Making Up With An Ex
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Tomorrow I have to submit an assignment and write a midterm and oh I'm so behind. This is of course why I feel the need to Mog.I've been thinking a lot about Our Lady Peace lately and in particular, whether it's okay to swallow your pride and admit to liking a band you tossed aside as rubbish.
They were one of my first favourite bands back in '97. Clumsy had just come out and while at this time I was not a "music person" at all, I got to listen to it from classmates who would play it during art class.At first, I didn't understand it. To quote one of my friends "If you listened to this stuff all the time you'd go crazy". Yes, we were bubblegum pop teenybopper types and rock just didn't make a lot of sense to us. However, after a while I fell in love with the combination of great musicianship and Raine's warbling vocals. This may have been the first time I actually really liked rock music.That Christmas, I got both Clumsy and Naveed making them some of the first cds that I ever owned. Clumsy became an instant classic- I played it constantly. Naveed took some time to grow on me since it was, well, different. It didn't have the familiar songs and it was more about the crazy guitar riffs. Looking back, it's now my favourite OLP album by far and I would say the best Canadian album of the 90s. Seriously, go listen to it.Fast-forward to 1999. OLP were releasing a new album (Happiness...) and being a new superfan, I picked it up the day it was released and how I was disappointed. Gone were the guitar riffs in favour of incredibly slow, mellow music. I tried to console myself by thinking at least I can fall asleep to this.Since then, I've completely written off the band. They went from absolutely amazing songs like Starseed to mediocre crap like Innocent, a song that makes me want to rip my ears off.However, a few months ago I heard their song "Angels/Losing/Sleep" on the radio and oh I found myself secretly liking it after trashing the band. I considered it a fluke (every band tends to have at least one likeable song) and always felt shameful listening to it. Just yesterday, I heard another new OLP song on the radio (which one I don't know) and I was completely struck by how not-bad it was. It might even be considered good.Now I feel like I've been unfair and should give them a chance again as much as it pains me. When I take a stand on bands I like to stick to it but they just keep making me go back.Has anyone else experience this sort of thing before, where you publicly proclaim to dislike a band and then they end up surprising you? Is it okay to go back on what you said and like a band or does it just make you a hypocrite?Whatever the case, I think I should listen to Healthy In Paranoid Times to see if they have in fact stopped sucking.
They were one of my first favourite bands back in '97. Clumsy had just come out and while at this time I was not a "music person" at all, I got to listen to it from classmates who would play it during art class.At first, I didn't understand it. To quote one of my friends "If you listened to this stuff all the time you'd go crazy". Yes, we were bubblegum pop teenybopper types and rock just didn't make a lot of sense to us. However, after a while I fell in love with the combination of great musicianship and Raine's warbling vocals. This may have been the first time I actually really liked rock music.That Christmas, I got both Clumsy and Naveed making them some of the first cds that I ever owned. Clumsy became an instant classic- I played it constantly. Naveed took some time to grow on me since it was, well, different. It didn't have the familiar songs and it was more about the crazy guitar riffs. Looking back, it's now my favourite OLP album by far and I would say the best Canadian album of the 90s. Seriously, go listen to it.Fast-forward to 1999. OLP were releasing a new album (Happiness...) and being a new superfan, I picked it up the day it was released and how I was disappointed. Gone were the guitar riffs in favour of incredibly slow, mellow music. I tried to console myself by thinking at least I can fall asleep to this.Since then, I've completely written off the band. They went from absolutely amazing songs like Starseed to mediocre crap like Innocent, a song that makes me want to rip my ears off.However, a few months ago I heard their song "Angels/Losing/Sleep" on the radio and oh I found myself secretly liking it after trashing the band. I considered it a fluke (every band tends to have at least one likeable song) and always felt shameful listening to it. Just yesterday, I heard another new OLP song on the radio (which one I don't know) and I was completely struck by how not-bad it was. It might even be considered good.Now I feel like I've been unfair and should give them a chance again as much as it pains me. When I take a stand on bands I like to stick to it but they just keep making me go back.Has anyone else experience this sort of thing before, where you publicly proclaim to dislike a band and then they end up surprising you? Is it okay to go back on what you said and like a band or does it just make you a hypocrite?Whatever the case, I think I should listen to Healthy In Paranoid Times to see if they have in fact stopped sucking.
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