Talk:Barenaked Ladies

Genre

Noone will ever agree on genres. Different songs fall into different genres. They have folk songs, rock songs, pop songs, etc. However, en masse, they simply fall into Pop/Rock, which is where you will always find their music listed in music stores. Subgenres are a waste of time, since they must fall into at least twenty or thirty of them at different points in their career. Per previous discussion, which brought no objection to limiting genres, I'm limiting the genre box to a general category of alt rock and pop rock, which they arguably fall into either way. There is little or no power pop on Gordon... there is little or no folk rock on Maroon or Everything to Everyone or BLAM. Spurts of a genre from song to song should not be the BAND's genre. TheHYPO (talk) 22:36, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

New Single

I heard a new single by BNL today on the radio, but I'm unsure what it was. It sounded like it was a cover of an 80's song. This isn't likely the place for it, but I was hoping someone had some information on it. I can't seem to find anything appropriate for it on the discography. Thanks! Vdrj2 (talk) 09:02, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

There is no new single; you probably heard an old song you hadn't heard before. TheHYPO (talk) 17:54, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

Steven Page

Hasn't he left the band now? Khcf6971 (talk) 19:01, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

That's why he's referred to in the article as a former member, yes. —C.Fred (talk) 21:13, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

The New Image

I don't think using a photo of the band from 2008 with Steven Page cropped out is okay. Steven was performing with the band through February of 2009, the current photo is misleading. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.118.125.153 (talk) 02:01, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

I can see how it could possibly mislead someone who didn't read the article, but the photo is clearly labeled: BNL in 1998, and lists the members. If someone bothers to read merely two paragraphs of the lead of the article, they will find that Page departed in 2009. I'm happy to replace it with a public-domain photo of the foursome taken after Feb 2009, but at the moment, this is the best available option we have until someone donates such a photo to the public domain. TheHYPO (talk) 09:26, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

MMVAs

As previously mentioned at Talk:List of awards and nominations received by Barenaked Ladies, the band has won at least three MMVAs

• 1992 for people's choice
• 1993 for people's choice
• 1995 for Press Kit

There have definately been other nominations though, and I can't seem to find a listing of all of them or a proper number to add to the awards table.

For example, 2001 noms for MuchMoreMusic Award (Pinch Me), People's Choice: Favourite Canadian Group (Too Little Too Late), and People's Choice: Favourite Video By A Canadian (TLTL).

There are almost certainly more... TheHYPO (talk) 20:07, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

Hmmmmm.....

The lead of this article says: "Barenaked Ladies formed in 1988 in Scarborough, Ontario, then a suburban city outside Toronto.[1]" Then???? Is Scarborough no longer a suburban city outside Toronto? --dashiellx (talk) 14:11, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

Scarborough became part of the city of Toronto in 1998. --Patteroast (talk) 19:13, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

Pre-History

I used to listen to this band when they were called the Housemartins. Oops, it's happy hour again, gotta go... But seriously, why is there no talk about this band being a copy of the Housemartins. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.204.73.193 (talk) 22:30, 23 May 2010 (UTC)

Because they weren't. Rebeccaxf (talk) 16:02, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

Appearance on Charmed

They appeared in the WB's Charmed in the episode "The Honeymoon's Over". There's a picture of them with the cast, but I don't know how to add it. Could somebody add the picture? Here's the link: Barenaked Ladies and the Charmed Sisters GlennVP (talk) 19:48, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

No can do. It's a promotional photo, which means it's not free. Since it's just a posed picture of the band with the actresses from Charmed, it doesn't meet the necessary criteria for using non-free content. So no, it may not be added. —C.Fred (talk) 20:01, 29 June 2010 (UTC)