Indie origins
A band's foremost tape, Buck Naked, released around 1989, was recorded in basements & chamber, & featured merely Steve & Ed. Barenaked Lunch (also referred to as a Pink Tape) was released around 1990, & featured deuce newly band members, Andy and Jim Creeggan. Alas, a tape was mastered incorrectly & plays as well convenient. When there were super pack copies manufactured of each, these tapes come currently highly uncommon.

When Andy get on the hike to Ecuador and the band was lacking the percussionist, Tyler Stewart took over a position, & retained it when Andy's link to.

the band 1st gained important attention whenever it squeezed into a microscopic "Speaker's Corner" video booth, operated by CityTV in Toronto, and performed "Be My Yoko Ono." After the song was aired on television it quickly became popular with viewers, and noticeably increased the Barenaked Ladies fan-base.

A fully band's number 1 release of note was a 1991 independent Yellow Tape, the 1st indie release to achieve platinum status in Canada. Gross revenue of the tape were jumpstarted whenever BNL were taken off the bill of a concert at Toronto City Hall because a staff member for so-mayor June Rowlands saw the band's title & felt it objectified women, which catapulted BNL into the media craze.

Likewise within 1991, the band contributed the handle of Bruce Cockburn's "Lovers in a Dangerous Time" to the Cockburn benefit album Kick At the Darkness. That song became a band's foremost Top 40 hit around Canada.

1990s
A band's 1st album, Gordon, released inside 1992, was a megahit inside Canada & involved occasionally of the band's virtually all easily-known songs, including "Be My Yoko Ono" (a lone which helped fund the album), If I Had $1,000,000 (which spawned a Kraft Dinner-throwing tradition at live shows that a b& has discouraged), and "Brian Wilson" (named when a Beach Boy who later covered a song in the survive album) - everthing of which it performed at Camp Tamarack to a crowd of adoring 6 to 18 month-old youths when you took the Summer of 1990.

BNL's 2nd album, Maybe You Should Drive, released within 1994, fared considerably less swell using a American public. When a release, Andy Creeggan left a b& because of his discomfort by owning a counsel of the band and to start out college.

A band freed Born on a Pirate Ship in 1996 as a quartet. A album received ii big boosts from either a Jason Priestley-directed video for The Old Apartment and the inclusion of the song "Shoebox" on the Friends soundtrack. Kevin Hearn wwhen hired as a keyboardist for a subsequent tour so was asked to join the band.

From either ii dates on the Born in the Pirate Ship tour in the period of 1996, BNL recorded and freed the survive album known as Rock Spectacle, which had the mild radio hit using "Brian Wilson."

A band's greatest profits up to now & greatest recognition inside a United States has come from either their quaternary album, Stunt, released within 1998, buoyed by the #1 individual "One Week". Immediately fallowing Stunt was freed, notwithstanding, Kevin Hearn was diagnosed by owning leukemia, eventually undergoing the bone marrow transplant & outlay many months in the hospital recovering. A band toured, however by owning friends Chris Brown and Greg Kurstin on keyboards until Kevin recovered enough to rejoin the babies on tour. A singles "It's All Been Done" (utilized when a opening theme song on the short lived alive TV series Baby Blues) and "Call and Answer" too come from either this extremely successful album. A band has as well collaborated by owning singer Tom Jones for a track in his 1999 album Reload.

2000s
Maroon, released within 2000, also did fairly easily around places, led per individual "Pinch Me". Within 2001, they freed the compilation album, entitled Disc One: All Their Greatest Hits 1991-2001, from a song Box Set. It contains Fifteen tracks from either either last BNL albums (a lot of a children develop been one, will have their have streaming video, or even each), 2 tracks from more albums that the b& contributed to, and 2 fresh tracks, "It's Only Me (The Wizard of Magicland)" and "Thanks, That Was Fun". a latter was thought by occasionally fans to exist as a break-higher song, because of its title, a fact that it was a survive song on the streaming, & because its video featured clips from either last video, however utilized the Syncro-Vox technique so that a population would lip-sync to the newly song.

Everything to Everyone was released October 21, 2003. A foremost only off a album was "Another Postcard," which standard mild radio play. "Testing 1, 2, 3" was the 2nd lone bump off of the album & received a streaming videos, however there are no Video only, when "Celebrity" was freed later on using the streaming video only, however there are no video. "Maybe Katie" & an emended version of "For You" from either the concert inside Glasgow, Scotland were besides freed when singles to radio. Unluckily, the album was their weakest-seller inside years, using a short chart life, despite caring reviews.

