1 year anniversary of Burn Burn!

Codes · Post by **Codes** » 9/5/2010, 5:30 pm

Happiness
Clumsy
SM
Naveed
Burn Burn
Gravity
Healthy

Trustworthy · Post by **Trustworthy** » 9/9/2010, 3:19 pm

thats what i said, it's the best.

if only big green monkey was on that one - because as you know that is the best olp song ever made - EVAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

runnersdialzero · Post by **runnersdialzero** » 10/5/2010, 10:59 am

This album STILL feels weird with "Monkey Brains" not only not opening the album, but being track three.

Other than that, I really, really like the album. I'm a n00b, so please forgive me when I say that it's probably somewhere in the top half of my list and not the bottom. In addition, there's already a huge nostalgia factor attached to it for me, personally.

Codes · Post by **Codes** » 10/5/2010, 2:57 pm

Its a solid cd that had terrible singles supporting it. Hopefully the boys make the adjustment on the next cd to promote their work with the "Best" songs on, rather than the poppy songs no one really cares about anymore. Dreamland wasn't that bad of a choice to be honest, I would have had that on their in the 2nd or 3rd slot.

NCdudeN2K4 · Post by **NCdudeN2K4** » 3/3/2011, 1:18 pm

Spiritual Machines
Clumsy

Naveed
Happiness

Healthy
Burn Burn

Gravity

Heavy Alibi · Post by **Heavy Alibi** » 3/4/2011, 4:03 am

Clumsy
Spiritual Machines
Happiness

Naveed
Gravity

Healthy in Paranoid Times
Burn Burn

Also, just to let anyone who's interested know... I uploaded a new OLP compilation video to YouTube... if you ever get bored check it out... a great place to make comments about any of their songs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z_pecsW67A&hd=1

Shanae · Post by **Shanae** » 3/8/2011, 9:11 pm

Spiritual Machines -- It's just such a good record... it has undeniable flow as a collective. It's a full record meant to be listened to as a record.

Clumsy -- Some of my favourites are on here, and my love of those favourites and the excitement I get to listening to even the saddest of songs *cough* 4am *cough* is powerful enough to earn this position.

Happiness -- You definitely have to be in a mood for this album, but when you are it rocks your world.

Gravity -- I'm with the vocal thread, except I'll put my personal commentary less eloquently: Raine's voice is damn sexified in Gravity in such a non-typical OLP way. This whole record is just so easy to listen to.

Naveed -- Again, I have to be in the mood to listen to this, but when I am in the mood it's excellent. The rawness and anger gets my blood pumping, but I feel like this album doesn't stick with me as much as the others do.

Burn Burn -- It's not that I don't like Burn Burn. I do. It's just kind of passive and I'd have to be in a lazy mood to listen to it. It doesn't grab me.

Healthy in Paranoid Times -- This is the only OLP record that I don't physically own, and it honestly doesn't bother me. There are some songs I find intolerable to the 9s. Although it has its good moments... just, no.

Of course, I'm subject to my emotion, so if I'm pissed off I'm probably not going to listen to Spiritual Machines. Etc.

Joe Cooler · Post by **Joe Cooler** » 5/7/2011, 4:39 pm

Out of curiosity, has anyone heard the vinyl version of Burn, Burn? I'm curious how it sounds in relation to the CD version.

RileyLewis · Post by **RileyLewis** » 5/7/2011, 5:44 pm

I can't rank them that accurately (because it can vary a bit from time to time in my mind), but I can group them in tied positions:

1. SM
1. Happiness

2. Naveed
2. Clumsy

3. Burn Burn

4. Healthy
4. Gravity

Burn Burn gets a small bump over the bottom 2 because of Paper Moon and Monkey Brains.

Corey · Post by **Corey** » 5/8/2011, 7:03 am

Strong Alibi wrote:Clumsy
Spiritual Machines
Happiness

Naveed
Gravity

Healthy in Paranoid Times
Burn Burn

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z_pecsW67A&hd=1

Bingo. This is my rank too. Burn Burn is easily my least favorite album. I find the first half of Healthy to be REALLY good and then fizzles in the second half. Lastly, Gravity gets way more hate than it deserves.

DG · Post by DG » 6/8/2011, 3:26 pm

I know it's been well over a year, but Here's my updated list.

1. Happiness|Spiritual Machines
2. Clumsy
3. Gravity
4. Naveed
5. Healthy
6. Burn Burn

I hate to put Burn Burn at the end, 'cause I do like it. But after listening to both it, and Healthy, I like Healthy a lot more. HIPT has a few horrible songs, but the rest of the songs are really pretty good. Raine's voice is also something that lowers it. He sounds bored in BB. I know a lot aren't a big fan of his voice in HIPT, but I like most of it. The lyrics in HIPT can be pretty low quality, but those are mainly in the songs I don't like. I guess, maybe I can't explain why.

For those who will be outraged at Naveed being so low; I'm just not a big fan of the overall CD, I used to, but it's easily the most dated CD. I still love a lot of the songs individually.

