "Slow-motion Walter, the fire engine guy."
* [[Motor Mouth]]: "One Week" -- apparently, even ''they'' have trouble getting the lyrics right.
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** Also all of the War On Terror songs noted under [[Take That]] below.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Soooo very many, especially on their earlier albums.
** [[
** The band repeats the phrase "[[Styx
** Among other things, ''[[The X
* [[Signature Song]]: "One Week".
** In their native Canada, where "One Week" was not as popular as in the US, their Signature Song is far and away "If I Had $1000000".
* [[Spell My Name
* [[Stealth Pun]]: "The onion rings, the phone makes me cry." ("Adrift").
** "The water falls, the fire flies" (same song).
* [[Step Up to
* [[Stranger in
* [[Take That]]: The track "Shopping" from "Everything for Everyone" seems to have been inspired by Bush's reaction to 9/11.
** "Fun and Games" from "Barenaked Ladies are Men" is a fairly explicit condemnation of the War on Terror.
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** The opening track on ''Gordon'', "Hello City", is a Take That to Halifax, Nova Scotia, which according to commenters on [http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/2350/ SongMeanings] gave the band a raucous and rude reception when they played there before becoming famous.
** Some of the tracks on the latest album deal with Ed's frustration with Steve's departure; in an interview, he said that the group owed it to their fans to produce good music because ''they'' effing care.
* [[Three Chords and
* [[Turn Your Head and Cough]]: Lyrics in the chorus of the song "Get In Line" are very reflective of things heard during physical exams, including the phrase "turn and cough."
* [[Visual Pun]]: In the video for "Alternative Girlfriend", there's a scene where they [[The Smashing Pumpkins
* [[Vocal Tag Team]], before Steven Page left the band. Still done in concert, with Kevin filling in for Steven on some of the older songs.
* [[Yoko Oh No]]: [[Discussed Trope|Discussed]] and justified in their first song, "Be My Yoko Ono."
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