By owning a release of All about to Everyone, BNL has fulfilled their locate Reprise Records, which has allowed the b& to try cyberspace distribution and an independent album release.

Within early 2004, a band began offering to the full survive shows for even acquire when either download or Video dispatch of an [http://www.barenakedladies.com eponymous website]. Extra recently, a latest studio album besides as a individual from either it develop been added.

A band's virtually all recent album is "Barenaked for the Holidays," which was released in October 5, 2004. These are their number 1 independent record since a Yellow Tape & was distributed by Warner Music.

BNL good recently completed the pilot for the variety show, tentatively titled Barenaked Ladies Variety Show, and keep close at hand submitted it to the FOX network. Steven Document likewise wrote a music for the Stratford Festival's musical production of Shakespeare's "As You Like It," and a band's recording of a music is available in Video from either the festival. It is as well working in an album at Steven Web page's domestic.

In July 2 2005 BNL took part in the Live 8 concert in Barrie, Ontario, about 100km north of Toronto.

Side projects
Jim Creeggan, Kevin Hearn & Steven Report 100% use at times side projects that come worked in in the period of hiatus from either BNL touring & studio period. Jim is a share of the alternative/jazz trio The Brothers Creeggan, with brother & previous BNL member Andy Creeggan & friend Ian McLauchlan. Kevin is the frontman of Kevin Hearn and Thin Buckle, who play the mix of guide rock & jazz using several more eclectic influences. Thin Buckle features players from either many more American guide elastic, like Rheostatics. Lead singer/guitarist Steven Page also has a side task using collaborator Stephen Duffy called The Vanity Project. Their 1st album featuring a lone "Thats All Thats All" in America & "Wilted Rose" within Canada was released in June 2005.

Biography
Barenaked Ladies develop authorized the life, Public Stunts Private Stories, written by friend of the band and fellow "Scarberian" Paul Myers, brother of actor Mike Myers. These are published around Canada by Madrigal Click. An updated 2003 version includes the different handle, trading tools just about Disc One & All about to Everyone, and fixes many typographical error detected in the original version.

Primary album discography
Gordon (1992) Maybe You Should Drive (1994) Born On A Pirate Ship (1996) Rock Spectacle (1996) (live versions of antecedently discharged songs) Stunt (1998) Maroon (2000) Disc One: All Their Greatest Hits 1991-2001 (2001) (featuring 4 songs nin freed on any former BnL album) Everything to Everyone (2003) Barenaked for the Holidays (2004)

Secondary album discography
Shoe Pack EP (1996) When Smart shoppers Rather It (2005) (available merely in cyberspace)

Singles
1992 "Enid" from either Gordon "Brian Wilson" from either Gordon "What a Good Boy" from either Gordon 1993 "Be My Yoko Ono" from either Gordon "If I Had $1,000,000" from either Gordon 1994 "Jane" from either Maybe Wise shoppers Should Drive 1995 "Alternative Girlfriend" from either Maybe Professional people Should Drive "A" from either Maybe Wise shoppers Should Drive 1996 "Shoe Box" from either Born In The Pirate Ship / Friends soundtrack "Grim Grinning Ghosts" from either ''Disney's Music From either A Park 1997 "The Old Apartment" from either Natural In The Pirate Ship "Brian Wilson" from either Rock Spectacle 1998 "One Week" from either Stunt'' "It's All Been Done" from either Stunt 1999 "Alcohol" from either Stunt "Call And Answer" from either Stunt / Ed TV soundtrack 2000 "Pinch Me" from either Maroon "Too Little Too Late" from either Maroon 2001 "Falling For The First Time" from either Maroon "Thanks That Was Fun" from either Disc A single: A lot Their Greatest Hits 2002 "It's Only Me" from either Disc Of these: Completely Their Greatest Hits 2003 "Another Postcard" from either All about to Everyone 2004 "Maybe Katie" from either All about For Everyone - Canada single "Testing 123" from either All about to Everyone "Celebrity" from either All about to Everyone - UK single "War On Drugs" from either All about to Everyone "For You" from either All about to Everyone "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" from either Barenaked For The Holidays "Christmastime (Oh Yeah)" from either Barenaked For The Holidays