How did YOU find OLP?

[Fluffy]

Ok this is where you tell your first stories of finding OLP and stuff. I posted this and it came up on another topic but I think it'd be a good idea if everyone told each-other (me mostly) how they first started loving OLP and the first songs they heard. Brings a tear to my eye when I go back and remember. And it must be so interesting to those of you who liked them since like, Naveed-era!

O.K. I am going to admit a few things that are really embarrassing to me. I heard of Our Lady Peace's song "Life" but I wasn't into rock music then, being the teenybopper that I was back in the day (2 years ago:oops:alright). But then I heard Somewhere Out There in grade 6 and yes I am only in 7th grade now and I loved it and I was getting into rock music in that period of time. Then I saw Raine Maida. Wow. And I really think that most of you girls are afraid to admit if it wasn't for Raine you wouldn't be as obsessed as you are now! No offense, but it's kind of true and it is a natural thing to like a band because of their appearance (even though that may not be right) Anyway, I have no idea what posessed me to download practically every single song by them and look them up and learn stuff but I did and thank god for that. I can barely remember the 2nd song I heard by Our Lady Peace but.. WAIT. I remember. It was The Wonderful Future and it was on their clips on their official website. First I was like but then I downloaded the full version, listened to it a couple thousand times and fell in love with it. So then yeah you get the picture. Now I have been obsessed for about umm.. 4 or 5 months now (i hate admitting this) and I have listened to old songs by rock bands I never knew like Radiohead (don't laugh now!) but were really popular and The Vines & The Strokes blah blah came around and Coldplay and Goo Goo Dolls but I just couldn't really ever get the urge again to really learn about these bands or download as much songs for them as Our Lady Peace. It's funny really! I think Our Lady Peace is and always will be my favourite.

[areusad831]

Holy Tuesday you created a good thread Congratualations it may not be as good as the jacqui and the flavored condom thread but its a good one

ok so i found out about OLP from two people. One of my good friends in high school who I hate now and one of my brothers ex-gf's. The first song I downloaded was "Supermans Dead" the first CD i bought was Clumsy and this was about 2 months before Spiritual Machines came out. I d/l almost every Clumsy song soon followed by some Happiness...before you knew it I had the SM cd on my computer before it was released. I went to my first concert in July of 2001 which was originally sold out but had to be rescheduled and more tickets were released. My dumb ex-gf made me sit in the balcony but the show still amazed me so much. 21 song set list which included "Potato Girl", "Birdman/Carnival" and a sing along to "4AM" from then on I was hooked. I have been to 7 shows since then and have almost 2000 posts on this board. I have met many awesome OLP fans who I know attend shows with. I have influenced many others to follow the band including my brother who is completley obsessed now. OLP will definatley be the thing I remember most about my teenage years. Can anyone picture listening to them when they are like 40 (no offense to the elders) and be like "those were the days"

[sandsleeper]

my really good friend was listening to clumsy and kept telling me how great they were. i idolized her at the time so if she said something was good i believed her. so because i was cheap at the time (i was 12) i waited till christmas to get one of their cds. our family friends bought me Happiness... (i think it came out that september) and from then on i was hooked.

[superrgirll]

I heard Supermans Dead and instantly fell in love

[namkablam]

Saw the OMA video .. bought the Happiness CD the day it came out .. the rest is history

[ajk]

Good question..

Away back when in 94 I heard Starseed. Now this was when grunge was the "cool" music, i was like in grade 5. So i bought Naveed. It was the "cool" thing to do. I listened to it a lot though

THen i forgot about OLP between Naveed and Clumsy..... Until Superman's Dead came out (December 96..), then i was hooked. Forever.

OMA just made sure i'd never leave again.

