Rufus Wainwright wrote:I've been trying to hold off on my opinion for so long, but these newbies are really driving me back to my old self. It's kind of cute how wide-eyed they are, but they still don't know that their older stuff was, in fact, their best.
But what if the older stuff wasn't in fact their best? What if Gravity is by far the highest quality album??
. . . okay I can't even say that without my eye starting to twitch
-Annie (Whee! boring signature!)
Member of the Pokémon League
Rufus Wainwright wrote:I've been trying to hold off on my opinion for so long, but these newbies are really driving me back to my old self. It's kind of cute how wide-eyed they are, but they still don't know that their older stuff was, in fact, their best.
But what if the older stuff wasn't in fact their best? What if Gravity is by far the highest quality album??
. . . okay I can't even say that without my eye starting to twitch
After reading that over, I realized how little sense it made and thats not really how I meant it to come out... feel free to ignore me. . .
-Annie (Whee! boring signature!)
Member of the Pokémon League
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there's no guarantee that this will be the version on the album...maybe they went with different lyrics in the album version, or hopefully a different production style in the cd...if in fact it will appear on the album.
Yeah, changing like five words won't take the suck out of it.
I faced death. I went in with my arms swinging. But I heard my own breath and had to face that I'm still living. I'm still flesh. I hold on to awful feelings. I'm not dead... My chest still draws breath. I hold it. I'm buoyant. There's no end.
this could easily be just a promo of it... they released and performed all kinds of promo's of the old songs. this could be the case now. nobody has the official tracklist of the ablum, so no1 can say yet
- Not Afraid -
- Driving On A One Way Road -
- Some Courage And A Radio -
- Drive Until Our Eyes Cant See -
It's weird cuz all of us here agree that the older stuff is more original and better than Gravity, and some of us even wince or flinch at the very thought of gravity... but when you see interviews and stuff like that OLP seems to be the most proud of Gravity out of all their albums out so far.
yea but wouldnt you think that musicians like them can tell the superiority of their earlier albums, if any olp fan can? I personally blame bob rock for the decline in originality of OLP
Ok. Think about it. Our Lady Peace's most recent studio full length release was Gravity. If they said that they weren't proud of it, that's bad for record sales so of course they are going to say they're proud of it. Every band and artist does it.... with the exception of matt good.
THERE'S TOO MANY OF US THAT DON'T WANT TO FIGHT IT
every band on the face of the planet is going to say that there upcoming, or the album that's on the shelves is their fav or the best. u gotta take those kind of comments with a grain of salt. they've said that stuff since clumsy
The made the album. They wrote it, played it, recorded it, and sold it. If it was something they hated they wouldnt have made it. But obviously the band doesn't have the perspective we have. They arn't going to be able to compare albums or anything because they are not fans of their own music. They are doing what they want. Get over it.
-Sarah Goodbye you liar, Well you sipped from the cup but you don't own up to anything Then you think you will inspire Take apart your head (and I wish I could inspire) Take apart your demons, then you add it to the list.
I don't know why everyone dislikes Gravity so much. It's my second favoutie OLP album only behind Naveed. I realize it doesn't have the unique and distinct sound of the other albums but it's still great music, it's change. And change is what OLP is all about, Clumsy is different than Naveed, Happiness.....is different than Clumsy, Spiritual Machines is different than Happiness and Gravity is different than Spiritual Machines. I don't see a problem. I would rather see them make a different, more mainsteram type of record than simply a Naveed/Clumsy/Happiness/Spiritual Machines part 2. Because I know if they made a record just like one of their previous ones, everyone would be bitching about that and be blaming Mr. Rock.
And this is my opinion, it may be different than yours but that's what opinions are about. And don't assume I'm just some 14 year old kid who heard SOT on the radio and jumped on the bandwagon who hasn't heard anything other than their singles because i've been a fan for a long time and just because i'm a "newbie" doesn't mean I just became a fan.
OLP make music they like because they love to make music....that is what they do....they will stop doing it when they stop loving it....they continue to make it because they want to challenge themselves to do something better or something different than before...when the creativity and/or love of music is gone, it will be over....until then they will continue to challenge themselves to make creetive and different music than they have in the past, because that is what they like to do....they just hope that we like it and if we dont....somebody else might....if they cared that much about selling millions of albums, they would have given up by now cause they have not done close to that.....if you cant sell a million records in the states then you are not really that successful down there, and that is the case with OLP
Is there something good, something more?
Is there anything worth dying for?
-Sarah Goodbye you liar, Well you sipped from the cup but you don't own up to anything Then you think you will inspire Take apart your head (and I wish I could inspire) Take apart your demons, then you add it to the list.
