Gravity - Our Lady Peace

Although many bands will tell you that their second album was the most difficult to make, particularly if it’s an offering following commercial success, I often view a bands fifth or sixth album to be among their most significant. It’s not only down to the fact that I like the numbers five and six but it seems to be a turning point for many bands – The Beatles went on to release another cracking movie soundtrack for ‘Help!’ with album number five ...
...studio release, ‘Battle For The Sun’ and sadly it’s a trap Our Lady Peace fell into back in the June of 2002. By the time you get to a fifth album, bands perhaps see it as a time for extreme change; the majority of the bands I like fit the tag of ‘alternative’ so with each record, you’d expect a group to grow out of their teenage angst days before gradually moving into a more considered, reflective species of songs prior to experimenting a little ...

MizzMolko 03.08.2009 · Read full review
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The first song on this fifth studio album by our lady peace is entitles "All for you" and has the kinda sound associated with moodern Canadian rock (such as Finger 11), the heavy guitar sounds and strong vocals... hang on a minuite there...Our lady peace and "strong vocals", Raine (OLP's lead singer) has an amazing voice, but never would you usually describe it as strong, "Paranoid" and uniquie maybe but not strong. Thats the first thing that hits ...
...the same time not soundinglike them. Sorry for that little rant, the lyrics although also sounding like OLP again sound different, too much form and too much commeercial appeal perhaps, as this for one seems to have a chorusey part thats very evidentally a chorus. Maybe I'm being harsh on one of my favourite bands because the song isn't bad, it's just not what I've come to expect from the group. Perhaps this is the problem. Still a good song in ...

iamasadlittleboy 01.02.2007 · Read full review
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...Our Lady Peace's album Gravity is their fifth album that was released in 2002. The Canadian band's album features songs "Somewhere Out There” Do You Like It” and “Not Enough” The whole album has variety like their previous albums of slow and fast loud rock songs. I find this a great album to relax to. I really recommend this album for any one who hasn’t heard Our Lady Peace before it gives you a full taste of there abilities overall. ...

sezlouise 03.04.2004 · Read full review
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Gravity is Our Lady Peace's 5th studio offering and is one of the best. It has more of a commercial feel to it, but then when a band becomes more popular, as OLP have in Canada and indeed Britain, what do you expect? They are from Canada and happen to be one of the country's biggest music exports, even if they are not that well known in chart circles they are bigger than you'd expect. This album has sensational songs on it, but unfortunately these ...
...the album with the first 5 songs being the best. These songs are very memorable and will stick with you i'm sure. The rest sort of prop up this album as it falls into mediocrity, but they do just manage to do that and each of the latter songs deserves some credit. OLP's musci is a mix of emotionally driven rock with some heavier parts, some more laid back parts. It is not nu-metal in any way, thankfully. One of the best parts of their music and ...

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Our Lady Peace are a Canadian rock band which have had a fair amount of local success, but are little known this side of the pond. I enjoyed their two previous albums ('Happiness is not a fish that you can catch' and 'Spiritual Machines'). Spiritual Machines was a concept album which actually worked quite well, based upon an old Ray Kurzweil book about how Machines will out evolve us. However, since then, their guitarist left on 'artistic grounds', ...
...soft/cheesy rock, but with this they have crossed the line, with songs like 'Innocent', you feel like there is little left to say other than cliches. I had been waiting for this album eagerly for a long time before it was released, but I have to say that I am dissapointed. It isn't that it is a really bad album, but I won't listen to it frequently like the two which precede it. ...

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