Which line in the Barenaked Ladies #1 hit "One Week" bothers you the most?

Why did you have to even make me recall this dross?

and not to forget:TS: Most Retarded-Looking Barenaked Ladies Member on This Album Cover

(btw, the pic has got lost again, it seems)

the Aquaman line because of the way he says "ack-waman"

Chickity China the Chinese chicken, you have a drumstick and your brain stops tickin

I'm going to vote for this but what a memorable line in a track that was totally unavoidable.

kind of guy who laughs @ a funeral

skip, I voted the same

Gotta get in tune with Sailor Moon cause that cartoon has got the boom anime babes that make me think the wrong thing

just for the sheer wrong-ness of both delivery and message

You're missing a lot of even more terrible lines!

where's the popacatapetal one?

xp which ones?

I like the sushi 'cause it's never touched a frying pan

the hell does this even mean?

it means that he doesn't like to eat things that touch frying pans

where's the popacatapetal one?

i really do not remember this one

this part always made me irrationally angry for some reason:

like kurosawa I make mad films

I have a history of taking off my shirt

"Gotta get a set of better clubs gotta find the kind with tiny nubs just so my irons aren't always flying off the backswing."

"Like Kurosawa I make made films, 'kay I don't make films, but if I did they'd have a samurai."

"Watching X-Files with no lights on, we're dans la maison, I hope the Smoking Man's in this one."

in the context of all the other stuff though I think those three are okay

That first one is 30 syllables in 8 beats/2 bars. That's like some DAS EFX level bullshit right there.

'I make mad films' is inexcusable imo xpost

Voted "like Harrison Ford I'm getting frantic...", though surely the entire X-Files line is in fact one of the worst things to happen ever

where's the popacatapetal one?

i really do not remember this one

― frogbs, Wednesday, 5 October 2011 15:03 (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

It seems I have false memory syndrome...

I don't know who Kurosawa is so I guess I didn't feel it was so bad

there was nothing bullshit about das efx! smdh

I worded that wrong -- it approaches the fleetness of DAS EFX's delivery, but it's complete bullshit.

I don't know who Kurosawa

I should SB you for that.

The opening where the guy goes "YIT'S BEEEEEN" is the worst

worst part of the kurosawa thing is that i can still hear how he SAYS "kay i dont make films" ughughgghgghhhhh

if you'll notice I also fucked up the ending date of the poll as I thought today was the 4th

YITZ BEAN

i am still trying to figure out what the hell was wrong with america when it thought it nedded a rapping tmbg/four freshmen hybrid in its life

not gonna vote on this bullshit poll that has shitty lines not included for no good reason, frogbs should be suggest banned again imo

GRUNGE HAS FAILED. LET'S JUST KEEP THROWING SHIT AT THE WALL UNTIL THE DECADE'S OVER.

you know I pretty much had this from memory but you can always just vote "Home of the Robbie"

not gonna vote
on this bullshit poll
that has shitty lines
not included for no good reason

i dont wanna be one of those guys who posts 20-option polls, that's why

i feel like the options up there leave something for everyone

and if you don't think so y'all can kiss a dick

YITZ. BEAN.

Do you want to be the kind of guy who laughs at a funeral? xp

i can totally hear the bn guy singing andifyoudontthinksoyallcankissadick

but you'll have to sign a wavier

Sailor Moon, easy

the line that ends "all about value" makes me sick.

I... I honestly had no idea about some of the lines to this song, mostly because I turn it off when it comes on

yeah I'm starting to think I should have just copied and pasted the entire lyrics instead of trying to do this from memory

YITZ. BEAN. ONE WEEK SINCE Y'ALL KISSED A DICK.

Chickity China the Chinese chicken, you have a drumstick and your brain stops tickin

who the fuck says things like this

millions and millions of people that summer

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=one+week+lyrics

And even some Canadians xp

who the fuck says things like this

http://www.chicagonow.com/lists-that-actually-matter/files/2011/06/Leaders_of_the_New_School.jpg

lol @ "big like LeAnn Rimes"

voting for "Gotta get in tune with Sailor Moon cause that cartoon has got the boom anime babes that make me think the wrong thing"

lyrics sites always try to install trojans + they never really get 'em right anyway

says the guy who didn't get it right

alright Edward, why don't you make your own poll

uhhhhhhIT'S BEEN

smoking man episodes are my least favourite genre of xfiles episode, voted that

It has to be the Chinese chicken line but "Hot like wasabi when I bust rhymes, big like LeAnn Rimes" is pretty unforgivable too.

