Our Lady Peace, anyone?

EvolutionBound · January 2007

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 · January 2007

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

BUFFALO · January 2007

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 · January 2007

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 · January 2007

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 · January 2007

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

mikesbri · January 2007

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

porchdweller · January 2007

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 · January 2007

Fvck Bob Rock!

direwolf74 · January 2007

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 · January 2007

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 · January 2007

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 · January 2007

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 · January 2007

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

Anon · January 2007

I actually like the last OLP cd a lot.

deadmosquito · January 2007

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 · January 2007

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 · January 2007

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 · January 2007

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 · January 2007

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 · January 2007

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.

Our Lady Peace, anyone?

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