| Maybe You Should Drive | 
 enlarge | Artist: Barenaked Ladies
Label: Reprise / Wea
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  54 reviews
Sales Rank: 9130
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 45709
UPC: 093624570929
EAN: 0093624570929
ASIN: B000002MT4
Release Date: August 16, 1994
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Condition: PLEASE READ: This is in good playing condition. This is the disc and casing only. NO ARTWORK. Very fast shipping.
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| Tracks:
| • | Jane - Barenaked Ladies, Duffy, Stephen | | • | Intermittently - Barenaked Ladies, Page, Steven | | • | These Apples - Barenaked Ladies, Robertson, Ed | | • | You Will Be Waiting - Barenaked Ladies, Page, Steven | | • | A - Barenaked Ladies, Page, Steven | | • | Everything Old Is New Again - Barenaked Ladies, Duffy, Stephen | | • | Alternative Girlfriend - Barenaked Ladies, Duffy, Stephen | | • | Am I the Only One? - Barenaked Ladies, Robertson, Ed | | • | Little Tiny Song - Barenaked Ladies, Creeggan, Andrew | | • | Life, in a Nutshell - Barenaked Ladies, Page, Steven | | • | The Wrong Man Was Convicted - Barenaked Ladies, Duffy, Stephen | | • | Great Provider - Barenaked Ladies, Page, Steven |
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Amazon.com
On this, their second major label release, Barenaked Ladies get romantic without slipping into sappy sentimentality. Wonderfully witty love songs like "Jane," "These Apples," "A," and "Alternative Girlfriend" explore the pitfalls of modern relationships with pointed candor and remarkable eloquence. Throughout, the troupe displays its expected high level of musicianship and vocal expertise, delivering full-bodied performances on every track. As always, Ed Robertson and Steven Page dominate the vocals, turning in particularly fabulous work on "Am I the Only One?" and "The Wrong Man Was Convicted." Perhaps the "hit" from this disc is "Life, In a Nutshell," a charming ditty about, surprisingly enough, a happy relationship. What bliss! --L.A. Smith
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BNL's Absolute Best! July 30, 2000
16 out of 19 found this review helpful
Coming off the beloved major debut album of 'Gordon,' BNL fans were expecting yet again, another funny album. An album that made little sense except the fact that it's funny! Well, BNL certainly surprised their fans with 'Maybe You Should Drive.' This has got to be my personal favorite BNL album. The songs have meaningful lyrics, and a tone that BNL has never used in any of their albums since. Maybe that is why true BNL fans really love this album. The sincerity really shines through on this album. The opening track, "Jane," similar to "Enid" on 'Gordon,' is a song describing Jane, and how she can't open up to guys. The humorous note is when the listener hears the lyric that states he discovered Jane while shoplifting form the store. "Intermittently" sounds like a 1960s British swingers anthem. It describes the mental status of how people can love each other off and on. "Intermittently" might be Darryl Strawberry's favorite BNL song, who knows? Maybe the song off 'Maybe You Should Drive' most like anything off 'Gordon' is "These Apples." At first listen, the song seems to be senseless, at best. Yet each time you listen to it, you can hear that BNL really spent some time on these lyrics. The song is a true masterpiece of BNL, and still one of my most beloved BNL songs. The next track, "You Will Be Waiting," is a song that anyone can hear is a song with a lot of emotional attachment to it. I believe that BNL wanted to prove to its fans that it could write serious songs with emotional feelings tied in. After the emotional "You Will Be Waiting," the album kicks right into a cunning "A." It goes through many words beginning with the letter "a," and talks of a girlfriend being extremely upset with her boyfriend (the singer). Even the title, "Everything Old Is New Again," is an oxymoron. It could be that the whole song is an oxymoron, but I beg to differ. It talks of children in their mothers' cars, with an expressionless face. I think it talks of the old wanted to be young, and the young wanting to be old. Now I really like the song "Alternative Girlfriend," although not one of the more popular singles by BNL, the song is rich and fertile in lyrics. Usually by track 8 on an album, you would expect to start to run into fillers. But that is not the case on 'Maybe You Should Drive.' "Am I The Only One?" is a great song! It talks of being a stranger everywhere you go. "Life, In A Nutshell" mocks the "The Brady Bunch Lifestyle." It talk of always being happy, and never running into any problems in life. The last outstanding track on the album has got to be "The Wrong Man Was Convicted." It talks of an over used tale of a man dying for a crime he did not commit. Although BNL seems to revive the sharp idea with this song.
