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A Decade
''A Decade'' is Canadian alternative rock band Our Lady Peace's first compilation album, released on November 21, 2006, in Canada, and November 28, 2006, in the United States. In addition to songs from the band's first six albums, the set included two unreleased songs, "Kiss on the Mouth" and "Better Than Here". The Canadian release of the album includes a bonus DVD containing a feature-length concert/documentary directed by Rafael Ouellet and produced by Robi Levy. The film features interviews with the current band members, behind the scenes footage, and performances of the songs "Picture", "Thief", "Innocent", "Where Are You", "Wipe That Smile Off Your Face", and "Clumsy" shot on November 6, 2005, at Massey Hall in Toronto. It also includes a photo gallery, and discography with lyrics. "4am" and "One Man Army" have been remixed from their original album versions. "In Repair" and "Life" appear with narration from Ray Kurzweil's book ''The Age of Spiritual Machines'', which i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Our Lady Peace
Our Lady Peace (sometimes shortened to OLP) is a Canadian rock band formed in Toronto, Ontario in 1992. Led by lead vocalist Raine Maida since its formation, the band currently also features Duncan Coutts on bass, Steve Mazur on guitars, and Jason Pierce on drums. The band has sold several million albums worldwide, won four Juno Awards, and won ten MuchMusic Video Awards—the most MMVAs ever awarded to a band (tied with Billy Talent). Nineteen of their singles have reached the Top 10 on one of Canada's singles charts (those being the overall Singles Chart, the Rock Chart and the Alternative Rock Chart). Between 1996 and 2016, Our Lady Peace was the third best-selling Canadian band and the ninth best-selling Canadian artist overall in Canada. Our Lady Peace has released ten studio albums, one live album, and two compilation albums, with their debut album, 1995's '' Naveed'', having reached quadruple platinum in Canada. ''Naveed'' contains their breakthrough single, " Stars ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Birdman (song)
"The Birdman" is Our Lady Peace's first music single, single off their debut album ''Naveed (album), Naveed''. Because of the ''Naveed'' cover, Saul Fox is best known for being the Birdman. The chorus of the song originates from an early demo that the band cut in 1992 called "Nobody's Wrong" with a completely different meaning. Release "The Birdman" is the first single released by Our Lady Peace, only in Canada, on January 17, 1994. It was considered to be the least accessible track off ''Naveed'' and was chosen to be the first single for that reason. According to Catherine McRae, manager of domestic marketing and artist development for Sony Music Canada, "We deliberately chose a single which wasn't an immediate, commercial, hit-radio single and then serviced it specifically first to campus radio to build a street buzz on the band."LeBlanc, Larry. "Our Lady Peace jumps Canadian border. " ''Billboard'' 25 Feb. 1995: JuniorQuest Magazines, ProQuest. Web. Retrieved 28 Sep. 2010. R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gravity (Our Lady Peace Album)
''Gravity'' is the fifth studio album by the Canadian rock band Our Lady Peace. It was released on June 18, 2002 by Columbia Records in North America. The album became a worldwide success, charting highly both in Canada and the United States with the hit singles " Somewhere Out There" and "Innocent". The album title, ''Gravity'', was inspired by the chorus lyrics "Falling back to me, defying gravity" from the track "Somewhere Out There". At the time of the album's release, OLP drummer Jeremy Taggart said that ''Gravity'' was "by far heirbest album". ''Gravity'' was the first album to feature new guitarist, Steve Mazur, who replaced Mike Turner in 2002 after the latter's departure, due to the band feeling limited by Mike Turner's guitar abilities in the studio. Despite Turner's departure, he appears on half the tracks on the album, having recorded parts for several songs prior to his departure. This was also their last album with musician Jamie Edwards, who had performed on two p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Somewhere Out There (Our Lady Peace Song)
"Somewhere Out There" is a song by Canadian alternative rock group Our Lady Peace. It was released on April 1, 2002, as the lead single from their fifth studio album, ''Gravity''. It was the most successful single from the album, reaching number 44 on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and peaking inside the top 40 on five other ''Billboard'' charts. "Somewhere Out There" was the ninth-most played song on radio in Canada in 2002. Song information The correct title of the song is indeed "Somewhere Out There", however the specific chorus lyrics "defying gravity" and the fact that the album is titled ''Gravity'', led some to believe that the title of the song was "Gravity". The song is mislabeled as such in some search engines, lyric websites, and P2P file-sharing programs. The song is one of Our Lady Peace's most successful singles to date, having been very popular both in Canada and the United States. Many critics praised the single, but some also criticized it for being "too mainstrea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Life (Our Lady Peace Song)
"Life" is a song by Canadian rock group Our Lady Peace. It was released in December 2000 as the second single from their fourth studio album, ''Spiritual Machines'' and the most successful from that album. The song was nominated for "Best Single" at the 2002 Juno Awards The Juno Awards of 2002 were presented in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada during the weekend of 13–14 April 2002. Nominations were announced 11 February 2002 at a news conference hosted by Mike Bullard. Awards for the secondary ..., losing to Nickelback's "How You Remind Me". A Sampling (music), Sample can be heard in both the Trailer Park Boys: The Movie and in the episode "Say Goodnight to the Bad Guys" in the Trailer Park Boys. Background This song, like the rest on the album, was partially inspired by Ray Kurzweil's book The Age of Spiritual Machines. While directly following the track "In Repair" on the studio album, on the band's 2006 compilation album, ''A Decade'', the track is immed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
In Repair (Our Lady Peace Song)
"In Repair" is a song by Canadian alternative rock group Our Lady Peace. It was released in November 2000 as the lead single from their fourth studio album ''Spiritual Machines''. Content Raine Maida stated that the lyrics "focus upon how people tend to treat each other as machines in our day-to-day life. We really need to take stock and focus our energy towards those in our lives that matter. Sometimes it seems as if we need an oil change." The song, as with most songs from the ''Spiritual Machines'' album, follows a theme concerning a futuristic artificially intelligent and robotic society, as described in Ray Kurzweil's 1999 book '' The Age of Spiritual Machines''. In both the original release of the song and its second release as part of OLP's ''A Decade'' compilation album in 2006, the song is immediately preceded by a track entitled "R.K. 2029", which is a narration from Kurzweil's book read aloud by Kurzweil himself. Critical reception In her review of ''Spiritual Mac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thief (Our Lady Peace Song)
"Thief" is a song by Canadian alternative rock group Our Lady Peace. It was released in March 2000 as the fourth and final single from their third album '' Happiness... Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch''. Content Vocalist Raine Maida has stated that the song was written about a young girl from Kitchener, Ontario that he knew named Mina Kim who was diagnosed with a cancerous tumor in her brain. The "thief" mentioned in the song refers to the tumor. The short clip at the end of the song consisting of a young girl singing a Sunday school song is a real audio clip of Mina Kim singing "Little By Little" with Maida's wife Chantal Kreviazuk and drummer Jeremy Taggart. Music video Micha Dahan directed the music video. It was filmed on a rooftop in the St. James Town neighbourhood, downtown Toronto Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the four ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Is Anybody Home?
