How you found out about the wonder that is....

raineinolp · Post by **raineinolp** » 10/14/2003, 4:21 am

.....Our Lady Peace

Ok, this is really to all the people that live in Europe and especially in the UK where OLP are rare, but can be for you Canadians and also Americans.

Basically I was wondering how you found out about the band and also how popular do you think they are in England and across the atlantic in Europe?

I only know one person that like thems except me, and that's my best mate who co-founded them where I live. We heard a clip of Theif on an American radio show (because I listen to them on the net) and I couldn't believe how good it was. I got a little research together about them and I haven't looked backed since. I missed the concert they had this year in the UK because my grandma died, so I couldn't go to that (which was in Manchester). So I am now awaiting their return to the UK and also trying to get as many videos of live performances as I can basically.

Does anyone else have a story to tell about how they found out about OLP, any weird stories?

Cheers,
Steve

JUb · Post by **JUb** » 10/14/2003, 7:56 am

I blame my addiction on makaveli from these boards. I knew him from other boards for about a year and we talked and such, and I downloaded some stuff...and now I own 5 of their albums.

Lydia · Post by **Lydia** » 10/14/2003, 9:04 am

I first heard <i>One Man Army</i>, which was up for download on a site with the same name. It was a Tom Riddle (Harry Potter character) fansite. After that I downloaded other songs, but I never really bothered to find any other information on them.

Until a year ago, when I saw Somewhere Out There on MTV (one of the like, 3 times they were ever on MTV). I hate to say it, but that song got me hooked and as obsessed as I am now.

trentm32 · Post by **trentm32** » 10/14/2003, 11:07 am

I heard "Clumsy" on the radio back in the day, picked up the album, and the rest is, as they say, 'history'.

Johnny · Post by **Johnny** » 10/14/2003, 12:12 pm

I heard Starseed on the radio many,many,manys years ago. I fell in love with that song and I went and bought Naveed. Since then, I got every one of their records the day that the were released

I heart OLP :love:

Henrietta · Post by **Henrietta** » 10/14/2003, 12:30 pm

I saw them in concert a year and a month ago. Then I got all the cds within a 3 month time span, they came back with my favorite band, and the rest is history.

xoNoDoubt69 · Post by **xoNoDoubt69** » 10/14/2003, 12:32 pm

I borrowed Spiritual Machines from my brother when it came out and loved it

He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named · 10/14/2003, 12:44 pm

I was downloading some song when Napster was still in it's prime (read: summer 1999), but it wasn't the song I wanted.

The song I got was an insane man screaming "whyyyyyeeyiieeeee" to a grinding guitar. At first, I said what the fuck is this? Then, I listened. I realized I loved the song. I searched around and found it was by some unknown (around here) Canadian band named Our Lady Peace.

I got some mroe of their stuff. I bought their album (I actually never found Naveed until this calendar year) and the rest is history. They quickly became my favorite band ever.

It was fate :love:

Soozy · Post by **Soozy** » 10/14/2003, 12:54 pm

Yay another british OLP fan

I first heard Superman's Dead on the radio when I was in Canada back in the summer of 1997. I was working in the US for the summer and was seeing a Canadian guy who kept telling me I'd love them based on the other music I liked. But I don't remember hearing any of their songs until I was visiting him a month or so later.

I spent a whole afternoon looking for record shops in Chicago with any albums by them and found Clumsy. I couldn't listen to it until I got home and then I went out and bought Naveed straight away. And then my obsession started and it hasn't stopped yet.

PS - raineinolp - click on the link in my sig

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PPS - if you want videos of live performances then join the hub (www.dchub.clumsymonkey.net) - or if you're on dial up or can't use the hub then leave a message here or on the olp uk board and I'm sure someone could send you a CD full of mpegs

liam · Post by **liam** » 10/14/2003, 1:02 pm

when i was 8 my brother said to me, "hey, listen to this" we were in a record store and they have the headphone thingys, so i listened to superman's dead and clumsy, and the next week i bought the tape, and since then i've bought all of them on CD. Stupid me with my tapes... i didn't have a CD player yet.

