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Barenaked Ladies
Maroon
What most pundits have considered as Canada's frost-bitten answer to the songwriting squad of Squeeze's Chris Difford and Glen Tilbrook (with some ancillary They Might Be Giants tossed in), Ladies' men Steven Page and Ed Roberts have accomplished the rarest of geek rock feats: unloading four million copies in the US alone. While the dippy folk rap of "One Week" quickly wore out its VidTV welcome, at least it earned them this session with knobgod Don Was (hit svengali to Bonnie Raitt, et al). Expect the upcoming winter months to include most of Maroon's set list, a combination of zany Ladies litanies ("Never Do Anything": "Fill my pockets with more than lint, I'll give you a hint, it involves the internet"), endearing Dave Matthews-fondled folk rock ("Helicopters"), and classic razor-edged pop ("Too Little Too Late"). Ignore the airwave's insistence to repeat the obvious (the album's first single, "Pinch Me," is too derivative of "Week"), since this album is much stronger and livelier than that song would indicate. Still amazingly fresh on their seventh disc. -peter moore (Reprise Records)
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