“Call And Answer” by Barenaked Ladies

"Call and Answer" was the third single Barenaked Ladies lifted from Stunt, their 1998 album, and it's Steven Page's show from top to bottom. He wrote it with his longtime collaborator Stephen Duffy and sings every voice on the record: stacked harmonies, octave doubling, both halves of the call-and-response chorus and a long ad-libbed outro. It seems to be about two people patching up a stormy relationship, and with all those overlapping Pages, the whole argument plays out inside one head.

Ed Robertson plays acoustic and electric guitar, Jim Creeggan double bass and cello, Kevin Hearn piano and synthesizer, and Tyler Stewart drums; the band produced it with David Leonard and Susan Rogers. The radio edit jumped from the second verse straight to the third chorus, and that version also landed on the EdTV soundtrack.

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