"Is Anybody Home?" is a song by Canadian alternative rock band Our Lady Peace. It was released in January 2000 as the second single released from their third album, '' Happiness...Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch''. Content In an interview with ''Billboard'', Raine Maida stated that 'Is Anybody Home' is about trying to console that person desperate for human attention." Maida explained, "It deals a lot with isolation in a kind of twisted way. Feeling isolated in your home but being barraged by media, television, and the Internet. It is conceivable now that you can just stay home and surf the Internet. It leaves us with a lot of nonhuman contact." Music video The music video premiered on MTV on March 6, 2000. Scenes of the band playing were filmed in the basement of the Eastminster United Church on Danforth Ave. east of Broadview Ave. in the Riverdale neighborhood of Toronto.Cordileone, Elvira. "Crumbling church calls for cash ; Building specializing in serving community now need ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Happiness
Happiness, in the context of Mental health, mental or emotional states, is positive or Pleasure, pleasant emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy. Other forms include life satisfaction, well-being, subjective well-being, flourishing and eudaimonia. Since the 1960s, happiness research has been conducted in a wide variety of scientific disciplines, including gerontology, social psychology and positive psychology, Clinical research, clinical and medical research and happiness economics. Definitions "Happiness" is subject to debate on usage and meaning, and on possible differences in understanding by culture. The word is mostly used in relation to two factors: * the current experience of the feeling of an affect (psychology), emotion (affect) such as pleasure or joy, or of a more general sense of 'emotional condition as a whole'. For instance Daniel Kahneman has defined happiness as "''what I experience here and now''". This usage is prevalent in dictionary definiti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One Man Army (song)
"One Man Army" (often mistakenly called "Falling") is a song by Canadian alternative rock group Our Lady Peace. It was released in July 1999 as the lead single from their third album, '' Happiness...Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch''. Content Raine Maida stated that the song is about "the struggle for individuality. It's about finding the courage to metaphorically strip naked and set fire to all your inhibitions. It's about cleansing yourself of all the people and things that suffocate your individuality." Release The release of the live version of "One Man Army" from their Woodstock 1999 performance forced the record label to release the single several weeks earlier than the planned date of August 4.LeBlanc, Larry.'Happiness' is Third Columbia Set from Canada's Our Lady Peace" - ''Billboard Magazine'' September 11, 1999. Retrieved September 21, 2009. Track listing US Pro CD Columbia CSK 42454 # "One Man Army" (album version) – 3:22 UK 7" Epic 668866 7 # "One Man Army" - 3 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
4 AM (Our Lady Peace Song)
"4am" is a song by Canadian alternative rock band Our Lady Peace. It was released in December 1997 as the fourth single from their second album '' Clumsy''. The band has described the title of the song as having a double meaning. The band wrote the entire song at 4 am. Also, the band's lead vocalist's father's name was Anthony Maida. The song being written at 4am and the initials of Raine's father give meaning to the song's name. Raine has confessed that the song was triggered by a dream about his father. The dream was about their relationship and the fear he had about his father supporting his musical career. The meaning has resonated with many of the band's fans. The song has a steady upbeat tempo throughout, with poetic lyrics. Content According tSetlist.fm the song "4am" was first played live in concert by Our Lady Peace on January 30, 1995 at University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada. It was song number 13 on the set list that night. The song "4am" was most recent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clumsy (Our Lady Peace Song)
"Clumsy" is a song by Canadian alternative rock band Our Lady Peace. It was released in 1997 as the second single from their second album, '' Clumsy''. It is one of the band's most successful singles, reaching number one in Canada for three weeks. It also experienced success in the United States, reaching number five on the ''Billboard'' Modern Rock Tracks chart and staying in the top ten for 15 weeks. The song ranked number one on CILQ-FM's Top 107 songs of 1997. "Clumsy" has become a staple in Our Lady Peace's live setlist. A live version of the song is featured on their first live compilation ''Live'' released in 2003. The song was included on the soundtrack to the 1997 movie ''I Know What You Did Last Summer''. Track listings Canadian and US promo CD # "Clumsy" (edit) – 3:52 # "Clumsy" (album version) – 4:28 Australian CD single # "Clumsy" # "Let You Down" # " Starseed" # "Hope" European CD1 # "Clumsy" – 4:28 # "Superman's Dead "Superman's Dead" is a song by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
