Barenaked Ladies: They have made Geek Chiq, intellect sexy and allegory cool.
I think these guys are great. As I longtime fan, I've watched them become less introverted, obscure and dark (in their references to less than ideal social situations -- like not being popular at your high school, being the last guy picked for a sports team when they're choosing up sides, being afraid to ask any girl for a date... kind of like they way I was until I was possessed of the spirit of Uncle DAZZ) and seen them let the music, the harmonies, the magic flow.
Their theme song for the Big Bang Theory is clever (especially when you get all of the lyrics -- I've put them into a post before) and appropriately forced, but some of their other, simpler "sing-along" songs are fabulous. Enjoy the collection that follows. Click on the links and tell me what you thinks
Barenaked Ladies has been writing and performing a bizarre blend of cerebrotonic, clever, sardonic witty lyrics (rapidly paced and interlaced with 'puns within puns') with wonderfully melodic and memorable tunes during the past 18 years or so.
Sometimes the songs are so impacted with obscurant, clever , wacky lyrics that you have to listen to them several times in order to catch all of the brilliance and intellectual handiwork that is loaded into every verse.
The two biggest publicly-celebrated songs from this wonderfully musical group of comedians and philosophers are probably "If I Had A Million Dollars" [pass out those lyric sheets, Missy -- all the family wants to sing along], and, more recently, the theme song from The Big Bang Theory, a very funny sitcom which I enjoy when I can't find NCIS, CSI or Person Of Interest on television and I'm not tired enough to just go to bed. In fact, the RadioDAZZ guy (me, Douglas E. Castle, a regular working stiff, but don't tell anyone) has caught some of his greatest musical inspirations in those restless moments.
But I digress. The RadioDAZZ Blog is proud (to a very limited extent) to present Barenaked Ladies singing the theme from The Big Bang Theory (with all of the lyricsa la karaoke for you connoisseurs!):
Give it a click! Memorize all of the words! Amaze your friends! [and please put in a good word for RadioDAZZ] ---
Our whole universe was in a hot dense state, Then nearly fourteen billion years ago expansion started. Wait... The Earth began to cool, The autotrophs began to drool, Neanderthals developed tools, We built a wall (we built the pyramids), Math, science, history, unraveling the mysteries, That all started with the big bang!
"Since the dawn of man" is really not that long, As every galaxy was formed in less time than it takes to sing this song. A fraction of a second and the elements were made. The bipeds stood up straight, The dinosaurs all met their fate, They tried to leap but they were late And they all died (they froze their asses off) The oceans and pangea See ya, wouldn't wanna be ya Set in motion by the same big bang!
It all started with the big BANG!
It's expanding ever outward but one day It will cause the stars to go the other way, Collapsing ever inward, we won't be here, it wont be hurt Our best and brightest figure that it'll make an even bigger bang!
Australopithecus would really have been sick of us Debating out while here they're catching deer (we're catching viruses) Religion or astronomy, Encarta, Deuteronomy It all started with the big bang!
Music and mythology, Einstein and astrology It all started with the big bang! It all started with the big BANG! --------------
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