Enid (Barenaked Ladies song)
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| "Enid" | ||
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| Single by Barenaked Ladies | ||
| from the album Gordon | ||
| Released | 1992 | |
| Format | CD; cassette | |
| Recorded | 1992 | |
| Genre | Alternative rock | |
| Length | 4:07 | |
| Label | Reprise Records | |
| Producer(s) | Barenaked Ladies, Michael Phillip Wojewoda |
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| Barenaked Ladies singles chronology | ||
| "Lovers in a Dangerous Time" (1991) |
"Enid" (1992) |
"Brian Wilson" (1992) |
"Enid" is a song by the Canadian musical group Barenaked Ladies. It originally appeared on their 1992 debut album, Gordon.
The song's title was inspired by Enid Leger, a waitress at Spanky's pub in Moncton, New Brunswick. The band found it interesting that "Enid" spelled backwards is "dine." However, the song is not actually about her.
The original studio version of the song has been described as one of the most complex recordings of the bands earlier career by Steven Page in the liner notes for Disc One: All Their Greatest Hits 1991-2001. It includes a horn section, pedal steel guitar, a cuica and a pastiche of Depeche Mode as an intro (the voice in which is that of producer Michael Phillip Wojewoda).
The music video was made in 1992 and was the band's second official video. It features the band playing in a room with a red-white-and-blue ball theme, similar to the Gordon cover. It was originally supposed to be a parody of the film Delicatessen. One of the video's gimmicks is that the film keeps cutting without the camera being moved, resulting in the band members disappearing and reappearing and moving around in shots. Also in the room are TV screens, showing the band playing in other locations, such as Kensington Market.
The song was nominated for Single of the Year at the 1993 Juno Awards, although it lost to "Beauty and the Beast" by Celine Dion and Peabo Bryson.