"Hey, Edward make your own poll," says the guy who didn't get it right.

YIIIIIIIITZ BEAN.

god and that horrible guitar tone that comes during the "Birchmount Stadium, Home of the Robbie" part
wooooouuuhhhhhhhhnnnnn

does anyone remember that awful white rap group "Bad Ronald"?

The laughing at a funeral bit. Other lines are more cringeworthy, perhaps, but who the fuck actually does that?

Gonna make a break and take a fake I'd like a stinkin achin shake

what the hell does this mean

^^^^ a motif here

I thought he sang "I'd like a Steak 'n' Shake."

http://blogs.westword.com/cafesociety/quaker_steak.gif

yeah I think you might be right there

but who the fuck actually does that?

I sure hope someone remembers to do this when one of BNL dies.

I don't like how he says, "can't understand what I mean? You soon will"...well, 12 years later, I still don't

Is Chickity China the Chinese Chicken an actual thing?

I'm scared to Google because there will invariably be results about this song which I would be depressed upon seeing.

(Low, low whisper) I don't mind this. Gave it a 6.0 or 6.5 in Radio On way back when. (But their cover of "Lovers in a Dangerous Time" is better, also "If I Had a Million Dollars.)

"Jane" is great, others too.

Jane is great. And Jane & St Clair is right around the corner from my old apartment! Everytime I'd get to 'Jane' subway station and see the name on the wall, it'd get stuck in my head.

Nah, BNL in general isn't too bad. I remember digging Gordon even if the jokey stuff wore thin quick. Would be interesting to do a TS: Barenaked Ladies or Moxy Fruvous but I suspect the real answer is "neither"

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

Any sentence that starts "I'm the kind of guy who..." is sorta categorically the worst.

Like I think I speak for everyone ever when I say nobody wants to hear what kind of guy you are.

i just don't understand what asian cuisine has to do with this guy having a fight with his girlfriend

also this makes me want to make a "which line in sum 41's "fat lip" do you love the most" poll

cut my life into pieces, this is my last resort

aww @ canadians rising in defence

voted chicken but "I like vanilla, it's the finest of the flavours" sums up this band pretty well

aww @ canadians rising in defence

We're fearsome once we band together.

I was really hoping I could find the "Lovers in a Dangerous Time" video to post, but no luck. It's one of my favourite videos ever, with a moment where it probably helps to be Canadian to understand: "Caaaaaarrrrrr!"

Here you go:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2ab39_barenaked-ladies-lovers-in-a-danger_music

Heard this shitty song for the first time in years JUST NOW on my lunch break.
You'd think I would get used to life imitating ILM.

Going with "history of taking of my shirt" since imagining any of those turds going shirtless is profoundly disturbing.

this entire song is completely terrible, a shitstain on our world's history

Their cover of "Lovers in a Dangerous Time" was pretty good

I remember listening to that song in my room when I was 16 and my Mom walked in and told me, "Nick, you really need to turn those guys off"

(I will cop to liking "It's All Been Done" if pushed hard enough.)

Mom otm xpost

(I will cop to liking "It's All Been Done" if pushed hard enough.)

wuuuugh, I hear that one in the gym from time to time and all I can think is "fuuuuuuck"

the one really clever moment was that song "Too Little, Too Late" where they tried to create a song with the loudest handclaps on FM radio, I'd say they succeeded

Sailor Moon is 14. 'Think the wrong thing' is otm.

the one really clever moment was that song "Too Little, Too Late" where they tried to create a song with the loudest handclaps on FM radio, I'd say they succeeded

dear god why did I google that song?

I have a history of taking off my shirt

imagining this as a Loutallica line

Going with "history of taking of my shirt" since imagining any of those turds going shirtless is profoundly disturbing.

― doug watson, Wednesday, October 5, 2011 5:53 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark

Was going to say this along with a pic to illustrate the point.

First pic on GIS is them naked.

My eyes, the humanity, why god why etc.

Any sentence that starts "I'm the kind of guy who..." is sorta categorically the worst.

