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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 (twenty years ago)

when did mark ruffalo and david cross join the group?

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

hahaha

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

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

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

this thread should never die.

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

However, I doubt it.

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

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― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 13 October 2005 22:36 (twenty years ago)

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

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

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

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

TRADITION

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

Hosers on the Roof

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

"Is this the little Canuck I carrrried?"

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

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

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

Yeah, that's the name of the album.

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

#1 bestest thread ever

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

Quality stuff here.

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

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

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

yup, suicide.

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

I always thought this album was called "Gobbon."

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

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

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

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

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

what, this face? this one here?

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

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

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

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

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