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i think a case could be made for each one!

― petesmith (plsmith), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

oh god, they all make me want to just kill.

― petesmith (plsmith), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

exept for the one on the far right, who looks bad only by association.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

i say, in order of most retarded to least:
1. hat
2. dreadlocks
3. fatbeard badshave
4. lowerleft corner
5. other guy

― petesmith (plsmith), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

I saw them on TV last night, talking about their upcoming Canadian Idol performance, and, um, they're really the same giant fucking dorks as they were 15 years ago. I almost respect that.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

1. Fatbeard Badshave
2. Twat o'Shanter
3. Son of Newman
4. Lower Left Corner
5. Un-natty Dread

― I Ain't No Addict, Whoever Heard of a Junkie as Old as Me? (noodle vague), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, that's fine.

But, do they still do that "it waas funny at the time" song "If I had a million dollars"?

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

xpost: the first shot fired in the ILM reclaiming of BNL.

― petesmith (plsmith), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

All of 'em except the red-white-&-blue fatso in the upper right.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

they mention Sailor Moon in one of their songs. lay off them.

― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

THey mention Sailor Moon in ALL of their songs.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

for real? i guess i'm obliged to buy their album then.

fuck.

― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

The problem is that some of them look more obviously retarded than others, but if you stare at the more subtly retarded looking ones long enough, they actually look even more retarded.

Actually, to me the least retarded one is the fat guy in the middle - he looks like he's actually thinking "Eughhhh! Get these retards away from me."

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, to me the least retarded one is the fat guy in the middle
He just doesn't want to get retard punched by Dreadlocks.

― kaygee (kaygee), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

Dreadlocks looks like a bad, out-of-proportion drawing. what's with the Jeremy Beadle looking wanking claw?

― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

Most retarded = guy who designed that cover.

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

hurting otm.

― petesmith (plsmith), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

whoa - i was actually calling you OTM for your previous post, but this more recent one is even MORE OTM.

― petesmith (plsmith), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

http://wwws.mmjbdata.com/graphics/www.mmguide.musicmatch.com/album_image/amg/dre900/e984/e98439non8q.jpg

Here's a better sleeve.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

and what's with that random arm that doesn't actually belong to any of them?

― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

what year is that? 91? 90?

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

That arm belongs to fattyspecs. It's growing out of his fatfro. DON'T STARE!

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

If you like any of the BNL songs you will enjoy this album. I even caught my man humming it round the house and hes way too laid back for this stuff:). BNL are a fun band with catchy rhythms and smart lyrics. They get in your head and wont leave... I played this non stop when I bought it and 5 years later can still play it over and over and over and over. $1,000,000 is still the fave for me, we all dance around to that in our home. Their cynical world view coupled with bouncy beats brings a surprising amount of joy and fun to this album and I reckon you should just go get one!.

― petesmith (plsmith), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

agh, im going to hell.

― petesmith (plsmith), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

openmouthed guy with nkotb hair is the most retarded.

― renegade bus (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

nah, i'll just watch Sailor Moon. they mention Sailor Moon in that, AND the music is better.
xxpost

― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

I went to college in Michigan, and my first week of school was spent hanging out around a bunch of kids from suburban Detroit who all seemed, inexplicably, to be huge Barenaked Ladies fans. I felt like I had stepped into a bizarro world. (I figured out the whole proximity-to-Canada thing -- same reason Michiganders like hockey so much -- but it was still weird.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

guy in lower left corner is obv the "evil genius" of the band

― renegade bus (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe he's trying to punch the genius waves back in through the top of his head. He looks like he thinks that's a pretty clever idea, actually.

― kaygee (kaygee), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

this cover makes me wish i had five fists

― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

you people are so lame. don't you have anything better to do than dis artists you don't like? I have been a barenakedladies fan for 10 years and they have more talent in their little finger's than any of you guys have. your just jealous that you don't know how to make good music like they do. you probably like blink 182 or green day. just go back to your mothers basement timmy because you probably live with her and listen to green day and have nothing better to do than be on the internet all day.

― bnlroxx (dave225.3), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

dude, green day rules!

― petesmith (plsmith), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

Hi fat dreadlocked guy!

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

Hat is definitely the worst.

― AaronK (AaronK), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

bnlroxx OTM!!!!!!

*

― schwantz, Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

and what's with that random arm that doesn't actually belong to any of them?

it belongs to the guy in the lower left. he's putting it through a letter.

― richard wood johnson, Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

this is gonna be the new dmb thread, innit.

― renegade bus (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

Here's a bigger version of the pic, in case you want to do closer inspection:

http://www.perrific.com/cds/covers/gordon.jpg

Apparently there was also a more moderate version of the cover:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002LU8.03._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

The one thing I don't get is the Pepsi logo on both covers... Were they like sponsored by Pepsi or something?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

God, I hope so. I think Nick & Buzz are big BNL fans.

xpost

― when something smacks of something (dave225.3), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

"Gordon"

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

xpost

Hold on, you're ripping on them because they're not as cool as Sailor Moon? Way to come off like the shift supervisor at the poutine shack, King Retard.

― js (honestengine), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

in the larger picture you can see the blond highlights in fattyspecs' hair.

― renegade bus (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

The bigger picture reveals that it's not dreadlocks the guy on the right is sporting, it's a jheri curl. So shame on you haters!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

The one in the hat looks like the BNL bitchass intern.

― js (honestengine), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

that "it waas funny at the time" song "If I had a million dollars"?

Funny only if you were out of your skull on nitrous oxide "at the time".

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

"Stunt" is a really good album.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

for better or for worse, we've mostly steered clear of actual music discussion on this thread.

― petesmith (plsmith), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

hagar the horrible, we've mostly steered clear of actual music discussion on this thread.

― when something smacks of something (dave225.3), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

TS:
http://www.lambiek.net/artists/johnston_lynn/johnston_fbofw.jpg
vs.
http://www.janice142.com/JoyPage/HagartheHorrible.gif

― petesmith (plsmith), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

In other words, Cathy vs. The Lockhorns.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com/Tomdancing%20bug.gif

― when something smacks of something (dave225.3), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

barenaked ladies should write a song about cathy.

― petesmith (plsmith), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

http://kisrael.com/journal.aux/2001.07.13.hand.gif

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

tom the dancing bug is the best thing of all tmie

― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

in particular super fun-pak comix

― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

That's what I was looking for, but none found.. Marital Bliss is a great knockoff of the Lockhorns.

― when something smacks of something (dave225.3), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

The best band by a huge mile & great CD too, November 23, 2004
Reviewer: Damon G. Bransom "Anime the choice of a New Generation" (Sydney) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)
I first found out about the Ladies from the QuickTime samples of an old Mac OS 8 Install CD (There Apple Masters btw) & have been hooked ever since.

I have to say this is my favourite out of all there CD, I'm not saying it's there best or they have not done better or evolved musically since this CD as I believe they have. It's just one of my all time favourites.

The thing I love about the Ladies is there sense of fun, whimsy, heart, soul & mateship (listen to the commentaries on there DVD's there so funny!). Also the fact that musically there brilliant & Stephen Page has a voice that an angle would be envious of. Check out there live CD's cause when Steve sings 'Break Your Heart' live... well you know the reason I'm a huge fan & you should be too.

Just get this CD & the rest of them too & the DVD's, Inflatable dolls, T-Shirts, action figures, etc... I am sure the Ladies all need new kitchens or help putting there kids through school or retire to houses in the country. Also you will be doing yourself a huge musical favour too!

There music won't cure the common cold but my god it will make you happy your alive!

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― renegade bus (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

0 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
Funny and Great...as usaul!, June 2, 2004
Reviewer: A music fan
Even tho I haven't brought this yet. I can tell it's gonna be great-just-wait-or-is-it-too-little, too late...never mind. I'm buying this CD partly because of, If I Had $1000000. I love that song! It makes me laugh everytime! Ciao 4 now!

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― renegade bus (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 18:50 (nineteen years ago)


4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
ok best cd i had experience to listen to in my short life, December 8, 2002
A Kid's Review
Wow ipop it in and that fine saxaphonecomes in in a jumpy hello city and tjen goes in to an even morew jumpy enid with hillarious lyrics such as " i could get a job, i could pay the phone bill, i could cut the lawn, cut my hair, put on my cholestrol, i could work over time, i could work in a mine , i could do it all for you, but i dont want too the third is grade 9 and brian wilson best known for the beach boys and several aperances on bob sagats full house

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― renegade bus (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 18:53 (nineteen years ago)


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Oh my gosh these guys are awesome!, February 22, 2001
Reviewer: Mike Blume (CA United States) - See all my reviews
My friend Adam got me into BNL over winter break, and this is still my favorite album, absolutely tons of great songs, including my favorite song in the whole entire world, which I'm listening to right now, If I Had A Million Dollars, which is really incredibly beautiful, and funny, and romantic, all at once, I don't know how, plus there's the line "I'd buy you a fur coat (but not a real fur coat that's cruel)" which always makes me think of this one girl I really really like (quite possibly the most wonderful human being in the universe) who's a BNL fan and a vegetarian just like me, oh, and the banter between verses, anyone here actually tried Kraft Dinner with Ketchup? The two tastes just don't mix, it goes in your mouth and you're like "oh, there's some Kraft Dinner, oh, there's some ketchup," completely separate, oh, Grade 9, I love, um, crazy's very weird, but very good, King of Bedside Manner's hilarious, and very loud and upbeat (helps keep me up when I'm pulling an all-nighter), um, so just buy the CD already, or borrow it, or something, you've got to hear these guys!

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― renegade bus (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 18:57 (nineteen years ago)

The N in N*SYNC stands for NERDS.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

It's best to imagine the sounds each of them were making as this photographic wonderwork was snapped for the ages. Especially hatboy and goatee in the back there, goatee is all loud, monotone "AAAAAAAAAAA" and the hat is doing a nasally "nyeeeehhhhh" sound, while the two nerdlinger dudes in the bottom left are probably making back-of-the-throat gurgly noises, and the fat guy from N*Sync on the right is like "yeah boy" in a chipmunk voice.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

There is no killing that will smite them dead enough.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

0 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

I suddenly wonder if anyone's kept track of The Most Unhelpful Review Ever Posted. 0 for 11 would seem hard to top.

P.S. I love the band but that cover is hard to forgive. I tell myself they must've still been in high school or something.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

look at that picture...then imagine hurling a molotov cocktail at them and the results.

― kevin says relax (daddy warbuxx), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

3 of 5 people found the following logo threatening:

http://www.zwpatch.com/images/company_scans/pepsi_logo.jpg

― pappawheelie II, Wednesday, 7 September 2005 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

They look like Color Me Badd meets the cast of Whose Line Is It Anyway?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

1 of 5 people found the fat bastard's mini-me:

ihttp://www.perrific.com/cds/covers/gordon.jpg

― pappawheelie II, Wednesday, 7 September 2005 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

Isn't Color Me Badd just:

Vanilla Ice
George Michael
Vanilli (of Milli Vanilli)
Kenny G

????

― pappawheelie II, Wednesday, 7 September 2005 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

OMG is shouty guy wearing a straight-jacket!?! He so "crazy"!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

BNL1: I'm the "crazy" one, can't you tell by the straight-jacket?
BNL2: I'm the "cool" one, can't you tell by the beret?
BNL3: I'm the "down" one, can't you tell by my prepped-for-fistcrunch pose and vaguely blackular hair?
BNL4&5: We were in the chess club!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

jaymc otm

― petesmith (plsmith), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

which one lost his virg first?

― petesmith (plsmith), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

i think it was lower-left.

