Maroon by Barenaked Ladies

Maroon, Barenaked Ladies' fifth full-length studio album, came out on Reprise on September 12, 2000, as the follow-up to Stunt, their biggest success in the States. Don Was produced, and this time the songs came almost entirely from Steven Page and Ed Robertson; "Baby Seat", written by Page with Stephen Duffy, was the last of their collaborations the band would release. The playing is polished, with Kevin Hearn, Jim Creeggan and Tyler Stewart filling out the sound, and the jokes sit on top of a melancholy streak.

"Pinch Me" is the perfect example, sunny and shuffling on the surface with a wistful undertow, and "Too Little Too Late" and "Falling for the First Time" followed it out. True to form, they recorded "Humour of the Situation" naked, and "Hidden Sun", written while Hearn was in hospital, turns up as a hidden track on most copies. It debuted at No. 1 in Canada and No. 5 on the Billboard 200, and American sales have since passed 1 million.

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