★★★★★
Over the past 25 years, the Barenaked Ladies have experienced being an overnight sensation in Canada as well as mainstream popularity in the United States and around the world. They've also experienced the inevitable passing of that popularity, keyboardist Kevin Hearn's diagnosis and recovery from leukemia, co-frontman Ed Robertson's plane crash (he and three others walked away unhurt), and the departure of the band's other co-frontman, Steven Page, in 2009...
- www.popmatters.com
2013-06-21
★★★★★
Sound: Barenaked Ladies are unique. Their biggest hits are a campfire singalong and a pop song with freestyle rap verses. The former contains the phrase "Haven't you always wanted a monkey?" and the latter contains the phrase "Chickety China, the Chinese chicken." It's hard to believe this band can make such brilliant, smooth music. However, it was evident with most of the tracks on Gordon, the band's first album, that their sillyness wasn't the only trick they had up their sleeve...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
Sound: This is probably the best example of what the musical abilities of the Barenaked Ladies possess. The music is very peppy and energetic. If you are in need of cheering up or just want something mellow to jam to, definitely pick this CD up. The only thing is some of the songs are anti-climatic toward the end of the album. Although, all of the songs are instant favorites. The Barenaked Ladies are not guitar gods, but they know how to lay a track down and they have obviously displayed that...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
Comedy and music have always been odd bedfellows. Humour in music can be wonderful, and humorous music can work, so long as one takes the Tom Lehrer, not the Tenacious D, approach. There also needs to be a balance between the tunes and jokes - a bad song can ruin the punchline just as a bad joke can undermine a tune. On this career retrospective, Canadians Barenaked Ladies remind the world that, really, they've never been particularly good at either...
- www.recordcollectormag.com
2011-12-05
★★★★★
Rock critics have always tended to view Barenaked Ladies with acurious mixture of suspicion and distaste. Ask them why andthey'll mumble something about "edge," dismissing the clean-cutquintet as lightweights ? too bland, too glib, too nice, tooCanadian. Never mind that Americans snapped up 4 million copiesof BNL's last album, Stunt, or that the band puts on absolutelykiller live shows...
- ew.com
2011-03-03
★★★★★
Yeah, so I'm a Barenaked Ladies fan. Wanna make something of it? I've been a fan since a copy of Gordon was pushed on me in 1994, making me someone who's been with BNL during periods of obscurity, AAA-radio novelty act, burgeoning success, hipness, superstardom, and mainstream mainstay...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-01-20
★★★★★
For the last 15 years, Barenaked Ladies have been considered the court jesters of pop-rock. The Canadian quintet has parlayed its quirky sense of humor into a career, singing and rapping about an odd collection of topics as varied as wasabi, Brian Wilson, a car crash and an old apartment. On "Everything to Everyone," the follow-up to 2000's "Stunt," the band shows signs of mellowing and maturation...
- www.soundspike.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
It's appropriate that Barenaked Ladies have titled their latest CD "Barenaked Ladies Are Me" as they seek to redefine themselves seven studio albums into their career. On their sixth release, "Everything to Everyone," Barenaked Ladies hinted that they were taking a more mature approach, leaving behind the juvenile antics, silly banter and pop-culture references--in short, much of what comprised their earlier charm. "Barenaked Ladies Are Me" successfully builds on that new direction...
- www.soundspike.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
The trouble with releasing a brilliant debut album is that it's hard to produce anything as good afterwards. This is the case for Barenaked Ladies, the quirky Canadian troupe whose fifth studio album Everything To Everyone is out now. You see, it's just not Gordon. Gordon was BNL's debut and featured the haunting Brian Wilson, the staple singalong If I Had $1,000,000 and the funny Be My Yoko Ono. It's an album full of classics and could easily be repackaged as BNL's greatest hits...
- www.musicomh.com
2010-08-23
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