Disc One: All Their Greatest Hits (1991-2001) by Barenaked Ladies

Pros: Solid singles, good voice, fun lyrics, generally good music
Cons: Some of the band's choices of songs

To most Americans, Barenaked Ladies are a one-hit wonder ("One Week" being the defining hit), so it might seem silly that they have released "Disc One: All Their Greatest Hits 1991 - 2001." Then again, Alien Sex Fiend have multiple greatest hits albums ...

Pros: Great songs, great playing. Even the liner notes are entertaining!!
Cons: A couple of bad early cuts.

Like most Yanks, I discovered BNL in '98 when "One Week" became a hit. The album that song appeared on, "Stunt" turned out to be one of the few CD's I loved every song on, from beginning to end. I liked Ed Robertson's geeky-sounding voice as well as the...

Pros: a great intro to BNL
Cons: no Alcohol

Much has been made about Canadian pop-rockers Barenaked Ladies releasing a "Greatest Hits" album. After all, the band has had one huge smash here in America, the extremely fun yet extremely overplayed One Week, and have sprinkled in five...

Pros: Some of the coolest freaking songs they ever made
Cons: "Break Your Heart" isn't on it :-(, single version of "Pinch Me"

The first BNL song I ever heard was "The Old Apartment"...I hated it. At the time I heard it, I was only 14 years old, and I was a full-fledged teenybopper. Skip a couple of years ahead to when I had grown out of TB mode and heard "One Week". THAT was a s ...

Pros: Instantly likeable, thoughtful, quirky, insanely catchy.
Cons: The new tracks; "Call and Answer."

The Barenaked Ladies are not novelty.

They're fun, yes. They're pop-rock, yes--- gravitating closer to the pop end of the spectrum, true, but that's okay--- but they're awfully intelligent, and they've got a lot more to them than songs about...

Pros: Nearly every one of your favorite BNL songs on one CD! It's a good thing.
Cons: Nothing, except realizing the band's been around 10 years can make you feel old.

If you don't "get" the title of the CD or this review, then you haven't listened to "Box Set" from Gordon enough times. And, as a note to Epinions, the title of the CD is Disc One: All Their Greatest Hits [1991-2001]. "Their" instead of...

Pros: A great sampler for the casual fan, and a great "mix CD" for the collection.
Cons: In my opinion, not all of their singles are their best work.

This CD is worth the price for the two new songs (It's Only Me and Thanks, That Was Fun), Lovers in a Dangerous Time, Get In Line, and the liner notes alone. If you are a hard core fan, you don't need any more reason to buy this CD than the fact that it...

Pros: Great mix of BNL's music from the last 10 years with great liner notes!
Cons: Song choices and songs are same mixes that I already have

A hardcore Barenaked Ladies (BNL) fan since 1993, I have been looking forward to the release of this CD for weeks. I ran out and got it as soon as I could (made me feel like a little kid again) and popped it in the CD player in the car on the way home....

Pros: Lots of content, good mix of singles and more obscure b-sides
Cons: A few songs that I would have liked to see aren't present

This is one of the three single CD's I ever payed more than 17 dollars for, and I still hold that it was worth it. To an American audience, it seems odd for a band that wrote maybe three songs that the average pop-radio fan has heard (those three ...