― petesmith (plsmith), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

Why do the two guys in the left corner have the exact same pair of dork glasses? Are they CHN issued or something?

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

I especially like how beret-dude's jaw is all crookedy. Like he was involved in some kind of horrible blowjob accident.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

...and had to BITE SOME SHIT. Hence the expression on straight-jacket dude's face.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

Not to mention the straight-jacket.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

haha "straight" jacket

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

Why do the two guys in the left corner have the exact same pair of dork glasses? Are they CHN issued or something?
-- jocelyn (nalra...), September 7th, 2005.

1 of 5 people found the fat bastard's mini-me

-- pappawheelie II (pappawheeli...), September 7th, 2005.

― pappawheelie II, Wednesday, 7 September 2005 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

So what exactly would be a goodf names for these dudes?

― pappawheelie II, Wednesday, 7 September 2005 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

(we've never seen) barenaked ladies.

― when something smacks of something (dave225.3), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

Ebert's wearing a wedding ring.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

dude on the bottom left looks like he got lost on the way to the feelies' crazy rhythms cover photo shoot.

― renegade bus (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 21:48 (nineteen years ago)

is the pepsi logo attacking them, passively?

― carly (carly), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 22:16 (nineteen years ago)

It's about to jump down curlytop's throat.

― kaygee (kaygee), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 22:21 (nineteen years ago)

I have to give BNL this much... I never expected they would have a second album.. and several followups. And still exist today.

I thought the same of Teenage Fanclub after Bandwagonesque too.

I gave some other bands from 1991-1992 far more promise, and.. well.. they just didn't survive..(some literally)

The early 90s was a time of deception indeed.

― donut Get Behind Me Carbon Dioxide (donut), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 22:41 (nineteen years ago)

is the pepsi logo attacking them, passively?

Yes, much like the Teletubbies' scary baby-sun.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 23:33 (nineteen years ago)

Hold on, you're ripping on them because they're not as cool as Sailor Moon? Way to come off like the shift supervisor at the poutine shack, King Retard.

dude, nothing is as cool as Sailor Moon. not even you.
now get back to work, you still have like 3 hours left on your shift.

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 8 September 2005 08:24 (nineteen years ago)

seriously though, guys, this album is really really great.

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Thursday, 8 September 2005 08:30 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.kittenrecords.co.uk/slypics/sailor_moon01.jpg

"Barenaked Ladies make music that sounds as bad as they look! In the name of the moon, i will punish you!"

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 8 September 2005 08:35 (nineteen years ago)

I actually like the album, but wow, I probably wouldn't have if my copy had the cover at the top. How do you buy something like that?

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Thursday, 8 September 2005 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

seriously though, guys, this album is really really great.

shut the fuck up, you commie! you're either with us or against us! now take a shot against these geeks or die standing by your 'principles.'

― richard wood johnson, Thursday, 8 September 2005 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

that was a joke, btw. sort of.

― richard wood johnson, Thursday, 8 September 2005 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

Looks like they found a replacement for Jerry Lewis.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 8 September 2005 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

If I can enjoy an album with no absolutely no irony that has this cover:

http://sylvanmigdal.com/reviews/images/xtc_white.jpg

or this album...

http://cover6.cduniverse.com/MuzeAudioArt/230/231357.jpg

..then I don't see the big deal with Gordon.

― donut Get Behind Me Carbon Dioxide (donut), Thursday, 8 September 2005 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.80smusiclyrics.com/images/haircut100.jpg
http://xml.musicindex.de/j31/902500fewhf5ub.jpg

― donut Get Behind Me Carbon Dioxide (donut), Thursday, 8 September 2005 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

First of all, Bob & Doug is supposed to be comedy, eh?

As far as the others, it's one thing to try not to be funny and be funny. It's even worse when an artist tries to be funny and isn't funny.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

And I feel kinda guilty everytime I see that "Notifications Sent Successfully!" line come up everytime I hit "submit".

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

Then again, maybe I don't.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

First of all, Bob & Doug is supposed to be comedy, eh?

Are you sure????

Heh heh, actually, more to the point, are you sure the BNL are NOT trying to be comedy on some degree on that album? I know they're not a "comedy" band.. but then again, neither are The Evaporators, but they're far more hilarious than most "comedy" bands...

As for "notifications sent successfully" guilt.. I mean, come on, "TS: Most Retarded-Looking BNL Member on this Album cover"? I'm not shedding any tears here.

― donut Get Behind Me Carbon Dioxide (donut), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

i'm still laughing over the phrase "fatbeard badshave"

― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

"I never expected they would have a second album and several followups. And still exist today. I thought the same of Teenage Fanclub after Bandwagonesque too."


You will recall that Bandwagonesque was their second album.

― everything, Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

I have and enjoy Catholic Education. thanks, pedant.

― donut Get Behind Me Carbon Dioxide (donut), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

(waiting next for the correction: "Actually the album is called A Catholic Eduction")

― donut Get Behind Me Carbon Dioxide (donut), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

(and I even have and love The King)

― donut Get Behind Me Carbon Dioxide (donut), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

One thing that hasn't been mentioned is that they look like they sound.

Retarded and awful and trying much too hard. Give them that.

― Sasha (sgh), Friday, 9 September 2005 00:55 (nineteen years ago)

Looks like they found a replacement for Jerry Lewis.

i like the ikea shower curtain that the one dude is wearing.

― renegade bus (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 9 September 2005 01:18 (nineteen years ago)

g-kit OTMFM

― yuengling participle (rotten03), Friday, 9 September 2005 01:24 (nineteen years ago)

"Barenaked Ladies make music that sounds as bad as they look! In the name of the moon, i will punish you!"

-- g-kit (kittenslikemil...), September 8th, 2005 7:35 PM. (later)

...

One thing that hasn't been mentioned is that they look like they sound.

Retarded and awful and trying much too hard. Give them that.

-- Sasha (ahmar...), September 9th, 2005 11:55 AM. (later)

Oops.

― Sasha (sgh), Friday, 9 September 2005 01:29 (nineteen years ago)

How times have changed... hmm.

http://support.novell.com/nscradio/list/img/Barenaked%20Ladies%20Everything.jpg

― donut Get Behind Me Carbon Dioxide (donut), Friday, 9 September 2005 02:57 (nineteen years ago)

when did mark ruffalo and david cross join the group?

― renegade bus (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 9 September 2005 03:00 (nineteen years ago)

TS: Barenaked Ladies lyrics vs. El-P lyrics

Chickity China the Chinese chicken
You have a drumstick and your brain stops tickin'
Watchin' X-Files with no lights on
We're dans la maison
I hope the Smoking Man's in this one
Like Harrison Ford I'm getting frantic
Like Sting I'm tantric
Like Snickers, guaranteed to satisfy

vs.

Yo, yo, a bottle rocket, conflicted, I'll throw you a flaming wingnick
Looking for a hero's stars, Looking for heart in the halls
I swear, that lust monkey sweat soaks my balls
And this is one step from a junkie living, breakin in doors
My face low, for thermonucleus games
Spill rain the open drain, who the fuckk is down to steal me some pain
I'm feeling ancient with this shit, on some capitalist order scripts

― donut Get Behind Me Carbon Dioxide (donut), Friday, 9 September 2005 03:04 (nineteen years ago)

TS: Barenaked Ladies lyrics vs. El-P lyrics

Which Emerson Lake & Palmer are those from?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 9 September 2005 03:18 (nineteen years ago)

hahaha

― ken taylrr has gone off the internet because of you (ken taylrr), Friday, 9 September 2005 03:27 (nineteen years ago)

I think beret-head got cancer. it was in their behind the music.

― sdglkj, Friday, 9 September 2005 05:03 (nineteen years ago)

nope, that was Kevin Hearn who may or may not have been in the band at the time of Gordon. if he was, he's bottom left corner guy

― ken taylrr has gone off the internet because of you (ken taylrr), Friday, 9 September 2005 05:18 (nineteen years ago)

this thread should never die.

― g-kit (g-kit), Friday, 9 September 2005 11:13 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...
http://www.getlive.co.uk/publishing/cms/staticfiles/1475_66.jpg

Still, not even close.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 13 October 2005 22:32 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000069RL3.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

I know nothing about this band. For all I know, they sound like an awesome combination of Led Zeppelin and Pavement.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 13 October 2005 22:35 (nineteen years ago)

However, I doubt it.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 13 October 2005 22:35 (nineteen years ago)

Sending emails...
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― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 13 October 2005 22:36 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.wchstv.com/abc/whoselineisit/whoselineisit3.jpg

― Dr. Gene Scott (shinybeast), Thursday, 13 October 2005 22:52 (nineteen years ago)

this cover is even worse than you think. let me enlighten you as to the nature of two nudge nudge wink wink Canadian content visual references here:

exhibit A - the silly hat is actually a tam from Queen's University in Kingston Ontario.

http://www.campusbookstore.com/covers/M/TAMSCOM.jpg
see http://www.campusbookstore.com/index.cfm?index=SPIRITSHOP/WBSDETAILS&isbn=TAMSCOM

exhibit B - the apparent Pepsi logo aint that. it's supposed to look like a type of small soft sports ball, always painted with those stripes that was very commonly used in junior grade phys. ed. classes and more notably, often co-opted for road hockey use.

http://www.physed.ca/miva/graphics/SkillDevelopment/TL-SD1156.jpg
see http://www.campusbookstore.com/index.cfm?index=SPIRITSHOP/WBSDETAILS&isbn=TAMSCOM

(assuming i didn't screw up my formatting) now you know the full horror etc. thank me later.

― Kim (Kim), Friday, 14 October 2005 02:03 (nineteen years ago)

whoops i did screw up on that second link, but it's a phys. ed. ball. just trust me, ok.

― Kim (Kim), Friday, 14 October 2005 02:11 (nineteen years ago)

Exactly why do Queen's University people wear that thing?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 October 2005 02:23 (nineteen years ago)

TRADITION

― Kim (Kim), Friday, 14 October 2005 02:26 (nineteen years ago)

Hosers on the Roof

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 October 2005 02:27 (nineteen years ago)

"Is this the little Canuck I carrrried?"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 October 2005 02:27 (nineteen years ago)

Wait. So the point is that it's not the Barenaked Ladies who are retarded, but all Canadians? That can't be right.

― brittle-lemon (brittle-lemon), Friday, 14 October 2005 05:22 (nineteen years ago)

some of us are kind of retards when it comes to self-promotion. we can't seem to help ourselves because it's ingrained somehow, but we feel dirty immediately afterwards. ugh. just like that.

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 15 October 2005 02:06 (nineteen years ago)

does that say GORDON in back of the BNLs in the title post?

― AaronK (AaronK), Saturday, 15 October 2005 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, that's the name of the album.

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 15 October 2005 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, and it's cool cuz they're, like, within the letters n shit

― ken taylrr never her (ken taylrr), Saturday, 15 October 2005 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...
i nearly shat myself laughing when i re-read this thread.
"fattyspecs"
"fatbeard badshave"

had to supress workplace roffles, bigtime.

― Sailor Kitten (g-kit), Monday, 5 December 2005 09:14 (nineteen years ago)

three months pass...
The this cover makes me wish i had five fists comment wasn't so bad yourself.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 21:57 (nineteen years ago)

Upon re-inspection, I think this cover is so wholly, consistently awful as to constitute a great work of art.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 23:11 (nineteen years ago)

oh god that is wonderful, especially because i owned and loved that album when i was 13. and i'm going to have to go with kevin, the co-lead singer on the upper left. wow. wow. fucking canada.

― Emily B (Emily B), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 04:21 (nineteen years ago)

oh, and i bought it at a mall on prince edward island. it hurts! ha!

