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The album was a popular release during the Christmas season of 2004, and reached No. 64 in the regular Billboard album charts. Barenaked Ladies promoted the album with the Barenaked for the Holidays Tour in 2004 and 2005. Former member Steven Page later admitted that the album was not his idea, and that a holiday themed album was not what he ...
Page's father, Victor, was a drummer, [3] as is his brother, Matthew. As a child, Page would attempt to play songs on the piano, while his dad would keep the beat on the drums. [3] Page took ten years of piano lessons (though claimed he did not learn to play). [4] He also was a member of the Toronto Mendelssohn Youth Choir. [4]
The album, Ladies and Gentlemen: Barenaked Ladies and The Persuasions, consisted of new versions of existing Barenaked Ladies songs (along with one Kevin Hearn song and one Persuasions song). [66] It was released on 14 April 2017. [67] The band returned to the studio in the winter of 2017 to record their 12th studio album, Fake Nudes. [68]
Another version was also released as a "Special Enhanced CD Single" with album art work based on the song's music video. The song is also featured on the band's 2001 compilation album, Disc One: All Their Greatest Hits. The song was written by Ed Robertson and Steven Page, and sung by Page.
Following its release, Page toured on his own in support of the album, performing the songs acoustically on guitar, mainly in music and book stores around the United States. He played both songs from The Vanity Project, and Barenaked Ladies songs. Since these promotional shows, there has been no subsequent reference by Page to his solo act as ...
However, most radio stations decided to play the live version instead, which explains why the live version was included on Disc One: All Their Greatest Hits. The U.S. release included the non-album song "Back." [2] A music video for "Brian Wilson 2000" was filmed at The Opera House in Toronto on February 22, 1998 [3] and released later that year.
"Green Christmas" is a Christmas song by the Barenaked Ladies from the soundtrack for the 2000 film How The Grinch Stole Christmas!. [1] [2] It was later re-recorded as a studio acoustic version for the Christmas compilation Maybe This Christmas Too? in 2003, [3] and re-recorded again for the band's own holiday album, Barenaked for the Holidays, released in 2004. [4]
"You Run Away" was written by Ed Robertson, and was partially inspired by Steven Page's departure from the band in February 2009. [2] The music video for "You Run Away" was released on February 22, 2010, [3] making it their first music video they have actually appeared in since 2003's "Testing 1,2,3". The song's video uses the radio edit of the ...