The band recorded 29 songs during the sessions but the primary physical release of Barenaked Ladies Are Me is a 13-track CD.
The band began 2005 with several songs already written, many of which were performed, recorded, and released on the 2004 summer Au Naturale tour (see below for details).
Additionally, Jim Creeggan managed to complete a two-year-old idea into the song "Peterborough and the Kawarthas".
The band set out after the bed-recording session at Steven Page's farmhouse studio, Fresh Baked Woods, for their perennial Barenaked for the Holidays tour.
In May, they began mixing the album at Mississauga's Metalworks Studios with mixer Bob Clearmountain while still finishing the last overdubs.
The only songs unheard (in entirety) after that tour were "One and Only", "Vanishing" (originally titled "Magician"), "Running Out of Ink", "Maybe Not" and "Serendipity".
"Running out of Ink" was subsequently performed solo by Steve at a fundraising show in Toronto on May 8, 2006 and later at the All New Revue (see below).
In 2010, departed member Steven Page recorded a new arrangement of "Running Out Of Ink" with the Art Of Time Ensemble for their collaborative album A Singer Must Die.
On June 19, iTunes released a three-track single for the song "Easy", which also included "Wind It Up" and the version of "Home" from the All New Revue.
On August 17, iTunes accidentally released the standard edition of the album plus the four associated bonus tracks on some of their music stores.
They plan to release five songs from the album in the form of separate instrument tracks for the purpose of remixing.
"Wind It Up"'s Myspace split lacked some of the song's elements including guitar solo and keyboard tracks.
Fans were able to submit remixes of each song, which the band ultimately selected for inclusion on a special EP, whose proceeds will go to charity.
Though discussed in March 2007 on an interview with University Radio York, no plans for this release were ever announced; with the band's 2009 departure from Nettwerk Management, it is unlikely that it ever will be.
[citation needed] The band was not sure how to release so much material, initially opposing suggestions of a double album citing both cost and a potential overload of too much music.
The CD contained the same 13 songs as the basic Are Me album performed live and acoustic at the Glenn Gould Theatre in Toronto.
A 5.1 surround sound deluxe edition of all 29 songs was released in the US on December 12, 2006, and alongside Are Men in Canada on February 6, 2007.