Happiness Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch

Performer: Our Lady Peace
Artist: Elvin Jones
Engineer: Arnold Lanni; Angelo Caruso
Producer: Arnold Lanni
Distributor: Sony Music Distribution (

Notes: Full Title: Happiness...Is Not A Fish That You Can Catch. Our Lady Peace: Raine Maida (vocals); Mike Turner (guitar); Duncan Coutts (bass); Jeremy Taggart (drums). Additional personnel includes: Jamie Edwards (guitar, keyboards); Elvin Jones (drums). Recorded at Amyard Studios, Toronto, Canada. There's nothing mysterious about Our Lady Peace's sound: raspy, nasal vocals over crunching, post-grunge guitars held together by heavy, relentless, borderline tribal drums. What does make Our Lady Peace stand out is that the group does these things as well or better than its counterparts and that it has the uncanny ability to craft especially unforgettable songs. HAPPINESS...IS NOT A FISH YOU CAN CATCH, the Canadian foursome's third disc, continues Our Lady Peace's tradition of thoroughly satisfying albums. What defines an Our Lady Peace record is the moment when it all comes together, and on HAPPINESS..., that happens on the very first track and single, "One Man Army," a genuine arena rocker with an undeniably hummable chorus. Other standout tracks include the exhilarating "Potato Girl," which highlights the best of Raine Maida's flexible vocals; "Annie," which effectively injects '60s psychedelic pop into the band's sound; and "Lying Awake," an endearingly cloying power ballad. Our Lady Peace doesn't venture all that far from its convention on HAPPINESS..., but it certainly crafts ingeniously catchy tunes that teeter on the edge of perfection. Sometimes, that's all we need from music.

Rolling Stone (10/28/99, pp.99-100) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...HAPPINESS turns earnest questions into diverting mind games. Raine Maida's lyrics can be virtuously doomy...but he swirls them around on his tongue and spits them out like tasty venom..."

A survivor of the post-grunge alt-rock avalanche, Toronto's Our Lady Peace burst onto the scene with its tightly wound 1995 college-radio hit, "Starseed." The band went on to superstar status in its native Canada, while achieving modest success in the United States. Though an ill-received concept album (SPIRITUAL MACHINES) threw off some OLP fans, the ensemble, led by emotive singer Raine Maida, rebounded with 2002's GRAVITY and its popular anthem, "Somewhere Out There," proving that the group had longevity.

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