Twice now I’ve heard the new [Barenaked Ladies][] song on the radio and thought to myself:
[barenaked ladies]: http://www.bnlmusic.com/
*Who’s that? Sounds like Matchbox 20. In fact, that sounds so much like Matchbox 20, that it can’t be anyone other than Matchbox 20. Surely.*
And then Chris Evans or Terry Wogan will say “And that’s the fabulous new song from the Barenaked Ladies, and it’s called [Easy][], and it’s fabulous.”
[easy]: http://www.emusic.com/samples/m3u/album/10939212/0.m3u
Click that link to listen to the song, and tell me that it doesn’t sound exactly like Matchbox 20.
And I’ll ponder on how much the Barenaked Ladies’ new song sounds like Matchbox 20, and how ashamed they should be.
8 replies on “Barenaked Matchboxes”
I must be getting old, I haven’t a clue what Matchbox 20 sound like.
They’re from Florida. They’ve done quite well in the US, but they’ve barely touched the Top 40 in the UK. It’s very AOR.
Their lead vocalist is Rob Thomas, who you may remember as the guy who co-wrote *Smooth* with Carlos Santana.
I too have no idea what Matchbox 20 sound like
But I used to like a couple of songs by the Barenaked Ladies – must go and buy some of their stuff…
I take my hat off to the BNLs.
They’re Canadian, they write jokey songs (sometimes), they do lots of different styles (so they could have set off to do a Matchbox 20 song),
but they are still themselves and successful and I like the Everything To Everyone Album.
I’ve heard of Santana, but haven’t heard that smooth song to which you are referring. Did it grace the singles charts recently?
Um, back in about 2000 if I remember rightly, Ade…
1999 actually. #3 in the UK singles chart.
To anyone who is reading this from 10 years in the future, I should probably explain: people used to buy music on CDs, and the singles chart was a summary of which CD singles had sold the most in the previous week.
Cliff: I like the Barenaked Ladies too. I’m just finding the most recent song a bit one-dimensional.
CDs? Oh. I was referring to 45s, pop pickers.
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Not ‘arf!