Our Lady Peace, anyone?

EvolutionBound

Any big OLP fans, here? I know a lot of members of the Canadian jamily is down, but as an american, I'm hard-pressed to find some OLP fans. With songs like "Starseed", "Superman's Dead", and "Clumsy", can you go wrong? I challenge you, Can you???

chris05

Their album " Decade " is awesome. all great songs on there.

BUFFALO

can you go wrong? I challenge you, Can you???[/quote]

someones in the fighting mode lol
i love olp i have seen them many times . they play alot in buffalo .
i got to see them when i was livin in orlando ...the show was played at a bar ...couple hundred peeps if that ...it was really cool ....a buddy of mine was shouting out olp olp olp ...nobody in orlando got it olp is not to big down south ...anyway the lead singer shouts back at my buddy ...:"yeah i freakin here ya olp olp olp got it ". it was pretty funny .

All Those Yesterdays

Happiness is not a fish that you can catch, is one of my favorite albums of all time.

Last two albums sort of lost it for me, but still great band.

facepollution

Awesome band, I hope they don't split up I still haven't seen them live yet. I know Raine was doing some solo stuff, so hopefully they will get back together some time soon and write another classic album.

Zoso

I have never heard any of there stuff before... what are they like?

mikesbri

I was more of a fan of there earlier stuff, kinda lost interest in last couple of albums.

porchdweller

I love OLP, but the last album was terrible. Gravity wasn't as good some but it was pretty listenable and enjoyable. The new one I just couldn't get into and I tried. Hopefully they'll tour soon. I've only seen them once and it was opening for Three Dicks Down. I was thinking, wow don't subject yourself to this. Keep playing the small venues and rock people's face off. Hopefully I'll see them again proper.

harrymanback

Fvck Bob Rock!

direwolf74

harrymanback wrote:

Fvck Bob Rock!

So you're saying the band had nothing to do with those last two records? Last I checked, it was OLP who wrote those songs, not Bob Rock. He may have pushed them in certain directions, or tried out different sounds in the studio, but ultimately it's the band who decides how the songs are going to end up. Especially a veteran band like Our Lady Peace. The only decent albums OLP ever made were Naveed and Clumsy. Their original producer Arnold Lanni co-wrote most of the material on those albums, and I don't think it's a coincidence that once OLP took over the songwriting duties by themselves, their albums got progressively worse. Blaming Bob Rock for the band's slow demise is just silly. The guy set up some mics, twiddled a few knobs, and recorded the songs that THEY wrote. Sometimes it's the band who sucks, and not the producer.

Todd76

It's SAD that there is a thread on the board about some incredible Canadian music (Julie Doiron/Eric's Trip) and that post only has 10 views, 2 replies, and is fading FAST....while a thread about a shitty/boring Canadian band like OLP has almost 100 views and a dozen or so replies

.....there is soooo much great NEW music here in Canada these days, but people are all stuck on bands who have long overstayed their welcome and whose best music (if you can actually call it that) is long behind them.

facepollution

To be fair, their last record was very well written, it just didn't sound much like an OLP record. If anything it sounded like they were trying to cater to the Coldplay type audiences.

direwolf74

Todd76 wrote:

It's SAD that there is a thread on the board about some incredible Canadian music (Julie Doiron/Eric's Trip) and that post only has 10 views, 2 replies, and is fading FAST....while a thread about a shitty/boring Canadian band like OLP has almost 100 views and a dozen or so replies

.....there is soooo much great NEW music here in Canada these days, but people are all stuck on bands who have long overstayed their welcome and whose best music (if you can actually call it that) is long behind them.

As usual, you're right on the money! I couldn't agree more.

bovy_j

I love OLP, had the chance to see them before and they just put on a great show. Gotta love those boys!

