Our Lady Peace

[bd007h]

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I saw OLP for free during the Olympics. Great band to see live. I'm a little bit surprised they didn't become bigger in the USA. Their music is very radio friendly like Nickleback and Daughtry.

Please don't compare Our Lady Peace to Nickelback hahaha.

[savoie2006]

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Ok, but you have to admit, they aren't the same group they once were. I'm not the biggest fan OLP, but it's hard to consider them even a rock band anymore.

[bd007h]

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Ok, but you have to admit, they aren't the same group they once were. I'm not the biggest fan OLP, but it's hard to consider them even a rock band anymore.

Well their new album that just came out isn't anything like Burn Burn or Healthy In Paranoid Times, and in a good way. I'd call it a return to form, but it's not like their first 4 or 5 albums either. Their musical direction has taken a "curve"

[AllJuicedUp]

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Please don't compare Our Lady Peace to Nickelback hahaha.

my first thought was... Blasphemy!!!

Sure they've been more mainstream since Gravity, but they are still NOTHING like Nickelback. For one, just listen to the lyrics of the songs, and secondly, they just sound nothing alike, plain and simple.

And if we're talking the 4 pre-gravity albums, its even more laughable.

I've never heard Nickelback sound like this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw1QOrzZYbI

[VanCitySportsGuy]

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Please don't compare Our Lady Peace to Nickelback hahaha.

Well OLP blows Nickleback out of the water in terms of quality but I'm just saying they both make radio friendly music.

[bd007h]

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HIPT, Gravity, and Burn Burn have a lot of radio friendly material, but their first 4 albums have stuff that'd you'd probably only hear on alternative rock stations, if on the radio at all.

On a side note, it took me for the better part of the last 11 years since Spiritual Machines came out to realize how amazing of a song this is. I used to think it was a sleeper and just ok hahaha.

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Similar thing happened with Under Zenith on Naveed, which I got on CD in the summer of 1997, a few months after I got Clumsy.

[VanCitySportsGuy]

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HIPT, Gravity, and Burn Burn have a lot of radio friendly material, but their first 4 albums have stuff that'd you'd probably only hear on alternative rock stations, if on the radio at all.

On a side note, it took me for the better part of the last 11 years since Spiritual Machines came out to realize how amazing of a song this is. I used to think it was a sleeper and just ok hahaha.

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Similar thing happened with Under Zenith on Naveed, which I got on CD in the summer of 1997, a few months after I got Clumsy.

I can't speak for the US market, but in Canada, OLP was on Top 40 radio right from their first album.

[bd007h]

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Top 40 in the US is a joke. Full of Rhianna, Drake, Nicki Minaj, Katy Perry and all that crap

[AllJuicedUp]

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I can't speak for the US market, but in Canada, OLP was on Top 40 radio right from their first album.

I believe they actually hold the record for most Much Music award wins, which is a primarily Canadian channel. Ironically, most were from the Pre-Gravity albums.

Gotta hand it to those Canucks, they know their music!

[bd007h]

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Gotta hand it to those Canucks, they know their music!

Yep. While on New Years Eve in Canada their tv special had Our Lady Peace performing, while here in the states we were stuck with Drake, Nicki Minaj, Jessie J, Justin Bieber, etc

[bd007h]

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Thanks to Extreme Gamer my OLP collection has gone from 152 to 305! They now surpass The Beatles for most tracks by one artist in my itunes hahaha

[bd007h]

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Ordered the new album off of newburycomics.com, which came with a free autographed booklet:

[bd007h]

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Rabbits has become one of my favorite OLP songs

[MachoMyers]

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OLP is playing on Canada Day in London's Trafalgar Square. I'll be there!

[AllJuicedUp]

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Rabbits has become one of my favorite OLP songs

BY FAR the best track on the album! It was my favorite on my first listen because it was so unique, and its only gotten better with each subsequent hearing, which is rare. Usually my favorite song initially ends up falling down the list as I give the album more time, but not this one.

It is the "stealing babies" song of the album. Not in that they sound the same, but in their composition and originality. And there is a depth to it musically that reminds me so much of Happiness and Spiritual Machines its uncanny. That's all I can think of when I hear it. Not to mention I absolutely love last couple minutes, the guitar and accompanying music culminates perfectly.

So yeah, Rabbits is 100% the sound I hope OLP finds in the future again