MindsOnLoan · Post by **MindsOnLoan** » 6/8/2011, 5:51 pm

1. Happiness
2. Spiritual Machines
3. Naveed
4. Clumsy
5. Healthy
6. Gravity
7. Burn Burn

Pretty much the only ones that change positions here and there are Happiness and SM trade positions.

Illusion · Post by **Illusion** » 6/8/2011, 7:40 pm

1. Spititual Machines - Enough said. Art rock masterpiece comparable to Ok Computer. It's only flaw was that it was just a little behind it's time...I think if it had been released on the other side of Y2K, this album would have been bigger then Clumsy.

2. Clumsy - OLP at their best. Every song was brimming with passion and energy. It's easy to see just how well made this album is when you look at how much radio-play it still gets (in Canada) even though it's a part of a genre that really isn't that popular anymore.

3. Happiness - A good follow-up to Clumsy. I personally found that this album took a little less risk then Clumsy (or SM) took. Nevertheless, it stood on it's own with a bit of an anarchist undertone circulating around time of the columbine shootings.

4. Gravity - Despite over-production and a radical style change that blind-sided OLP's fanbase a bit more then (I feel) was necessary, Gravity makes for a pretty decent pop-rock album. Songs like Innocent and Somewhere Out There were textbook top 40 material and accomplished exactly what they were intended to accomplish. The album has stood the test of time (still getting fairly regular radio play) and was the only album to rival Clumsy in popularity.

5. Naveed - I'm sure Naveed was a very decent album in it's time. That said, it's time was before mine. I don't think Naveed will get a lot of appreciation from the younger OLP fans simply because of how rock has evolved since the early 90's. That said, the piano version of Julia is possibly the greatest untold OLP masterpiece ever conceived.

6. HIPT - This album was what you get when you have two opposing forces that won't budge. This was a politically-themed album produced by a man who believes in direct, mainstream-style lyrics. Conversely, Raine is a man who prefers interpretive lyrics and the end result of this album is something laying flat on its face somewhere in between.

7. Burn Burn - This album could signal the end of OLP or possibly the start of a new beginning. Either way, this album was quite a bit weaker then anything that was previously made by the band. Glaring production and engineering errors occaisonally take away from the music and most of the songs seemed to come from the same cookie cutter which just didn't cut the cookies quite right to begin with. The album was too ballad heavy and lacked an overall encompassing theme. I blame these issues on a reluctance to over-collaborate as was done during HIPT. Unfortunately, OLP went too far in the other direction during burn burn.

Long Jonny · Post by **Long Jonny** » 6/11/2011, 7:54 am

1. Spiritual Machines
2. Happiness...
3. Naveed
4. Clumsy
5. Gravity
6. Burn Burn
7. Healthy

OLPManiac · Post by **OLPManiac** » 6/20/2011, 2:46 pm

1 Spiritual Machines
2 Clumsy
3 Happiness
4 Gravity
5 Naveed
6 Burn Burn
7 Healthy

PS Guys, Burn Burn is not the worst album...in this album we have song like Dreamland, Monkey Brains, Escape Artist, Refuge and Paper Moon that are amazing!!! And also The Right Stuff it's good, it's true Raine's voice sounds bored but Burn Burn it's a album that needs to be seen in a perspective way because it's the first where the band(after Steve) it's in a comfortable position...the result of Burn Burn recording will be seen in the Album 8....naturally it's my personal opinion

Driven · Post by **Driven** » 7/4/2011, 11:28 am

Burn Burn is fine, it's just all of the songs have the same structure. Generic album.

OLPManiac · Post by **OLPManiac** » 7/5/2011, 5:25 am

I agree with you...i told that the results of Burn Burn will be seen in the Album 8...we need to see on BB the recording process that involve only the band without anyone...this gave at the band new energy that we will see on Album 8 and i told also that i don't think that Burn Burn it's the worst album....for me it's better than Healthy...

senseofurgency · Post by **senseofurgency** » 7/7/2011, 12:16 am

my list goes as follows;

spiritual machines
happiness
gravity/naveed
bb
healthy
clumsy

i think burn burn was an album that needed to be made. i think the way it sounds, the way it was produced and along with the most recent recreation(s) tour will see music in the next few years that might challenge my top 2:). i see it as a base and as the cliché of the new beginning for olp.

Corey · Post by **Corey** » 7/10/2011, 6:21 pm

senseofurgency wrote:my list goes as follows;

spiritual machines
happiness
gravity/naveed
bb
healthy
clumsy

Clumsy last? Weird. To each their own I guess.

myownsatellite · Post by **myownsatellite** » 7/10/2011, 7:56 pm

Joe Cooler wrote:Out of curiosity, has anyone heard the vinyl version of Burn, Burn? I'm curious how it sounds in relation to the CD version.

I was listening to it on our record player before I broke it *cough*cough* and it sounded fantastic.