Jane (song)

"Jane"
Single by Barenaked Ladies
from the album Maybe You Should Drive
Released 1994
Format CD, cassette
Recorded 1994
Genre Alternative rock
Length 4:04
Label Reprise
Songwriter(s) Stephen Duffy
Steven Page
Producer(s) Ben Mink
Barenaked Ladies singles chronology
"If I Had $1000000"
(1992)		 "Jane"
(1994)		 "Alternative Girlfriend"
(1995)

"If I Had $1000000"
(1992)		 "Jane"
(1994)		 "Alternative Girlfriend"
(1995)

"Jane" is a song by Barenaked Ladies from their 1994 album Maybe You Should Drive. The single release included the album version of "Jane", a live version of "What a Good Boy", and the Buck Naked version of "Great Provider". The song later appeared on their 2001 compilation Disc One: All Their Greatest Hits. The song was written by Stephen Duffy and Steven Page.

The title character is "Jane St. Clair", and is named after the intersection of Jane Street and St. Clair Avenue in Toronto. Steven Page recalls that co-writer Stephen Duffy saw the intersection on a map and remarked that it sounded like the most beautiful intersection in the world; Page "didn't wanna break his heart to tell him it wasn't." Page was also noted to have said, "the next song I'm gonna write is gonna be called Markham Ellesmere;" the major suburban intersection of Markham Road and Ellesmere Road is close to where Page grew up in the Scarborough section of Toronto.

Page admits that the line "No Juliana next to my Evan" "dates [the song] a bit, [but] it still sounds pretty to me today."[1][2]

Personnel

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1994) Peak
position
Canada Top Singles (RPM)[3] 3

Year-end charts

Chart (1994) Position
Canada Top Singles (RPM)[4] 17

References

  1. ↑ Disc One: All Their Greatest Hits. Liner notes. 2001.
  2. ↑ Robbins, Ira. "Barenaked Ladies". Trouser Press. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
  3. ↑ "Image : RPM Weekly – Library and Archives Canada". Retrieved 27 February 2018.
  4. ↑ "RPM 100 Hit Tracks of 1994". RPM. Retrieved November 23, 2017.


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