And yet LL's "I'm The Type Of Guy" is the best.

MarkoP--thanks. If you're a Torontonian, keep an eye open for Dave Bidini just before the two-minute mark.

would like to echo all that "jane is a great song" upthread

not even canadian

Nope, I'm from Alberta.

"if i had a million dollars" is equally as shitty as this song

I'm just thankful that "Another Postcard" (their chimpanzee-themed novelty rap single from 2003) never really made a splash in the US. it's weird that the album it appears on is full of earnest lyrics about suicide and artistic integrity and the shallowness of pop culture. it's like they decided to settle down and make grownup music, but they couldn't resist baiting casual fans who had them pegged as a dumb novelty act. then they gave up and released a children's album called SNACKTIME a few years later.

xp when I was a kid I used to love that one, because it sounded like it was not only funny but a legitimately good love song too, until I realized that lyrics like "I'll buy you some art/a Picasso or a Garfunkel" are not really clever at all and that you can't have a double entendre like that if one of the meanings makes no sense

"chickity china" is, as whiney knows, a reference to a busta rhymes line (at 3:39 here)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eleBnzDyoFo

wikipedia claims the rest of the line is about H5N1 but i doubt it

it's weird that the album it appears on is full of earnest lyrics about suicide and artistic integrity and the shallowness of pop culture.

oh yeah, "war on drugs" is gorgeous

i don't know, i had a dark period when i was 12 when i thought this band smuggled some pretty great stuff into the non-"one week"/"pinch me" lyrics

I did a lyrical analysis of "War On Drugs" (ok I put it on a mixtape and wrote a few sentences about how it affected my life) for a high school project. iirc I gave the same treatment to a Staind song and a Candlebox song, both about the sad lives homeless people. gotta say, the BNL song is way more subtle and affecting than most of the songs I considered deep and meaningful when I was 15.

*sad lives of homeless people

Moxy Fruvous > BNL

Haven't listened to Bargainville in years (or any of their other albums ever) but "Stuck in the 90s" and "The Drinking Song" are both mighty pretty.

I dunno I'd say for the most part Gordon = Bargainville, but I can go years without wanting to hear Gordon while the songs you mentioned plus "Laika" always stick with me. Otherwise I'm not sure what good albums either of them made.

Any sentence that starts "I'm the kind of guy who..." is sorta categorically the worst.

― ንፁህ አበበ (nabisco), Wednesday, October 5, 2011 1:38 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Like I think I speak for everyone ever when I say nobody wants to hear what kind of guy you are.

― ንፁህ አበበ (nabisco), Wednesday, October 5, 2011 1:39 PM (2 hours ago)

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

Bargainville is probably indefensible, or at least no more or less defensible than Gordon is, but as Gordon is the only BNL album I've ever heard all the way through aside from their Xmas one (holidays spent working retail...ugh), I can easily cop to a clear preference of one over the other. Even some of Bargainville's more novelty-ish songs (My Baby Loves A Bunch of Authors, Video Bargainville) had some inventive musical and vocal quirks that BNL never bothered with.

And at least neither of them were the Arrogant Worms.

Gordon had a bunch of neat vocal stuff going on it too, and to be honest most of those "quirks" were some of my least favorite parts of Bargainville

I was not aware of the Ben and Jerry's BNL themed "If I Had 1,000,000 Flavours" ice cream until just now.

ANIME BABES

i have to admit i totally enjoy this song and i think my only excuse is that most novelty white rap songs have really slow plainspoken flows and this one just kind of flies by and keeps giving you new stupid lyrics to think about before the last one sinks in

It's far better than the Crash Test Dummies attempts at hip hop:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEOknFCXom4

"I like vanilla, it's the finest of the flavours"

this line is infuriating and i am surprised it does not seem to be more people's choice

chinese chicken was my first thought. i can't hate on "Bert Kaempfert's got the mad hits," i just can't.

http://rapgenius.com/Barenaked-ladies-one-week-lyrics

a match made in heaven

"Witty comparison between dangerous actions, vertigo and waivers"

love that the subhuman "tropers" who update RapGenius.com explain the phrase "wear my heart on my sleeve" but don't know Leaders Of The New School, which would maybe be the one useful piece of information. Someone kill that fucking site with fire

What do Leaders of the New School have to do with One Week, WGW?

