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Born On A Pirate Ship [ENHANCED CD] | ![Born On A Pirate Ship [ENHANCED CD]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41D772BCPDL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Artist: Barenaked Ladies
Label: Reprise / Wea
Category: Music
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Rating:  50 reviews
Sales Rank: 23086
Format: Enhanced
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 46128
UPC: 093624637127
EAN: 0093624612827
ASIN: B000002N47
Release Date: March 19, 1996
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| Tracks:
| • | Stomach Vs. Heart | | • | Straw Hat and Old Dirty Hank | | • | I Know | | • | This Is Where It Ends | | • | When I Fall | | • | I Live With It Every Day - Barenaked Ladies, Duffy, Stephen | | • | The Old Apartment | | • | Call Me Calmly | | • | Break Your Heart | | • | Spider in My Room - Barenaked Ladies, Creeggan, Jim | | • | Same Thing - Barenaked Ladies, Robertson, Ed | | • | Just a Toy | | • | In the Drink - Barenaked Ladies, Creeggan, Jim | | • | Shoe Box |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
Filled with clever lyrics that range from the blatantly cynical to the mildly romantic, Born on a Pirate Ship offers more of the same musical fun the Barenaked Ladies put forth on their debut CD, Gordon, and its follow-up, Maybe You Should Drive. From the manic ravings of "Straw Hat and Old Dirty Hank," a musical exploration of celebrity-stalking, to the bluesy lament of "Break Your Heart," BNL serve up a musical complexity and rare intelligence that separate them from the pack of mostly acoustic bands who dominate radio playlists. Highlights include "The Old Apartment," and anthem about trying to recapture lost youth and "When I Fall," a haunting song about a professional window washer. While it lacks some of the raw energy of their earlier releases, Born on a Pirate Ship is still a fine offering, and the ECD clips are worth the price of the disc. --L.A. Smith
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| Customer Reviews:
 Their Most Inventive Album November 29, 2008
Daniel C. Brown
For my money, this is one of the best of all of Barenaked Ladies' albums - better than Stunt, Maroon, or Gordon for sure. They try out new sounds in ways they hadn't before, and haven't since. Born on a Pirate Ship has the ideal blend of maturity and immaturity; Stomach vs. Heart is one of their most lyrically clever songs, I Know makes me smile without fail, When I Fall and Old Apartment are very deserving of their classic status, Break Your Heart breaks mine nearly every time I hear it, and Just a Toy is a hidden gem that keeps getting better.
Spider in my Room and In the Drink are interesting departures in style. Spider's use of chanting and wailing were a shock the first time I heard the song, and its rises and falls keep it interesting despite repetitiveness. In the Drink is... disturbing, actually. But both songs are a part of BNL going places they don't usually go. And apparently, they don't feel like going there again.
There are a few songs that I can do without, which might be what prevents me from saying this is my favorite Barenaked Ladies album ever. I don't know what the big fuss is over Shoe Box; I think the idea of the shoebox of lies is rather underdeveloped, and instead that time was taken repeating the chorus over and over again. Call Me Calmly is one that I seem to forget exists. I Live With It Every Day and Same Thing have their moments, but they fail the test of getting better with further listening.
I think they're improving with age, and I think Born on a Pirate Ship was more in the direction they wanted to be going before popularity steered them Maroon-wards (in my opinion, their worst album).
Best Darn Band on this Planet April 11, 2007
Debbo (Minneapolis)
If you haven't heard of BNL purchase any one of their CD's for an experience you will enjoy forever.
If you have heard of BNL, 'nuff said for you have this album.
For those of you who wonder....there is not another musical group on this planet that has brought such a depth and breath to music since the Beatles. Once again, 'nuff said.
Born on a Pirate Ship - BNL August 25, 2006
C. A. Mulderig
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Like the rest of their music - this CD is excellent!
 A bit average September 21, 2005
Bec (Australia)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Barenaked Ladies is a fantastic band, but this is not one of their better albums. Half the album is really good and half of it is not so good; I'd feel embarassed to play it to other people. There are several songs that are kind of 'wacky', which sound like someone has written the lyrics and then tried to fit them to a tune - like they're trying to fit in as many random words as they can and the tune is an inconvenient thing they had to come up with at the last minute.
If you've never heard a BNL album before, don't start with this one - it's probably only for the die-hard fan who has to have everything BNL they can find. Most of the good songs from here are already on their Greatest Hits or Rock Spectacle (live) albums, and the ones on Rock Spectacle are better live.
Still, it's definitely got some merit. On repeated playing, some of the songs you initially think "oh geez" do grow on you. I don't think "I know" or "In the drink" will ever grow on me though...
BNL get a bit off-course August 23, 2005
Greg Brady (Capital City)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It had to happen sooner or later...the genius of GORDON and the solid artistry of MAYBE YOU SHOULD DRIVE give way to this less stellar effort. For the first time, I find myself thinking of tracks by them as "bad" rather than merely middling.
HIGHLIGHTS:
"When I Fall" is the tale of a skyscraper window washer who toys with jumping because of his role's futility. ("I look like a painter, behind all the grease/But painting's creating, and I'm just erasing") "The Old Apartment" is vandalism as nostalgia ("Broke into the old apartment/This is where we used to live") In "Break Your Heart", Page allows his paramour to think everything's fine rather than rock the boat of the relationship. ("Why must I always speak in terms of cowardice?/When I guess I should have just come out and told you right from the start/Why must I always tell you all I want is this?/I guess 'cause I didn't want to break your heart" NOTE:The definitive version of this song is the live one on ROCK SPECTACLE.) "Shoe Box" is a container for mistruths. ("From my first little fib, when I still wore a bib/To my latest attempt at pretending I'm someone who's not 17/Doesn't know what you mean when talk turns to single malts or stilton..")
LOWS:
"Spider in My Room" sounds like a Talking Heads reject. "Just a Toy" makes use of an irritating processed vocal that causes Steven Paige to sound as though he's singing via megaphone. If you think the lyric "I have a secret that just won't keep/All I wanna do is brush your teeth" is fabulous, then you can have Creegan's "In the Drink".
BOTTOM LINE:
If you're new to the band, don't start here. (ROCK SPECTACLE's the best one for newbies, then GORDON.) This one's for "true believers" only...
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