― Emily B (Emily B), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 04:23 (nineteen years ago)

#1 bestest thread ever

― timmy tannin (pompous), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 04:23 (nineteen years ago)

In reference to the Gordon cover, when did Adam Duritz become a member of the band?

― Tape Store (Tape Store), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 04:30 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, i'm agreeing with timmy. every time i see this thread re-enter ILM, it brightens my day. five fists... hahahahaha

― that's so taylrr (ken taylrr), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 04:37 (nineteen years ago)

Quality stuff here.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 06:41 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.perrific.com/cds/covers/gordon.jpg

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 08:45 (nineteen years ago)

One question we haven't touched yet: who/what the hell is "Gordon"? Why are they trapped between the bars of "Gordon"? Is the Pepsi ball coming to save them from "Gordon"? Maybe not, since the guy in the red shirt seems to be shielding himself from the ball. Then again, the uppermost guy seems kinda excited about (rather than scared of) the Pepsi ball, whereas the others seem indifferent to it. Maybe the album should be called "Different Stances Towards Pepsi"... But where does "Gordon" fit in?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 08:51 (nineteen years ago)

Also, both the green shirt guy and the jheru curl man seem to be making hand signs... Is that some sort of dork white-boy street code?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 08:55 (nineteen years ago)

Why, "Gordon" is clearly a slice of gnomic normalcy, a name so ordinary it's funny: FEEL TEH WACKINESS.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 09:19 (nineteen years ago)

Look how wacky they are! That record sleeve tells me that there is a better, more fun existence than this quotidien misery, and for just the price of a CD, i could be granted admission.

I know what I'm doing at lunchtime, and don't try and stop me.

― Lee F# (fsharp), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 09:22 (nineteen years ago)

yup, suicide.

― Lee F# (fsharp), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 09:23 (nineteen years ago)

There is so much wrong with the cover I don't even know where to begin. But the top two guys are just making stupid faces, and the bottom right two seem to be playing fake punch/fight game, which leaves the bottom left guy, who is just holding his fist over his head for no apparent reason. Not to mention that he and beret-guy have the same-y color shirt so they look like one big horrible monster.

― musically (musically), Thursday, 30 March 2006 06:59 (nineteen years ago)

Although I must say that Adam Duritz looks pretty ridiculous too. And random observation: the guy in the red t-shirt has a wedding ring on...sorry ladies!!!!

― musically (musically), Thursday, 30 March 2006 07:04 (nineteen years ago)

The thing is, they look like *actual retards.* Like the album looks like it was conceived, recorded, and designed by five people living in a group home.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Thursday, 30 March 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

Although I must say that Adam Duritz looks pretty ridiculous too. And random observation: the guy in the red t-shirt has a wedding ring on...sorry ladies!!!!

-- musically (emxbe...), March 30th, 2006.

man just when i thought every joke had been made

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Thursday, 30 March 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

I always thought this album was called "Gobbon."

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 30 March 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/3333/gordon1qh.jpg

― ath (ath), Thursday, 30 March 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

That's the real face of Big Brother right there.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 30 March 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

what, this face? this one here?

http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/3333/gordon1qh.jpg

― ath (ath), Thursday, 30 March 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

thing is, I actually want to buy the LP now...this cover has more use value than any "artwork" I've analyzed in the last couple of years...

― hank (hank s), Thursday, 30 March 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

Looking at 'Your Fscking Desktop' ILE thread:
http://image.mplib.org/wp/MPW00293.jpg

― S- (sgh), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 04:51 (nineteen years ago)

Gordon picks up where the Barenaked Ladies' famous demo "The Yellow Tape" left off and moves them into majors. Their first for Reprise, this witty songbook finds the Canadian five-piece to be a clever group -- charming, but not childish, yet the Barenaked Ladies are pretty close to overstepping the boundaries of silliness. The thing that keeps them in line is their sharp harmonies. Shared vocals between guitarist Ed Robertson and Steven Page are refreshing and upbeat, especially on reworked versions of "Brian Wilson," "Be My Yoko Ono," and the eternal favorite "If I Had a $1000000 Dollars." "Hello City" and "Box Set" are slick narratives, making for album standouts with its jazz-cool blend. Other shiny moments, such as "Enid" and "Grade 9," are humorous in reflecting upon adolescence, while "Wrap Your Arms Around Me" showcases the Barenaked Ladies' more romantic side. Through all the jokes, these guys are a bunch of suckers for love and such sensitivity is a great match for their quirky musical persona. Gordon is a great introduction to the Barenaked Ladies' sweet comic relief and it's sure to be a college rock mainstay.

― hj,, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 05:24 (nineteen years ago)

hnuh hnuh, you defended bare-naked ladies, uh hungrh, uh hungrgh

― Mystic Handyman (noodle vague), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

three weeks pass...
http://pix.nofrag.com/0d/f2/c9da99cd146b4aad8efedf444fbc.jpg

― vincent spano (vincent spano), Monday, 1 May 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...
LOLOLOLOLOLOL omfg

this thread will never stop being funny.

"it's growing out of his fatfro. DON'T STARE!" had me roffling all over my office. sorry to revive AGAIN.

― teh_kit has 21 friends (g-kit), Thursday, 15 June 2006 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

no one should ever apologize for reviving this

― ...122 hours of beer (part 2) (teenagequiet), Thursday, 15 June 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

I heard this record every fucking day for about a year and a half when I was working at my first record store job (in Canada, obv). And we sold TRUCKLOADS of this motherfucker. I worked with a guy who looked like a member of the Muppet band (and on second thought, he wouldn't have looked out of place on this record cover). He had a tight, curly afro that resembled the hairdo of Howie Mandell. Anyways, he was the fuck chop that insisted on playing this drivel day-in, day-out.
I bet I could sing you the whole record.
Sometime in 93, I was at a show in Calgary, and Fatbeard Badshave walked in. And pretty much everyone in the whole bar was mortified and making fun of him. It was hilar.

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Thursday, 15 June 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

Every time this thread is revived my heart leaps a little.

― kaygee (kaygee), Thursday, 15 June 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

it's resting on its laurels...

get with the makin some funny.

― DAVE, for #1 Hits of yesterday and today! (dave225.3), Thursday, 15 June 2006 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.buymusichere.net/images/bmh/72/62428400172.jpg

Thankfully, I couldn't find a bigger version.

― Edward Bax (EdBax), Thursday, 15 June 2006 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b361/tapestore/gordon.jpg

― Tape Store (Tape Store), Thursday, 15 June 2006 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

roffle

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 15 June 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

People making fun of people making fun of themselves.

Now that *is* funny!

― shorty (shorty), Thursday, 15 June 2006 21:47 (nineteen years ago)

get one sense of humor, shorty

― jäxøñ (jaxon), Thursday, 15 June 2006 22:04 (nineteen years ago)

you too dude. It was said tongue-in-cheek, even though it's true.

You don't no me very well do ya.

― shorty (shorty), Thursday, 15 June 2006 22:10 (nineteen years ago)

erp... no=know

― shorty (shorty), Thursday, 15 June 2006 22:12 (nineteen years ago)

an acquaintance at a party attempted (yet again) to convince me of the BNL's greatness. he did not succeed. We also argued about the virtues (or lack thereof, imho) of Bono's public politics. Good thing I was deeeeeeeerunk on Grey Goose.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 15 June 2006 22:19 (nineteen years ago)

yet again

oh my.

― A Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Thursday, 15 June 2006 23:11 (nineteen years ago)

of the naked cover, i would fuck 3/5th of them.
of the gordon cover, i would fuck 1/5th of them.

― anthony easton (anthony), Friday, 16 June 2006 03:57 (nineteen years ago)

Tell us which ones.

― Marmot 4-Tay (marmotwolof), Friday, 16 June 2006 04:09 (nineteen years ago)

im gonna let you guess

― anthony easton (anthony), Friday, 16 June 2006 05:07 (nineteen years ago)

Of the naked cover, the first 3 from the left,of the gordon cover, lowerleft corner guy?

I'm guessing the guys that seem the least fat/bald/goofy, but you might like those qualities...

― Marmot 4-Tay (marmotwolof), Friday, 16 June 2006 05:16 (nineteen years ago)

Well we already know the red shirt guy is taken.

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Friday, 16 June 2006 05:37 (nineteen years ago)

male sluts are often "taken"

http://www.winexmagazine.com/4point3/small/ci1.jpg

― A Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Friday, 16 June 2006 05:45 (nineteen years ago)

Woah. BOTH ring fingers??

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Friday, 16 June 2006 05:51 (nineteen years ago)

of the naked cover, i would kill 5/5th of them.
of the gordon cover, i would kill 5/5th of them.

― Edward Bax (EdBax), Friday, 16 June 2006 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

I'm very happy to experience this. Love dreadlocks little fist.

― strom (strom), Saturday, 17 June 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...
Stephen Page has a voice that an angle would be envious of.

This actually makes sense.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 2 July 2006 19:25 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.sixthman.us/bnl/welcome.htm

BARENAKED LADIES Presents "SHIPS AND DIP"
JANUARY 15 - 19, 2007

Join Barenaked Ladies on a cruise like no other. Departing Ft. Lauderdale on January 15, 2007 on the Carnival Legend and returning January 19, 2007, Barenaked Ladies' Ships and Dip will stop in Turks and Caicos en route. Other cruises may stop in Turks. Some may even stop in Caicos. Our cruise stops in both! The band will perform multiple concerts and multiple trips to the buffet, and, in between, you will be treated to a truly Barenaked experience. From intimate solo shows to jam sessions to a rollicking karaoke party with BNL, Ships and Dip is a must for the true Barenaked Ladies aficionado. Also joining the fun will be our friends Guster, Brothers Creegan, Thinbuckle and others. And don't forget, everyone has to have a passport!

― DAVE, for #1 Hits of yesterday and today! (dave225.3), Monday, 3 July 2006 12:33 (eighteen years ago)

http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/8468/shb13re.jpg

― a.b. (alanbanana), Monday, 3 July 2006 13:40 (eighteen years ago)

i wonder if jason priestly would put these guys on when he'd bring a young hollywood starlet back to his place.

― keyth (keyth), Monday, 3 July 2006 14:13 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiZ7RTmby-Y

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Monday, 3 July 2006 14:20 (eighteen years ago)

they're still together?!

― lf (lfam), Monday, 3 July 2006 16:39 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...
waitaminit, was gordon the school bully and they are fearing getting hit by the ball in dodgeball or something?

my god, that sound pretty good!

― dd_____ (dayvidday), Thursday, 24 August 2006 05:29 (eighteen years ago)

i grew up in their hometown - gordon was their stylist. i have all sorts of crazy stories but i won't go into that :D :D :D :D :D

― a little knowledge can go a long way (lfam2), Thursday, 24 August 2006 05:44 (eighteen years ago)

why on earth not

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 24 August 2006 05:53 (eighteen years ago)

life's too short not to gossip! spill the beans!

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 24 August 2006 06:05 (eighteen years ago)

Only 200 odd answers here? I'd imagined it was up to DMat quantities!

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 24 August 2006 06:05 (eighteen years ago)

Of course, for reasons only we know, in the UK the words "Gordon" and "Moron" have gone together since 1978 or thereabouts.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 24 August 2006 06:07 (eighteen years ago)

theres an awesome song by early 80 uk punk klezmer heros THE CRAVATS called GORDON.

― chaki (chaki), Thursday, 24 August 2006 06:18 (eighteen years ago)

My own top 5:

#5: married man cowering from Pepsi logo (way to be subversive, dude!)

#4: Green beret. See the above enlarged photos for reasons why.

