One of my favorite things about Barenaked Ladies is their harmonies. This is a band with five guys who can sing. Four of the five have sang lead vocal on at least one track at some point in the band's career. The band's drummer, Tyler Stewart, has never sang lead but contributes backing vocals on a number of the songs. Harmony is missing in a lot of today's rock music. Instead of finding five guys who can sing, lead vocalists overdub themselves and then sing to backing tracks in concert. That's not the BNL way. These guys all sing on record and then take the songs on the road and sing the hell out of them there, too.
The 15 songs on the CD and DVD are all from the same show, but this isn't the full show and that's the only real downside to this set. The band sounds great and the crowd is having such a good time that I would have paid more to have it all. What's here is great and well worth your time and money. The fun just ends a little too soon.
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