Our Lady Peace
June 30th 2008 13:09
I’ve been bombarding you all with European bands in the past articles; it’s time to warm up to Canada.
1. Life –
Firstly, I’d like to warn you that this song isn’t their best, but I have the most profound respect for it because it’s what made me considering becoming a fan. It’s particularly the dominating sounds of tom-toms from the very start to end; also the brief gentle "doo doo" vocal parts, and the sad emotional lyrics and video clip.If you’re a first time listener and quite shocked by the lead singer’s ‘whiny’ voice, you’ll get used to it and soon embrace it as the band’s unique asset.
Favourite Lyric: “She gets high, she gets lost. She gets drowned by the cost twice a day, every week, and all alive.”
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2. Naveed –
Now THIS is their best, which also happens to be their very first single. It has a distinctive intro with a leading bass guitar solo, gradually followed by the rest of the instruments. This song is the perfect example when I say their old school stuff is much better and more well-thought, and also when I say you will find it hard to name any band that sounds like them.
Favourite Lyric: “Prayer's on his knees again, trying hard to understand why Naveed would let a young man die.”
Video (Official):
3. Superman’s Dead –
I love how the outro sounds completely different than the first three-quarter of the song. It’s almost like two different songs gelled into one track.As for what the song is about, there’s no better person to answer this than the lead man himself, Raine Maida:
"It's just about how hard it is for kids to grow up today. They're inundated with the media and images and cliques they try to have to fit into. Two images that are really strong for me lyrically are 'ordinary's just not good enough today,' and when I think of kids today, I would never think of a group of eight-year-olds going out to a baseball park and throwing the ball around. It doesn't happen any more.
I have a nine-year-old brother; he's either inside playing Nintendo or staying up late on a school night watching Beavis & Butt-Head. And you juxtapose that against the old Superman, on the black and white series. He was a real hero, good values, strong willed, a gentleman, but I think Beavis & Butt-Head wins today."
(credited to a poster named ‘onceagain’ on Songmeanings.net)
Favourite Lyric: “Doesn't anybody ever know that the world's a subway.”
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4. Clumsy –
If you loathe that song by Fergie, this might help clear it out of your mind since it’s got the same title. Favourite Lyric: “As clumsy as you've been, there's no one laughing. You will be safe in here.”
Video (Official):
The lead singer presently embarks on a solo career and is doing what I call an ‘acoustic rapping’. Think Kanye West strumming a guitar. His solo album titled The Hunter's Lullaby, while delivers bold messages, is a whole different world melodically, and I’m absolutely not a fan of it. However, it might actually be your vibe. Thus, for the sake of helping him endorse the album, this is his first single:
Yellow Brick Road
Video (Official):
Combined with the fact that they’ve also released their greatest hits album last year, does this solo work signify the end of the church of Our Lady Peace? Even if they are due for another album, I’m not going to keep my expectations high that it's going to sound beyond amazing.
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