History YMMV / BarenakedLadies

* HilariousInHindsight: "Box Set". Hard to believe they were this GenreSavvy on their first album.

** In their native Canada, where "One Week" was not as popular as in the US, their Signature Song is far and away "If I Had $1000000," which is easily their second most famous song in the States.
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* DudeNotFunny: The line "Better chance you're gonna buy it at the mall" in the upbeat and lighthearted song "Odds Are", released less than a year after the Toronto mall shooting in summer 2012.

* ProtectionFromEditors: With a few exceptions, business savviness, tight musicianship and modesty have allowed the band a fruitful career doing whatever they wanted.

* HarsherInHindsight: A great number of songs after Steven Page's departure, most notably "Call and Answer", "Alcohol", "Bank Job" and "War on Drugs".

* ActorAllusion: In "Odds Are", Ed sings "hit by the A-Train / crashed in an airplane / I wouldn't recommend either one". [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Robertson#Plane_crash Ed was in a well-publicized plane crash in 2008]].
* BlackSheepHit: "One Week," originally intended to simply showcase Ed's freestyle rapping skills. They've recently taken to performing a more stripped-down bluegrass version of the song, which sounds much more in-place with the rest of their catalogue.

* CreatorBreakdown: Analyzed in "Brian Wilson," with multiple [[ShoutOut shout outs]] to different major signposts in Wilson's actual Creator Breakdown. Later turned meta when [[TheBeachBoys Brian Wilson]] covered "Brian Wilson."

** On the [[TheBigBangTheory most-watched sitcom currently on TV]]: "Our whole universe was in a hot, dense state..."
* ExecutiveMeddling: Discussed in "Box Set": "Disc Two, it was all brand new, an album's worth of songs/But we had to leave the whole disc blank 'cause some other label bought 'em."
** Fittingly, the two new songs on ''Disc One: All Their Greatest Hits'' were susceptible to this: "It's Only Me (The Wizard of Magicland)" had its original title in parenthesis because the label didn't want to market a single with a NonAppearingTitle, and "Thanks That Was Fun" was originally called "[[PunnyName One Weaker]]" before the label vetoed it.

* OneHitWonder: Discussed in "Box Set".

* ThePeteBest: Andy Creeggan, who left before they got big because he wanted to continue his education and felt uncomfortable in the band.

* HarsherInHindsight: A great number of songs after Steven Page's departure, most notably "Call and Answer", "Alcohol", and "War on Drugs".

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** In their native Canada, where "One Week" was not as popular as in the US, their Signature Song is far and away "If I Had $1000000".

* DudeNotFunny: The line "Better chance you're gonna bite it at the mall" in the upbeat and lighthearted song "Odds Are", released less than a year after the Toronto mall shooting in summer 2012.

* CriticalDissonance: The band [[http://www.metacritic.com/music/maroon/critic-reviews has]] [[http://www.metacritic.com/music/everything-to-everyone/critic-reviews an incredibly]] BrokenBase with regard to critics - one example given in a review was that one critic admitted to a friend who reviewed music for ''Entertainment Weekly'' that he nearly broke up with a girlfriend on the spot when he saw she owned BNL albums.

* NightmareFuel: "The Ninjas" from Snacktime! has the lyrics "The Ninjas are deadly and silent. [[FamilyUnfriendlyViolence They're also unspeakably violent]]. They speak Japanese and do whatever they please, and if you tear off their mask [[SlasherSmile they'll be smilin]]'."

* {{Mondegreen}}: "Tonight Is The Night I Fell Asleep At The Wheel" makes deliberate reference to one of the more famous ones, "Slow-motion Walter, the fire engine guy."

** The same song also has the lyrics "[[ShoutOut Sometimes]] they [[DrMcNinja vacation in Ireland]]."
*** WordOfGod is that the song is about [[{{Fartillery}} something else entirely]]

* CriticalDissonance: The band [[http://www.metacritic.com/music/maroon/critic-reviews is]] [[http://www.metacritic.com/music/everything-to-everyone/critic-reviews often]] LoveItOrHateIt with critics - one example given in a review was that one critic admitted to a friend who reviewed music for ''Entertainment Weekly'' that he nearly broke up with a girlfriend on the spot when he saw she owned BNL albums.