Talk:Our Lady Peace/Archive 1

Archive 1

NPOV

The line "The lyrics, especially in the earlier albums, operate at an intellectual and emotional level deeper than most modern rock songs, though" seems to break the NPOV rule. It is giving a point of view that isn't neccasarily believed in by the majority of people, and AFAIK isn't. -- LGagnon

Good call. Fixed it, as far as I can tell. Feel free to revise further. Mike Church 16:47, 12 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Dubious "sales"

I'm not quite sure I buy the figures for OLP's album sales. Can someone please attribute these to a source? They seem VERY high and largely inaccurate. --Punky 16:15, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Modified "album sales" section

According to the RIAA (U.S.) and the CRIA (Canada),

"Gold", "platinum" and "diamond" certification takes place at different album sale thresholds in Canada (CRIA) and the U.S. (RIAA), according to this article: Platinum_record

Therefore, the numbers in the "album sales" section didn't jibe at all - they all incorrectly had one extra 0. I adjusted the figures to reflect the correct amounts as sourced here: CRIA and RIAA --205.150.14.236 19:15, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Prolific Status?

These guys seem to pump out more songs than any band I know. Would it be fair to call them prolific artists?

Considering they took three years to record their latest album, I don't think so. Lunapuella 19:12, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Band History

Would someone please make it better? I would but I'm a terrible writer (proof of this can be seen in Steve's wiki which was written by myself and has been marked for cleanup for months). It's missing so many important facts, namely anything from 2000 on. The division of "1990s" and "2000s" doesn't flow very well, either.

After waiting for someone else to fix this, I decided to get rid of the "1990s" and "2000s" headings myself. The bio still needs a major revamp, but it makes more sense now, at least. --Nikki4982 06:20, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

I am a rather big OLP fan, and I have to say that this band history was entirely inaccurate for the most part. I added information about the original "As If" band and kind of broke up the paragraphs to make it more readable and I took out of lot of the redundancy. I hope this helps. - Matthew 18:35, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Excellent job. I'm SO glad someone finally did something with it. I check the wiki regularly to make sure nobody's spammed it or whatever, and it always drove me crazy seeing that awful bio. I fixed a few typos you made, and changed the Fair Ground link to the band's wiki link. I've got a question, though. Why did you refer to Jim Newell as "Jimmy Newell"? Is that what he goes by? I know next to nothing about the guy. Also, he was never an official member of the band from what I've read (only a hired session musician, really), should that be fit into the bio somehow? Again, great job.--Nikki4982 13:28, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

When I first saw a reference to him, it was Jimmy. But either way, it didn't really matter to me :). If I had more information...well, you know. I do know that Jeremy Taggart joined the band the same time that they were signed to Sony. - Matthew 13:37, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

I see you edited a bit more. It's probably best to leave Jim out since we don't know anything about him. Hopefully someone will come along in the future that knows more and can add something about him. :) Again, great job with the bio.--Nikki4982 21:25, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

I tried to put things in chronological order (IE: Mike Turner's leave appeared after the release of 'Gravity'). I also placed a few more facts and moved some of the band's history that featured in the Trivia section into the proper history section, such as their appearance on Live 8. I also removed (yet again) the names of the unnoficial band members from the intro of the article, as they were never official band members and were hired musicians only for the tours. I hope that it was helpfulf. --Alexvickers 04:41, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Unnoficial Band members

I would like to know what is the general opinion on adding unnoficial band members in the former member list. Personally, I am against it and I have been deleting these entries. In OLPs case, these "unnoficial" band members and "stunt musicians" were hired musicians that toured with them.--Alexvickers 06:12, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

They may have been hired musicians, but at least Mike Eisenstein was treated as part of the band while he toured with them, appearing in radio interviews and Christmas greetings. I'm not sure if this was the case for other band members as well. Lunapuella 06:43, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Some of these "hired musicians" have helped write on the band's albums and were in the studio during recording. Look at the liner notes of the albums (well... HIPT is hard because it doesn't have a track breakdown with who wrote what, but from interviews, the band mentioned Joel coming in and helping when they were stuck). Though, Jamie was actually official at the very end of his time "in" OLP, so he's kind of a different case. Joel could become official someday, who knows... but even if he doesn't, he's very much a part of the band right now. They're not like most bands' hired hands... they're a lot more involved. The earlier members who weren't official... I dunno. But Jamie and Joel should definitely be included in my mind. - Nikki4982 11:27, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Stunt

I have never heard of a stunt musician in my whole life. Don't you mean, session musician? --andreasegde 13:59, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

I changed it to session musician. Strobilus 20:06, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Contridiction on Page

The main OLP page says that Happiness is Not a Fish peaked at #1 on the Canadian chart, but when you click on the Happieness page... it says the record peaked at #2 on the Canadian Charts.

what is the correct answer? JeremyBaker (talk) 01:16, 16 January 2008 (UTC)JeremyBaker