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This is the page where all the new information on OLP's new album will go. Please e-mail me if you have any info that I don't. Thanks to Seadra and Kristina who have already done so! Blue means it's a rumor/possibility and Red means confirmed.

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Title: confirmed Happiness...Is Not a Fish You Can Catch
Writing/Recording/
Release Dates:
  • Writing since Oct. 1st
  • Recording since Feb 1st
  • Began drum tones on Jan 30th, recorded drum tracks Feb 2nd to 15th (now finished)
  • Bass tone done Feb 16th, expected one week to complete recording
  • Work on vocals is to follow
  • First single to radio in late July
  • Probable release date in September 1999 (in Canada)
    		•  ??/??/1999
    Record Label: confirmed Sony
    Important People: some confirmed Arnold Lanni - producer
    Angelo Caruso - engineer
    Gregg Keplinger - drum tech
    Studio: confirmed Arnyard Studios
    Songs: 14 written songs, no word on how many will make the final cut Nothing confirmed
    Artwork:
  • Naveed and Clumsy both included Saul Fox so it's a possibility
  • Sonia D'Aloisio who did the inside pics for Clumsy might work with them again
    		•  Nothing confirmed
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    SONG SOUND LYRICS
    Happiness and the Fish
    (Comfirmed)    		 N/A N/A
    Yourself ~ played at Summersault 98 (Uncomfirmed) 212kb wav Real Audio ...you're a victim you are suffering and I feel so sad you can not explain the times that you left, you're down...
    Another clip from Summersault (Uncomfirmed) 192kb wav Real Audio N/A
    Ordinary ~ From the video with the Christmas '98 PPU newsletter (Uncomfirmed but probable) 964kb wav Real Audio Something's happening here / (Alone)
    Don't believe there's a face that you can't see / ? / (Alone) / Don't believe it's not you, it's not me, it's not hope, not free, it's an ordinary...
    Breathless
    Sources confirm that this IS NOT a song on the  new album!!!    		 N/A N/A

    Quotes
    "They have a rehearsal room  warehouse, where they are just working on different song ideas and different arrangements and different parts. It's the early stages. They'll go into the studio, probably in January or February. We'll see how the writing's going." (as of November 25th 1998)

    "We started writing in about, I don't know, November and since then we've pretty much assembled the material we want to be on the next record you'll be glad to hear I hope. We begin recording next week. It is looking good. We're really happy with the way the songs sound and we oughtta be able to make them a little bit more interesting in the process of recording in the same way we went from Naveed to Clumsy so we'll go from Clumsy to whatever this next one ends up being called." Mike in Cracks in the Pavement (as of January 18th 1999)

    (PARAPHRASED) they are finished the drums and are moving on to bass / all is going smoothly / they're ready to start teching/building/effects / Jeremy's hero, jazz drummer Elvin Jones, came into the studio to
       record some tracks. The band was blown away by the man's skill. Jeremy in Cracks in the Pavement (as of February 17th 1999)

    (PARAPHRASED) The band's been working 14-15 hours/day / Sounds like the best record they've made / Getting close to finishing the recording.
    Raine in Cracks in the Pavement (as of April 14th 1999)

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    Articles
    Our Lady Peace Return with..."Happiness...Is Not a Fish You Can Catch"
    OLP writing new album

    You never know...
    The X-mas '98 newsletter had what looks like a poem by Raine, but there is that small possibility that it is lyrics for a new song

    Sleeping In
    by Raine Maida
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    Souls, although where we meet. This
    Hose a lazy morphine.
    But I, I'm stretching to see over
    Your shoulders and over your priest
    And paper cups and paper shoes
    Give backs to me, but I see right through
    And I know why you over slept
    So gray, gray, slow rain.
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    I'm happier than you.
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    And I'm too high to follow through
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    Home, like the bed pan he needs.
    And the hose that's not supposed to be
    But I, I'm stretching to see over your
    Flowers and Time magazines
    Now I believe in what you do
    The pain will cease
    Well I know why you overslept
    To be home, to be.


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