#3: lower left corner guy: He seems to think he's a cuckoo clock.

#2: fatbeard badshave: I used to think he was trapped in "GORDON", but I realized he's
just having sex with those beautiful gray letters.

#1: fatty dread: c'mon, this guy is as cute as a little chipmunk. While all the others are begging for attention, he just keeps on punchin' his little retard hand. He's tenacious!

― cosmo vitelli (cosmo vitelli), Thursday, 24 August 2006 06:57 (eighteen years ago)

fatbeard badshave, all the way. that's really horrendous. the barenaked ladies were pretty horrible.

― Alexei (alexei), Thursday, 24 August 2006 21:58 (eighteen years ago)

i was just playing

― a little knowledge can go a long way (lfam2), Thursday, 24 August 2006 22:11 (eighteen years ago)

a la dmb

― a little knowledge can go a long way (lfam2), Thursday, 24 August 2006 22:11 (eighteen years ago)

really this photo is the most i know about barenaked laddies

― a little knowledge can go a long way (lfam2), Thursday, 24 August 2006 22:12 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.unclesamsmusic.com/images/ExclusiveCDs/ladies.jpg

― Edward Bax (EdBax), Friday, 25 August 2006 02:05 (eighteen years ago)

TMI

― a little knowledge can go a long way (lfam2), Friday, 25 August 2006 02:51 (eighteen years ago)

Well, red-shirt guy beats dreadlock guy because paper covers rock.

Lower-left guy's hand grenade beats both, though.

― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Friday, 25 August 2006 13:09 (eighteen years ago)

why is FB so much bigger than everyone else?!

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Friday, 25 August 2006 14:14 (eighteen years ago)

hat guy wins. this thread is a beuatiful piece of work.

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Friday, 25 August 2006 15:13 (eighteen years ago)

It's the thread that just keeps on giving!

― Neil Stewart (Neil Stewart), Friday, 25 August 2006 15:16 (eighteen years ago)

In that picture with the sweaters...I'm positive that's Carrot Top playing the bass.

― Edward Bax (EdBax), Friday, 25 August 2006 22:50 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.unclesamsmusic.com/images/ExclusiveCDs/ladies.jpg

― Edward Bax (EdBax), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 23:01 (eighteen years ago)

"oh, there's some Kraft Dinner, oh, there's some ketchup."

― Suzy Creemcheese (SuzyCreemcheese), Thursday, 7 September 2006 04:03 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...
any time i have a bad day, i know i can reread this thread and be roffling by the time i read the first 5 posts.

― teh_kit (g-kit), Thursday, 12 October 2006 14:37 (eighteen years ago)

I liked when Tuomas could post without trolling

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Thursday, 19 October 2006 06:03 (eighteen years ago)

I'm having trouble figuring out who from the Gordon cover is who on this other cover.

― wolfwolfwolf (wolfwolfwolf), Thursday, 19 October 2006 07:26 (eighteen years ago)

two months pass...
WUT UP

― ZR (teenagequiet), Thursday, 4 January 2007 14:52 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.jft.ca/croccards/God_bless_you.gif

― VALLEY OF BLIZZARDZ (Mr.Que), Thursday, 4 January 2007 14:59 (eighteen years ago)

OH ILX DATABASE HOW IVE MISSED YOU

you people are so lame. don't you have anything better to do than dis artists you don't like? I have been a barenakedladies fan for 10 years and they have more talent in their little finger's than any of you guys have. your just jealous that you don't know how to make good music like they do. you probably like blink 182 or green day. just go back to your mothers basement timmy because you probably live with her and listen to green day and have nothing better to do than be on the internet all day.

-- bnlroxx (bnlfa...), September 7th, 2005. (dave225.3)

― 69 (plsmith), Thursday, 4 January 2007 15:09 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...
since they're going to be back in the news, compare the OP image with this one:

http://image.listen.com/img/356x237/6/1/9/0/510916_356x237.jpg

― kingfishy (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 5 February 2007 17:22 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...
Is it self-evident that the guy in the bottom right is the least retarded?

Furthermore, he's drinking to forget the sort of morons he has to hang around with each day.

― I am not afraid of you and you can spank my ass, Thursday, 15 March 2007 01:29 (eighteen years ago)

[link (Some Guy)]http://www.notreally.com[link] http://img.fark.com/images/2001/topics/photoshop.gif Anyone in the fucking world could do a better job photoshopping this album cover.

― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 15 March 2007 01:55 (eighteen years ago)

And another hearty fuck you to the coding on this nu-ilx. You're more retarded than this Barenaked Ladies album cover!

― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 15 March 2007 01:56 (eighteen years ago)

That Jesus Jones pic is the worst thing Ive seen all year.

― Trayce, Thursday, 15 March 2007 02:54 (eighteen years ago)

The problem is that some of them look more obviously retarded than others, but if you stare at the more subtly retarded looking ones long enough, they actually look even more retarded.

hahahah

― poortheatre, Thursday, 15 March 2007 08:41 (eighteen years ago)

This is my favorite ILM thread ever!!!!!!

― Curt1s Stephens, Monday, 19 March 2007 04:58 (eighteen years ago)

Green shirt, bottom left: "Ooohdoh, sowmbowdy's giving me a nooooogie! Ooodoh, it's meeeee!"

― Hurting 2, Monday, 19 March 2007 05:53 (eighteen years ago)

They don't look much like barenaked ladies to me. Would have expected something along the lines of "Electric Ladyland".

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 19 March 2007 10:48 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...
whoever designed this cover should be given an "outstanding achievement in greatness" medal and a box of the breakfast cereal of his choice. i bet he'd pick boo berry.

― funny farm, Saturday, 5 May 2007 21:24 (eighteen years ago)

five months pass...

http://www.angelfire.com/music/diamondawards/images/gordon.jpg
picture disappeared

― 69, Friday, 12 October 2007 15:51 (seventeen years ago)

MODS!

We need to fix the top image! This thread is a national treasure!

(this is the best one I could find!)
http://www.cd24.ee/pildid/C00165.jpg

― Mark G, Friday, 12 October 2007 16:12 (seventeen years ago)

Not to mention that he and beret-guy have the same-y color shirt so they look like one big horrible monster.
-- musically (musically), Thursday, March 30, 2006 1:59 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Link

If upper left and lower right are wearing the same shirt because they're conjoined twins then this thread just made me sad.

― dad a, Friday, 12 October 2007 17:05 (seventeen years ago)

(xpost) Half-inched from halfway up the page:

http://www.perrific.com/cds/covers/gordon.jpg

― Tom D., Friday, 12 October 2007 17:07 (seventeen years ago)

You just can't get tired of looking at that sleeve.

― Billy Dods, Friday, 12 October 2007 17:47 (seventeen years ago)

You can't put too much water into a nuclear reactor core.

― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 12 October 2007 18:27 (seventeen years ago)

beret is still, without a doubt, the worst one

― 69, Friday, 12 October 2007 18:31 (seventeen years ago)

I believe it's actually a tam-o-shanter.

― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 12 October 2007 19:02 (seventeen years ago)

His tall, skinny figure and red hair are his trademark physical features. Around 1994-5, he grew his hair out, which caused him to frequently be compared to Carrot Top. Aside from the long-haired period, his appearance has remained remarkably constant compared to that of his bandmates.

In 2006, Creeggan played the bass in Sarah McLachlan's Christmas album, Wintersong.

He currently lives with his wife, Anna, and son, Finn in Toronto.

― chaki, Friday, 12 October 2007 20:47 (seventeen years ago)

I think this band is simply going to hang around forever. Eventually the members' children will take over for them.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, 12 October 2007 20:57 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.kkbox.com.tw/funky/album/57484.jpg

From Amazon:
"3 of 4 people found this image helpful."

― Edward Bax, Saturday, 13 October 2007 03:40 (seventeen years ago)

Oh, and...

http://www.thealmightyguru.com/TheGuru/Life/Images/2004-08-12-TourPoster.jpg

― Edward Bax, Saturday, 13 October 2007 03:40 (seventeen years ago)

five months pass...

http://www.pepsiplace.com/Images/Pepsi.gif

― PappaWheelie V, Saturday, 22 March 2008 04:37 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.productstewardship.net/images/logoSouthKorea.gif

― Pleasant Plains, Saturday, 22 March 2008 04:52 (seventeen years ago)

three months pass...

I guess we know what he did with his million dollars.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 12:48 (sixteen years ago)

shut that door!

― Mark G, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 12:50 (sixteen years ago)

dreds wants to fist bump

― Eric H., Wednesday, 16 July 2008 12:54 (sixteen years ago)

FATTYVILLE, N.Y.

― ledge, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 13:23 (sixteen years ago)

July 18, 2008
Barenaked Ladies Cancel Disney Show After Drug Rap
By REUTERS
Filed at 11:18 a.m. ET

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Popular Canadian band the Barenaked Ladies has pulled out of a children's charity show organized by Walt Disney Co after lead singer Steven Page was charged with possessing cocaine, the band said in a statement posted on its website on Friday.

The five-man band had been due to play at the Long Island, New York, show -- the Disney Music Block Party -- late next month.

"Members of the band completely support Steven Page but we don't want to put Disney in an awkward position before issues involving Steven's arrest are resolved," group manager Terry McBride said in the statement.

Page, was arrested last Friday in Fayetteville, New York, and charged with possession of a controlled substance.

The band is best known for hit songs such as "One Week," "Pinch Me," and "If I Had a Million Dollars."

― Mr. Que, Friday, 18 July 2008 15:59 (sixteen years ago)

dude in the red shirt?

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Friday, 18 July 2008 20:23 (sixteen years ago)

Well, he does look like the most paranoid one on the cover.

― dad a, Friday, 18 July 2008 20:28 (sixteen years ago)

i'd party with barenaked ladies before i partied with LiLo

― Mr. Que, Friday, 18 July 2008 20:30 (sixteen years ago)

every time i see this thread on the new answers page, i open it and laugh at the title and first 20 or so posts. probably one of my favorite thread starts on ILM.

to me the worst guy is the guy with the nkotb hair+goatee. the one in the hat actually seems like he might be the 'funny' one IRL, but the forced zaniness of nkotb-hair and horn-rimmed assflake in the lower left makes them seem worse than retarded.

― rockapads, Friday, 18 July 2008 22:08 (sixteen years ago)

A great friend of mine really inspired me on the perfect reason to hate the Barenaked Ladies. What pissed her off the most about these bastards is the fact that they probably got laid every night by different women in the 90s, and probably still do in Canada.

Also - did you know Jason Priestly backed some of their crossover into American mainstream? Canuck loyalty - awesome.

― skygreenleopard, Friday, 18 July 2008 23:21 (sixteen years ago)

Never thought I'd say this, but Alanis looks half-hot in that photo.

― calstars, Friday, 18 July 2008 23:28 (sixteen years ago)

Oh, she's hot all right.

― Eazy, Friday, 18 July 2008 23:31 (sixteen years ago)

I'd like to see the Gordon cover photoshopped with the '08 presidential candidates.

― Eazy, Friday, 18 July 2008 23:32 (sixteen years ago)

if this was a just universe, this would be a thread of eternal bump

― PappaWheelie V, Saturday, 19 July 2008 01:03 (sixteen years ago)

The arrest comes as the band, known for its clean image and cross-generational appeal, recently released a new album for children titled, "Snacktime," a collection of two dozen original children's songs.

― stephen, Saturday, 19 July 2008 03:00 (sixteen years ago)

As much as I can't stand their music I would feel bad for fattyglasses if dude either lost his marriage because of coke or got into drugs because his marriage fucked up.

