Stunt (album)

Stunt
Studio album by Barenaked Ladies
Released	July 7, 1998
Recorded	February–March 1998
Genre	Alternative rock
Length	51:21
Label	Reprise
Producer	Barenaked Ladies, David Leonard, Susan Rogers
Barenaked Ladies chronology
Rock Spectacle (1996) Stunt (1998) Maroon (2000)
Singles from Stunt
"One Week" Released: September 22, 1998 "It's All Been Done" Released: February 23, 1999 "Call and Answer" Released: July 13, 1999 "Alcohol" Released: 1999 "Told You So" Released: 1999 (cassette)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Los Angeles Times	[2]
Rolling Stone	[3]
Sputnikmusic	[4]

Stunt is the fourth full-length studio album by Barenaked Ladies. Their most successful album, it entered the US charts at No. 3 and sold over 4 million units by the end of its chart run. Its first single, "One Week" became the band's breakthrough single in the US market by hitting No. 1 (selling over 5 million copies). The song also reached No. 5 in the UK, and helped revitalize their career in the band's home country of Canada, where their fame had diminished since the days of their debut album Gordon. In addition, follow-up singles "It's All Been Done", "Alcohol" and "Call and Answer" were each successful to some degree.

Stunt is the first studio album to feature keyboardist/guitarist Kevin Hearn, who originally joined the band for the Born on a Pirate Ship tour in 1995. Shortly after the release of the album, Hearn was diagnosed with leukemia. He spent the Stunt tour receiving chemotherapy and was replaced by Chris Brown and Greg Kurstin in the interim.

Tracks recorded for Stunt that did not appear on the album were "Long Way Back Home" and "She's On Time." These tracks appear as hidden tracks on the "limited edition" version of the album. "Long Way Back Home" was used during the closing credits for the band's Stunt tour documentary Barenaked in America.

There was also a special edition of the album which contained the standard 13 tracks plus a second disc including two versions of "Brian Wilson" (the album version and the "2000" version), and live versions of "The Old Apartment", "Jane", "When I Fall", "If I Had $1000000" and "Straw Hat and Old Dirty Hank".^[5]

As with each of their earlier albums, the band recorded one song, "Alcohol", completely naked.

The album was released on vinyl June 2, 2015. ^[6]

Track listing

All tracks written by Steven Page and Ed Robertson, except where noted. 

† – bonus tracks on limited edition.

Personnel

• Colin Alexander – scratching (track 9)
• Jim Creeggan – electric bass (tracks 2,6,11), violin (track 5), electric double bass (tracks 1,13), cello (tracks 7,11), background vocals (tracks 2,5,6,8,9,10,11,12,13), double bass (tracks 3,4,5,7,8,9,10,12), arco bass (track 11), handclaps (track 8), acoustic double bass (track 13)
• Kevin Hearn – organ (track 8), synthesizer (tracks 6,7,11), banjo (track 4), piano (tracks 6,7,12), accordion (track 4), electric guitar (tracks 1,5,8,11), keyboards (tracks 1,2,3,4,5,9,12,13), electric piano (track 3), background vocals (tracks 2,3,4,8,9,10,12), clavinet (track 10), melodica (track 8), sampling (track 13), wah wah guitar (track 5), handclaps (track 8)
• Steven Page – acoustic guitar (tracks 2,3,4,13), electric guitar (tracks 2,6,10), background vocals (tracks 1,3,5,9,10,11), flute (track 10), piano (track 11), lead vocals (tracks 2,4,6,8,13), all vocals (track 7), phat drumz guy (track 9), co-lead vocals (track 12), handclaps (track 8)
• Ed Robertson – acoustic guitar (tracks 1,2,3,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13), electric guitar (tracks 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12), percussion (track 12), background vocals (tracks 1,2,4,6,8,13), lead vocals (tracks 3,5,9,10,11), co-lead vocals (track 12), dans la maison (track 1), invisible rap (track 6), employee of the month-July 1985 (track 9), handclaps (track 8)
• Tyler Stewart – percussion (tracks 2,5,6,7,10,12,13), bongos (tracks 6,8), drums (tracks 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11), background vocals (tracks 2,9,10), dans la maison (track 1), snare drums (track 12), handclaps (track 8)
• Pierre "French Pete" Tremblay – background vocals (track 10)
• Natasha Hébert- Parlez Français (track 2)
• Sue Drew- Expert Violin Tuning (track 5)
• "Party" recorded live at Jimmy C's birthday (track 6)
• "Hala Hala Hala" sampled by Don Garbutt (track 10)

Production

• Producers: Barenaked Ladies, David Leonard, Susan Rogers
• Engineers: David Leonard, Susan Rogers
• Assistant engineers: Charlie Brocco, Femio Hernández, Boo Macleod, Kevin Szymanski
• Mixing: David Leonard, Tom Lord-Alge
• Mastering: Stephen Marcussen
• Design: John Rummen
• Photography: Jay Blakesberg
• Artwork: John Rummen

Charts

Album

Singles

References