How did YOU find OLP?

Corey · Post by **Corey** » 12/4/2002, 7:58 am

superrgirll wrote:I heard Supermans Dead and instantly fell in love

same story for me... although when I went to see them play live a few months later is what made them my favorite.

Starseed3333 · Post by **Starseed3333** » 12/4/2002, 12:47 pm

Superman's Dead for me too.

My parents were going to a conference, and I was still sort of young, so I was going to a friends for the weekend. In the car on the way there I heard SD. I didn't know who it was by, but I loved it. I then found out who it was, bought Clumsy when it came out, bought Naveed and still was in love.

Saw them live for WAB tour in Montreal 2000. Seen them many many times since then. Superman's Dead is STILL my favorite song in the world :love:

happening fish · Post by **happening fish** » 12/4/2002, 2:26 pm

when clumsy came out the boys in my 6th grade class were into it and since i hung around them so much i got sucked right in. i spent all of 6th grade with clumsy in my discman and headphones in my ears.

and, by the way, i had no idea who any of the band members were or what they looked like except for the vague pictures in the clumsy liners until a couple years later. so it had nothing to do with raine's appearance. i fell in love with his VOICE and his LYRICS.

Soozy · Post by **Soozy** » 12/4/2002, 3:05 pm

I spent the summer of '97 working in the States pretty near the Canadian border and was seeing a Canadian guy that I met there. I was finding out about loads of new music that I'd never heard before but really liked, and he told me I'd really like OLP, but they never got played on the radio. So then after I finished working and started travelling I spent a few days with him in Canada and we had the radio on and suddenly he was like 'this is OLP, this is the band I was telling you about' and they played Superman's Dead. I really liked it so I spent a very long time in Chicago a few days later looking for a record shop to see if I could find the album. So I bought Clumsy and listened to it as soon as I got home and loved it, went straight out and bought Naveed. It took me a little while to get into as it's a bit heavier than what I was listening to at the time, but I soon recognised it for the genius that it is.
My first show was 3 years ago seeing them support the Stereophonics. And then I had to wait almost 3 years to see them again but I've seen them 6 times in 3 different countries in the past 3 months and am officially addicted!

Xavier870 · Post by **Xavier870** » 12/4/2002, 3:16 pm

Ahhhh it was Grade 6 lip sync contest, and a bunch of my friends did this song that I had never heard before. It was called "Clumsy". When I heard it, I was like "heyyyyy! not bad!". At the time I wasn't into music at all. I probably knew the words to 4 songs, and they were all country songs (since thats all that my parents listened to). Well I liked it a lot, but never found out who it was by, and lost contact with those friends. Then a few years later my friend Nathaniel told me to download this song called "Thief". I downloaded it (since I now had a computer and the internet) and never listened to it again. 2 years later I am becoming more and more into music. I buy Big Shiny Tunes 6, and fall in love with Life. I start downloading OLP singles, and thought they were amazing. That's when I burned all the cd's pre-Gravity. Gravity is released, I see the SOT video thousands of times on Edge TV, and by Gravity July 16th. I go into my room, and look through my CD collection only to discover I had purchased Clumsy at a garage sale a couple years back. It still had the price tag on it. $0.25. :mrgreen:

Anyways, the next day I bought Naveed. A week later my mom comes home and hands me a copy of Happiness... that she had picked up at Future Shop. One more to go. I went on summer vacation, and August 16th, my birthday, I was given Spiritual Machines. Best album ever. I gave my burned copies to people I knew to promote OLP, and joined the CM 2 days later. I hooked 3 friends onto OLP, and my brother made a CD last night with All For You, SOT, Life, and Not Enough on it. I'm so proud. :cry:

Susan · Post by **Susan** » 12/4/2002, 3:36 pm

Alex sent me some MP3s from Clumsy and said "listen and love." And I did :mrgreen:

happening fish · Post by **happening fish** » 12/4/2002, 3:39 pm

i don't even remember that!!

Susan · Post by **Susan** » 12/4/2002, 3:41 pm

I remember it distinctly. :mrgreen:

megxyz128 · Post by **megxyz128** » 12/4/2002, 3:42 pm

happeninfish wrote:when clumsy came out the boys in my 6th grade class were into it and since i hung around them so much i got sucked right in. i spent all of 6th grade with clumsy in my discman and headphones in my ears.

and, by the way, i had no idea who any of the band members were or what they looked like except for the vague pictures in the clumsy liners until a couple years later. so it had nothing to do with raine's appearance. i fell in love with his VOICE and his LYRICS.

Yeah I didn't know what any of them looked like either. My cousin played Automatic Flowers and Superman's Dead, well actually most of Clumsy when we were visiting my aunt and uncle, and I loved it. I got the cd from my aunt and uncle for Christmas that year and have been hooked ever since ...

One-Eye · Post by **One-Eye** » 12/4/2002, 3:47 pm

I heard Thief on the radio one day and it said everything I'd been feeling recently, and it was so beautiful. I'd only heard of OLP once or twice, and had never heard any of their songs - in all the years my sister had Naveed, she never introduced me to them - but I knew then and there that I had to get the album that had that song. (This was in the days before I had Napster, thankfully, else I might never have investigated them further)

I still remember the day I bought Happiness. Lying on my bed all day with it on repeat, in awe. I don't think any other album has instantly affected me as much as that.

Susan · Post by **Susan** » 12/4/2002, 3:51 pm

OLP was the first band that ever intrigued me to the point where I'd sit for hours listening to album after album, finding new sounds and thinking about the lyrics, etc.

happening fish · Post by **happening fish** » 12/4/2002, 4:13 pm

And so it should be :love:

trentm32 · Post by **trentm32** » 12/4/2002, 4:24 pm

I became an OLP fan right at th eend of the Happiness... era. I'd heard 'Clumsy' on the local rock station a few times, and totally dug it. I finally sat down on the net and figured out who sung it: lo and behold, they had a CD before that one, and one had already been released after it. I got Clumsy at a local store, ordered Naveed and Happiness... , and waited with baited heartbeats for SM. So, all and all, I guess it was the uber-rockingness of Clumsy that made me a lifer.

trentm32 · Post by **trentm32** » 12/4/2002, 4:26 pm

Hey, alright, I passed the '300' mark on posting :-)

Furious George · Post by **Furious George** » 12/4/2002, 6:23 pm

Hayden is DA MAN. :thumbs:

One-Eye · Post by **One-Eye** » 12/4/2002, 6:24 pm

Aaah! He's pretty scary.

Furious George · Post by **Furious George** » 12/4/2002, 6:25 pm

Whoops, I just noticed that Emily's post was on a completely different page. How do you like my reaction time?

ALongGetaway · Post by **ALongGetaway** » 12/4/2002, 6:42 pm

I hate to say that I didn't find OLP until I heard SOT on the radio :neutral:

If I didn't live up here in the sticks and I heard them earlier I definitely would have fallen in love... But after I heard SOT I started remembering some other songs I heard by them like Superman's Dead and One Man Army and Clumsy and I got the other 4 cds right away (I already had Gravity) So I don't really have a great story to tell about hearing a great song and falling in love with them right away. :neutral:

I really wish I heard about them earlier.

emily · Post by **emily** » 12/4/2002, 9:03 pm

OLPgeotomi wrote:
Hayden is DA MAN.

i soo wish i was natalie portman. :mrgreen:

Sufjan Stevens · Post by **Sufjan Stevens** » 12/4/2002, 9:04 pm

I wish I was with Natalie Portman....ahhhh