“Another Postcard” by Barenaked Ladies

"Another Postcard", sometimes subtitled "Chimps", was the lead single from Everything to Everyone, the sixth studio album from Canada's Barenaked Ladies, the record that followed a break of nearly two years away from the stage. Steven Page and Ed Robertson wrote it together and split it down the middle: Robertson raps the reggae-flavored verses, Page takes the chorus and the bridge.

The story is a shaggy-dog gag. A narrator keeps finding anonymous postcards with chimpanzees on the front, and the pre-choruses rattle off the kinds of chimps pictured. It began when a neighbour mailed a chimp postcard to one of Page's kids, and what started as a joke song ended up leading off the album campaign, though plenty of the band's own fans never took it for more than a novelty. Ron Aniello produced and Mike Shipley mixed.

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