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  • Songburst
    Songburst Posts: 1,195
    Moondemon wrote:
    Just my opinion, but I think The Tea Party did better music than OLP..... and I think they did better gigs... IMO...

    Agreed. That acoustic tour that the Tea Party did in '97 for Alhambra was amazing. I have always dug I Mother Earth more than Our Lady Peace as far as Canadian bands from that era go. IME put out some musically amazing albums and their live show is among the best that I have seen.

    I also agree that Spiritual Machines is OLPs best album. It is very underrated.
    1/12/1879, 4/8/1156, 2/6/1977, who gives a shit, ...
  • McCready00
    McCready00 Posts: 371
    Gallant88 wrote:
    I've seen them with the Stones and they played a hell of an opener, well it was more of a festival.. but yeah. They were great! I'm seeing them again in May and I can't wait, what do you guys think of them? I think they're one of the best bands to come out of Canada in the past 10 year

    worked for that show (: Should work for the same company during this summer too... Got some collectible items from bands.. that was a great day. Roadie lifestyle rocks (:
    -"it's times like these you have to ask yourself, "what would mike mccready do"
  • funkymonk
    funkymonk Posts: 279
    Skitch Patterson wrote:
    a good Our Lady peace show is just as good as a good Pearl Jam show.

    and a great Our Lady Peace show tops any of the times ive seen Pearl Jam.


    having said that, Gravity is a decent collection of songs, but a mediocre album, and Paranoid has some good songs, and some awful... but neither work as albums.

    I wouldn't go quite that far! While I love OLP, they are nowhere near as good as PJ live. Lately, Raine seems to be really off with his vocals. Watching him on Live 8 was almost unbearable. Same thing when they opened for the Stones in Moncton. They just don't seem as tight as they used to be. That being said, that isn't going to stop me from seeing them again in Moncton in May (Floor Row 2).
  • moster78
    moster78 Posts: 1,591
    I've seen them twice live, once in a really small venue, the Bowery Ballroom in NYC and they were pretty damn good. I have all their albums, and I actually like Spiritual Machines, some damn good tunes on that one, like Life, Middle of Yesterday (my fav off that album), Are You Sad?. I liked Gravity, even though it was more pop than I'm used to and although it took a couple of listens I like Healthy in Paranoid Times. Some of those songs sound really good live and in person. And even though the new guitarist looks a bit like Howard Stern (nothing against Stern, I love him too!) he's really good.
  • Skitch Patterson
    Skitch Patterson Posts: 642
    funkymonk wrote:
    I wouldn't go quite that far! While I love OLP, they are nowhere near as good as PJ live. Lately, Raine seems to be really off with his vocals. Watching him on Live 8 was almost unbearable. Same thing when they opened for the Stones in Moncton. They just don't seem as tight as they used to be. That being said, that isn't going to stop me from seeing them again in Moncton in May (Floor Row 2).


    I will go that far... when OLP is on.. they are ON.

    I saw them in toledo and thought they were eh... i saw them 2 months later at the State Theatre in detroit... and that concert was a better show than any of the 9 times i have seen pearl jam.

    and There is no question in my mind that Our Lady Peace typically blows their "big chance" sets.... they were awful on Live 8, and they were REALLY bad when they sang "somewhere out there" on Leno.
  • NakedClown
    NakedClown Posts: 545
    I've seen OLP three times, and the thing is, it's easy to see why Raine can have an off night. I mean christ, look at what that guy does with his voice. That can't be good on the vocal chords... They were "on" two out of the three times I saw them... the third time was just "eh..."

    And when they are on, they are great. I won't say better than PEarl Jam, but they were really, really good.

    One weird thing though - the last time I saw them, they put on a great show, just rocked a headlining gig at one of the Summerfest side stages (2002...2003...2001..somewhere in there)... and they didn't do a single encore. The audience hung around for like 15 minutes until we all finally looked at each other and sad "oh, they're really not coming out again...."

    It was that show that got me hooked on the song Not Enough... dear god is that song amazing... a highlight off Gravity that should not get overlooked.
  • Skitch Patterson
    Skitch Patterson Posts: 642
    NakedClown wrote:

    And when they are on, they are great. I won't say better than PEarl Jam, but they were really, really good.

    overlooked.


    The thing about them is, they really really really seem to feed of the crowd like no other band i have seen.. and the state theatre show, if anyone was there in sept/02, was simply amazing...

    Normally i am not a huge fan of the whole
    "You guys sing this part"
    "thats all you got? lets do it one more time" bullshit...

    but supermans dead that night was "you guys sing that..."... followed by.. "that was fucking amazing, i want to hear it again"....

    and they really seemed to be looking in awe out to the crowd by the end of the night.

    They are very embraced in the detroit area, in no small part due to our proximity to canada....

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