Maybe You Should Drive by Barenaked Ladies

Maybe You Should Drive, Barenaked Ladies' second studio album, came out on Reprise on 16 August 1994, and it's the sound of the Scarborough cut-ups deciding they didn't have to be funny all the time. After Gordon made them a sensation at home, Steven Page and Ed Robertson, the band's two singers and songwriters, spent less time writing together, and the songs came back moodier and more inward-looking, each man working his own corner.

Ben Mink produced, and the rest of the quintet, Jim Creeggan on bass, Andy Creeggan on percussion and keyboards and Tyler Stewart on drums, give it a warm, careful backing. It feels like a band in transition, and it was one: Andy Creeggan would be gone the next year. Canada still sent it to number two and double platinum, and it was the first of their records to show up on the Billboard 200 at all, at 175.

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