%t Barenaked Ladies
%s Read on and see...
%n 1R11
%a Peter Edward Janes  (pejanes@descartes.uwaterloo.ca)
%d 19920910
%x Radio
%i Page, Steven
%i Robertson, Ed
%i Creeggan, Andy
%i Creeggan, Jim
%i Stewart, Tyler
%e
The Barenaked Ladies are, to put it succinctly, that is, to state the fact
precisely, properly and pithily, or, to put it another way, in as few words
as possible, in order to provide the reader with as much information in as
short a space and small a time as possible, neither.

The 'Ladies are, in order of no particular, Steven Page, Ed Robertson, Andy
Creeggan, Jim Creeggan, and Tyler Stewart.  They are all from Scarborough,
a suburb of Toronto, Ontario, Canada (1).

With songs like "If I Had $1,000,000" (2) and "Be My Yoko Ono" (3), the
'Ladies independent self-named cassette sold 100,000 copies in their home
country.  This gave them the most successful recording in Canadian, and
(unbeknownst to the denizens of the backwater planet on which they reside)
Galactic history, surpassing even the live debut album by Disaster Area (4).

Their most recent (and first commercial) album, Gordon, sold almost 200,000
copies in its first month of release.  Their promotional tour has been met
with great enthusiasm in Canada; however, success in the large country to the
south has been limited.  A concert in a parking lot on the West Coast was
attended by a child holding a balloon, and a hot-dog vendor.

(1) A country named through random choice of letters.  During the 1867
Confederation conferences, leaders of the new nation decided that it needed
a name.  Placing a number of Scrabble(tm) tiles in a hat, they pulled out one
at a time and read them off... "C, eh?  N, eh?  D, eh?"  And so a country was
born.

(2) Something every hitchhiker wishes she/he/it had...

(3) Complete with "Yoko Ono" solo!

(4) Sales of this album were limited, since those attending the concert (and,
indeed, up to 2.5 parsecs away) did not survive the ear-shattering volume of
the band's opening number.