The line about golf balls flying off the backswing was the only one I ever related to

ANIME BABES

― fennel cartwright, Wednesday, October 5, 2011 7:10 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

"if i had a million dollars" is equally as shitty as this song

The way they go from "I'd buy you a fur coat (but not a real fur coat that's cruel)" to "I'd buy you a green dress (but not a real green dress that's cruel)"--I love that.

as much as i detest almost every barenaked ladies song i have heard i actually like "pinch me"

I've been genuinely thinking about which of these to tick for a while now. Tough call, they're all so bad. Ultimately, though, I went with "I'm the kind of guy who laughs at a funeral"

"Box Set" is actually a pretty pointed song about a 70's one-hit wonder, maybe some of the best lyrics they ever did. And then the next song is "I Love You" which is just puke.

"You think you're so smart, well I've seen you naked"

i think that "what a good boy" is a pretty great song about gender roles

What do Leaders of the New School have to do with One Week, WGW?

― piper at the goats of j0hn (rustic italian flatbread), Thursday, October 6, 2011 4:47 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

3:45
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFZLq6R-ZtM

haha whiney that was remarkably patient and even tempered of you -- i almost blew a gasket at rustic for that this morning but i was in a rush to get to work

hmmm I think I shall do another one of these polls for "If I had $1000000"

::throws box of mac & cheese at frogbs, but not playfully, like hard enough to actually hurt::

i'm actually thinking that song bothers me more since it's not really meant to be stupid, not like this

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

I don't know anyone who likes this song and yet we all seem to know it. It's like we were all survivors of the same bizarre & horrifying CIA audible waterboarding horror. You think it would be easy to avoid, but then some series of unfortunate events occurs and you somehow end up at Applebees at 11:30 with other people who don't know how they got there and you hear that 'YEEEITS BEEN...' 'Oh Fuck, again?'; and you can just see everyone in a 20 foot radius get that morbid look on there face, like they were all told simultaneously to think about some of the reasons their lives suck. I have no verifiable data but I'm confident a thorough peer reviewed study would reveal that this song produces the exact opposite of the one people get when they listen to Brahms while eating dinner or whatever.

Hardy har har, I'm not even one of those people that spends time creatively explaining why music I don't like is objectively awful and worse than war crimes or whatever. I find it as tired and unamusing as what I'm sure you'll find what I wrote above is. But seriously, fuck this song.

i loved it when i was a kid

kind of guy who laughs @ a funeral

― johnny crunch, Wednesday, October 5, 2011 10:54 AM (6 days ago) Bookmark

yes

inverting the name of swiss chalet to make it fit the crappy rhyme scheme seems like some kind of apotheosis so i voted for that

I have a tendency to wear my mind on my sleeve
I have a history of taking off my shirt

this is always where my despair peaks w/ this song, I voted for the first but they deserve to be together

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

I still stand with my "I'm the kinda guy who laughs at a funeral" vote, but it makes sense that the line that won won. It's certainly the lyric I heard quoted the most by fans back during the song's brief, obnoxious stranglehold on the radio.

how many of these could be beastie boys lyrics?

all of them tbh

man i dont think even the beasties would have stooped to that sailor moon line

\(^o^)/

what is a "stinking, aching shake"

like the last thing I want when I order a milkshake is for it to smell

So, the chorus is basically alright?

Absolutely it isn't

YITZ BEAN

when I was a kid I always heard the chorus as "it's two weeks two days before I say I'm sorry". which in my head made sense because one week + 5 days + 3 days + yesterday = 16 days = 2 weeks 2 days. I thought that was really clever, but that's not what the line actually is!

"I have a history of taking off my shirt" pisses me off more than the ones that I know are objectively worse, only because it seems geared at "wacky" people with "zany" senses of humor but it never goes above PG-13

like Chickety China the chinese chicken is objectively the worst, no question there....

if you hate the lyrics, man do I have a version for you!

https://soundcloud.com/edes421/barenaked-ladies-one-week-but-all-of-the-instruments-are-replaced-with-its-been

someone shared that in another thread a few years ago and I couldn't stop laughing for about a half hour after playing that

I don't know anyone who likes this song

I like it *ducks*

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