Naveed - Our Lady Peace

facepollution

Anyone else LOVE this song? To me it's one of those absolutely perfect songs. Such an underrated band.

depopulationINC

facepollution wrote:

Anyone else LOVE this song? To me it's one of those absolutely perfect songs. Such an underrated band.

I love OLP....really hate this song. Its okay....but not in their top 20, and it was WAY killed

Jammin909

Happiness and the Fish is my favorite song off of one of my top 5 favorite albums. Naveed is OK IMO. I have seen OLP twice and love them. They are underrated to some degree but the last CD doesnt exactly help their cause.

chris01

I agree, their last cd sucked big time.

But Naveed, Clumsy, Happiness.... some of my fav albums.

facepollution

depopulationINC wrote:

I love OLP....really hate this song. Its okay....but not in their top 20, and it was WAY killed

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.

depplover

yep, its awesome!! OLP rock! i've liked them since they started!

Igottago

That is a great song..but the band has sucked hard ever since. They continue to get more and more watered down and shitty. Never really like anything beyond that first album.

NakedClown

Their last album did NOT suck... it's a grower...trust me....

Naveed is a pretty sweet track...

harrymanback

fuck bob rock

jambayleaf

Igottago wrote:

That is a great song..but the band has sucked hard ever since. They continue to get more and more watered down and shitty. Never really like anything beyond that first album.

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.

nightfly107

Their mistake working with Bob Rock with the exception of Motley Crue and the Black Album what Good has come working with him?

karma defect

I only have that Beatles cover.

red mos

I saw these guys at Buzzfest 98 and they played right before Foo fighters. Our lady peace though they only had 2 albums at the time, are an amazing live band, however, I am sorry to say, that I am not a fan of their live album. Rane's voice just sounds awful. I hope that was just an off night, and that he does not sound like that permanantley. Bands can lose their edge, I saw third eye blind twice, the first time- great. the second time awful. I like the song starseed from the olp debut, but I have not really given the rest of the album a listen or heard much of that one since the buzzfest show.

long road walker

naveeds a great song & OLP ia an awesome band, i only like a handful of songs of their latest album tho , (i forgot the name of it) I didnt like Gravity at first tho, but now i love it, love all their albums, hopfeully Healthy in Paranoid times wil grow on me (i remebered the name)

facepollution

Bump.

Loving this song at the moment, the last minute or so is just incredible.

thunderDAN

Jammin909 wrote:

They are underrated to some degree but the last CD doesnt exactly help their cause.

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)

thunderDAN

also, Jeremy Taggert is an awesome drummer. His drumming style is unique and downright awesome at times. When they started with Bob Rock, he said something along the lines of "Jeremey needed to tone it down a bit. His drumming style is too much for the radio"

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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.

alpitt

I like the first 4 OLP albums, especially happiness and clumsy, but have given up on them after the last two. Damn shame when artists start going downhill and no one is around to stop them.

facepollution

thunderDAN wrote:

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)

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.

thunderDAN

facepollution wrote:

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.

facepollution

thunderDAN wrote:

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?