Anon

I actually like the last OLP cd a lot.

deadmosquito

i actually thought healthy in paranoid times was better than gravity... i really do miss mike's influence over the songwriting though, and raine is capable of much better vocals than what's been on the last two records. at least their live shows are still the shit.

i agree with the person who said that since lanni stopped being involved they got worse. however, i don't think naveed and clumsy are the best records; i think happiness... and spiritual machines were probably the best two albums they made, and lanni was still around for those. i really do think it was bob rock who pushed the band into the territory of mediocrity they are now in. yeah, they let him do it, so they're to blame as well, but it is his direction and production that furthers it. i remember when they were making gravity, raine had had lyrics written to the songs and when bob rock heard them, made raine rewrite every song so that they were simpler, more direct lyrics (something that OLP was never about). mike turner obviously saw the direction that bob rock was pushing the band in and left... i guess the rest of the group was hoping bob would deliver their "black album." tho i'm pretty sure that's never gonna happen.

i say get lanni back. then beg mike to return.

Green Di$ea$e

I thought they kicked Mike out because his he looked too old and they wanted a hipper image to appeal to the pop punk skateboarding teenage crowd?

bladworth116

direwolf74 wrote:

So you're saying the band had nothing to do with those last two records? Last I checked, it was OLP who wrote those songs, not Bob Rock. He may have pushed them in certain directions, or tried out different sounds in the studio, but ultimately it's the band who decides how the songs are going to end up. Especially a veteran band like Our Lady Peace. The only decent albums OLP ever made were Naveed and Clumsy. Their original producer Arnold Lanni co-wrote most of the material on those albums, and I don't think it's a coincidence that once OLP took over the songwriting duties by themselves, their albums got progressively worse. Blaming Bob Rock for the band's slow demise is just silly. The guy set up some mics, twiddled a few knobs, and recorded the songs that THEY wrote. Sometimes it's the band who sucks, and not the producer.

Jesus! Everyone here knows you're the biggest Tragically Hip fan on the planet but can't anyone on this board even express a negative opinion on the production of an album? Getting riled up because someone dissed the same guy who may have produced the last Hip' album is going too far.

direwolf74

bladworth116 wrote:

Jesus! Everyone here knows you're the biggest Tragically Hip fan on the planet but can't anyone on this board even express a negative opinion on the production of an album? Getting riled up because someone dissed the same guy who may have produced the last Hip' album is going too far.

Riled up?? All I did was state my opinion, which is that OLP's songwriting has gotten progressively worse with each album. I don't think you can totally blame the producer for the band's inability to put out a decent album these days. That's all I was trying to say. You assume that I'm defending Bob Rock just because he produced the latest Hip album, but that's not the case. If you read my original post, I didn't even mention the Hip, and I wasn't thinking about them when I wrote it. I'm simply defending producers in general. In the end it's the songs that define an album, not the production style. If the songs suck, then chances are the album will suck as well, no matter who the producer is.

yellowbedwetter

i love automatic flower GREAT song

saw OLP open up for Third Eye Blind (also opening was Eve 6)

wow i can't beleive i just wrote that haha

and then saw OLP @ woodstock in 99... That show was pretty kickass except it was at like 3 in the afternoon...

Stelly

I love OLP's first two albums (Naveed, Clumsy). Fantastic stuff. After that they were hit and miss. "Happiness is a Fish..." had some good, some not so good. "Secret Machines" was pretty good...I liked that album. After that, they went way downhill though, in my opinion.

angryyoungman

no thanks, pass the sugar please. . .


i think they mistakenly thought the canadian audience hadnt heard of/seen smashing pumpkins. . .the singer wanted to be billy corgan so bad its scary. . .and im not even a huge smashing pumpkin fan

angryyoungman

Todd76 wrote:

It's SAD that there is a thread on the board about some incredible Canadian music (Julie Doiron/Eric's Trip) and that post only has 10 views, 2 replies, and is fading FAST....while a thread about a shitty/boring Canadian band like OLP has almost 100 views and a dozen or so replies

.....there is soooo much great NEW music here in Canada these days, but people are all stuck on bands who have long overstayed their welcome and whose best music (if you can actually call it that) is long behind them.

