Barenaked Ladies - Canadian Hall of Fame

[AnnaMarie]

Barenaked Ladies to be inducted into Canadian Hall of Fame at 2018 Junos | CBC Music

This year, after plenty of Juno wins, Grammy nominations, 15 million albums sold and a whole lot of history, Barenaked Ladies will be inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame during a one-time special appearance with former member Steven Page at the 2018 Juno Awards.

 

[GNTLGNT]

Barenaked Ladies to be inducted into Canadian Hall of Fame at 2018 Junos | CBC Music

....good for them!....much more success at home than in the States...

 

[AnnaMarie]

....good for them!....much more success at home than in the States...

Do you know how they went from being Indie to being famous?

This is from wiki. I remember that New Year’s Eve. I remember them thanking the Mayor, I think it was an acceptance speech for an award.

Sales of The Yellow Tape were jump-started when the band was taken off the bill for the 1991 New Year's Eve concert in Nathan Phillips Square outside Toronto City Hall because a staffer for then-mayor June Rowlands saw the band's name and felt it objectified women;[12] the decision was further affirmed by city councillor Chris Korwin-Kuczynski.[13]The band shrugged it off and booked another show at McMaster University.[4] However, the media got wind of the story and decided to write about it as an example of political correctness gone too far. The first article earned the paper a large quantity of mail against City Hall's decision. The story became more and more prominent until about a week after New Years, when the band was asked to take a photo in front of City Hall for the front page of the Toronto Star. The stories targeted Rowlands even though she had not been directly involved in the decision to remove the band from the concert, but in fact had been out of town at the time. The following week, sales of the Yellow Tape exploded — by February 1992, it was outselling even Michael Jackson's Dangerous, Genesis' We Can't Dance and U2's Achtung Baby in some downtown Toronto record stores.[14] They received enough publicity from the incident that MuchMusic offered them its second-ever Intimate and Interactive special on January 17.[15] The tape eventually became the first ever indie release to achieve platinum status (100,000 copies) in Canada.[3]

By the end of February, Toronto City Council revised its rules for event bookings at Nathan Phillips Square in the hopes of avoiding another similar controversy.[13] The City Hall story has followed the band ever since; Robertson credits the scale of the story to it being a slow news week.[3][5][7]

 

[GNTLGNT]

Do you know how they went from being Indie to being famous?

This is from wiki. I remember that New Year’s Eve. I remember them thanking the Mayor, I think it was an acceptance speech for an award.

....HA!....being an old radio rat, I enjoy that kind of trivia....

 

[Grandpa]

I listen to them almost every week I'm home.

I mean, it's always the same song, but still.

 

[Tery]

We discovered them on an anniversary trip to Victoria back in the mid-1990s. We were back at our hotel room and turned on the TV, ending up on a music channel. Watched the BNL and loved them. Congrats to them!