"Another Postcard"
Single by Barenaked Ladies
from the album Everything to Everyone
Released	2003
Format	CD
Recorded	2003
Genre	Alternative rock
Length	3:25
Label	Reprise Records
Producer(s)	Ron Aniello
Chart positions
Barenaked Ladies singles chronology
"Thanks That Was Fun" (2001)	"Another Postcard" (2003)	"Testing 1,2,3" (2004)

Another Postcard is a song by Canadian alternative rock band Barenaked Ladies. It was the band's first single from the album Everything to Everyone. The video for the song was directed by Phil Harder, who directed many of the band's later videos. The song is notable for its rap verses, somewhat evocative of Canadian rapper Snow. The verses are rapped by Ed Robertson while the chorus and bridge are lead by Steven Page. The two co-wrote the track. A collection of various CD singles In music, a single is a short record, usually featuring one or two tracks as A-side, often accompanied by several B-sides, usually remixes or other songs. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Everything to Everyone is the eighth full-length album by Barenaked Ladies and their seventh studio album. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Compact Disc logo was inspired by that of the previous Compact Cassette. ... A music genre is a category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or basic musical language (van der Merwe 1989, p. ... The terms alternative rock and alternative music[1] were coined in the 1980s to describe punk rock-inspired bands which didnt fit into the mainstream genres of the time. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Reprise Records is an American record label, owned by Warner Music Group, operated through Warner Bros. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... A record chart, also known as a music chart, is a method of ranking music according to popularity during a given period of time. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The terms alternative rock and alternative music[1] were coined in the 1980s to describe punk rock-inspired bands which didnt fit into the mainstream genres of the time. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Everything to Everyone is the eighth full-length album by Barenaked Ladies and their seventh studio album. ... Snow (born Darrin OBrien on October 30, 1968 in North York, Ontario) is an award-winning Canadian reggae musician. ... Ed Robertson (full name Lloyd Edward Elwyn Robertson) is a lead singer and songwriter of Barenaked Ladies. ... Steven Page, 2005 Steven Jay Page, often called Steve (born June 22, 1970), is a Canadian musician. ...

The song is a story told by a protagonist who explains his situation. He has been receiving anonymous postcards with images of chimpanzees on the front. The verses explain the situation, while the pre-choruses list various types of chimpanzees on some of the postcards. A sample of various postcards. ... Type Species Simia troglodytes Blumenbach, 1775 Species Pan troglodytes Pan paniscus Chimpanzee, often shortened to chimp, is the common name for the two extant species in the genus Pan. ...

The song was inspired when a neighbour of Page's sent a postcard depicting a chimpanzee to one of Page's children. This inspired the plot of the song (which is remeniscant of a plot from the film Amélie). It was originally written as a joke song, but became the first single off the album. Amélie (Tautou), her father Raphaël (Rufus), and the travelling garden gnome. ...

A sizable portion of the band's fanbase (and perhaps the public) saw the song for little more than its trivial subject matter, and perceived the selection as an attempt to reproduce the playful, rap-induced success of One Week (and to a lesser extent, Pinch Me). The selection of the song as a single was attributed to the band's record company, Reprise. The song was not particularly successful, and did not attain the success of the two aforementioned songs, each being the first single from one of the band's two preceding albums (Stunt and Maroon respectively). This may have contributed to the albums poorer sales. One Week is a 1998 hit single by Barenaked Ladies. ... Pinch Me is a 2000 single by Barenaked Ladies. ... Stunt is the fifth full-length album and fourth studio album by Barenaked Ladies. ... Maroon (2000) is the sixth full-length album by Barenaked Ladies and their fifth studio album. ...

The song's video was a parody of the disaster movie genre, and was split between two sets of scenes. The first was a disaster movie style film in which the band (under pseudonyms, and in costume) avoided fake rubble in an attack by a giant chimpanzee, shot intentionally cheesy, and interspersed with actual footage from a disaster film. The secondary scenes were performance, filmed in a round room with windows, intended to be inside Toronto's CN Tower, though the set the band plays in is not based on the actual interior. At the end, the CN Tower becomes a rocket and launches into space. The CN Tower, at 553. ...

Track listing

1. Another Postcard
2. Next Time (acoustic)