Barenaked Ladies

During my frosh week at Wilfrid Laurier (23 years ago this September), I was introduced to this "underground band" by a new friend who happened to live in Toronto.  I have been a fan ever since.
The Barenaked Ladies were thrust on to the national stage by the controversy surrounding their name (mayor Mel Lastman didn't want it posted on city owned buildings), but to me they will always be the first band I saw in concert at university and the memories associated with their "little yellow cassette tape" that I played over and over and over again.
The band is quirky, but with this sense of humour comes tremendous musicality, human understanding and intelligence.  The band has had tremendous success, both with and without Steven Page as lead singer, and has just released their greatest hits package "Hits from Yesterday & the Day Before".  I am sure everyone is familar with their mega hits "If I Had a $1 000 000" and "One Week" (not to mention their theme song to "The Big Bang Theory"), but I have included one of their slower songs, "Call and Answer", as evidence of their ability to write truly beautiful and moving lyrics.

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