― Display Name, Saturday, 19 July 2008 03:11 (sixteen years ago)

humanity. turrible

― PappaWheelie V, Saturday, 19 July 2008 03:14 (sixteen years ago)

Let's see if we can clean this up a little with "image enhancement" technology.

http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t214/ZachRScott/bnl1.jpg
http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t214/ZachRScott/bnl3.jpg
http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t214/ZachRScott/bnl4.jpg

― Z S, Saturday, 19 July 2008 03:16 (sixteen years ago)

http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t214/ZachRScott/bnl5.jpg
http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t214/ZachRScott/bnl2.jpg

WINNER

http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t214/ZachRScott/bnl2.jpg

― Z S, Saturday, 19 July 2008 03:17 (sixteen years ago)

Canada's Most Wanted

― Eazy, Saturday, 19 July 2008 03:21 (sixteen years ago)

from roger ebert's review of their movie:

If you knew a lot about movies but nothing about a band named Barenaked Ladies, you might reasonably assume that "Barenaked in America" was a spoof--a "This Is Spinal Tap"-style mockumentary aimed at the popular image of Canadians as people who are awfully nice. While most band documentaries wade through sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll, this one has no sex, no drugs, and the kind of rock 'n' roll that reminds one of their fans of "something I'd hear at a dorm party." It's groundbreaking when the lead singer comes out in chinos and a dress shirt with the buttons stretching over his tummy. But the movie becomes even stranger when the camera goes aboard the tour bus. What do the band members do on the bus? Play euchre. Yes, euchre. "Euchre is a Canadian thing," one of the sidemen says. "I don't know if Americans have ever heard of it." Oh, and I almost forgot: There is sex on the bus, but it doesn't involve groupies and orgies. A couple of the guys giggle about sneaking out in the morning to dispose of used Kleenex.
...
The documentary, directed by Jason Priestley ("Beverly Hills 90201"), arrives in Boston, where the Ladies fill an enormous arena with their fans. We get the usual sound bites outside the hall, but not the usual opinions: "They look like guys you'd see working at the Gap," one fan says.

― abanana, Saturday, 19 July 2008 04:30 (sixteen years ago)

http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t214/ZachRScott/bnl3.jpg
Hello my future girlfriend, this is what I look like.

― CaptainLorax, Saturday, 19 July 2008 05:48 (sixteen years ago)

I am eleven years old, in the 6th grade, in New Mexico.

Please PM me, if I'm on Yahoo! chat.

Bye!

Thanks for stopping by!

― Z S, Saturday, 19 July 2008 06:48 (sixteen years ago)

I tell you this.
I have versions much bigger than that, but Photobucket has to downsize.

― Z S, Saturday, 19 July 2008 06:49 (sixteen years ago)

These spam networks are really on top of the whole "using public interest a current event to trick people into going to an infected website". E-mails with subject lines like "0bama pulls out of race", etc., etc.. Well I've just had one that says "Barenaked Ladies with cocaine overdose".

― snoball, Saturday, 19 July 2008 11:21 (sixteen years ago)

Maybe it was just an ad for a weirdo fetish porn site?

― Tuomas, Saturday, 19 July 2008 13:11 (sixteen years ago)

i got that cocaine overdose spam too!

― rockapads, Sunday, 20 July 2008 00:59 (sixteen years ago)

Oh, and I almost forgot: There is sex on the bus, but it doesn't involve groupies and orgies. A couple of the guys giggle about sneaking out in the morning to dispose of used Kleenex.

http://www.peterbrown.tv/foxydemoum.JPG

― s1ocki, Sunday, 20 July 2008 01:06 (sixteen years ago)

Never thought I'd say this, but Alanis looks half-hot in that photo.

-- calstars, Friday, 18 July 2008 23:28 (2 days ago) Link

Oh, she's hot all right.

-- Eazy, Friday, 18 July 2008 23:31 (2 days ago) Link

now who's on drugs?

― J0hn D., Sunday, 20 July 2008 01:21 (sixteen years ago)

What can I say, she's womanly.

― Eazy, Monday, 21 July 2008 04:48 (sixteen years ago)

http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t214/ZachRScott/tongues.gif

― Z S, Monday, 21 July 2008 05:32 (sixteen years ago)

Um...I don't know.

Ned. Maybe Ned's humour can help us.

― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Monday, 21 July 2008 05:38 (sixteen years ago)

What's wrong with it?

― Z S, Monday, 21 July 2008 05:40 (sixteen years ago)

Wait, fixed

http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t214/ZachRScott/tongue2.gif

― Z S, Monday, 21 July 2008 05:49 (sixteen years ago)

one month passes...

http://valleywag.com/5041141/for-barenaked-ladies-its-been-one-week-from-hell nothing new right?

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 25 August 2008 20:52 (sixteen years ago)

three months pass...

Being that the M0untain G0ats are supporting BNL in February, could we finally get the band themselves to weigh in and answer this question?

― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Saturday, 6 December 2008 21:34 (sixteen years ago)

This has already been scientifically proven:

http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t214/ZachRScott/bnl2.jpg

― Z S, Saturday, 6 December 2008 21:46 (sixteen years ago)

one month passes...

Being that the M0untain G0ats are supporting BNL in February, could we finally get the band themselves to weigh in and answer this question?

― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Saturday, 6 December 2008 21:34 (1 month ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I did ask.

― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics), Sunday, 1 February 2009 01:41 (sixteen years ago)

Wait, "maybe Ned's humour can help us?" Even I don't buy that.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 1 February 2009 01:55 (sixteen years ago)

This thread should've never fallen into archives.

― PappaWheelie V, Sunday, 1 February 2009 04:53 (sixteen years ago)

― the who cares (okamax), Sunday, 1 February 2009 18:01 (sixteen years ago)

Was hoping that was a video response to this thread.

― McAlmont and I'll Get You Butler (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 1 February 2009 18:02 (sixteen years ago)

OMG at Public Enemy "spoof" @ 4:30

― I am using your worlds, Sunday, 1 February 2009 18:14 (sixteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

RIP

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 25 February 2009 15:55 (sixteen years ago)

I actually bought this album today in a charity shop for £1, god knows why. A moment of madness. Someone give me a compelling reason to actually play it.

― Matt #2, Wednesday, 25 February 2009 20:45 (sixteen years ago)

brian wilson

― They don’t understand. And I eat a lot of matzo brie. (contenderizer), Wednesday, 25 February 2009 20:59 (sixteen years ago)

two years pass...

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lj3imxIxfZ1qzpqd6o1_500.jpg
http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lj3iniV6y81qzpqd6o1_500.jpg
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lj3injfXZd1qzpqd6o1_500.jpg
http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lj3inkuIf31qzpqd6o1_500.jpg
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lj3inmLsCw1qzpqd6o1_500.jpg

― gr8080, Sunday, 3 April 2011 22:33 (fourteen years ago)

(via JW)

― gr8080, Sunday, 3 April 2011 22:34 (fourteen years ago)

oh i guess Z S has covered this already

― gr8080, Sunday, 3 April 2011 22:41 (fourteen years ago)

lol

― OH RICHEY, WHY. (PaulTMA), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 17:46 (fourteen years ago)

i actually kind of like this album

― frogbs, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 18:08 (fourteen years ago)

six months pass...

This was bugging me for years until I saw the DVD!

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTkwNjA5MzQ2OV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMjAxMDYyMQ@@._V1._SY317_CR5,0,214,317_.jpg

Lad at the back above, guy in the middle below

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/3d/GordonBarenakedLadies.jpg/220px-GordonBarenakedLadies.jpg

― Mark G, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 12:03 (thirteen years ago)

Lay off guys--the ball in the corner inspired the Obama campaign logo.

― your way better (Eazy), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 12:41 (thirteen years ago)

Clockwise from bottom center:

Roger Ebert, Gene Siskel, A.O. Scott, Anthony Lane, Elvis Mitchell.

― your way better (Eazy), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 12:43 (thirteen years ago)

three months pass...

http://www.continentalentertainment.ca/bnl/bnl.jpg

― Cruller, Cobbler, Poffert, Pie (latebloomer), Saturday, 18 February 2012 05:48 (thirteen years ago)

son of newman comes out of it the least unscathed imo

― the majestic ned? (electricsound), Saturday, 18 February 2012 05:50 (thirteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfdTnpV03p8

― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 18 February 2012 05:54 (thirteen years ago)

least scathed obv

― the majestic ned? (electricsound), Saturday, 18 February 2012 05:54 (thirteen years ago)

six months pass...

http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2012/08/23/animal_collective_hero_photo__adriano_fegundes__wide-9d2ab9b16c2027ff2dd82d66b9bf585319ef710f-s4.jpg?

― look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Monday, 27 August 2012 19:40 (twelve years ago)

i guess the wind must have changed when they were all laughing. except for glumster on the left.

― ledge, Monday, 27 August 2012 20:33 (twelve years ago)

love this thread and thread concept so much
oops this was bumped 2 days ago. weird

― the most astonishing writer on ilx (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 05:55 (twelve years ago)

glumster on the left = http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/legupmgmt/deacon-animal-collective-at-the-festival-in-the/comments

also, kicked out of the band due to involvement in "hard drugs"... possibly (definitely?) related.

TMZ of bro-wave,
peter g. aka "lil queequeg"

― lil queequeg (peter grasswich), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 07:28 (twelve years ago)

Y'iiit's bin

― glumdalclitch, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 08:43 (twelve years ago)

omg at that kickstarter

― the most astonishing writer on ilx (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 13:33 (twelve years ago)

Weird that the Barenaked Ladies have gotten thinner over time, isn't it usually the other way around?

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 13:34 (twelve years ago)

no

― the most astonishing writer on ilx (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 13:36 (twelve years ago)

Well, at least to my experience it seems to happen to guys especially.

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 13:37 (twelve years ago)

Oh wait, I just looked at the URL of that pic, I guess it isn't the Barenaked Ladies in it?

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 13:40 (twelve years ago)

omg at that kickstarter

seriously

― we don't wanna miss a THING!!! (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 13:53 (twelve years ago)

what the fuck

― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 13:59 (twelve years ago)

no it's not, and I don't get why the pic was posted in this thread

xxp

― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 14:02 (twelve years ago)

Weird that the Barenaked Ladies have gotten thinner over time, isn't it usually the other way around?

mass quantities of blow will do that

― frogbs, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 14:08 (twelve years ago)

no it's not, and I don't get why the pic was posted in this thread

xxp

― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Wednesday, August 29, 2012 10:02 AM (2 hours ago)

Hurting meant to post it on the unfortunate band photos thread. Did so right afterwards.

― Evan, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 16:49 (twelve years ago)

Or wait maybe he meant to post in both threads...

― Evan, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 16:49 (twelve years ago)

Or she, sorry I don't know

― Evan, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 16:50 (twelve years ago)

really wish this thread could have gone without the "retard" in the title.

― frogbs, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 16:51 (twelve years ago)

TS: Most Ed-Looking Barenaked Ladies Member on This Album Cover?

― i know your nuts hurt! who's laughing? (contenderizer), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 16:56 (twelve years ago)

there's no nice way to be mean to the barenaked ladies.

― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 17:01 (twelve years ago)

BUT WE WOULD EAT KRAFT DINNER. WE WOULD JUST EAT MORE.

