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i heard starseed loved it but was to young to buy any cd's or really care. Then Superman's Dead came out, i've been clinging on to them ever since, although my Musical Tastes have grown alot and i now have a wide variety of favorite band, olp still hold the top spot though just through hope for the next album and history
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*coughs*

*scuffs toes*

The first OLP song I ever heard was Somewhere Out There. I was listening to the radio, and when the DJ announced the artist and the song, I just thought "hmm, odd name for a band", shrugged and pretty much forgot about it.

Fast foward a few months...I was watching Juice (New Zealand's music video channel) and this song called Innocent came on. I was watching it, it was alright, nothing special. I remember I thought Steve looked pretty cool, Duncan creeped me out (don't worry, that didn't last long) and I can't remember about Jer...then...the close up on Raine.

Me:*squealing* Oooh, he has pretty eyes!

*hangs head in shame*

So, I decided to find out more about this band. Because the singer had pretty eyes. :roll:

A few days later, I downloaded Starseed, Clumsy and 4am, and fell completely in love with them. The first album I bought was SM, and I was blown away by it. I woke up the next morning with Are You Sad? stuck in my head and a new-found obsession. :D :love:

So there you go. The whole shameful story of how I became an OLP fan.
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:lol: My friend who went with me to an OLP show said the same thing about Duncan. Course I disagreed with him, but he still thought Duncan was creepy. :lol: I don't get it.
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I think it was the little goatee thing he had going on that scared me.:lol:
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heard SD or somethin on the radio
then clumsy
then went to a program in ottawa and everyone loved and listened to SD and clumsy.. then to another program in kelowna, BC and more of the
borrowed clumsy from someone and thought "why the fuck am i borrowing this and not buying it?"
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then i went home after 6 weeks in BC and talked to my friends about naveed and i was hooked.
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Me:*squealing* Oooh, he has pretty eyes!

*hangs head in shame*

So, I decided to find out more about this band. Because the singer had pretty eyes.


:lol: Don't worry, you're not the only one! SOT got me hooked because Raine looked pretty in the video.
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i thought raine had pretty eyes when i first saw the supermans dead video.
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AMERICAN!!

Heard Starseed on the radio in 95'. Always thought the name Our Lady Peace was interesting. Never could remember the title to song( which was Starseed. it seems everytime they played it they never said the name of song. It took me awhile before I knew the title) or heard any other songs. Then I got MuchMusic and saw the videos for other Naveed songs. Missed seeing them perform in 1995( I had to work cause I was working two jobs then and hard to get off) When I saw Superman's Dead on MuchMusic, I swore that come hell or high water I was seeing them the next time they came around. I went to see them live in 1997, was blown away by the performance and having been following them since.

In retrospect it was one song that got me listening, but it was the live shows that kept me coming back.

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right when clumsy came out, my cousin was obsessed with it, and she played it for me, and then my aunt got it for me that christmas. damn, that was like, 6 years ago. i had good taste even at 10 years old. damn i'm so cool.
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I thought Duncan was creepy the first time I saw him too :lol:
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I thought Duncan was hot the first time i saw him :D
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when i was watching the live from alberta, the guy i was watching it with kept talking about how creepy duncan was and how he didnt seem to belong with the rest of the band. :lol:

I cant really remember what I first thought of him, I guess I didnt really think about them individually until recently. I knew all their names and what they played, but it was really more about being obsessed with them as a whole :freak:
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I found out about Our Lady Peace from my g/f at the time. Then my friend Jared reinforced that, I download (and then bought don't worry) all the albums and I've been hooked ever since. Our Lady Peace, mmmmmmmmm, to think I lived without there music.
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I loved so many earlier OLP songs, but I was a dumbass and never bought an album. :neutral: I put Superman's Dead on my first ever burned CD and Naveed, OMA, Clumsy, Automatic Flowers etc. on the ones that followed. Still never bought a cd.. I think one reason for this is that I only used to really buy new CDs. :roll: I've learned my lesson now..

Then I was in Music World and was undecided on what CD I should buy. My friend recommended Gravity, which I bought. I listened to it and liked it somewhat but wasn't particularly astounded by it. Nevertheless, it led me to buy Clumsy which I absolutely loved. Then I saw them in concert and became completely obsessed. Then I bought the rest of the albums, all of which I love.
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I watched the video for somewhere out there and fell in love :love:
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Post by happening fish »

Got into Clumsy through the boys in my class in the 6th grade.
Became obsessed.
Requested subsequent albums for Christmas.

Oh, and between the fact that I was 11 when I got into them, and that there really was no internet to speak of (at least not in my life), it took me a couple years to find out more about the actual band than their names and the blurry pictures on the Clumsy liner. I absolutely fell in love with Raine's voice, though. Mmm. Didn't even know his name.
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^exact same thing happened to me. I actually didnt really get involved in the whole internet thing til this year, though i got into them when i was 9 or 10.
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when i was 12 my friend was like you should check this band out, they're really cool. so i asked for the happiness album for christmas (i think it had just come out that fall) and i was taken from the first lines of one man army all the way to the breakdown in stealing babies. hooked on the spot.
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I fell for OLP hook, line, and sinker. I was young and watching Muchmusic (pretty much at random, I wasn't too much of a music junkie back then), when suddenly I see Raine walking down the street and suddenly go flying.. I was like holy crap thats awesome!! and then the chorus... man, every high pitched ear piercing note he hit broke all the rules of any other music I'd ever heard before, and I realized that this is exactly what I wanted in my music along, this fresh originality that was so wonderfully perfected... my god, and then there were the weird Raine moments-the chest beating- the dances- the twitches- the unnatural blinking of eyes... I was thinking "this is guy is completely insane...I love him!!"

yeah. what a way to be introduced the band. OLP brought a mini-musical-revolution in my mind.
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