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Our Lady Peace Information
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'Our Lady Peace', colloquially OLP, is a Canadian alternative rock band consisting of Raine Maida (vocals), Duncan Coutts (bass), Jeremy Taggart (drums), and Steve Mazur (guitar).
Ex-members of the band include Mike Turner (founding member and guitarist), Jamie Edwards ("Stunt Musician"), Mike Eisenstein ("Stunt Musician"), Chris Eacrett (bassist), and Jim Newell (drummer).
Currently, the band is on tour in North America with a fifth stage member, Joel Shearer (of the band ).
1990s
Our Lady Peace was founded in 1992 when Mike Turner placed a "musicians wanted" ad in a Toronto newspaper. Responding first was Michael (Raine) Maida, a criminology student at the University of Toronto. Later, 17-year-old Jeremy Taggart and Chris Eacrett joined the band. Eacrett left in 1995, replaced by Duncan Coutts. Turner left in 2001, replaced by Steve Mazur. Jamie Edwards, a keyboardist, would join in 1996 and leave in 2002, shortly after Turner left.
Our Lady Peace first won recognition with their debut album Naveed, released in Canada in 1994 and the United States in 1995. "Naveed" became a hit in Canada and "Starseed" a hit in Canada and the United States. ("Starseed" would later appear on the Armageddon film soundtrack.) Their second album, Clumsy, released in 1997 and including the tracks "Clumsy," an instant hit around the suburban landscape, "4 AM," a more morose song about not appreciating the good things in life including family, "Superman's Dead," a song about being alone in a world without relying on a hero, "Carnival" and "Automatic Flowers", established OLP as a leading band in 1990s rock music in Canada, and a notable group internationally. Their music explored often deep intellectual and emotional themes with powerful orchestration and the unique singing voice of lead vocalist Maida, called "strange" and "paranoid".
1999 saw the release of Happiness...Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch, featuring "One Man Army", "Thief" and "Is Anybody Home?". The title track (sort of), "Happiness & The Fish", was not released as a single but is credited for spawning the catch phrase, "Talking is just masturbating without the mess."
2000s
In 2000, the band released Spiritual Machines, a concept album inspired by Ray Kurzweil's The Age of Spiritual Machines, and featuring "In Repair", "Life" and "Right Behind You (Mafia)".
In the early 2000s, some critics contended that the band's new music changed significantly, adopting an increasingly mainstream sound, with Maida's voice perhaps losing its "paranoid" edge. Critics of the band's fifth album, Gravity, called it "overproduced" and "too mainstream". That said, its first single, "Somewhere Out There", became the band's top-charting international hit to date.
Our Lady Peace also became popular within wrestling fandom, as they provided the theme tune for "The Crippler" Chris Benoit, entitled "Whatever," and provided the backing music to Jeff Hardy's WWE Desire with the track "Not Enough".
In 2003, Our Lady Peace released the album Live, a compilation of fourteen tracks from live performances. Our Lady Peace also released a DVD under the same name, featuring 22 tracks, including all the tracks from their Live album.
Our Lady Peace released their latest record, titled Healthy in Paranoid Times, on August 30, 2005. The first single is "Where Are You?", released in Canada on June 28, 2005 and released in the United states on July 18, 2005.
Our Lady Peace was added to The Rolling Stones' tour dates in Ottawa, Ontario and Moncton, New Brunswick in late April 2005.
Discography
* 1994/1995: Naveed - CAN sales: 400,000 (4x platinum)
* 1997: Clumsy - #'1' CAN, #76 US - CAN sales: 1,000,000 (Diamond); US sales: 1,000,000 (Platinum)
* 1999: Happiness...Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch - #'1' CAN, #69 US - CAN sales: 300,000 (3x platinum)
* 2000/2001: Spiritual Machines - #5 CAN, #81 US - CAN sales: 200,000 (2x platinum)
* 2002: Gravity - #2 CAN, #9 US - CAN sales: 200,000 (2x platinum); US sales: 600,000 (Gold)
* 2003: Live
* 2005: Healthy in Paranoid Times - #2 CAN, #45 US
Singles
| 'Year' | 'Title' | 'Chart positions' | 'Album' | | US Modern Rock | | 2005 | "Where Are You" | #28 | Healthy in Paranoid Times |
"Angels/Losing/Sleep"
'' Healthy in Paranoid Times
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