― frogbs, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 17:07 (twelve years ago)

What a retread

― Supper's Burnt (PaulTMA), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 20:51 (twelve years ago)

we're not supposed to say that anymore

― the most astonishing writer on ilx (roxymuzak), Thursday, 30 August 2012 01:19 (twelve years ago)

five months pass...

not much worse than that million dollars song on this earth

― purp (roxymuzak), Monday, 25 February 2013 17:13 (twelve years ago)

if i had a million dollars ...i'd be rich

― ☕ (diamonddave85), Monday, 25 February 2013 17:33 (twelve years ago)

http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t214/ZachRScott/bnl1.jpg

― ( ( ( ( ( ( ( (Z S), Monday, 25 February 2013 17:34 (twelve years ago)

lmfbo

― purp (roxymuzak), Monday, 25 February 2013 22:12 (twelve years ago)

When the last proton left in the universe finally decays, "Fatbeard Badshave" will still be pants-pissingly funny.

― this is called money bags (Phil D.), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 00:03 (twelve years ago)

barenaked neckrolls

― administrator galina (Matt P), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 00:30 (twelve years ago)

one month passes...

http://cdn.idolator.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/10/icona-pop-iconic-EP-400x400.jpg

― Diddy-Drugs A. Money (some dude), Thursday, 28 March 2013 14:48 (twelve years ago)

1. Slackjaw Brownbra
2. Lickteeth Tasslehat

― m0stlyClean, Thursday, 28 March 2013 16:44 (twelve years ago)

one month passes...

Retarded Members of Barenaked Ladies meet their midlife crisis:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-838C4l5SP9E/UYCHL1ltdOI/AAAAAAAApPA/NJGm7JdJh08/s1600/Barenaked+Ladies+Grinning+Streak.jpg

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Monday, 6 May 2013 20:48 (twelve years ago)

lol at grinning streak, never change BNL!

― tylerw, Monday, 6 May 2013 20:51 (twelve years ago)

"We must be hip and relevant. You guys see that Reservoir Dogs film?"

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 6 May 2013 20:53 (twelve years ago)

so what happened to the poindexter who was in the lower left corner?

― pplains, Monday, 6 May 2013 20:57 (twelve years ago)

Drugs

― everything, Monday, 6 May 2013 20:58 (twelve years ago)

Sorry, I mean Solo Career.

― everything, Monday, 6 May 2013 20:59 (twelve years ago)

Check out his albums "Andiwork", "Andiwork2" and "Andiwork3".

― everything, Monday, 6 May 2013 21:00 (twelve years ago)

http://arts.nationalpost.com/2012/08/01/this-is-me-two-decades-later-barenaked-ladies-wax-nostalgic-as-gordon-turns-20/

― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 6 May 2013 21:14 (twelve years ago)

Guy in the left hand corner left for solo career.
Guy in red in the center left because of drugs and solo career.

― MarkoP, Monday, 6 May 2013 21:16 (twelve years ago)

“Absolutely the worst album cover in the history of music,” Stewart sighed in a recent telephone interview. “It’s like some crappy font with photos of us wrapped around it. We’re all looking overly cute and earnest.

wait so what did you think of the music then

― huun huurt 2 (Hurting 2), Monday, 6 May 2013 21:22 (twelve years ago)

"we're all looking overly cute"

yeah, thats it

― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 03:43 (twelve years ago)

Lol I was just thinking about this thread today when I heard "One Week" in a coffee shop and noticed for the first time the line "I have a history of taking off my shirt"

― Drugs A. Money, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 06:45 (twelve years ago)

When did Ricky Gervais join the group?

― Vinnie, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 13:33 (twelve years ago)

Band who released an album called "Gordon" featuring the hit single "If I Had a Million Dollars" regrets looking overly cute and earnest on cover

― huun huurt 2 (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 14:14 (twelve years ago)

What did the inside art of this CD look like? Was it a five-page fold-out with the lyrics, a Barenaked Lady bandmember's photo from the cover isolated on each sheet? ("Ah, finally, the lyrics to that million dollars song. Right here on Page Tam O'Shanter.)

― pplains, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 14:29 (twelve years ago)

no, that's cruel.

― Mark G, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 14:31 (twelve years ago)

http://joe.gottli.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/bnl1.jpg

― pplains, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 14:34 (twelve years ago)

that's a big improvement tbh

― huun huurt 2 (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 15:38 (twelve years ago)

Yeah except somebody did that.

― pplains, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 15:39 (twelve years ago)

right here on Page Tam O'Shanter.

Killed me

― Walter Galt, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 16:31 (twelve years ago)

that dude's off-center goatee is really bothering me

― diamonddave85, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 16:32 (twelve years ago)

four weeks pass...

We are the band, Barenaked Ladies, and we’re excited to celebrate our 25th anniversary tomorrow with our new album Grinning Streak -- AMA // reddit.com

Just a quick one - which is the Most Retarded-Looking Barenaked Ladies Member on This Album Cover

― Walter Galt, Tuesday, 4 June 2013 12:04 (twelve years ago)

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51cP760nCkL._SY300_.jpg

― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Tuesday, 4 June 2013 23:16 (twelve years ago)

james murphy

― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Tuesday, 4 June 2013 23:16 (twelve years ago)

oh man ;_;

― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Tuesday, 4 June 2013 23:17 (twelve years ago)

http://i41.tinypic.com/2z7ftr8.jpg

― sleepingbag, Tuesday, 4 June 2013 23:25 (twelve years ago)

Fuck this thread and fuck it's title. I thought I had erroneously clicked on FB, but no this disablist shit is on ILM.

― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Tuesday, 4 June 2013 23:54 (twelve years ago)

five months pass...

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gTHlVACrPQ4/UnvVWt8MzvI/AAAAAAAABrw/5GJ9NrSS6pQ/s1600/BNL_outtakes-update.jpg
in case anyone's interested: http://bbchron.blogspot.com/2013/11/barenaked-ladies-outtakes-bonus-tracks.html

― tylerw, Monday, 11 November 2013 18:33 (eleven years ago)

that graphic is so well designed!!!!

― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Monday, 11 November 2013 18:36 (eleven years ago)

fatbeard badshave has aged well.

― One Trick Over-Painted Pony (soref), Monday, 11 November 2013 18:40 (eleven years ago)

i did a massive double take at first but if you look closely they have just photoshopped the dead guy in

― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 11 November 2013 18:41 (eleven years ago)

there's a dead guy?

― tylerw, Monday, 11 November 2013 18:44 (eleven years ago)

Guy on the far left. It's become a weekend at bernie's type thing.

― pplains, Monday, 11 November 2013 18:58 (eleven years ago)

i think they're just trolling you dudes now

― frogbs, Monday, 11 November 2013 19:02 (eleven years ago)

the shopped guy left to pursue a "solo career" at some point, i think he's Crouchy McScaredface in the OP.

― JACK SQUAT about these Charlie Nobodies (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 11 November 2013 19:07 (eleven years ago)

godammit you guys made me go to the barenaked ladies wiki page.
i learned this
In May 2009, BNL partnered with American ice cream company Ben & Jerry's to create the flavour "If I Had 1,000,000 Flavours." Named after the song "If I Had $1000000", the confection consists of vanilla and chocolate ice cream, peanut butter cups, chocolate-coated toffee chunks, white chocolate chunks and chocolate-coated almonds. In the United States, this ice cream flavour is sold under the name "Everything But The...".

― tylerw, Monday, 11 November 2013 19:11 (eleven years ago)

i hate toffee

― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Monday, 11 November 2013 19:14 (eleven years ago)

Know what else I hate?

― pplains, Monday, 11 November 2013 19:15 (eleven years ago)

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XOgZ_p00p1s/SgnT7MrGAcI/AAAAAAAAAAc/zP1eLnVO2bM/s400/IMG_3088.JPG
not sure why there's a robot in this picture. a short circuit 2 reference?

― tylerw, Monday, 11 November 2013 19:16 (eleven years ago)

so that's what happened to Doktor Avalanche

― smoking, drinking, cracking and showing the MIDDLE FINGER (DJP), Monday, 11 November 2013 19:19 (eleven years ago)

wow i also learned that the keyboard player was the musical director for lou reed's band for the past few years this changes everything

― tylerw, Monday, 11 November 2013 19:19 (eleven years ago)

You just put in my head the possibility of Ben & Jerry's doing a Lou Reed flavor. Thanks for that, great work on a Monday.

― pplains, Monday, 11 November 2013 19:21 (eleven years ago)

And no, we don't have to put our creative minds together and formulate a list, that's ok.

― pplains, Monday, 11 November 2013 19:21 (eleven years ago)

you are in a poor mood today

― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Monday, 11 November 2013 19:22 (eleven years ago)

fair point. Also "today".

― pplains, Monday, 11 November 2013 19:24 (eleven years ago)

haw true

― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Monday, 11 November 2013 19:25 (eleven years ago)

this is the only Lou Reed Ben & Jerry tribute flavor I will accept: Junior Mint Dad

― tylerw, Monday, 11 November 2013 19:26 (eleven years ago)

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_53PGXW9RID8/TPPMvWUb2OI/AAAAAAAADC4/Nigljx4IC1M/s1600/wagon_wheels.jpg

See how I brought it all back?

― pplains, Monday, 11 November 2013 19:31 (eleven years ago)

Red Velvet Underground Cake

― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 11 November 2013 19:36 (eleven years ago)

Coney Island Baby Ruth Crunch

― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 11 November 2013 19:38 (eleven years ago)

White Light/White Chocolate

― tylerw, Monday, 11 November 2013 19:41 (eleven years ago)

cookies and heroin

― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 11 November 2013 20:10 (eleven years ago)

treat hassle

― james brooks, Monday, 11 November 2013 20:48 (eleven years ago)

Cake No Prisoners

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 11 November 2013 21:07 (eleven years ago)

i am so sorry guys but
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEaqlV0tTnk

― tylerw, Monday, 11 November 2013 21:15 (eleven years ago)

you all are doing nothing to improve my poor mood.

― pplains, Monday, 11 November 2013 21:16 (eleven years ago)

You scream, I steam, we all want egg cream

― Euler, Monday, 11 November 2013 21:18 (eleven years ago)

Sundae Morning

there, are we done yet

― pplains, Monday, 11 November 2013 21:21 (eleven years ago)

shd've stopped after Spiralli's tbh

― . (Noodle Vague), Monday, 11 November 2013 21:22 (eleven years ago)

i am so sorry guys but

I dunno why I listened to this but it's not nearly as terrible as it could be - vocals kinda suck

― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 11 November 2013 21:44 (eleven years ago)

I'm Waiting For the Man Ice Cream

― I have a friend who works at Kroger (Matt P), Monday, 11 November 2013 21:47 (eleven years ago)

I'm Waiting for the Ice Cream Man Ice Cream

― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 11 November 2013 21:47 (eleven years ago)

shd've stopped after Spiralli's tbh

no way, 'treat hassle' is hilarious

― kel's vintage port (electricsound), Monday, 11 November 2013 21:48 (eleven years ago)

What Goes Flan

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 11 November 2013 22:00 (eleven years ago)

lmao @ treat hassle

― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 06:05 (eleven years ago)

cotton candy says
the black cherry death song
sister rum raisin

― slugbuggy, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 07:02 (eleven years ago)

Metal Maraschino Music

― how's life, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 11:29 (eleven years ago)

The Blueberry Mask
Rock 'n' Roll Tart

― Thomas K Amphong (Tom D.), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 11:36 (eleven years ago)

Rum Rum Rum

― Thomas K Amphong (Tom D.), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 11:40 (eleven years ago)

Magic and Sauce

― how's life, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 11:40 (eleven years ago)

All these ice cream flavours can be stored in Andy's Chest Freezer.

― Meine Damen und Herren, Kraf-twerk (snoball), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 12:06 (eleven years ago)

I Wanna Be Blackberry

― Meine Damen und Herren, Kraf-twerk (snoball), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 12:07 (eleven years ago)

Here She Cones Now

― Meine Damen und Herren, Kraf-twerk (snoball), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 12:08 (eleven years ago)

I'm Set Freeze

― Meine Damen und Herren, Kraf-twerk (snoball), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 12:08 (eleven years ago)

This used to be a funny thread...

