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Everything to Everyone
From its tongue-in-cheek cover art on down, Barenaked Ladies?s Everything to Everyone is a surprisingly tough-minded survey of early 21st-century culture. Often accused of being too clever for their own good, Toronto?s Ladies here provide a good deal of subtlety along with the expected tunefulness and genre-hopping. "Testing 1,2,3" is a complex song about nostalgia, singing in a rock & roll band that?s loved for perhaps narrow reasons, and watching one?s ex-girlfriend find a new lover. "Maybe Katie" presents two different views of the male fear of commitment before dropping a key bit of information about its title subject. And "Shopping" is a fist-in-velvet-glove tune in the tradition of the Housemartins?s "Happy Hour;" could its happy-go-lucky chorus be a skewering of George W. Bush?s pro-commerce response to Sept. 11? At the very least, it demonstrates that these guys fully understand the art and the implications of being all things to all people. --Rickey Wright
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Tracks| 1 | Celebrity | | 2 | Maybe Katie | | 3 | Another Postcard | | 4 | Next Time | | 5 | For You | | 6 | Shopping | | 7 | Testing 1,2,3 | | 8 | Upside Down | | 9 | War On Drugs | | 10 | Aluminum | | 11 | Unfinished | | 12 | Second Best | | 13 | Take It Outside | | 14 | Have You Seen My Love? |
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