[olp_gravity]

my cousin got me into it
back in the clumsy days
i heard superman's dead and was hooked,bought clumsy,found out about naveed

and obviously kept buying their albums

[allison]

I bought Naveed from Columbia House in 1994 after seeing a commercial for the album on Much Music. I had the chorus for Supresatellite stuck in my head for days after seeing that ad! I was just beginning to get into the music scene so I didn't know anything about the band. However, in August of 1996 I was passing through Winnipeg on vacation with my family and discovered that Alanis Morissette was doing a show there that night. My mom and I spontaneously decided to go, and guess who the opening act was? Yes, OLP!! After hearing Trapeze I decided that I was definitely going to get the band's new album when it came out. December 1996 rolled around and Superman's Dead was beginning to get video play. I saw the ads for Clumsy on Much Music but didn't pay much attention. My best friend thought Raine was a spaz in the video and tried to get me to watch it, but I didn't listen. Finally, one night while I was working at a volunteer televison station I was watching Much Music and saw the video in it's entirety. I fell in love. I have to admit that I did think Raine was pretty good looking at the time, but I quickly got over that obsession. I bought Clumsy when it came out in January and have been obsessed ever since.

[DissolvedStorm]

It all started when my older brother entered junior high. Back then, in order to be a proper jr high student (and I imagine this holds true now,) the local modern rock station had to be one of your major sources of entertainment. It's not like he wasn't listening to it at all before, but it was at this time, or a roundabouts this time, he decided I needed to find music outside of my mother's favorite adult contemporary station and tapes of classic rock that nobody never seemed to have heard of outside our family.
I actually partially remember the day he picked up Clumsy from the local independent record store (which has sadly gone out of business since. I never appreciated that shop until it was gone,) and I remember being pretty curious. I didn't have a CD player of my own yet, but I hung out around his room within listening distance whenever it was playing. Eventually, I started to remember songs, sing along with them on the bus trips home when they were on the radio and stealing the disk for mix tapes.
At the time, we only had the US version of MTV, so it was only through radio that we were able to get our OLP news. He heard "One Man Army" and told me about it. I didn't believe him, probably because at the time all of my music news came from MTV, and I follishly believed that they would report on a great band such as them. But I aided in the mad dash to find an MP3 of the song anyway (in mah day, we 'ad to search fer our empeethrees on websites, we had no fancyshmancy things like Kazaa er whatever you kids call it these days...) and met and fell in love with the live version out of Woodstock 99. Once again, after he bought the album, I began to listen to it.
It was at the end of my freshman year in high school that I think I finally fell head over heels. I returned home from school one day feeling awful (as was usual for me during my freshman and especially my sophmore years,) and found my mother and brother debating how close we should be allowed to get to the stage. Yeehaw, my first real rock concert! How cool would I look?
A nineteen (I believe) song set. No opening act, and to tell you the truth I can't remember many details of the show, except that the whole time I was in a trance of some sort. My younger brother can attest to this. They may or may not have hypnotized me into listening to them almost exculsively during my second (and worst) year of high school. Either way, I think that was the time that I really fell in love. There was a lot of prelude though, kind of like a romance movie where the characters are so close to making it, then fail, then come close again, then fail and then finally get married because of one incident.

Wait. No, that was a terrible analogy. This discombabulated epic is why I don't post much.

[Brooklin Matt]

I didn't discover OLP until I was 21. I'm 22 now, but it seems as far back as I recall OLP........from their Clumsy days, I never really paid attention, until I got hooked by Is Anybody Home? Then I heard Thief and thought that this was one quality band. Then in summer 2000 i saw the video for 4am and thought that was a damn good song as well so i started listening to Clumsy (the album). Then Life came out and I really started to appreciate what these guys could do. Again, I still wasn't infected totally until I heard In repair on the radio(I was ravaged by OLP disease then) and thought that that was a wicked song. I went to the old OLP.com page........with Spiritual Machines on the cover.. Then i downloaded happiness a day later.....and the rest is history.

[Sufjan Stevens]

I turned the radio on and heard the song "Starseed" and I liked it. I bugged the hell out of my parents to buy me the cd until they did, and it went like that.

[committed]

i waited outside by their bus.

they found me.

[Furious George]

OMA video, they not only pulled me into rock music, but music in its entierty.

Embarrasing Fact: Being the geek that I was (and still am) I was watching muchmusic only to catch the "Duel of the Fates" video from "Star Wars", when I saw the video. Man, it was fucking insane! Raine was flying, and blinking at me, and.... yeah, it was pretty orgasmic.