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 12:53 (eleven years ago)

I Found a Raisin

― Thomas K Amphong (Tom D.), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 12:56 (eleven years ago)

Remove Bookmark from this Thread

― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 13:31 (eleven years ago)

Remove Bookmark from this Thread Held High

― pplains, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 14:39 (eleven years ago)

Metal Praline Music

― Master of Treacle, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 14:45 (eleven years ago)

hah plains

― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 14:47 (eleven years ago)

really, it's "treat hassle"

― CANONICAL artists, etc., etc. (contenderizer), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 15:00 (eleven years ago)

these are all awesome

― socki (s1ocki), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 16:11 (eleven years ago)

Crème Fatale

― socki (s1ocki), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 16:11 (eleven years ago)

Sweet Jane
Candy Says
Chocolate Angel's Death Song
Beginning to See the Gummi Bears
(Don't) Spit it Out (Because It's Delicious)

― CANONICAL artists, etc., etc. (contenderizer), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 16:18 (eleven years ago)

http://hmshost.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/underground2.jpg

Clear up those foggy notions, open those pale blue eyes and see the light every Sunday morning with (VU) Coffee. You won't want to cool it down!

― pplains, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 16:23 (eleven years ago)

All Tomorrow's Smarties

― Master of Treacle, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 16:39 (eleven years ago)

Lady Godiva's Chocolate

― Immediate Follower (NA), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 16:41 (eleven years ago)

Coney Island Baby Ruth

― Euler, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 17:17 (eleven years ago)

someone already did that dude

― socki (s1ocki), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 17:20 (eleven years ago)

;)

― Euler, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 17:20 (eleven years ago)

no fudge
john i'm only frosting

― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 17:25 (eleven years ago)

Waiting for the flan

― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 23:14 (eleven years ago)

two years pass...

http://www.fnacspectacles.com/static/0/visuel/600/318/LE-WOOP_3183220646804383603.jpg

this album cover has influence

― droit au butt (Euler), Wednesday, 6 January 2016 17:37 (nine years ago)

I'd like to see the original photo the BNLs took in their freshman year dorm common room before they photoshopped text onto it and turned it into an album cover.

― Beef Wets (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 6 January 2016 17:54 (nine years ago)

I could swear that that this thread's title was edited to remove the word 'retarded', was it edited back again? or was that a different thread with 'retarded' in the title?

― soref, Wednesday, 6 January 2016 17:59 (nine years ago)

Final Fantasy VII: Kind Of REDACTED In Retrospect

― Beef Wets (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 6 January 2016 18:01 (nine years ago)

Retarded songs by retarded bands that are really good but make you feel retarded for actually liking them and singing in your car like a retard...

― poorzingis (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 6 January 2016 18:09 (nine years ago)

Someone do a longform oral history of the Gordon cover.

― (please no long guns of any kind) (Eazy), Wednesday, 6 January 2016 19:46 (nine years ago)

Jim Creggan: Tyler suddenly got this look on his face and I could tell he had something brilliant in mind. He ran down the hall to his room and he came back with this bin full of hats. And I'm thinking: what on earth does he have in mind for all these hats? Sure enough, right before the flash goes off, he pulls the tam o' shanter over my head, and my look of surprise and wonder was immortalized on camera!

Tyler Stewart: I was just like: what can I do to make Jim look as stupid as possible? TMy bin of hats just made sense. And the rest of us felt compelled to raise our game and match that level of stupidity. I think we pulled it off.

― Beef Wets (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 6 January 2016 20:17 (nine years ago)

This album cover brings out my inner bully. I want to hurt these people.

― mozart, Wednesday, 6 January 2016 20:21 (nine years ago)

Xpost. Nice try Old Lunch but you need to do your homework. He wore that Tam O'Shanter all the time back then. Presumably by choice.

There was an oral-history article a couple of years (in Canada) about the album in which, iirc, they trashed the sleeve. Can't see it online unfortunately.

― everything, Wednesday, 6 January 2016 20:38 (nine years ago)

Oh wait a min. Here it is

“Absolutely the worst album cover in the history of music,” Stewart sighed in a recent telephone interview. “It’s like some crappy font with photos of us wrapped around it. We’re all looking overly cute and earnest.

“It’s just … terrible.”

Added former co-frontman Steven Page: “I think even from the first time we saw the album cover, we looked at it and cringed.”

― everything, Wednesday, 6 January 2016 20:40 (nine years ago)

fatbeard badshave has aged surprisingly well

― soref, Wednesday, 6 January 2016 20:43 (nine years ago)

I think even from the first time we saw the album cover, we looked at it and cringed.”

Scene would've made a better album cover, I'll give them that.

― pplains, Wednesday, 6 January 2016 21:09 (nine years ago)

I wore a tam o shanter for a while in the early 90s, because I couldn't find amore reggae tam.

Anyway, there have been numerous fps stemming from this revive presumably due to the offensive title. We've changed offensive thread titles before (although I can't remember which one) but I'M not going to make that call. IF you guys talk amongst yourselves and decide you want to change the title, come up with a new one and make a thread about it in mod request forum.

― how's life, Wednesday, 6 January 2016 21:20 (nine years ago)

oh so that's who calzino is

― sleeve, Wednesday, 6 January 2016 21:57 (nine years ago)

The way the band defied categorization turned out to be only a minor hurdle in Canada, but not in the U.S., where radio playlists have long been more rigidly defined.

“It was like, is it a college thing? Is it an acoustic thing?” Page said. “It was really hard for anyone to pigeonhole it, and then combine that with the album cover with our stupid faces mugging on it, and it was like a recipe for disaster.”

― Cuombas (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, 6 January 2016 22:03 (nine years ago)

three weeks pass...

I learned some very hilarious news about this band today.

― example (crüt), Thursday, 28 January 2016 18:46 (nine years ago)

one week came on in the grocery store the other day and i had a moment of clarity

"you live in Canada, this is your life now"

― Cornelius Pardew (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 28 January 2016 19:14 (nine years ago)

this must be shared

― PaulTMA, Thursday, 28 January 2016 19:31 (nine years ago)

yeah come on spill it

― bicyclescope (mattresslessness), Thursday, 28 January 2016 19:32 (nine years ago)

jim not in glasgow?

― The Return of the Thin White Pope (Tom D.), Thursday, 28 January 2016 19:33 (nine years ago)

How hilarious is it on a scale from Be My Yoko Ono to snorting calcium?

― how's life, Thursday, 28 January 2016 19:34 (nine years ago)

crut this is cold

― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 28 January 2016 19:50 (nine years ago)

OMD: S&D

― example (crüt), Thursday, 28 January 2016 19:51 (nine years ago)

no trolling

― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 28 January 2016 19:52 (nine years ago)

jim not in glasgow?

― The Return of the Thin White Pope (Tom D.)

I should have been jim in vancouver the last 3 and a half years

― Cornelius Pardew (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 28 January 2016 19:52 (nine years ago)

iiiiit's been 3.5 years

― Worth Taking from Little Kid (Will M.), Thursday, 28 January 2016 19:54 (nine years ago)

Tom Do Keep Up

― bicyclescope (mattresslessness), Thursday, 28 January 2016 19:55 (nine years ago)

update your xls accordingly

― Cornelius Pardew (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 28 January 2016 19:59 (nine years ago)

Can mods please change this stupid and offensive thread title?

― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Friday, 29 January 2016 12:36 (nine years ago)

Anyway, there have been numerous fps stemming from this revive presumably due to the offensive title. We've changed offensive thread titles before (although I can't remember which one) but I'M not going to make that call. IF you guys talk amongst yourselves and decide you want to change the title, come up with a new one and make a thread about it in mod request forum.

― how's life, Wednesday, January 6, 2016 4:20 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― how's life, Friday, 29 January 2016 12:44 (nine years ago)

Can't really imagine a thread titled "Most Faggoty-Looking Barenaked Ladies Member on This Album Cover" surviving ten years without mod intervention

― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Friday, 29 January 2016 13:28 (nine years ago)

Do you have me killfiled or something?

― how's life, Friday, 29 January 2016 13:39 (nine years ago)

this thread is ilx's statue of cecil rhodes

― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Friday, 29 January 2016 13:40 (nine years ago)

but I'M not going to make that call

― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Friday, 29 January 2016 13:43 (nine years ago)

Suit yourself.

― how's life, Friday, 29 January 2016 13:50 (nine years ago)

I started a MRF thread on this so you won't have to be all passive-aggressive.

Change offensive thread title

― Tuomas, Friday, 29 January 2016 14:05 (nine years ago)

discriminates against leotard wearers IMO

― Gaz upon my works ye mighty, and despair (Neil S), Friday, 29 January 2016 14:08 (nine years ago)

Any chance of changing it back?

― The Return of the Thin White Pope (Tom D.), Friday, 29 January 2016 14:09 (nine years ago)

http://allhailtheblackmarket.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/jackie-gleasonandawaywego.jpg

― how's life, Friday, 29 January 2016 14:11 (nine years ago)

Only joking, this is quite good compromise as everybody knows what it's really saying.

― The Return of the Thin White Pope (Tom D.), Friday, 29 January 2016 14:12 (nine years ago)

Well, I can't speak to whether it covers up the ablism enough for people who would actually be affected by it, but hopefully it will suffice and at the least it's a good stop-gap.

― how's life, Friday, 29 January 2016 14:14 (nine years ago)

Probably doesn't. I'm in favour of using REDACTED in these situations.

― The Return of the Thin White Pope (Tom D.), Friday, 29 January 2016 14:15 (nine years ago)

In the meantime:

http://images2.phoenixnewtimes.com/imager/u/original/6608425/barenakedladiesbw.jpg

― how's life, Friday, 29 January 2016 14:17 (nine years ago)

Check the leotard on the left. (Sorry)

Still haven't heard this hilarious news yet.

― The Return of the Thin White Pope (Tom D.), Friday, 29 January 2016 14:20 (nine years ago)

Fred, in response to your thoughts about the "tard" name I must jump in for a moment. I would say I'm a faithful Shaytards viewer and have been watching for about four years. The origin of their name has come up quite a few times, and they have relayed their story and the reasoning behind the name each time. From what I recall, ShayCarl came up with the name in one of his first videos when he was wearing a leotard. From there the name sort of stuck and that is where the ending of the names came from, e.g., Sontard, Princesstard, etc. The name was absolutely never meant as an offense, nor has it been carelessly thrown out there. If you were to watch even one of their videos, I do not believe you would think for one second that these are the kind of people to do such a thing.

― soref, Friday, 29 January 2016 15:08 (nine years ago)

mods were tardy

― karla jay vespers, Friday, 29 January 2016 15:43 (nine years ago)

who changed the name of this title? PC culture is ruining america. Go Trump, make america great again

― akm, Friday, 29 January 2016 15:44 (nine years ago)

none of them looks even remotely like this guy

http://www.babelio.com/users/AVT_Philippe-Leotard_3897.jpeg

― moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Friday, 29 January 2016 15:45 (nine years ago)

what is the hilarious news

― akm, Friday, 29 January 2016 15:46 (nine years ago)

http://www.paradigmas.mx/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Lyotard-image.jpg

― small doug yule carnival club (unregistered), Friday, 29 January 2016 17:27 (nine years ago)

none

― Mark G, Friday, 29 January 2016 20:05 (nine years ago)

this is what I was talking about http://www.omd.uk.com/story/usa_shows_supporting_barenaked_ladies

― example (crüt), Monday, 1 February 2016 18:03 (nine years ago)

GRIM

― rip van wanko, Monday, 1 February 2016 18:12 (nine years ago)

more sad than hilarious

― Toof Seteltha (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 1 February 2016 18:14 (nine years ago)

Get on it boys.

http://image.dhgate.com/albu_779719118_00/temp2.0x0.jpg

― Lurkers of the world, unite! (Sanpaku), Monday, 1 February 2016 19:20 (nine years ago)

Okay, look, I'm at work and I can't do it right now so someone else please photoshop the BNL faces on those bodies right now please, this is important.

