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Can't get enough of thoughtful lyrics, sweetly strummed acoustics, and charming, new-age guys? Barenaked Ladies' second LP, MAYBE YOU SHOULD DRIVE, embodies these pleasantries, but spices them with a handful of tongue-in-cheek jabs. The band's acoustic, jazzy music bops along as energetically as a Greenpeace canvasser in a newly gentrified neighborhood, but the lyrics read more like the interior monologue than the sales pitch.
Barenaked Ladies' lyrics stab at generational stereotypes, but are surprisingly quiet and radio-ready. The song "A" shows the band's goofiness in the midst of mockery ("`A' is for `angry,' which you are at me," croons singer Steven Page, "`A' is for `adult' which I'll never be"), while "Everything Old Is New Again" shows pop culture's need to repeat itself. "Recycle, reuse, regret, and refuse our parent's ideals and views," sings Page, and you can't help but be impressed. Barenaked Ladies have made the cliches of youth culture seems terribly hip and fashionable.
While not the teeming generational war-cry of early-'90s rap or alternative rock, the sociological observations of MAYBE YOU SHOULD DRIVE show the lighter side of twentysomething cynicism.
Recorded at Greenhouse Studios, Vancouver, Canada; Armoury Studios, Vancouver, Canada.
Recording information: Armoury Studios, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Greenhouse Studios, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Barenaked Ladies: Steven Page (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars); Ed Robertson (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, pedal steel, mandolin, mandola, banjo, bass drum); Andrew Creeggan (accordion, piano, hammered dulcimer, reed organ, keyboards, percussion, background vocals); Jim Creeggan (cello, bass, background vocals); Tyler Stewart (drums).
Additional personnel: Ben Mink (acoustic & electric guitar, violin, viola); Carolyn Ricketts (flute); Tom Keenlyside (clarinet); Kirsten Nash (saxophone); Paul Baron (trumpet); Colin Weinmaster (trombone); Neil Nicholson (tuba).
Maybe You Should Drive Music | List Price | $7.98 (You save $0.73) | | Category | Rock Albums, Pop CDs, Alternative, Rock/Pop | | Label | Reprise | | Orig Year | 1994 | | All Time Sales Rank |  13070  | | CD Universe Part number | 1101369 | | Catalog number | 45709 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Aug 16, 1994 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Producer | Ben Mink | | Engineer | Marc Ramaer | | Recording Time | 45 minutes | | Personnel | Jim Creeggan - cello, bass, background vocals
Steven Page - vocals, acoustic & electric guitars
Tyler Stewart - drums
Ed Robertson - vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, pedal steel, mandolin, mandola, banjo, bass drum
Andrew Creeggan - accordion, piano, hammered dulcimer, reed organ, keyboards, percussion, background vocals
Also: Ben Mink, Tom Keenlyside, Paul Baron, Neil Nicholson, Carolyn Ricketts, Colin Weinmaster, Kirsten Nash |
Barenaked Ladies Maybe You Should Drive Songs Maybe You Should Drive Music Review Average Rating: (4.4 out of 5 stars)   I don't concur with the other reviewers on this one
I've just written a 5-star review for Gordon. And I love the Barenaked Ladies. However, I only "like" MYSD (Maybe You Should Drive). It's a good album, worth owning, but not in BNL's top three, imho.
If you're a BNL-fan, get this album. If you're considering getting into BNL, start with Gordon, or Stunt, or even Born On A Pirate Ship. Save MYSD until you're well-hooked and looking for something additional from BNL
Submitted by jayster7 (St Catharines, ON, Canada)
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 Ranked to be their best in terms of singles
Life in a Nutshell, Alternative Girlfriend, and incessant Jane are on this album. You will find other favorites especially "A" (Eh if you're Canadian. Heh heh).
Submitted by skank992002 (Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA)
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 BNL isn't a trio. They have five members.
This CD is great. I love "A", "Alternative Girlfriend", "Jane", every song on here! You'll find some new favorite songs on this one.
Submitted by a reviewer (Sidney, OH)
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Barenaked Masterpiece
I have become a devoted follower of the Barenaked Ladies in just the last year and a half, well after the release of MYSD (Maybe You Should Drive), but I'll tell you this is the best money I've ever spent of a CD in my life. This is probably one of the ten best albums of the decade hands down. The lyrics are smart, jumpy and insightful on life and times. This is also the Barenaked Ladies most well rounded album. It goes from the meaningful love songs of Jane and The Wrong Man Was Convicted to the funny and cynical songs of A and Everything Old is New Again. Only one thing needs to be added to be the greatest album of all time in my opinion and that is the Rock Spectacle Version of What a Good Boy. But all in all if you like the Barenaked Ladies or that style of music you will love MYSD.
Submitted by bdumonte (Riverside, CA)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No BARENAKED LADIES SECOND CD ALBUM IS JUST SIMPLY THE BEST!!
All my favorite songs are here like "Jane" "Alternative Girlfriend" and "Life In A Nutshell". BNL canada's very own rock'n roll musicians and comedy trio still know how to perform on stage during their live concert tours and be-boop dancing act like they always do to enjoy the music career that keeps on ticking for years to come for these guys in the future!
Submitted by philipross (Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada!)
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Purchase Maybe You Should Drive CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Barenaked Ladies Gordon CD (1992)
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Released at the height of the grunge era, this Canadian group's debut was unlike any other album issued in 1992. While the Barenaked Ladies' cheerful pop tends to focus on exhuberant melody, they rock harder than you would expect for a band whose sound relies so heavily of intricate vocal interplay, snapping acoustic bass and fluid acoustic piano work. Though the band has since released several very successful albums, GORDON remains the definitive Barenaked Ladies disc.
Many of their best-known songs are here: including "Be My ...
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This is an enhanced audio disc which contains both regular audio tracks and multimerdia computer files.
Additional personnel includes: Coleman Beaver (vocals); Stoney Park Pow-Wow Singers (vocals, drums); Robin Billinton (guitar, piano); Mark Fewer (violin); Hugh Marsh (fiddle); Max Mandel, Anthony Rapoport (viola); Mary-Katherine Finch (cello); Carolyn Ricketts (flute, piccolo); Rob Carli (alto saxophone); Gene Hardy (tenor saxophone); Tony Walsh (trombone); Murray McLaughlan (harmonica); ...
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ROCK SPECTACLE is an Enhanced CD containing both computer files and a full audio program.
Recorded live at the Riviera, Chicago, Illinois and at the Olympia, Montreal, Canada in Spring 1996.
Recorded live in Chicago and Montreal, ROCK SPECTACLE captures the infectious, spontaneous energy of a Barenaked Ladies concert. Known as much for their wild shows as ...
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"One Week" was nominated for the 1999 Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal.
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