Due to the diversity and wealth of content recorded for the album, the release of the material from the "Are Me" sessions became more complicated than for earlier albums. The band recorded 29 songs during the sessions bu the primary physical release of "Barenaked Ladies Are Me" is a 13-track CD. Five months after the release of "Are Me", a second primary physical album, "Barenaked Ladies Are Men", was released, and included the remaining 16 songs from the same sessions. However, the line between these two releases was blurred by a series of additional releases which included songs from both releases in a variety of groupings. Thus, the entire 29-song collection could be considered the band's seventh full-length original-material studio album in its own right, or as both its seventh and eighth, taking "Are Me" and "Are Men" separately.