Song · Barenaked Ladies
“Pinch Me” by Barenaked Ladies
From the album Maroon (2000)
“Pinch Me” by Barenaked Ladies appears on 4 radio countdowns from 4 stations between 2000 and 2001. It was first released in 2000 on the album Maroon. Its best result is #21 on the WEQX Top 102.7 of 2000. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #112 alternative song of 2000.
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"Pinch Me" was the first single off Maroon, Barenaked Ladies' fifth album, a 2000 Reprise release produced by Don Was. Ed Robertson sings lead and wrote it with Steven Page, and the verses lope along on a guitar riff modeled on Sheryl Crow's "Leaving Las Vegas". The beat is homemade: the best two bars of Tyler Stewart's own drumming, looped, with Stewart playing along on top.
The chorus flipped during the writing. The rapped half was meant to sit quietly under a sung melody, but it kept elbowing forward until it took over, so the band salvaged the demoted melody's lyric for the bridge. Jim Creeggan adds violin and viola to his bass, Kevin Hearn works organ and electric piano, and it became the Canadian band's last top-10 hit at home and their final top 40 hit in the US.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 30 | 89X Detroit, MI / Windsor, ON | 89X Top 89 Songs of 2000 | 89 |
| 2000 | 73 | WBER Rochester, NY | WBER Listener Countdown 2000 | 100 |
| 2000 | 21 | 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) | WEQX Top 102.7 of 2000 | 102 |
| 2001 | 48 | WHTG Monmouth-Ocean, NJ | G106.3 Top 106 Songs of 2001 | 106 |
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