[areusad831]

Duel of the Fates was a damn good video though

[xoNoDoubt69]

When i first heard Life i got into them then i found The Spiritual Machines cd my brother had and ever since that i've liked em .......

[Furious George]

Hehe, of course the REAL payoff was the Duel of the Fates... joking joking! *avoids being egged by hostile CMers*

[teelow]

wow I am surprised how many relatively new fans there are of OLP.
I've known them since Clumsy, I was obsessed wit hthat song, (liek everyone else at the time) and got the cd for my birthday.

Hooked ever since.

[nikki4982]

Good topic! OK, so my story. For a few months, we had MuchMusic (it was a sneak peek thing our cable company used to do), and I guess it was around the time that Clumsy came out that we had it. I remember seeing the videos for "Superman's Dead" and "Clumsy" a lot. And I mean a LOT. Every time they were on, I watched the screen like this: . Not because I thought Raine was hot or anything (I wasn't into "men" at the time... I still liked "boys"... now, on the other hand... hahah ), I just loved the songs so much. I was pretty broke at the time, though. Not too long after losing Much, me and my friend took a trip to the Jersey shore, and went into a little cd store on the boardwalk and the kid working suggested Clumsy to my friend when she asked him what to buy. She thought he was cute, so she took his advice (hahahha, I know, right?). Plus, I told her that the two songs I knew by them were awesome. I doubt my saying that had much to do with her decision, though. Anyway, she had the album for about a week, then told me it "sucked" (AAAAHHHHH!!! Bad taste! Bad taste!!! Seriously... she had really bad taste in music... awesome girl, though ), and offered to sell it to me for half what she got it for (score!). I immediately did so. And fell in love. I listened to Clumsy on repeat for months. Eventually, I got enough money to get Naveed, but didn't listen to it more than once, and the one time I listened to it, I didn't really even pay attention to it. I was probably doing something else at the time. Anyway, when Happiness... came out, I bought that, too, but did the same stupid thing I did with Naveed. Ugh. And I never even got around to buying Spiritual Machines before Gravity came out (SM is pretty hard to find in my area, believe it or not, and whenever I did actually find it, I didn't have the cash). So, those years were pretty wasted as far as OLP goes. But, then when reading the Ticketmaster e-mail newsletter I get, I saw that OLP was coming to play the Electric Factory in Philly, so I figured, "hey, I like Clumsy, and I've wanted to see them live for years, I wonder how much tickets cost?" I asked my boyfriend to take me if tickets were cheap, and THANK GOD, tickets were under $20. So he agreed to go. I then bought Gravity (might have done that before getting tickets, don't remember). I listened to it once the day of the concert, in hopes of learning the songs so I could have a better time at the concert (I normally only enjoy bands if I know their songs ahead of time), but that didn't really work. I liked Gravity a lot, though. Anyway, so we go to the concert. <-- That pretty much explains the night. I was in absolute love with OLP after that. Didn't even matter that I only sort of knew most of the songs they played. It was still the most amazing live show I had ever seen (up to that point, anyway... since then, OLP has outdone themselves... hah). After the concert, I went and bought Spiritual Machines, and since then (August), I've been listening to OLP practically non-stop. And I've seen them live 3 more times. And met them twice. Heh. I haven't done that with any of my other favorite bands, and I've been huge fans of theirs for years. But I'm getting off topic, and this post is long enough. No need to do that. Haha. Anyway, so yeah. In short, OLP snagged me with Clumsy (the album), and pulled me in with their live act. And I should probably find that record store clerk that sold my friend Clumsy and give him a hug.

Congratualations it may not be as good as the jacqui and the flavored condom thread but its a good one

HAHAHHHAAHAHAH. I think the best part about that thread is that Jeremy now knows about it.

[Eelco]

I was living in Canada for a year as an exchange student and one of my friends asked me if I'd like to go to a concert with him. I'd never heard of the band but I thought it would be cool to go to a concert, because I'd never been to one, so I went along. I didn't regret it afterwards. It was an awesome show. And I've bene following OLP since.

[emily]

uhh, i found out that hayden christensen liked olp? so i downloaded some of their stuff. then i bought all their cds and went to a concert. the rest is history.