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Our Lady Peace - Healthy In Paranoid Times Audio CD

A fair review of the Our Lady Peace "Healthy In Paranoid Times" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Our Lady Peace reviews here, or go back to the Our Lady Peace tabs.

Our Lady Peace Band: Our Lady Peace
Title: Healthy In Paranoid Times
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Release Date: 2005-08-30
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Angels/Losing/Sleep 2: Will the Future Blame Us 3: Picture 4: Where Are You 5: Wipe That Smile Off Your Face 6: Love and Trust 7: Boy 8: Apology 9: World on a String 10: Don't Stop 11: Walking in Circles 12: Al Genina (Leave the Light On)

Love the band, but this is not their best album
I'm an ENORMOUS OLP fan, but this album lacks a bit, mostly in the last song.


Better than Gravity, but not perfection...
I was privy to seeing them open for Van Halen in 1995, already a fan of the Naveed album, I was so impressed by the originality and energy of the on stage performance. I will start off by saying I have been a huge Our Lady Peace fan for nearly 12 years. Each album released after Naveed seemed to carve out a unique vibe, mainly driven by the hooking riffs of Mike Turner. With his departure, went all the drive and energy that seemed to make Raine's lyrics listenable. Gravity, while having some very noteworthy pop songs, was so glossy and over-produced, lacking any of that true OLP trademark sound. The slicked down, Mesa/Boogie Triple Recitifier, over delayed guitar riffs of Steve Mazur seemed to drown out all that was OLP.

This new album basically only has two listenable tracks, but they are so good and ring of all that OLP was in the past, that they warrant the purchase of the CD alone. "Apology" is a brilliant song where Raine's vocals are truly that old OLP sound. The structure of this song is classic OLP, quite possibly the best song they have made to date. You almost get a sense that Mike Turner wrote the riffs on this one. Mazur has definitely tamed down his amps and put away the digital processing on this track. "Angel Losing Sleep" is the other keeper. Very reminiscent of a track that may have made the cut on Happiness. . . . This song instantly is etched into memory and I love the chorus on this one.

Well unfortunately, that is all I have good to say about this disc. But definitely download those two songs and bypass the rest. I hold out hope that the next album will be more focused and follow in the same direction as these songs seems to be leading us.

Peace and love to all,
Mikey.


A load of garbage.
This album is terrible, and very boring, its ovious Mike Turner (previous guitarist)was what made this band and gave them their sound. Gravity was tolerable ( I suppose) but this is it, Our Lady Peace is finished.

Such a shame.
If you like "POP" music, you'll like this.


Not much going on for me
You can see it here in the reviews for the new OLP cd as well as any other cd for sale at Amazon. The great thing about music is that what doesn't appeal to one person sounds great to the next.
I loved "Gravity". "Healthy" is not horrible,but after a few listens nothing is memorable. I don't find myself singing any of the songs to myself during the day. Its just an "Okay" cd for me.


Our Lady Peace Rules!!!
The album itself has a different sound than their other music but what can you expect in this day and age when everyone expects it to be one up the previous album. I will say for those of you of you who are considering buying the album that I am probably biased being from Canada, eh, but I feel that all of their albums are great (note as per the rating system out of 5 I would give some of there past stuff a 6, while giving this one a 5)! Coming from the 90's rock era its still great to have a few bands around that I can just sit back and really listen to some good music. I do hear the modern edge and would love some more Naveed like albums but I would take Our lady peace over any other band currently on the market. For me I can really feel the emotion they put into all of there music! Keep those albums coming!.


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