Henrietta · Post by **Henrietta** » 10/14/2003, 3:31 pm

Hehe...tapes....

Post by **saman** » 10/14/2003, 4:21 pm

My friend Raffia liked them before I did, and when One Man Army came out, she made me listen to it. She also made me sit through all the songs on Happiness, which she had recently gotten. The one song that stuck in my head above all others was IAH, and a month or so later, I bought Happiness. Other albums came soon after.

Axtech · Post by **Axtech** » 10/14/2003, 4:40 pm

My friend got me to download Superman's Dead (this was winter of 2000/2001) because he'd heard it before and thought it was a weird/cool song. I loved it. I downloaded more, and bought Clumsy. I liked it, and bought Happiness... a while later. I then bought Naveed. Then I got SM as an easter present (easter 2001).

Clumsy7Thief · Post by **Clumsy7Thief** » 10/14/2003, 5:09 pm

I was watching MuchTopTens last year around Christmas or something and Thief was one of the videos. I loved it from the start; the video was awesome. I did some research on OLP (I had liked their songs before hand but never really thought much of it) and then in Jan. I finally got Happiness...

Then in about a month's time I got the others and fell in love. :love:

Sonya · Post by **Sonya** » 10/14/2003, 5:21 pm

When I was, like, 9 or 10, up until I was 12, I always heard a song that was always being played on the radio, it was so haunting, and really creepy/sad, that I sort of made it my "destiny" (keep in mind I was 10, probly) to find out who sang it, or just to find out what it was called...

I used to love watching YTV's 'Hit List', and in almost every show, they would play either 'Is Anybody Home?' or 'One Man Army', and then I guess that was when I heard about the band, what kind of music they played, and etc...

Later, (I was 12, I think) I heard 'In Repair' over the radio, and fell in love with it. I bought Spiritual Machines (well, my dad bought Spiritual Machines for me), and I actually started listening to Spiritual Machines, and I turned up the volume when the Hit List played 'IAH?' and 'OMA'.

Later that year, I heard that creepy, slow, haunting song, and I called up the radio station, and got through, and I asked what the name of the song was, and they said it was called 'Clumsy' from a band called Our Lady Peace.

Since then, I've been a total fan.

:love:

I actually didn't get the album Clumsy until after I got Gravity, after Spiritual Machines, then after Clumsy, I got Hapiness and then I finally got Naveed.

Kudos to anybody who understood that, :lol:

Baby Thief · Post by **Baby Thief** » 10/14/2003, 6:00 pm

AMerican

My brother let me listen to SUper Man's Dead whish he was singing to me. This was back 5 years ago or so. I wasn't wild about it at first, but i was only 9 years old. Then a little while later, i found myself singing it, then i got my brother to give me some other good songs by them

Random Name · Post by **Random Name** » 10/14/2003, 7:44 pm

....I bought ther CD

superrgirll · Post by **superrgirll** » 10/14/2003, 7:58 pm

saw the video for supermans dead and instantly fell in love.

tasha · Post by **tasha** » 10/14/2003, 8:13 pm

i was 10, i was always a muchmusic junkie. i had seen their videos from naveed on mm, but never got really into it. then when supermans dead hit heavy rotation, i fell in love. my dad got me the cd (yes, at age 10) and since then theyve been my favourite band

nikki4982 · Post by **nikki4982** » 10/14/2003, 11:12 pm

We got MuchMusic for two months cos our cable system did this "sneak peek" thing... the videos for "Clumsy" and "Superman's Dead" were ALWAYS on, and I fell in love. Then my friend bought the album cos some guy she thought was cute suggested it (and I encouraged her saying the band was good from what I heard), she didn't like it, so I bought it from her. :lol: