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Odin wrote:Matt Good have already passed OLP in my heart. You take OLP's best song (lyrically):
Goodnight, the future's sold out
there's no use screaming
Who thought we'd ever get this far
Tonight your faith has come down
To money and a TV
Psychics who've never been to Mars and
Nazi breast feeding....

And now you take one of the best Matt Good song:
You will come back within yourself
You can be art when we melt
And I will know what you were for
I say we're leaving
There ain't nothing here at all
Another day, a week the mall...

Suburbia is much more poetic.

I'd say most of the lyrics off of Naveed can match most of MGB's (I don't think "Is Anybody Home" is OLP's best song lyrically)... that's just my opinion though.

here's just a few examples of some amazingly crafted lyrics throughout Naveed:

"Hopelessly a man starts to feed your day
Once he was there you never looked back
How do you think that his words might just fade away
He seems harmless enough so you let him in and now you'll pay
I can't see him but he's stalking my thoughts..."

"Well I let go of the world that was holding
A passenger that could not fly
In search of souls
In search of something
Let it go, and let it slide"

"Climbing down the hours and I need to know now
Do the hands of time only rule this chapter"

"Drowning in her own visions,
She's begging the past to stay behind
A black cat in the night,
And there's a black cat in that sky"

"So you feel that stain,
Dried up discussions without weight"

"Time can't fix it fast enough,
So we won't notice what it was went wrong
I saw something there much too familiar
A butterfly with a broken wing
She's fallen under, she's past the end,
Communication's down and down and down
The scars have healed, but they're back again
We've got to believe this man must bend"

"I watch the traffic,
I find the seeds
And one man in particular
Well he's not what he seems
So I quick, quick
I can't focus in
On the lies in his head
Convinced... oh, that his blood is blue
But it's red, red, red... yeah!"

"Hope climbs atop of the piano
Reaching out towards the warmth of the sun"

"Much more than seven days, you've slipped too deep
Much stronger than sympathy, let your best friend pull back that leash
Sitting by a frozen man, someone somewhere has to cry
We're under zenith again let the cycle run we won't die"


...well, you get the point :wink:

I guess Matt Good has been improving since LOTGA, on the contrary Raine is just going down hill.

Raine used to be more intelligent than Matt, I wonder what happened.

Odin wrote:I guess Matt Good has been improving since LOTGA, on the contrary Raine is just going down hill.

Raine used to be more intelligent than Matt, I wonder what happened.

that, I have to agree with... It seems as though Raine was lyrically at his best when he was fresh out of University in the midst of recording Naveed... if you compare Naveed's lyrics to Gravity's, you'd wonder what the hell went wrong! I hope for the next album that Raine has more input with what he wants to express and not to let Bob Rock decide what's good and what's not. I can't belive this actually happened while they were recording gravity!! I mean, c'mon.... let the man create his own lyrics for the music that they make! I don't care if you're too dumb to understand them Mr. Rock! It hasn't failed in their previous albums! Let OLP freely express themselves both musically and lyrically.... that's all I ask.

Yeah, Audio of Being is fucking brilliant, and Naveed is a masterpiece, and it's just gone downhill for Our Lady Peace.. I was really happy with OLP up until Gravity, though.. there's a lot of brilliance on SM, even. Gravity is a good album, I like it, still.. I just don't love it, and that's a sad feeling.

I don't think you can really say one of them is more intelligent than the other, really, they're pretty different.

yeah, you can't deny the fact that Raine and Matt have a similar depth of quality to their lyrics that are far beyond what most bands nowandays are creating.... although, Raine seems to have lost some of his lyrical fire with Gravity, while Matt has kept the fire burning with AOB.

CitrickAzid wrote:i just dled "As Long as Your Mine" today. whats the story with this one? is it a cover or just a raerity or something? it's beautiful.

That's pre-MGB.

Endymion wrote:Yeah, Audio of Being is fucking brilliant, and Naveed is a masterpiece, and it's just gone downhill for Our Lady Peace.. I was really happy with OLP up until Gravity, though.. there's a lot of brilliance on SM, even. Gravity is a good album, I like it, still.. I just don't love it, and that's a sad feeling.

I don't think you can really say one of them is more intelligent than the other, really, they're pretty different.

I agree..

Matthew Good is coming to Halifax on September 14, and I can't go.
Foly huck.

Revived!

lol