Healthy in Paranoid Times
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Healthy in Paranoid Times is the sixth studio album by Canadian
alternative rock
band Our Lady Peace
, released on August 30, 2005 by Columbia Records
. The disc was released on a standard CD as well as a DualDisc
, with the reverse side containing a documentary on the making of the album. The album fared well in both Canada and the U.S., but didn't match up to the success of its 2002 predecessor, Gravity
. The first single was "Where Are You", released in Canada during June 2005 and released in the United States a month later. The second and third singles were "Angels/Losing/Sleep" and "Will the Future Blame Us", respectively.
According to the album's liner notes, Healthy was recorded in 1165 days at ten different studios. 2000 hours were spent both discussing and playing music and 43 songs were written and recorded. Over 6000 GB of hard drive space was used for the recording. The band's inability to choose which songs they were satisfied with caused them to prolong recording and push back the release date several times. They came close to breaking up several times during the process.
Healthy in Paranoid Times has a lighter sound and tone, and is less metaphorical than Our Lady Peace's pre-2002 releases. The second single, however, "Angels/Losing/Sleep" has vocalist Raine Maida
singing at a higher pitch, making the jarred, falsetto
-like voice Raine Maida and Our Lady Peace was formerly known for. Other songs, like "Boy", also have a lighter melody and vocals, instead of the heavier sounds on Gravity. The album deals with current world events, and discusses issues such as war and the current state of the world, rather than the social and relationship themes featured on Gravity. It has been classified as a politically-charged album. In particular, the song "Wipe That Smile Off your Face" was confirmed to be written about George W. Bush
.
tour began. In October 2002 they returned briefly to Bob Rock's Maui
studio to record two unfinished songs from Gravity that were planned to be released on a soundtrack, which never happened. "Working with him on that soundtrack song was just another reaffirmation for us how well we work together," Maida stated in an October interview. "With the way this band has grown, and the way we've come to trust Bob, it would be ridiculous for us to look for another producer now. When we're all together, we feel like we can do anything. We have to go at least one more round with him. I think we just scratched the surface of what we can do together." By the end of 2002, the band was eager to re-enter the studio in Maui to begin laying down demos with Rock. Two new songs, "Not Afraid" and "Talk is Cheap" were premiered in March 2003 while touring in Europe with Avril Lavigne
.
They began working more quickly on material then they ever had. "We write songs in like five minutes now," Maida said at the time, "The energy's there." For the first time, Mazur was included in the songwriting process, having not been in the band yet while Gravity was being written. "On this record we really tried to write together," Maida says. "It’s easy for me to come in with a song, say here it is, lets go record it and it’ll be done in a couple of days. But when you have to sit in your rehearsal hall and you wait for that magic to happen, well, it doesn’t always happen right away, but that was the M.O.
for this record and it worked."
The inspiration for the album shifted when Maida traveled to Sudan
and Darfur
to shoot a documentary with War Child in the middle of recording. "We were there for a couple of weeks, and we came back from that and went right back into the studio, and it was like: 'God, this song sucks. I’m not saying that anymore.' You start reflecting on lyrics and any message you’re trying to get out there, and it really altered everything again." The band recorded in six-week spurts, traveling between studios in Toronto, Los Angeles and Maui, recording more songs. With no deadline from the record company, they kept recording and gaining more perspective. "We'd get together, write, record, take two weeks off, go back in and we ended up doing that on and off for the last two-and-a-half or three years," By this time, over forty songs were recorded including "Picture", "Don't Ask Why" (Where Are You), "Holy Ghost" (Angels/Losing/Sleep) and "Vampires", which was briefly considered for the album's title. The sessions became strained at times as the band couldn't figure out where the album was going. "We had so many songs," said Taggart, "and we just started to go crazy." Many songs went through multiple incarnations such as "Boy", which caused the band a lot of stress and took over three weeks to break down and re-record. They were also butting heads with their producer. "There were some fucking horrible sessions," Maida admitted.
A particularly brutal session took place at Satellite Park Studio in Malibu. "It was like a month of, we'd basically broken up, fired Bob [Rock], he quit and then there were those times where it was like, 'Oh my God, that's magic, how do we get more of that?'" Maida even quit once after firing Rock at a group meeting. "For me that was pretty much it. I was pretty much done with the band . . . It was really dark," Maida Noted. Pressure was also coming from the band's management and the record company, who continued to fund the band's sessions. Raine commented, “I think we were at, like, 35 songs, and we all sat in a room and said, ‘Yeah, but there’s only eight that we all like.’ Everyone’s really frustrated.... And I think Bob had even lost perspective at this point. We’re sitting there in this shitty little studio in Malibu, and it just got a little aggressive and agitated in the room."
