Disco de Our Lady Peace: “Burn Burn”

Forget all the talk about "selling out" and this album sounding too "mainstream." With every album release there's always going to be someone making those claims.

Truth be told for a Rock album, this isn't great. It's average at best. For an Our Lady Peace album this album is simply disappointing and bland. As a rock album I give it 3 stars, but compared to the other OLP CD's I'd give this 1 star out of 5 because it's by far my least favorite album of theirs thus far. The album lacks any sort of musical teeth. It's just melodic drivel with Raine's unique vocals placed...and I do mean "placed" on top. This is a band capable of a very driving and unique biting sound. Raine's unique falsetto, completely absent on this album. Raine's vocals on this CD sound uninspired and absent of emotion. He's just singing words placed over the most basic rock sound. The bands hard driving rock sound...also gone.

The most disappointing thing about this CD is it could have been released by ANY rock band, but fortunately it's Our Lady Peace....which is all that saves it for me. Because to me, even a bad Our Lady Peace CD is better than a lot of rock that's out there.

This album seems to lack Raine's falsetto singing, the cynical lyrics, and the edginess that defines Our Lady Peace musically. I'd probably skip this release if you are an Our Lady Peace fan. It just doesn't really sound like them. Three stars simply because Our Lady Peace on their worst days are still better than 95% of the other alternative bands out there.

**PREFACE** - Our Lady Peace is by far my favorite artist, I've pretty much listened to ONLY them for the past 2 years straight.

My 2/5 stars is based on a combination of my rating of the album against any other music out there, and against previous Our Lady Peace works. Against all other material, I would rate this 3.5/5, but against previous Our Lady Peace material, I would give it at best 2/5, probably 1.5/5.

Ever since this band decided to go for the mainstream BS back in 2001, things have gone downhill. Their first album under this moniker, Gravity, was still a great album because the energy was there -- lead singer Raine Maida's voice had lost its falsetto screech but was still emotional. By the next album in 2005, Healthy in Paranoid Times, his voice continued to decrease in emotion and notability.

This album, Raine's voice is just utterly disappointing. I could sing better than this. I've had friends ask me whether it's the same guy singing in Burn Burn as it was in the old albums. They're convinced that it can't be the same person. Sadly, it is the same person. What happened to Raine's voice, we'll never know.

The songs on this album are for damn teenyboppers, not for the hundreds of thousands of fans they've gathered since their 1994 debut that enjoy their REAL music. I don't understand their newfound fascination with ballads and formulaic generic crap music? It really, really makes me sad. But alas, it's still Our Lady Peace and I will always listen to anything they release, they're my favorite band.

I just gotta ask ya Raine, what the hell happened to OLP?!

I've spend my cash on the music over the years. I have every album that has been released, even the mainstream, radio-friendly "Gravity" and "Healthy in Paranoid Times"...but this...this ain't even worth keeping, honey!

I received the disc in the mail yesterday and popped it into the car cd player. A short 15 minute drive later I was already through the drivel and gave up on it.

My friend who I was riding with, who never heard anything from this amazing group, seemed slightly offended that I wanted to keep listening after the first few tracks. I had to poke her in the ribs so she wouldn't drive off the road, too!

I kept listening though, listening for ANYTHING that I could say, "Now THIS is OLP!". That came with the song "Monkey Brains" but even that song was a far and distant cry from the amazing albums of OLP past. Any long time fan of this group KNOWS the albums I'm speaking of as well.

If you're into shallow, un-enthusiastic, un-inspired, teenie-bopper crap music...you know...the kind where you're laying in bed staring at your pink colored ceiling and thinking, "Wow...Raine must be singing this song to me, he's so CUTE *teehee!!!!*" then by all means buy this album. Or just let me know, you can HAVE mine!

Please...just make this crappy album go away...

At the risk of sounding redundant, this is a bad Nickelback album. Do NOT waste your money on this, it is far and away the worst and least creative album the band has ever made. The only decent tracks on this album are Monkey Brains and Paper Moon and even they don't compare to anything off the band's first 4 albums. The rest are unoriginal pop garbage that sounds absolutely nothing like old OLP and everything like bad b-sides from Gravity (2nd worst album). Not only are the majority of the songs radio-friendly pop songs, but they're bad pop songs.

Although advertised as a return to their musical roots, this album is anything but that - pop/radio chord progressions, bad guitar solos, and even worse/more restrained drumming by a guy that is amazingly talented.

These guys were my favorite band from Naveed through Spiritual Machines, then took a nosedive with Gravity. Healthy in Paranoid Times was a step in the right direction, so I was excited about the release of Burn, Burn especially with what Raine had been saying about the album. If anyone thinks similarly, be prepared to be severely disappointed.