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Stunt (album)

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Released
  
July 7, 1998

Length
  
51:21

Stunt (1998)
  
Maroon (2000)

Release date
  
7 July 1998

Recorded
  
February–March 1998

Label
  
Reprise

Artist
  
Barenaked Ladies

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Producer
  
Barenaked Ladies, David Leonard, Susan Rogers

Genres
  
Alternative rock, College rock

Awards
  
Juno Award for Pop Album of the Year

Nominations
  
Juno Award for Recording Package of the Year

Similar
  
Gordon, Maroon, Everything to Everyone, Born on a Pirate Ship, Rock Spectacle

Barenaked ladies light up my room


Stunt is the fourth full-length studio album by Barenaked Ladies. Their most successful album, it entered the US charts at No. 3 and sold over 4 million units by the end of its chart run. Its first single, "One Week" became the band's breakthrough single in the US market by hitting No. 1 (selling over 5 million copies). The song also reached No. 5 in the UK, and helped revitalize their career in the band's home country of Canada, where their fame had diminished since the days of their debut album Gordon. In addition, follow-up singles "It's All Been Done", "Alcohol" and "Call and Answer" were each successful to some degree.

Contents

Stunt is the first studio album to feature keyboardist/guitarist Kevin Hearn, who originally joined the band for the Born on a Pirate Ship tour in 1995. Shortly after the release of the album, Hearn was diagnosed with leukemia. He spent the Stunt tour receiving chemotherapy and was replaced by Chris Brown and Greg Kurstin in the interim.

Tracks recorded for Stunt that did not appear on the album were "Long Way Back Home" and "She's On Time." These tracks appear as hidden tracks on the "limited edition" version of the album. "Long Way Back Home" was used during the closing credits for the band's Stunt tour documentary Barenaked in America.

There was also a special edition of the album which contained the standard 13 tracks plus a second disc including two versions of "Brian Wilson" (the album version and the "2000" version), and live versions of "The Old Apartment", "Jane", "When I Fall", "If I Had $1000000" and "Straw Hat and Old Dirty Hank".

As with each of their earlier albums, the band recorded one song, "Alcohol", completely naked.

The album was released on vinyl June 2, 2015.

Track listing

All tracks written by Steven Page and Ed Robertson, except where noted.

† – bonus tracks on limited edition.

Personnel

  • Colin Alexander – scratching (track 9)
  • Jim Creeggan – electric bass (tracks 2, 6, 11), violin (track 5), electric double bass (tracks 1, 13), cello (tracks 7, 11), background vocals (tracks 2, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13), double bass (tracks 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12), arco bass (track 11), handclaps (track 8), acoustic double bass (track 13)
  • Kevin Hearn – organ (track 8), synthesizer (tracks 6, 7, 11), banjo (track 4), piano (tracks 6, 7, 12), accordion (track 4), electric guitar (tracks 1, 5, 8, 11), keyboards (tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 12, 13), electric piano (track 3), background vocals (tracks 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 12), clavinet (track 10), melodica (track 8), sampling (track 13), wah wah guitar (track 5), handclaps (track 8)
  • Steven Page – acoustic guitar (tracks 2, 3, 4, 13), electric guitar (tracks 2, 6, 10), background vocals (tracks 1, 3, 5, 9, 10, 11), flute (track 10), piano (track 11), lead vocals (tracks 2, 4, 6, 8, 13), all vocals (track 7), phat drumz guy (track 9), co-lead vocals (track 12), handclaps (track 8)
  • Ed Robertson – acoustic guitar (tracks 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13), electric guitar (tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12), percussion (track 12), background vocals (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 13), lead vocals (tracks 3, 5, 9, 10, 11), co-lead vocals (track 12), dans la maison (track 1), invisible rap (track 6), employee of the month-July 1985 (track 9), handclaps (track 8)
  • Tyler Stewart – percussion (tracks 2, 5, 6, 7, 10, 12, 13), bongos (tracks 6, 8), drums (tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11), background vocals (tracks 2, 9, 10), dans la maison (track 1), snare drums (track 12), handclaps (track 8)
  • Pierre "French Pete" Tremblay – background vocals (track 10)
  • Natasha Hébert – Parlez Français (track 2)
  • Sue Drew – Expert Violin Tuning (track 5)
  • "Party" recorded live at Jimmy C's birthday (track 6)
  • "Hala Hala Hala" sampled by Don Garbutt (track 10)

    • Production

  • Producers – Barenaked Ladies, David Leonard, Susan Rogers
  • Engineers – David Leonard, Susan Rogers
  • Assistant engineers – Charlie Brocco, Femio Hernández, Boo Macleod, Kevin Szymanski
  • Mixing – David Leonard, Tom Lord-Alge
  • Mastering – Stephen Marcussen
  • Design – John Rummen
  • Photography – Jay Blakesberg
  • Artwork – John Rummen

    • Charts

    Album

    Singles

    Songs

    1One Week2:49
    2It's All Been Done3:26
    3Light Up My Room3:36

    References

    Stunt (album) Wikipedia
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