TS: Most [REDACTED]-Looking Barenaked Ladies Member on This Album Cover

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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)

hnuh hnuh, you defended bare-naked ladies, uh hungrh, uh hungrgh

― Mystic Handyman (noodle vague), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 13:00 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

http://pix.nofrag.com/0d/f2/c9da99cd146b4aad8efedf444fbc.jpg

― vincent spano (vincent spano), Monday, 1 May 2006 18:42 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

LOLOLOLOLOLOL omfg

this thread will never stop being funny.

"it's growing out of his fatfro. DON'T STARE!" had me roffling all over my office. sorry to revive AGAIN.

― teh_kit has 21 friends (g-kit), Thursday, 15 June 2006 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

no one should ever apologize for reviving this

― ...122 hours of beer (part 2) (teenagequiet), Thursday, 15 June 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

I heard this record every fucking day for about a year and a half when I was working at my first record store job (in Canada, obv). And we sold TRUCKLOADS of this motherfucker. I worked with a guy who looked like a member of the Muppet band (and on second thought, he wouldn't have looked out of place on this record cover). He had a tight, curly afro that resembled the hairdo of Howie Mandell. Anyways, he was the fuck chop that insisted on playing this drivel day-in, day-out.
I bet I could sing you the whole record.
Sometime in 93, I was at a show in Calgary, and Fatbeard Badshave walked in. And pretty much everyone in the whole bar was mortified and making fun of him. It was hilar.

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Thursday, 15 June 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

Every time this thread is revived my heart leaps a little.

― kaygee (kaygee), Thursday, 15 June 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

it's resting on its laurels...

get with the makin some funny.

― DAVE, for #1 Hits of yesterday and today! (dave225.3), Thursday, 15 June 2006 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.buymusichere.net/images/bmh/72/62428400172.jpg

Thankfully, I couldn't find a bigger version.

― Edward Bax (EdBax), Thursday, 15 June 2006 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b361/tapestore/gordon.jpg

― Tape Store (Tape Store), Thursday, 15 June 2006 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

roffle

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 15 June 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

People making fun of people making fun of themselves.

Now that *is* funny!

― shorty (shorty), Thursday, 15 June 2006 21:47 (nineteen years ago)

get one sense of humor, shorty

― jäxøñ (jaxon), Thursday, 15 June 2006 22:04 (nineteen years ago)

you too dude. It was said tongue-in-cheek, even though it's true.

You don't no me very well do ya.

― shorty (shorty), Thursday, 15 June 2006 22:10 (nineteen years ago)

erp... no=know

― shorty (shorty), Thursday, 15 June 2006 22:12 (nineteen years ago)

an acquaintance at a party attempted (yet again) to convince me of the BNL's greatness. he did not succeed. We also argued about the virtues (or lack thereof, imho) of Bono's public politics. Good thing I was deeeeeeeerunk on Grey Goose.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 15 June 2006 22:19 (nineteen years ago)

yet again

oh my.

― A Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Thursday, 15 June 2006 23:11 (nineteen years ago)

of the naked cover, i would fuck 3/5th of them.
of the gordon cover, i would fuck 1/5th of them.

― anthony easton (anthony), Friday, 16 June 2006 03:57 (nineteen years ago)

Tell us which ones.

― Marmot 4-Tay (marmotwolof), Friday, 16 June 2006 04:09 (nineteen years ago)

im gonna let you guess

― anthony easton (anthony), Friday, 16 June 2006 05:07 (nineteen years ago)

Of the naked cover, the first 3 from the left,of the gordon cover, lowerleft corner guy?

I'm guessing the guys that seem the least fat/bald/goofy, but you might like those qualities...

― Marmot 4-Tay (marmotwolof), Friday, 16 June 2006 05:16 (nineteen years ago)

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