― Chortles And Guffaws (Old Lunch), Monday, 1 February 2016 19:28 (nine years ago)

ten months pass...

it's been

http://www.stereogum.com/1917884/barenaked-ladies-one-week-but-all-of-the-instruments-are-replaced-with-its-been/music/

― PappaWheelie V, Friday, 30 December 2016 02:21 (eight years ago)

*redrafts provisional ballot for eoy tracks poll"

― soref, Friday, 30 December 2016 03:12 (eight years ago)

that's fuckin amazing

― frogbs, Friday, 30 December 2016 03:49 (eight years ago)

STOP CHANGING THREAD TITLES!!

― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 30 December 2016 11:28 (eight years ago)

GO OPEN A FUCKING VESSEL, ARSEHOLE!!

This thread has always sucked shit, even after the dim-witted title change.

― calzino, Friday, 30 December 2016 12:22 (eight years ago)

Better?

― how's life, Friday, 30 December 2016 13:37 (eight years ago)

when the premise of the thread is basically "lol - someone looks like somebody with disabilities" it is a shitty + offensive thread whatever you call it. Haven't you ppl got FB for this kind of dross?

― calzino, Friday, 30 December 2016 13:56 (eight years ago)

I don't know if the mods got the memo, but Chapo Trap House is making it ok for liberals to say retarded again

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 30 December 2016 14:11 (eight years ago)

I give up.

― how's life, Friday, 30 December 2016 14:16 (eight years ago)

just change it to 'dorky'?

― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Friday, 30 December 2016 14:21 (eight years ago)

tempted to defer to calzino on this tbh

― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Friday, 30 December 2016 14:21 (eight years ago)

idgaf tbh. just basically fuck y'all who think this thread is worthwhile and it sounds like still not clicking on that blowhards links has deprived me of some lols this year.

― calzino, Friday, 30 December 2016 14:28 (eight years ago)

http://i1.examiner.co.uk/incoming/article10449205.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/JS76694317.jpg
Some IRL retards in this pic, will this provide much hilarity to (whiney) and this thread?

― calzino, Friday, 30 December 2016 14:59 (eight years ago)

http://donignacio.com/art/barenakedladiespic.jpg

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 30 December 2016 15:12 (eight years ago)

three weeks pass...

https://vine.co/v/MhdWmbtQ7jg

― pplains, Saturday, 21 January 2017 16:23 (eight years ago)

What a redact.

― hardcore dilettante, Sunday, 22 January 2017 05:27 (eight years ago)

most-dookified looking

― Neanderthal, Sunday, 22 January 2017 05:58 (eight years ago)

cat otm

― i don't watch lamestream porn (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 22 January 2017 11:59 (eight years ago)

If I can just weigh in with a CONTROVERSIAL OPINION: it is good that this thread no longer has the word "retarded" in the title, even though I had a laugh about it when it did, 10+ years ago, when I was nineteen, & felt no reservations about it at the time. I don't think I would miss it if the entire thread were deleted, leaving only a memory

― bernard snowy, Sunday, 22 January 2017 13:52 (eight years ago)

oh wow but then it crops up like five times in the first few pages of replies... in retrospect it's hard to stomach the indifference -- the people going along with the joke & not seeing anything wrong w/ it -- given what macho internet zing culture hath wrought

― bernard snowy, Sunday, 22 January 2017 13:57 (eight years ago)

you're overthinking it

― example (crüt), Sunday, 22 January 2017 14:03 (eight years ago)

maybe so, still an embarrassing thread

― bernard snowy, Sunday, 22 January 2017 14:08 (eight years ago)

I'm just hoping this embarrassment will lead us to the critical reassessment of Barenaked Ladies, because Gordon is a fantastic album. I also really enjoyed Steven Page's new solo album from last year, and wanted to vote for it in the end of the year poll, as it was one of my favorite albums of last year, but didn't vote for it because I didn't think there would be any interest.

― MarkoP, Sunday, 22 January 2017 16:10 (eight years ago)

I absolutely agree with you, bernard.

Thread should be called Pc Gone Mad Safe-Space for complete fucking Arseholes, these days or just lock the fucking wretched thing for once and forever.

― calzino, Sunday, 22 January 2017 16:55 (eight years ago)

Dud

― The times they are a changing, perhaps (map), Sunday, 22 January 2017 17:10 (eight years ago)

"Fatbeard Badshave" will always be funny

― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 22 January 2017 17:33 (eight years ago)

Gordon is a fantastic album

this is easily the most offensive statement in this thread tbh

― the greg evigan school of improvised explosive devices (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 22 January 2017 17:44 (eight years ago)

lol, I got dragged to a Barenaked Ladies show at Universal Mardi Gras once. didn't wanna go cos it interrupted sexytimes with the g/f but I'd already committed to going w/ my best friend and she didn't have an annual pass.

the lead vocalist had just quit like a week before so they had the keyboard player singing. it was the most boring show I ever went to. everybody hemming on about how 'quirky' they are, when it's like, ok they're college frat rock that occasionally writes songs about things like the Big Bang Theory.

― Neanderthal, Sunday, 22 January 2017 17:48 (eight years ago)

"One Week" is such a bad song btw

― Neanderthal, Sunday, 22 January 2017 17:49 (eight years ago)

So is this band an inevitable stage popular music had to go through before P0mpl@m00s3 took it to the next (final?) level?

― めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Sunday, 22 January 2017 17:55 (eight years ago)

i think these guys were great, smart power pop songwriters especially page

― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Sunday, 22 January 2017 18:24 (eight years ago)

Can't really imagine a thread titled "Most Faggoty-Looking Barenaked Ladies Member on This Album Cover" surviving ten years without mod intervention

― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Friday, January 29, 2016 8:28 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

OTM. The fact that we're still seeing ""jokes"" like "What a redact" is a pretty clear indicator that there's no way for this thread to get escape velocity from its original premise. I'm sure many people who participated just wanted it to be "most dorky and uncool barenaked ladies member," but it wasn't.

It's long past time to lock thread IMHO.

― stein beck ii: the wrath of grapes (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 22 January 2017 18:33 (eight years ago)

The ILX hivemind sees your request to lock thread and laughs

― calstars, Sunday, 22 January 2017 20:44 (eight years ago)

if only we had other barenaked ladies threads to use instead

― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Sunday, 22 January 2017 21:59 (eight years ago)

or y'all could quit being passive aggressive and actually ask for the thread lock in the actual thread where the title change was requested, instead of asking the mods to police 11 year old threads.

i tried to do so for you all, but it's on y'all now.........

― Neanderthal, Monday, 23 January 2017 04:21 (eight years ago)

I thought this was totally rad

https://youtu.be/bkIIS66F72E

― U2 (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 23 January 2017 04:42 (eight years ago)

I'm not sure I ever knew that thread existed tbh

― stein beck ii: the wrath of grapes (Doctor Casino), Monday, 23 January 2017 05:31 (eight years ago)

Gordon and Moxy Fruvous's Bargainville are two albums I still have an affinity for because they remind me so much of being 13

Still think they're both pretty good albums though hard to listen to now. For different reasons I guess.

BNL obviously went on to do a lot of garbage but it's pretty disingenuous to treat them like a novelty group or one-hit wonders, they've been around like 25 years now and they've written a lot of dumb songs but they obviously have some measure of talent. Always thought Maroon was a pretty damn great power pop album, at least.

― frogbs, Monday, 23 January 2017 15:59 (eight years ago)

Always thought Maroon was a pretty damn great power pop album, at least.

otm

― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Monday, 23 January 2017 17:42 (eight years ago)

six months pass...

I searched for the word 'retarded' to find this thread, unsuccessfully, just to post that the album that inspired it is celebrating it's 25th anniversary and as such Rhino is reissuing it on vinyl.

The press release features this image:

http://image.e.wbr.com/lib/fe8e137075670c7572/m/1/BarenakedLadies_PR.jpg

So this may be the new cover. So maybe the label/band/whatever agree that they all look like Cronenbergs...

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 28 July 2017 15:27 (seven years ago)

It's wild that some of these songs date back to like 1988 or 1989 when they were like 18 or 19 or 20 or something

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYNvGNjB2Ck

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 28 July 2017 16:17 (seven years ago)

Okay I like "Wishing Well" inordinately and I don't reflexively hate on BNL. Will I die if I hear their cover?

― okapi paste (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 28 July 2017 16:59 (seven years ago)

Public service announcement: Please don't listen to this.

Impossible to say whether "Psycho Killer" or "Wishing Well" is the worse crime. I gave them a chance because I try to be open-minded, but no. This is not the vehicle to convert a hata to a non-hata: quite the contrary; I went into it not hating them and came out hating them.

― okapi paste (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 28 July 2017 17:05 (seven years ago)

I didn't think it was possible for something to make me wistful about/long for Pomplemoose.

― this iphone speaks many languages (DJP), Friday, 28 July 2017 17:10 (seven years ago)

six months pass...

Clockwise from bottom center:

Roger Ebert, Gene Siskel, A.O. Scott, Anthony Lane, Elvis Mitchell.

― your way better (Eazy), Wednesday, October 26, 2011 5:43 AM (six years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is a very underrated comment

― musically, Monday, 19 February 2018 03:33 (seven years ago)

just stopping by as an actual disabled person to say: retard is a slur and if you try to justify tossing it around casually you're an ableist piece of shit, no fucking excuses, no whining about "pc culture" or whatever (and tbqfh mods should have done more than just removed it from the title, they should have actively pruned the posts laughing about it or deleted it and let a new BNL thread happen)

insofar as BNL goes, no strong opinions. got a mild giggle out of "ships and dip" and "fake nudes"

― heliogabberlus, Monday, 19 February 2018 21:35 (seven years ago)

absolutely spot on mate, it's a garbage thread and should have been nuked a long time since.

― calzino, Monday, 19 February 2018 21:53 (seven years ago)

Like as if putting [REDACTED] makes it less sneery + disablist somehow. Some fucking mods on here are more concerned about the welfare of anti-Semitic oxygen thieves, rather than garbage threads causing grave offence and hurt towards disabled people. It's just the way it is I'm afraid heliogabberlus.

― calzino, Monday, 19 February 2018 22:00 (seven years ago)

Let the saga of the offensively-titled Barenaked Ladies thread finally draw to a close. There are 8 other BNL threads in existence - use one of them.

I tried to find the best solution for everyone on this board. You do realize that we mods get yelled at just as much for locking "classic threads" as for not locking them, right? We switched the title twice according to user suggestions in an attempt to find a workable middle ground. Apparently both of those workarounds continued to offend. We have many ilxors with mentally disabled family members, myself included. Some people are going to be more affected by words than others. We probably all try our best to treat each other well and not to be assholes.

Calzino, my concern about the poster who got banned two weeks ago was for their mental health, which is something you purport to care about if I'm reading you right. When I learned that their antisemitism had been established over a number of years and was not some recent development as a result of a mental break, I gave up on the issue completely.

― how's life, Tuesday, 20 February 2018 14:17 (seven years ago)


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