Variety Recordings: Barenaked Ladies

Buck Naked
Demo album by Barenaked Ladies
Released	1988-1989
Recorded	1988-1989
Genre	Indie rock, folk rock, lo-fi
Length	various
Label	John King Artist Consultants
Alternative cover
First edition of the Buck Naked tape.

Barenaked Lunch
EP by Barenaked Ladies
Released	1990
Recorded	1990
Genre	Indie rock, folk rock, lo-fi
Length	14:17
Label	Page Publications
Producer	Barenaked Ladies

Barenaked Ladies
EP by Barenaked Ladies
Released	1991
Recorded	1991
Genre	College rock, indie rock
Length	16:59
Label	Page Publications
Producer	Barenaked Ladies
Alternative cover
UK re-release of The Yellow Tape.

Variety Recordings: Barenaked Ladies
EP by Barenaked Ladies
Released	1991
Recorded	August 1991
Genre	College rock, indie rock
Length	25:31
Label	Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Producer	Barenaked Ladies

The Canadian alternative rock band Barenaked Ladies released five demo tapes before being signed to Reprise Records.

Buck Naked is the Barenaked Ladies' first indie demo tape release, and featured only the original duo of Steven Page and Ed Robertson. The first known tape was released in 1988 (though most were released in 1989).

There are four known editions of this tape, each with different track listings. The earliest version, dating from "Fall 1988", features five songs. Its cover is different from later versions: It is green with the faces of Page and Robertson pasted onto photos of Terence Trent D'Arby. This edition of the tape is very rare.

The second, third and fourth editions feature a white cover with a black-and-white photo of Page and Robertson. The second edition has thirteen songs including a five-second outro track called "How's The Level?" The third and fourth editions added one and two additional songs respectively, with a reprise of "Road Runner" removed from the fourth edition. In all, somewhere between 150-600 copies of Buck Naked were made. It was recorded on a four-track recorder. The tapes were given to friends, and sold by the band off the stage.

The different editions feature songs which the band would eventually re-record for later releases. "Be My Yoko Ono" and "If I Had $1000000" would appear on The Yellow Tape and their first album Gordon (both eventually becoming hits). Also recorded for Gordon (as the so-called "naked track") was "The King Of Bedside Manor". "The Great Provider" would be recorded again for the band's second label album, Maybe You Should Drive, and the Bucknaked recording would appear on the "Jane" CD single in 1994. "Night Photographs" would be recorded for The Pink Tape and that recording, with the pitch corrected, would appear on The Ladies Room, Vol. 1 fan club CD single in 1997. "Trouble With Tracy" was performed live, with a live recording appearing as the B-side to the "Brian Wilson" single in 1993. "Road Runner" would be performed live as well, with a live version appearing on The Ladies Room, Vol. 7 fan club CD single in 2003.