Naveed - Our Lady Peace

thunderDAN

facepollution wrote:

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.

facepollution

I just read this from an interview with Raine:

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!

gleemonex

Our Lady Peace was one of my favourite bands when I was growing up in the mid-90s. Naveed, Clumsy, Happiness is Not a Fish You Can Catch and Spiritual Machines were all CDs that I used to love. I saw them once on the Spiritual Machines tour and they were good. Unfortunately, the music they have released since Spiritual Machines does not appeal to me at all and the earlier albums have since been put away. A shame, I know, I might have to crack those out sometime soon.

myhook

facepollution wrote:

I just read this from an interview with Raine:

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!

I can't wait, OLP is one of my favs. I actually loved the last album they put out.

Soupy

Loved the first 3 albums, 'S. Machines' was the start of the downwards spiral, 'Gravity' was pretty dire and from what i've heard of the last one it's more of the same. Shame really songs like 'the birdman', 'hope', 'car crash' and the mighty 'stealing babies' show they could write some interesting tunes and even their standard quiet/load verse/chorus stuff like 'Julia', 'Blister', 'Clumsy' etc was much better than most mainstream acts were doing.

Kindoff simular to the band 'Live' in the fact they used to be great but rapidly started to get worse after 3 records.

LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun

i only like starseed

hodge

naveed is one of the great albums from the 90s

PJ_GA

starseed is my fav song of theirs

MCG

Like many others, I completely gave up on this band after Clumsy. Their 1st record was very cool and they were really never able to recapture it IMO.

harrymanback

Raine finally came to grips with the fact that bob fvcking rock sucks big time ... bring back Mike.

facepollution

MCG wrote:

Like many others, I completely gave up on this band after Clumsy. Their 1st record was very cool and they were really never able to recapture it IMO.

See it's funny you should say that, becasue they arguably got a lot more interesting around their third and fourth albums. Happiness...in particular, is a fucking great album.

myhook

facepollution wrote:

See it's funny you should say that, becasue they arguably got a lot more interesting around their third and fourth albums. Happiness...in particular, is a fucking great album.

I totally agree. I like all the albums. Gravity is a little ehh but Happiness is my favorite with Spiritual Machines a close second.


I have seen them live a few times and they put on a great show.

One Song Glory

Has anyone else heard Raine's solo album that came out this past fall I believe, "The Hunter's Lullaby"? If you haven't, it's a completely different concept than anything the full band has ever done collectively. It's basically a cross between an acoustic/piano folk album and a spoken-word-set-to-music album, very politically charged, very chilling and perceptive lyrics without most of that falsetto thing he has going on in OLP, pure genius in my opinion. I got the chance to see Raine and Chantal Kreviazuk in a tiny little bar in Ottawa in March to support this album and I must say they rocked this down-to-earth little coffeehouse album like nobody else could, with only Raine on acoustic and vocals (obviously), Chantal on piano and backup (again, big shocker) and a drummer and a cellist. They did an amazing version of Neil's Ohio and Chantal played a Pixies song on her own, and they ended it with "Innocent", the only OLP song of the night and possibly the only one I normally can't stand, but something about a stripped-down acoustic version with the small crowd singing most of it unaccompanied was beautiful. They brought out a guy to do slam poetry, Jared Paul who is actually featured on one of the songs on the album, between the opening band and their own set and he was also just brilliant. It was all in all a very beautiful night. If you haven't had the chance to listen to this masterpiece yet, go in expecting something altogether different.