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Naveed - Our Lady Peace

Anyone else LOVE this song? To me it's one of those absolutely perfect songs. Such an underrated band.
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I love OLP....really hate this song. Its okay....but not in their top 20, and it was WAY killed
And I won't make the same mistakes
(Because I know)
Because I know how much time that wastes
(And function)
Function is the key
But Naveed, Clumsy, Happiness.... some of my fav albums.
Hmm, guess it just strikes a chord with me, to me it's pretty atmospheric and has a great chorus. What do you mean it was "WAY killed"? By radio? - See that I could understand since British radio overplays any decent songs, never heard OLP on British radio though.
Naveed is a pretty sweet track...
I couldn't agree more. First cd was awesome, second was annoying, and the progression started. saw them when they opened for Van Halen in Minneapolis in like 95 and they were good live. Starseed was about "smoking alot of weed" as the singer put it.
You're batman!- George
Yeah...yeah...I AM batman!!- Kramer
You’re on the outside, never bound by such a spell.
Together in the darkness, alone in the light.
I took it upon me to be yours, Timmy,
I’ll lead your angels and demons at play tonight......»
EV Solo: 7/11/11 11/12/12 11/13/12
Loving this song at the moment, the last minute or so is just incredible.
Yea man I hear you on that. I was a huge OLP fan after Spiritual Machines. I started liking them around 98, and by the time that album came out I was a huge fan. I saw them like 3 times...everything was great. That until they released Gravity-which wasn't terrible, but it was hardly a step up from Spiritual Machines. Then they released the last album which was the biggest kick in the nuts in my music lifetime. I really really liked this band because I loved the way they were going after Clumsy. They were a band that had influences of Pearl Jam and Radiohead (my two favorite bands) and turned into a band that wanted to be more like Nickelback. The tour with 3 Doors Down sealed their fate for me. I refused to see them open for 3DD, and that was it. Raine still is my favorite voice in rock, and his live show is awesome. But until they fire Bob Rock, and get Mike Turner back..I will not listen to any more new shit they put out (because it is really shit)
who the fuck does that? Who takes one of the bands biggest strengths and tells him to turn it down so you can be played on the radio. F-that, that is what I'm talking about when I say they want to be Nickelback.
To be fair though, the last album sounded more like Coldplay or latter-day U2, it sounded nothing like Nickelback. I think in general the last album was full of well written songs, it just didn't sound like OLP at all. I hope they come back with a more edgy sound.
I mean 'Nickelback' as writing and recording music especially to be played on the radio and sell records. Bob Rock's success is measured by how many albums are sold, not if they make good music. Arnold Lanni was different. He let them be artists. Spiritual Machines was the climax of OLP, then they took a career nosedive because they purposely tried to be something they weren't and fail at it.
I mean I was a HUGE OLP fan. My friend was a local DJ at 92.3 here in Cleveland and was actually friends with all of them from back in the days of Naveed when they first toured Cleveland. He is a giant OLP fan, but it was cool b/c they dedicated Naveed to him at their Cleveland show in 2005, they send him Christmas cards, and I even got to meet Jeremy, Duncan and Raine at a bar one night when he called me to come meet him. I mean they quickly turned into one of my favorite bands, but the last album just didn't click with me at all. They took everything I liked about them(Raine's distinctive voice, cool drums and a style that can't be categorized) and just threw it all out the window to make a bland record that bland people would find interesting enough to buy. I still hold out hope that after crap sales of their last album and a long layoff, they will come back and go back to what they were.
Ah ok, I see what you mean. I think lyrically the album was fairly decent, he clearly had things he wanted to say, so in that sense I wouldn't say it was as bad as Nickelback. But yeah I totally agree that the music sounded far more generic; which is especially apparent when you listen to Happiness and Spiritual Machines. I have no doubt that the crappy sales will have effected their approach this time round. Is there any word on who is producing the new one?
I hear they have stuff written, but there are no concrete plans as to when they will even enter the studio to produce an album. Two of them have kids that they are trying to raise, Duncan lives in Toronto, Steve lives in Michigan, Raine lives in Ontario and LA, and Jeremy lives with someone from the LA Kings in LA, so they are all over North America and have stuff written, but who knows if anything will come of it.
RM: Um... yeah. The interesting thing is, this record has really helped me formulate a plan for OLP. And now that this thing is done, we've started making an Our Lady Peace record - just slowly, but really in keeping with the way that this record was made. I'm engineering and producing, and we're doing it at my studio where I made this record, where I make all my music now. We're taking the same energy, and that kind of idealistic attitude again about music. It's a really good place to be in, I think. And I think the fact that this record happened is a great stepping stone for OLP. Even though these things are very separate - and I think that's a great thing - the mentality and the emotion and energy that went into my solo record has already proven it's working on OLP's stuff. Because it sounds much closer to Naveed, and it's just the four of us in the studio. There's no producer, there's no big name, we're not spending $1 million on a record - expectations are so much lower. And when we do that, the music is able to explode. It's so much better. So yeah, it's been pretty enlightening that way, and I'm glad it's transferred onto OLP's stuff.
Sounds quite promising!
Kindoff simular to the band 'Live' in the fact they used to be great but rapidly started to get worse after 3 records.
the bad idea or me befallen by it?