Behind The Vinyl: "If I Had $1000000" with Steven Page former frontman of Barenaked Ladies
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- čas přidán 22. 05. 2017
- Steven Page, former frontman of Barenaked Ladies, dropped by the boom 97.3 studios again to play the original version of "If I Had A $1000000" on vinyl! Steven talks about how many versions they recorded this song with all the different improv moments in the song, how it became a huge hit that everyone seems to know, how many Canadian musicians are in this song and more! Watch as Steven goes Behind The Vinyl!
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This song brings back a great memory of going white water rafting in BC back in the mid- late 90's. We were all on a bus heading to the rafts from the Cultus Lake waterpark and the entire bus except for me and my buddy were Canadians. They were playing music on the bus on the way to our destination and this song came on...everybody on the bus sang along..Good times!
So many years after first hearing this song, 'Dijon ketchup' is a phrase still regularly used in my family (for a particularly yummy mustard-flavoured mayonaise we sometimes bring back from holidays in France).
If I had a million dollars, I'd have 45 percent of a East Vancouver house.
Couldn't click on this fast enough! I really wish they'd tour together one last time for the fans. They would earn millions and Steve could ride off into the sunset.
We use to sing this on the school bus on the way home after school in elementary.
My favourite improvs of this song are at the end of Crazy on Gordon. Ed's just throwing random dumb shit at Steve and Steve just doesn't know how to react. So good. That entire end part of Crazy is golden.
Love this song...
It would be wonderful if they got back together for another tour.
The bit about it not being possible to create a campfire song is bang on. Not many songs reach that status.
Also, Kraft Dinner was so much better when cooked outdoors 😊 👌
I had to check the inflation calculator, and apparently $1,000,000 in 1992 is worth $1,801,797.46 today (July 2023), so yeah I guess he's still right at the end there, you'd be relatively rich but probably couldn't buy all the stuff mentioned in the song lol. Anyway the song is a timeless classic
"If I had a million dollars...I'd be rich." (This is a great karaoke song too as long as you've got 2 good male singers to sing it LOL)
some artists refuse to respect and acknowledge the best things they do. perfect example-bang on the drum all day and this song
that album is excellent everyone, just so many holwers. if u see a guy howlin in a white pick up truck in the gta fer the last 5 years, be me and this album and recently greta cvan fleett. thank you steven!
Still a great song
These days if I had a million dollars... I'd have a down payment on a mortgage. You can't even buy a house anymore.
A cool campfire song...
Ed should be there with him
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Strange you'd hold an opinion like that seeing how you can't listen to a single BNL song.
Sorry to disagree with the artist but it _was_ a single and it was a hit. I heard it all the time on Canadian radio and I also heard it in a outlet store in Daytona Beach Florida, the local radio station blaring through the store speakers.
According to Wikipedia: The song reached number 13 in Canada and eventually charted in the United Kingdom and the United States, peaking at number 13 on the UK Rock Chart in 1996 and number 37 on the US Billboard Adult Top 40 in 2000.
If I had a million dollars, I would reunite BNL
Damn, me too
I find it sad that there's a parallel Behind The Vinyl video of this song with two of the other band members. Too bad they all couldn't be together to talk about it but we all know the story there. I'd have preferred just one video for this song. Too much "elephant in the room" syndrome when I watch these.
🙄 NO, WE ALL DO’NT. PLEASE TELL US 🥱
The irony is the band members are all millionaires now! Lol!!
I’m sorry but bnl is nowhere near the same without Page... it’s sad that they can’t even come together to tour... for the fans, not themselves, but the fans that put them on the map to begin with.
Oh, they will. Give it time... :)
Agree 100% They at least seemed to enjoy each other's company at their HOF induction.
I would have given that money back if theyd just agreed to
Scrap this track.
I thought it was a comercial when i first heard it.
Its awful, im sorry
You don't even know how to spell your own name.
You must be miserable
If I had a million dollars I'd buy a shit ton of blow.. eh Steven? Eh? *nudge nudge* *wink wink* say no more.
p0llenp0ny Just stop
pOllenpOny ~ don't be a douche. Seriously. It's for your own good.. Nobody likes douche.. Just sayin.
👃❄️…….😉
This was the main problem with lots of stuff from that era. Lyrics were meant to sound absurd, so really they had no lasting meaning. It wasn't funny or poetic or dramatic or anything. It was just filler. Just something to fill the space over the music. The music meant a lot, but the lyrics made the songs fade away so fast. It was all so forgettable. And that sums up a lof of stuff from that era- completely forgettable.
Completely disagree. Just because it, like most hits from the past don't get radio time anymore, (radio stations are biased only to play top 40 unless its classic rock) doesn't mean that the minute someone hears it, they know all the words and can still sing along with a smile and laugh. I just replaced my entire BNL library on CD because I lost everything in a home fire, and I'm happy to remember this band always as making some of the most iconic music of that era.......Steven Page was the lure for me with that iconic voice.
The lyrics weren't absurd. The banter is goofy in-jokes referencing both famous and somewhat more obscure pop culture ephemera. Other than that it's wholesome as pie sentiments and generally common what ifs.
steve you obviously want to be back in bnl, just do it