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The Alternative-Rock band Our Lady Peace, taking the name from a Mark
Van Doren World War II poem, was founded in 1992 by vocalist Raine
Maida and guitarist Mike Turner in Toronto, CANADA; the early line-up
included bassist Chris Eacrett and a young Jeremy Taggart on drums.
After playing some gigs in and around their hometown, the quartet put
together 11 songs to form their debut album; "Naveed" was released
in March 1994 in Canada and a year later south of the border; the album
became a hit in their homeland on the strength of the single "Starseed";
the track eventually cracked the top 10 on both U.S. Mainstream and Modern
Rock charts. The band spent over two years on the road playing 350 shows,
including high-profile gigs with Bush; meanwhile
Eacrett left the band, to be replaced by Duncan Coutts on bass.
Our Lady Peace's next album, "Clumsy", which arrived in January
1997, was an instant smash in Canada, less than a month after its release,
the record hit double-platinum reaching the top of the National Albums
chart, by the time it sold over one million copies in Canada alone; after
the U.S. spring release, "Clumsy" peaked at #76 on The Billboard
Top 200 chart, the title-track hit #5 on The Modern Rock chart and peaked
at #13 on The Mainstream Rock Tracks; the second single, "Superman's
Dead", reached the #11 and #14 slots on that same charts; the final
single, "4am", barely missed the top 30 of The Modern Rock list
and helped the album go platinum.
"Happiness... Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch", was released
in September 1999, their third effort shot to the #1 slot on the Top Canadian
Albums chart and reached the #69 position on the U.S. Top 200 chart; the
main track, "One Man Army", was in the top 20 of the Canadian
Singles chart for various weeks and peaked at #13 on the Billboard's Modern
Rock list; the subsequent "Is Anybody Home?" single also hit
the top 20 of The Modern Rock chart.
A year later Our Lady Peace released a sophisticated concept album inspired
by Ray Kurzweil's "The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers
Exceed Human Intelligence"; the record entitled "Spiritual Machines"
reached #10 in Canada, failed to crack the top 80 in the United States
with only one Modern Rock charting single: "Life".
In the fall of 2001 Mike Turner left the band just before they began recording
their fifth album, Steve Mazur took his place as guitarist; the Pop-friendly
"Gravity" rose to #2 on The Top Canadian Albums chart and shot
to #9 on The Billboard 200 becoming their best chart-placing to date in
the States; the first single, "Somewhere Out There", became
the band's first Hot 100 entry at #44 and peaked at #7 on The Modern Rock
list; "Innocent" was another Modern Rock top 20 hit for the
band.
2003 saw the release of the live compilation "Live From Calgary And
Edmonton", another strong success for the group in their homeland,
the set peaked at #5 on the National Albums chart.
The post-Grunge rockers returned in August 2005 with their sixth studio
album, "Healthy In Paranoid Times"; it reached the #2 position
in Canada and reached #45 in U.S. led by the Modern Rock top 30 single
"Where Are You".
In the fall of 2006 Our Lady Peace released its long-awaited greatest-hits
album, "A Decade", the collection included 16 tracks that spanned
the OLP's career, ending with two new songs.
One year later frontman Raine Maida
released his first solo CD.
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