Editing Born on a Pirate Ship (section)

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{{Infobox album
| name       = Born on a Pirate Ship
| type       = studio
| artist     = [[Barenaked Ladies]]
| cover      = Barenaked Ladies - Born on a Pirate Ship.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = March 19, 1996
| recorded   = April–July 1995
| venue      =
| studio     = The Gas Station, [[Toronto]]<br />Reaction Studios, [[Toronto]]<br />Manta Eastern, [[Toronto]]<br />Right Tracks Studio, [[Saskatoon, Saskatchewan|Saskatoon]]
| genre      = {{Flatlist|*[[Alternative rock]]
*[[pop rock]]}}
| length     = 51:39
| label      = [[Reprise Records|Reprise]]
| producer   = [[Barenaked Ladies]], [[Michael Phillip Wojewoda]]
| prev_title = [[Maybe You Should Drive]]
| prev_year  = 1994
| next_title = [[Rock Spectacle]]
| next_year  = 1996
}}
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = [[Allmusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|2|5}} <ref>{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r232901|pure_url=yes}}|title=''Born on a Pirate Ship''|author=Stewart Mason |publisher=[[Allmusic]] |accessdate=2012-01-17}}</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]''
| rev2score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite book |title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Encyclopedia of Popular Music]] |publisher=[[Omnibus Press]] |edition=5th concise |year=2011 |last=Larkin |first=Colin |author-link=Colin Larkin (writer) |isbn=978-0-85712-595-8}}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
| rev3Score = {{Rating|2|5}}<ref>{{cite book |last=Wolk |first=Douglas |author-link=Douglas Wolk |title=[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide|The New Rolling Stone Album Guide]] |publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]] |location=New York |edition=4th |year=2004 |isbn=0-7432-0169-8 |chapter=Barenaked Ladies |pages=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/44 44-45] }}</ref>
}}

'''''Born on a Pirate Ship''''' is the third full-length studio [[album]] by [[Barenaked Ladies]] (BNL), featuring the songs "Shoe Box", "[[The Old Apartment]]", "When I Fall" and "Break Your Heart". "The Old Apartment" would become BNL's first US hit in 1997.

''Born on a Pirate Ship'' was recorded as a four-piece quartet, following the departure of keyboardist [[Andy Creeggan]].<ref name="impact">{{cite news| title = Barenaked Ladies: Spontaneity And Surprise| first = Jennie| last = Punter| url = http://www.davidrickard.net/bnl.org/html/impact.html| newspaper = Impact| date = June 1996| accessdate = 2010-03-01| url-status = dead| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20040611145010/http://www.davidrickard.net/bnl.org/html/impact.html| archivedate = June 11, 2004| df = mdy-all}}</ref> [[Kevin Hearn]] is not credited on the album, but joined the group for the 1995 tour preceding the album's release in time to be thanked in the liner notes for "injecting new spirit."

[[Steven Page]] and [[Ed Robertson]] returned to writing together, as they did upon the band's formation, but had abandoned following the release of ''[[Gordon (album)|Gordon]]''.<ref name="impact"/>

The album is also an [[enhanced CD]]. The data track contains audio samples from the band's previous two CDs, a short montage of press photos, several of the band's music videos, a short trivia quiz, and a pair of "behind the scenes" videos from the band. Similar content was included and expanded upon on the ''[[Shoe Box]] E.P.''; however, the format of the enhanced CD used in the creation of that CD renders the data track inaccessible on modern operating systems.

Although a moderate hit in Canada reaching No. 12, the album managed No. 111 in the US. ''Born on a Pirate Ship'' was awarded gold status in the U.S. in 2000.

The title and front cover photo refers to a vulgar joke that was popular around the time the band members were children. One kid would instruct another to pull back the corners of their mouth with their fingers (but not stick their tongue out) and say, "I was born on a pirate ship."  The result would sound like them saying, "I was born on a pile o' shit."  Sometimes "with a bunch of apples" would be added at the end, which would come out as "with a bunch of assholes."<ref>{{cite web |title=Music / Barenaked Ladies |url=https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/BarenakedLadies |website=TV Tropes |access-date=20 July 2022}}</ref>