dude, probably cause noones ever heard of julie doiron or eric's trip, im much more likely to post about a band ive heard of even if im not a fan, such as the case with this thread. . .i couldnt give you a post about those bands you mentioned if i wanted to

facepollution

Todd76 wrote:

It's SAD that there is a thread on the board about some incredible Canadian music (Julie Doiron/Eric's Trip) and that post only has 10 views, 2 replies, and is fading FAST....while a thread about a shitty/boring Canadian band like OLP has almost 100 views and a dozen or so replies

.....there is soooo much great NEW music here in Canada these days, but people are all stuck on bands who have long overstayed their welcome and whose best music (if you can actually call it that) is long behind them.

I think everyone gets that you like left-field Canadian music, really, there's no need to shoe-horn it into every thread. How would you know if their best music is behind them anyway?

Todd76

facepollution wrote:

I think everyone gets that you like left-field Canadian music, really, there's no need to shoe-horn it into every thread. How would you know if their best music is behind them anyway?

shoe-horn it into every thread???? i'm just trying to spread the gospel

You're right......I guess their best music is not yet behind them, as - in my opinion - they have yet to release ANY best/good music. They sucked from day 1 and they just continue to suck.

Todd76

angryyoungman wrote:

dude, probably cause noones ever heard of julie doiron or eric's trip, im much more likely to post about a band ive heard of even if im not a fan, such as the case with this thread. . .i couldnt give you a post about those bands you mentioned if i wanted to

That was kinda my point.....a board member was tryng to draw some attention to an artist/band that will be unknown to most people here.....so rather than wasting your time hanging around an OLP thread, do yourself a favour and go check out something different/new/unknown/amazing

not4u10

All Those Yesterdays wrote:

Happiness is not a fish that you can catch, is one of my favorite albums of all time.

Last two albums sort of lost it for me, but still great band.

Couldn't agree with you more. I thought each album got better ending with Spiritual Machines. Gravity is not very good, but Healthy in Paranoid Times is almost unlistenable. I hope they ditch Bob Rock. Their sound and style was so much better before he came along. He was suppossed to bring a heavier edge to their music.

Hopefully their next album will be good.

not4u10

direwolf74 wrote:

So you're saying the band had nothing to do with those last two records? Last I checked, it was OLP who wrote those songs, not Bob Rock. He may have pushed them in certain directions, or tried out different sounds in the studio, but ultimately it's the band who decides how the songs are going to end up. Especially a veteran band like Our Lady Peace. The only decent albums OLP ever made were Naveed and Clumsy. Their original producer Arnold Lanni co-wrote most of the material on those albums, and I don't think it's a coincidence that once OLP took over the songwriting duties by themselves, their albums got progressively worse. Blaming Bob Rock for the band's slow demise is just silly. The guy set up some mics, twiddled a few knobs, and recorded the songs that THEY wrote. Sometimes it's the band who sucks, and not the producer.

I agree that the band has wrote the music, which has been subpar at best. But, I have to disagree with you on this, Bob Rock pretty much FUBARS everything he touches. I don't think he ever produced anything good, or at least could have been better with someone like Brendan O'Brien at the controls.

tara

Sawyer wrote:

love them.....i gues rainn is doing solo stuff now

did they break up? i'm not an olp fan now, but who wasn't back in the 90's? i remember going down to much music after school one day to see them do an interview, there were only about 20 of us outside, fun times

haffajappa

i'm proud to say i've actually touched raine maida's backside.








hahhaa... was that inappropriate?

facepollution

Todd76 wrote:

shoe-horn it into every thread???? i'm just trying to spread the gospel

I admire your passion, but really it's quite irritating. You'd drag these bands into a thread about pizza toppings if someone started one. What's more, your over-enthusiasm and quickness to put other bands down, makes me even less inclined to check out the bands you are talking about. Have you heard every single song on every album of OLP's?