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Stop Us If You've Heard This One Before is a compilation album by Barenaked Ladies which includes rare recordings dating between 1992 and 2003. The album was originally planned as a companion to Hits from Yesterday & the Day Before; however, the release was pushed back to 8 May 2012, making it a standalone release. The 12-track album [2] contains ten never-before-released tracks, as well as two previously released rarities.[1] The album was released by Rhino Records[1]

Stop Us If You've Heard This One Before
Compilation album by Barenaked Ladies
Released	8 May 2012[1][2]
Recorded	1992–2003
Genre	Alternative rock
Length	43:06[3]
Label	Rhino Records[1][2]
Barenaked Ladies chronology
Hits from Yesterday & the Day Before (2011) Stop Us If You've Heard This One Before (2012) Grinning Streak (2013)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[4]

Album contents

Stop Us If You've Heard This One Before contains 12 songs spanning 1992 to 2003.[1] It contains four final studio recordings (B-sides not included on albums), three live recordings, three demos, an "outtake" and a remix.[1]

Two tracks ("One Week" (Pull's Break Remix) and "Yes! Yes!! Yes!!!") were previously released as B-sides on singles.[1] "I Don't Get It Anymore" is the only final studio recording included for which the song was not later re-recorded and released on an album. "Second Best" appears on Everything To Everyone, and "Adrift", "Half A Heart" and "I Can, I Will, I Do" were subsequently re-recorded for Barenaked Ladies Are Me/Men.[1]

Much of the material on Stop Us If You've Heard This One Before dates to the band's Reprise period. Four tracks come from 2003's Everything to Everyone , two more come from the sessions for 2001's Disc One: All Their Greatest Hits (1991-2001),[1] and one track comes from the sessions of 2000's "Maroon". The remaining tracks include three live recordings from 1992 to 1994, a demo of The Old Apartment and "One Week" (Pull's Break Remix).

Early live recordings include "Same Thing" (1992), "Teenage Wasteland" (1993), and "Shake Your Rump" (1994), a cover of a Beastie Boys song.

Track listing

• Tracks 2, 7 – previously released, alternate versions of Tracks 3, 10, 11, and 12 are previously released
• Track 2 – originally released as a B-side on the UK single of "Celebrity".
• Track 7 – originally released on 12" vinyl, along with three other mixes of the song.
• Tracks 1, 11 – recorded during Disc One: All Their Greatest Hits (1991–2001) sessions in 2001.
• Tracks 2, 9, 10, 12 – recorded during the Everything to Everyone sessions from 2002–2003.
• Track 3 – recorded during Maroon sessions in 2000.

Personnel

Barenaked Ladies

• Steven Page – vocals, guitar
• Ed Robertson – vocals, guitar
• Jim Creeggan – bass, vocals
• Tyler Stewart – drums, percussion, vocals
• Kevin Hearn – keyboards, piano, vocals
• Andy Creeggan – keyboards, piano, vocals (Tracks 5, 6 and 8)

Production

• Art Direction: Chris Billheimer
• Band Management: Jordan Feldstein, Rich Egan (CAM8)
• Mastering/Mixing: Brad Blackwood
• Project Assistance: Mike Engstrom, Linzi Schall, Erin Solis, Manson Williams, Steve Woolard

References

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