Possibly BNL's Most Underrated Effort March 11, 2001
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
Most of the people I know who are into BNL seem to think this is the group's weakest album. I couldn't disagree more. While Gordon was a tough act to follow, Maybe You Should Drive was a fantastic second album, continuing the tradition of shiveringly perfect harmonies, ultra-clever lyrics, and so much fun you almost have to restrain yourself from jumping around the room with glee.Possibly I'm prejudiced by the fact that I first saw the band in concert during the tour for this album. The sheer joy I got from seeing BNL live has always been linked in my mind with Maybe You Should Drive. "Jane," "Intermittently," "These Apples," "A," "Alternative Girlfriend," "Life, In A Nutshell"... all such strong, funny, bouncy, wild tunes... this album always seems fresh and new to me. From "A": "A is for Algebra, I learned it in school/A is what Fonzie said cause he was very cool." From "Jane," a pop culture reference so specific to the time of the recording, it was obscure 6 months later: "No promises as vague as Heaven/No Juliana next to my Evan." And here is the entirety of "Little Tiny Song," a 62-second nugget of bizarreness from bassist Andrew Creggan: "Hey I'm a cow, I'm curious/Hey watch me now, I'm furious/Hey I'm a cow, I'm full of hate/Hey watch me now, I'm on your plate." The songs and albums to follow Maybe You Should Drive were (and are) always good and often great, but this was the last BNL album that felt like 100% fun to me. You need to own it.
The Ladies Best January 26, 2001
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
The only good things to come out of Canada: Hockey, the syllable 'eh', and Barenaked Ladies (no offense to all you wonderful Canadians).You're all familiar with the band's recent releases, "Stunt" and "Maroon", but their best work was this, their second album. I'd list the good tracks, as is my habit, but just read Amazon's provided set list because they're all good. My favorites (I feel the overwhelming urge to list something) are "Jane" and "Life, In a Nutshell", but I put this CD on and listen straight through, at least to track 10. As a follow-up to their first release "Gordon" this album demonstrates the honing of their art. The band is tighter, and the songs exemplify the bands uncanny ability to mix sincerity, depth and wit, often moreso than any of their other CDs. If you're familiar only with the Ladies new albums, then you should definitely check this one out. Its not as hard-edged as "Maroon" and not quite in the same vein as "Stunt", but its HIGH quality music in every respect. This album makes me believe there's hope for pop music yet.
Debut=first album=one=#1! December 30, 1999
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
Ok if you are on the hunt for a GOOD Bare Naked Ladies Cd this album will satisfy your needs. Not that the other albums aren't good because they are completely awesome, but this cd is probably the one to set your tastebuds to BNL music. If your not happy with this album, your probably not going to like the band. Thats all there is to it! With a wide variety of heartfelt lyrics (You'll Be Waiting & Jane) to funny tunes that keep you smiling (A & Life in a Nutshell) the cd is very well rounded. I purchased it from one of those funky mail-in cd clubs hoping it would contain the smash hit If I had $100,000,000. I had heard the song on the radio, found out about the band and fell completely in love, but...to my dismay the song didn't appear on the track list. I popped the album in my stereo anyway and have been a devoted BNL fan ever since. I bought the remainder of bnl cds and discovered my favorite band of all time. Maybe You Should Drive is a defintie must for anyone even slightly interested in the sweetly addicting Bare Naked Ladies.
 Mellow April 22, 1999
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Compared to other BNL releases, Maybe You Should Drive sounds like it was recorded by a different band. Unlike the musical collages which were the trademarks of Gordon and BOAPS, the majority of the tracks on this release hit a similar groove. I'm not quite sure how to describe it, but think The Grateful Dead circa American Beauty, with a dash of the late-period Beatles thrown in for good measure, and you're probably halfway there. Most of the songs are low-key country-tinged affairs, positively laden with hooks, and for once the lyrics are relatively straightforward paeans to lost love, unrequited love, reflective love, joyful love, and any other kind of love you care to think of. It's true that this album doesn't grab you with the force of the others, but that's because it's a slow-burn kind of affair, the sort of thing you put on when you're in the mood for a bit of introspective reflection on the vagaries of human relationships. And then, just to prove that you shouldn't take it all too seriously, they hit you with one minute and two seconds of Little Tiny Song, being only the stupidest thing they've ever recorded. How can you possibly dislike guys like this? So in the final reckoning it edges out Gordon and BOAPS, but is it better than Stunt? Probably not, but I will say this - the other albums are music for our times, but this is music for the ages. Not to be missed.
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