In the year 2000: The Beatles are back and Barenaked Ladies get their due

 

The first Beatles stuff that I listened to when I was a kid was from my brother's copies of the Red & Blue Albums, so I'm not going to get on any kind of high horse about the value of greatest hits records (in fact, due to the Red Album version of Help!, which includes a piece of the movie's score in the opening, being superior to its regular version, I guess I'm occasionally in favour of them). 

That being said: there really wasn't anything new for me here. I enjoyed the listen, to be sure, but I'll take the brilliant Love album over a standard compilation. What's fun and wild, of course, is that a Beatles greatest hits record became a top-seller in 2000.

In the Great White North, the Barenaked Ladies were nabbing a Juno for Album of the Year with Maroon. It's a fine album, but this may have been a "Sorry we gave so many awards to Celine Dion when you probably deserved one for an earlier album" kind of thing. 

So, what have we got? Pinch Me is a great single. Falling For the First Time is really good, too. Non-single stand-outs are Sell, Sell, Sell and the terrific closing track combo of Tonight is the Night I Fell Asleep at the Wheel followed by, praise be, a CD bonus track (I miss them so much) called Hidden Sun. It makes for a tremendous album closer.

What's with Steven Page writing some 75%-ish of the songs on this album, though?