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My Lady Peace, informally OLP, occurs as Canadian alternative rock band consisting of Raine Maida (vocals), Duncan Coutts (bass), Jeremy Taggart (drums), and Steve Mazur (guitar).

Ex-members of the band include Mike Turner (founding member & guitar player), Jamie Edwards ("Stunt Musician"), Mike Eisenstein ("Stunt Musician"), Chris Eacrett (bassist), & Jim Newell (drummer).

Presently, the band get on tour inside N United states of america by owning a fifth stage member, Joel Shearer (of the band [http://www.pedestrianmusic.org Pedestrian]).

1990s
My Lady Peace was founded inside 1992 when Mike Turner placed a "musicians wanted" ad within the Toronto newspaper. Responding number 1 was Michael (Raine) Maidthe, a criminology student at the University of Toronto. Late, 17-month-old Jeremy Taggart & Chris Eacrett joined a band. Eacrett left around 1995, replaced by Duncan Coutts. Turner left inside 2001, replaced by Steve Mazur. Jamie Edwards, the keyboardist, would joaround in 1996 and leave in 2002, shortly after Turner left.

My Lady Peace number 1 won recognition by owning their debut album Naveed, released withinside Canada in 1994 and the United States within 1995. "Naveed" became the hit inside Canada & "Starseed" a hit within Canada & a United States. ("Starseed" would later on come out on the Armageddon film soundtrack.) Their second album, Clumsy, released inside 1997 and including the tracks "Clumsy," an instant hit in a area of the suburbian landscape, "4 AM," a extra moody song all about non appreciating the effective items inside life including personal, "Superman's Dead," the song all about existence alone within the globe forswearing relying in a hero, "Carnival" & "Automatic Flowers", constituted OLP as a leading band inside 1990s rock music in Canada, and the notable class action internationally. Their music explored typically deep intellect & emotional themes using mighty orchestration & a unique singing voice of lead singer Maida, known as "strange" & "paranoid".

1999 saw the release of Happiness...Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch, featuring "One Man Army", "Thief" and "Is Anybody Home?". A title track, "Happiness & The Fish", was not released as a single but is credited for spawning the catch phrase, "Talking is just masturbating without the mess."

2000s
Inside 2000, the band freed Spiritual Machines, a concept album inspired by Ray Kurzweil's The Age of Spiritual Machines, and featuring "In Repair", "Life" & "Right Behind You (Mafia)".

In the early 2000s, some critics contended that a band's recently music changed significantly, adopting an more and more mainstream healthy, using Maida's voice possibly losing its "paranoid" edge. Critics of the band's fifth album, Gravity, called it "overproduced" & "too mainstream". That said, its number 1 only, "Somewhere Out There", became a band's top-charting international hit up to now.

My Lady Peace besides became a large hit in a wrestling depending fans, when it provided the theme tune for "The Crippler" Chris Benoit, entitled "Whatever," and provided a backing music to Jeff Hardy's WWE Desire with a track "Not Enough".

Around 2003, Our Lady Peace freed a album Live, a compilation of xiv tracks from either survive performances. My Lady Peace besides freed a DVD under the equivalent title, featuring Twenty-two tracks, including all the tracks from either their Survive album.

My Lady Peace freed their latest record, highborn Healthy in Paranoid Times, on August 30, 2005. A foremost lone is "Where Are You?", discharged within Canada in June 28, 2005 and released in the United states in July 18, 2005.

My Lady Peace was added to The Rolling Stones' tour dates in Ottawa, Ontario and Moncton, New Brunswick in late April 2005.

Discography
1994/1995: Naveed — CAN sales: 400,000 (4x platinum) 1997: Clumsy — #1 May, #76 Me — Could sales: 1,000,000 (Diamond); United states sales: 1,000,000 (Pt) 1999: Happiness...Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch — #1 CAN, #69 US — CAN sales: 300,000 (3x platinum) 2000/2001: Spiritual Machines — #5 Potty, #81 Me — CAN sales: 200,000 (2x atomic number 78) 2002: Gravity — #2 Could, #9 Me — CAN sales: 200,000 (2x pt); The states sales: 600,000 (Gold) 2003: Live 2005: Healthy in Paranoid Times — #2 CAN, #45 US

Singles

|rowspan="2"| Year |rowspan="2"| Title |colspan="1"| Chart positions |rowspan="2"| Album |-

| US Modern Rock |- | 2005 | "Where Are You" | #28 | Fit around Paranoid Times |}

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Rollingstone.com: Our Lady Peace
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CanEHdian.com: Our Lady Peace
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Canadian Music Encyclopedia
Biography, discography, and links for Our Lady Peace.

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Virtual Fan Club Site for Our Lady Peace

Music Song Lyrics - Our Lady Peace
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