god.. does it end?? they have some WAY better stuff then this!

i agree completely! i saw them live on New Year's Eve 1999 and it was fantastic. new stuff and commercial radio songs very mainstream and "squeaky clean."

I love Barenaked Ladies...but this is not one of their better songs, in my opinion. I think Maroon is probably the best of their albums.

Have to disagree with some of the other thoughts on this board about the barenaked ladies - they are pretty cool! Keep playing them!

Anyone who has a view point such as "overrated" must be extremely talented and successful! These guys rock, when was your last CD put out??

I totally agree with the original post that they are extremely overrated

The Barenaked Ladies have been around a lot longer than five years! I really like their personal style. Just real guys. The music is hit or miss with me, but the songs I do like of theirs really make me happy.

Fear not. There are others!

i think i'm the only person here who does NOT dig this band. nothing they've done that i've heard has appealed to me at all.

I needed this chuckle!

This band caught my attention at the tender young age of 10, and this was my first CD. It is still one of my favourites nearly 11 years later. While I haven't liked everything they've done, they continue to produce good music and are genuinely great guys. I have my own "box set" of BNL as I own all of their CDs. The BNL kick ass! :)

Huh? I happen to think that almost ALL bands are better live unless they are just studio bands or don't play their own music. Live music imparts so much more to me than an album!

BNL is a great band. I saw them live in Park City, UT -- one of the most entertaining concerts I've ever attended. Very few bands are actually better live, BNL is one of them. Their songs are creative, the arrangements are tight, and, yes, some songs are humorous. People who accuse BNL of being a novelty act (because some of their songs are funny) are probably the same people who claimed that grunge music was too depressing. I happen to think that one can make quality music that spans the entire emotional spectrum.

BNL is one of my favorites. If you've never seen them live, you should reserve your opinions until then. Unilke a lot of bands who take themselves way too seriously, BNL knows how to have fun and make their audiences laugh as well as think.

BNL is a fabulous group in their live performances, Full of humor and clever lyrics.
I caught them at Six Flags, Darien Lake in Buffalo, NY. They did alot of improv songs. They had me Rolling in the Grass Laughing. I've been a fan ever since.

Barenaked Ladies are *NOT* a novelty act; they never have been, in fact - as someone else pointed out, their first album includes tracks like 'The Flag', 'What a Good Boy', and the nasty 'Hello City'.
And yes, they did just recently release a greatest hits package, titled, ironically 'All Our Greatest Hits' which just goes to show that they don't take themselves too seriously.

Yeah, their new album Maroon is full of these "novelty" songs. Take Helicopters for example, I think the joke about how Americans like to bomb the hell out a country and then just forget about it is wearing thin. Bosnia certainly has no parallels to what is currently going on in American foreign policy.

After striking it rich with Gordon, the band has tried to shed the silly image singles like "Be my Yoko Ono" and "If I had $1,000,000." Follow-up albums Maybe You Should Drive and Born on a Pirate Ship only received marginal recognition from a public which couldn't understand why they weren't being so funny anymore. People who dismiss them as a novelty band haven't been listening. BNL has been writing serious songs since "The Flag" on the very same CD that made them famous, Gordon.

They've started, click here.

This song is nowhere even close to as clever as the group thinks it is. And how long do you think it'll be before they come out with their own boxed set? I give it two more years. Wonder whether they'll include this song.

This group, as someone else has said around here, is an overrated novelty act whose joke wore thin around five years ago.

Fun lyrics, but this group seems tedious and pedestrian for some reason. Reminds me of a religious rock group - just a bit too contrived squeeky clean and mainstream to stay fresh.

YAY! Love 'em & this song too.

This is off their only good album as far as I know. Funny, it's a great album but since then they must have been blessed by the god of suck.

Huh, I have never heard a Barenaked Ladies tune I liked....until now.

I still love all of the songs on Gordon, even after all these years. This and "If I Had $1000000" are my favorites.

Quite right. Ten years ago, BNL was a fun band. But I just get queasy when I hear their new stuff.

One of the few BNL tunes I'll still listen to a few years after I first heard it... can't believe at one point I was listening to their stuff all day long, it makes me sick these days. Good choice!

This song would be funnier if I weren't guilty of buying box sets just like the one the song describes. :)

Please play more Ladies