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Hits from Yesterday & the Day Before is a greatest hits compilation album by Barenaked Ladies, which includes most of the band's US singles released from 1997 to 2010. The album was originally planned to be released on September 13, 2011, then September 20, 2011, but it was finally released on September 27, 2011.[2] The fourteen-track standard edition[1] does not include any new material, although it is the first time the "The Big Bang Theory Theme" will be included on an album.[1] This is the second greatest hits compilation from Barenaked Ladies, after 2001's Disc One: All Their Greatest Hits (1991–2001).

The album was released by Rhino Records, a subsidiary of Warner Music Group which is also the parent company of Reprise Records. Reprise was Barenaked Ladies' record label from their first album, Gordon in 1992, through Everything to Everyone in 2003. Eleven of the fourteen tracks on the album are thus from the Warner Music catalogue, as may be the theme for the Warner Brothers-produced The Big Bang Theory.

Album contents

The album compiles singles which were released in the US between 1997 and 2010; although "If I Had $1000000" was initially released on Gordon in 1992, the song was not a successful US single until 1997. One non-album single is included, the "The Big Bang Theory Theme". The album contains nine songs previously included on Disc One (though it is unknown whether they will include the same versions of each song), four songs from three of the band's albums released in the ten years since that release (Everything to Everyone, Barenaked Ladies Are Me, and All in Good Time), and the non-album "Big Bang Theory Theme". No tracks from holiday-themed Barenaked for the Holidays or the children's album Snacktime! are included.

Steven Page is the lead vocalist on five of the fourteen tracks included on the standard album, and co-lead with Ed Robertson on three others. Since Page's 2009 departure from the band, they have continued to perform all of the songs on the album (with another member performing Page's vocals) except for "Call and Answer".

Track listing

  1. "If I Had $1000000"
  2. "The Old Apartment"
  3. "Brian Wilson (Live)"
  4. "One Week"
  5. "It's All Been Done"
  6. "Call and Answer"
  7. "Pinch Me"
  8. "Too Little Too Late"
  9. "Falling for the First Time"
  10. "Another Postcard"
  11. "Testing 1,2,3"
  12. "Easy"
  13. "The Big Bang Theory Theme"
  14. "You Run Away"

Deluxe Editions

A limited fan edition of the album has been made available through the Canadian Rhino Records website. This version includes the CD, a lithograph signed by the band, a digital version of the album, and a demo version of "Great Provider" recorded in 1988. The website claims that only 250 copies of this edition were made.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b c Amazon.com listing for the album
  2. ^ http://www.amazon.com/Hits-Yesterday-Today-Barenaked-Ladies/dp/B005CDSIWW/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1311077891&sr=1-1
  3. ^ http://bnl.rhinorecords.ca/shop/products/Merchandise+Catalog/PID-081227975739FAN.aspx
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