Barenaked Ladies

1 One Week
Electric Upright Bass [Electric Double Bass] – Jim*
Other [Dans La Maison] – Ed, Tyler
2:52
2 It's All Been Done
Electric Guitar – Steven*
Mixed By – Tom Lord-Alge
Vocals [Parlez Français] – Natacha Hébert
3:26
3 Light Up My Room
Electric Piano – Kevin*
3:36
4 I'll Be That Girl
Accordion, Banjo – Kevin*
3:34
5 Leave
Guitar [Wah-wah], Lead Guitar [Electric] – Kevin*
Other [Expert Violin Tuning] – Sue Drew
Violin – Jim*
3:24
6 Alcohol
Bongos – Tyler*
Electric Guitar – Steven*
Rap [Invisible] – Ed*
3:43
7 Call And Answer
Cello – Jim*
5:49
8 In The Car
Bongos – Tyler*
Lead Guitar [Electric], Melodica, Organ – Kevin*
3:53
9 Never Is Enough
Drums [Phat Drumz Guy] – Steven*
Scratches – Colin Alexander
3:23
10 Who Needs Sleep?
Clavinet – Kevin*
Flute – Steven*
Mixed By – Tom Lord-Alge
Sampler ["hala Hala Hala"] – Don Garbutt
Vocals – "French Pete" Tremblay*
3:44
11 Told You So
Arco Bass, Cello – Jim*
Piano – Steven*
4:21
12 Some Fantastic (Ivory And Ivory)
Percussion – Ed*
Snare – Tyler*
4:17
13 When You Dream
Electric Upright Bass – Jim*
Sampler – Kevin*
5:19
Credits:
Acoustic Guitar – Ed* (tracks: 1 to 3, 5 to 13), Steven* (tracks: 2 to 4, 13)
Double Bass – Jim* (tracks: 3 to 5, 7 to 10, 12, 13)
Drums – Tyler* (tracks: 1 to 11)
Electric Bass – Jim* (tracks: 2, 6, 11)
Electric Guitar – Ed* (tracks: 1 to 12), Kevin* (tracks: 1, 3, 11)
Keyboards – Kevin* (tracks: 1 to 5, 9, 12, 13)
Lead Vocals – Ed* (tracks: 3, 5, 9 to 12), Steven* (tracks: 2, 4, 6 to 8, 12, 13)
Music By – Ed Robertson (tracks: 1, 3, 5, 9 to 12), Stephen Duffy (tracks: 4, 6, 7), Steven Page (tracks: 2, 4 to 8, 10 to 13)
Percussion – Tyler* (tracks: 2, 5 to 7, 10, 12, 13)
Piano – Kevin* (tracks: 6, 7, 12)
Producer – Barenaked Ladies, David Leonard, Susan Rogers
Synthesizer – Kevin* (tracks: 6, 7, 11)
Vocals – Ed* (tracks: 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 13), Jim* (tracks: 2, 5, 6, 8 to 13), Kevin* (tracks: 2 to 4, 8 to 10, 12), Steven* (tracks: 1, 3, 5, 9 to 11), Tyler* (tracks: 2, 9, 10)
Words By – Ed Robertson (tracks: 1, 3, 5, 9 to 13), Stephen Duffy (tracks: 4, 6, 7), Steven Page (tracks: 2 to 13)… (mere)

Fun, catchy songs that frequently play with language and deal with some of the trickier aspects of English. One of my favorites was "Crazy ABCs", an alphabet in which all the beginning letters were either silent or pronounced in unexpected ways -- aisle, djinn, qat, et cetera. "A Word for That" builds some rather exotic vocabulary by singing around little-known body parts like the philtrum and uvula.

(Speaking of body parts, I was pleasantly surprised that they apparently don't need to call themselves 'BNL' anymore when singing to kids, the way they used to do in the nineties. Yay progress!)

Other songs deal with counting ("7 8 9") or art appreciation ("Drawing"), while others are just for fun. Not every one thrilled me, but overall, a solid album with a lot to enjoy.… (mere)