Shoe Box

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1995 single by Barenaked Ladies

"Shoe Box"

Single by Barenaked Ladies
from the album  Born on a Pirate Ship and Friends Original TV Soundtrack
Released| 1995
Recorded| 1995
Genre| Alternative rock
Length| 3:10
Label| Reprise
Producer(s)| Barenaked Ladies,
Michael Phillip Wojewoda
Barenaked Ladies singles chronology
| "Alternative Girlfriend"
(1994)  | "Shoe Box"
(1995)  | "If I Had $1000000"
(1996)

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Music video
"Shoe Box" on YouTube

"Shoe Box" is a song by Canadian band Barenaked Ladies, released as a single from their 1996 album, Born on a Pirate Ship. It is notable for being featured on the first soundtrack to the television series Friends, as well as the last track on the band's 1996 Born on a Pirate Ship album (added at the last minute). The song was also recorded and mixed for the band's live album, Rock Spectacle, but was ultimately left off, and later included on the single release of "One Week" in 1998.

## Music video

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The video for the song was originally to feature Matt LeBlanc and Lisa Kudrow, from the sitcom Friends, but each pulled out nearly last minute, and had to be replaced with unknown actors. According to the commentary track on the film Barelaked Nadies, the male actor was Chris Hardwick, who later became famous for his work with Nerdist Industries. The video features a young girl who sneaks out of her bedroom to meet with an older man and go out with him for the night, only to be found by her mother and the police. At the end, the girl wakes up screaming, indicating that the scenario was only a dream. The performance portion of the video shows the Barenaked Ladies on a set with oversized props giving the appearance that they are within a shoe box kept under the girl's bed. The video is the first to feature new band member Kevin Hearn, who was not involved in the song's recording, but plays marimbas in the video nonetheless. The band later described the making of the video as a "fiasco".

## EP

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The Shoe Box EP is a four-track EP which also contains an "enhanced" portion. The disc contains both the original Born on a Pirate Ship album version of "Shoe Box", as well as the radio remix, which includes an 8-bar instrumental introduction. The EP also includes the B-side "Trust Me", which also later appeared on the "If I Had $1000000" single; the version on the EP includes a count-in at the beginning that is edited from the later single version. The final track is a version of "If I Had $1000000" from the 1991 EP The Yellow Tape (which previously appeared on the UK Sandwich CD, which contains the first four tracks from The Yellow Tape in CD form).

The enhanced portion features video clips and other multimedia elements playable on a computer. However, the disc was created using the pregap format which has not been supported by Windows or MacOS for some time, rendering the data inaccessible to most users.

## Track listing

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No.| Title| Writer(s)| Lead Vocal(s)| Length

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1.| "Shoe Box" (Radio Remix)| Steven Page, Ed Robertson| Page, Robertson| 3:09
2.| "Trust Me" (Previously Unreleased)| Stephen Duffy, Page| Page| 2:51
3.| "If I Had $1000000" (Yellow Tape Version)| Page, Robertson| Page, Robertson| 3:53
4.| "Shoe Box" (Album Version)| Page, Robertson| Page| 2:56
Total length:| 18:09

## Personnel

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* Steven Page – lead vocals, electric guitar
* Ed Robertson – acoustic guitar, background vocals
* Jim Creeggan – double bass, background vocals
* Tyler Stewart – drums, tambourine

## Charts

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### Weekly charts

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| Chart (1995)  | Peak
position

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Canadian Singles Chart | 10

### Year-end charts

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| Chart (1996)  | Position

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Canada Top Singles (RPM)[1] | 79

## Production

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* Producers: Michael Phillip Wojewoda, Barenaked Ladies on 3
* Engineering: Michael Phillip Wojewoda, Walter Sobczak on 3
* Photography/Design: Neil Prime-Coote
* Publishing: Treat Baker Music, Warner Brothers Music Corp.

## References

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1. ^ "RPM Top 100 Hit Tracks of 1996". RPM. Retrieved November 26, 2017.

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Barenaked Ladies

* Jim Creeggan
* Kevin Hearn
* Ed Robertson
* Tyler Stewart

* Andy Creeggan
* Steven Page

Studio albums|

* Gordon
* Maybe You Should Drive
* Born on a Pirate Ship
* Stunt
* Maroon
* Everything to Everyone
* Barenaked for the Holidays
* As You Like It
* Barenaked Ladies Are Me
* Barenaked Ladies Are Men
* Snacktime!
* All in Good Time
* Grinning Streak
* Silverball
* Ladies and Gentlemen: Barenaked Ladies and The Persuasions
* Fake Nudes
* Detour de Force
* In Flight

Live albums|

* Rock Spectacle
* Talk to the Hand: Live in Michigan
* BNL Rocks Red Rocks

EPs|

* Shoe Box EP
* Everything Acoustic
* Barenaked For Hanukkah
* The Long Weekend EP
* Fake Nudes: Naked

Compilation albums|

* Disc One: All Their Greatest Hits (1991–2001)
* Hits from Yesterday & the Day Before
* Stop Us If You've Heard This One Before

DVDs|

* Barenaked in America
* Barelaked Nadies
* Talk to the Hand: Live in Michigan

Singles|

* "Lovers in a Dangerous Time"
* "Be My Yoko Ono"
* "Enid"
* "If I Had $1000000"
* "Brian Wilson"
* "What a Good Boy"
* "Jane"
* "Alternative Girlfriend"
* "Shoe Box"
* "The Old Apartment"
* "One Week"
* "It's All Been Done"
* "Call and Answer"
* "Get in Line"
* "Pinch Me"
* "Too Little Too Late"
* "Falling for the First Time"
* "Thanks That Was Fun"
* "Another Postcard"
* "Testing 1,2,3"
* "For You"
* "Celebrity"
* "Maybe Katie"
* "Easy"
* "Wind It Up"
* "You Run Away"
* "Every Subway Car"
* "Boomerang"
* "Odds Are"
* "Did I Say That Out Loud?"
* "Say What You Want"
* "Silverball"
* "Duct Tape Heart"
* "Lookin' Up"
* "Bringing It Home"
* "Navigate"
* "Flip"
* "New Disaster"
* "Good Life"
* "Lovin' Life"
* "Too Old"
* "One Night"
* "What Do We Need?"

Concert tours|

* Au Naturale Tour

Side projects|

* The Brothers Creeggan
* Kevin Hearn and Thin Buckle
* The Vanity Project
* Yukon Kornelius

Related articles|

* Discography
* Chris Brown
* Greg Kurstin
* Barenaked on a Stick
* Demo tapes
* Barenaked Ladies
* Public Stunts Private Stories

* Category
* Commons

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* MusicBrainz release group

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