The album's release date was once again pushed back to January or March of 2005 while a final recording session was held in Mississauga, Ontario
to re-record most of the songs that would make the album. During these sessions, guitarist Joel Shearer of the band Pedestrian
visited with them and contributed his guitar playing to several tracks. "He [Shearer] came in the last couple of sessions to help us out and to get a little different guitar perspective on there." Duncan Coutts explained, "We had a couple of our friends that came and played. One guy, Adam, played a little B3, and Jason Lader
played on that song. He was also our ProTools engineer for part of it—not the whole thing, part of it, doing ProTools editing. He played on a song that never made the record." Coutts recounted the atmosphere of the final recording session. "It was kind of like a musical community, like friends and musicians would stop by and people that were working there, part of the recording team. Bob sang vocals; Bob played guitar. Eric Helmkamp, Bob’s assistant engineer and ProTools engineer—he sang on some stuff. It was just about a musical team." These sessions brought the whole project back in to focus for the band, easing many of the tensions that had arisen earlier. According to Coutts, "I don't know what would have happened if not for that time."
After all was said and done, Our Lady Peace had recorded 45 songs at ten different studios, twelve of which they finally felt satisfied with. The album was mixed by Randy Staub
at the studios in Maui
as well as at The Warehouse Studio
in Vancouver, B.C.. Mastering was done by George Marino at Sterling Sound in New York City
. The album's final release date was assured to be August 30, 2005, two and a half years after recording began.
's 2003 album St. Anger
which was recorded just before Healthy. According to Raine, Bob said that a polished record full of overdubs like Gravity was not where his head was at the time and the band agreed. "What Bob Rock did with Metallica on the 'St. Anger' record was just record everything - no ProTools, no overdubbing, no fixing stuff, and then pick the best pieces and put them together," says Maida. "We're trying to take that approach, where it's that raw."
In a June 2003 interview, Maida explained that lyrically, his words on the album would follow the music and would be very much a product of the times. "I think it's going to be a little more raw, a little bit more in your face, not a lot of relationship stuff," he says, noting that fans would get a preview of a couple of the tracks, "Wipe That Smile Off Your Face" and "Walking In Circles", on the current tour. "My head, with what's going on in the world and being able to reflect on all the (stuff) that I've done in the last few years in terms of going to Iraq, working very closely with War Child, I'm in that mode. I'm not angry, but kind of frustrated." After observing the plight in Sudan
and Darfur
, Maida returned with a different outlook on his lyrics and became more outspoken. “There were some [lyrics] that were way too over the top and preachy,” he admits, “and I had to pull a lot of stuff back. This isn’t a solo record for me, this is Our Lady Peace, so I have three people that I contend with in terms of how far I can go with saying things.” Bassist Coutts added "A lot of things he was talking about lyrically were things that we discussed as a band in spending all that time together. I also think that becoming a father also let him deal with issues that he hadn't dealt with before. Although there are some of the darkest lyrics ever on this record, I think there are also some very positive ones as well." The content of the album's lyrics have led it to be classified as a politically-charged album, which the band hasn't denied.
The title of the album is derived from a lyric from the bridge of the song "Don't Stop". Taggart described the rationale behind choosing that title. "'Don’t Stop' was one of the last songs we recorded, and that one kinda summed up all the stuff we had gone through. Raine had just gotten back from Sudan, he was trying to compress all the things he’d experienced. The shock was going there and then coming back here and realizing they have happiness and hope with no material possessions, they live in mud huts. But they have what we want emotionally, you know."
The track "Where Are You" went through many changes and arrangements after being written including an entirely different chorus. The song was known as "The Best Day of Your Life" and "Where Are You (Best Day)" on advance copies of Healthy. "Apology" also morphed throughout recording. "The song 'Apology' for example was from the first demo sessions. We tried that song a year later completely differently ... way more up-tempo and it just didn't feel right. It didn't serve the song and what Raine was saying and how he was singing dictated how we were playing. I love all the songs on the record, but that was a very magical, musical moment because it was so organic the way that happened."
based artist Grant Smith, whom the band had known for nine years, to paint an album cover for Healthy in Paranoid Times.
The finished product was a 20-by-20 inch oil painting
of a man sitting in a chair in an all-white room with his back facing the audience. The cover chosen was the ninth one he painted for the project. Smith discussed the inspiration for the cover after he visited the band at their Maui recording studio. "We talked about the world we live in and the issues that face our culture. Issues such as political propaganda, a sensationalist media, blind faith and micro-macrocosm were a few of the things we discussed. We liked the idea of a man with his back turned to the world, in a white blank room." The concept was further discussed on his web page. "Is the whiteness purity and peace that he seeks, or the stark cold white of a mental ward? "It's just a guy who has had enough, everything has gotten too heavy and he needs a break from it all. He hasn't given up or surrendered, just created an enlightened microcosm. The minimal white area surrounding the figure is more important than the figure itself, being that it can represent health or paranoia." The image is repeated on the disc itself.
Smith also painted a portrait of each member of the band. "Our Lady Peace asked me to do paintings of each band member. I wanted them to be inward, reflective, powerful and multilayered.
The individual shapes on their faces represent the depth of the man. Raine asked me to paint a bandaged head representing the wounds that were accumulated in spending 3 years, recording over 50 tracks, and almost breaking up had on the band." These portraits were sold online from Our Lady Peace's website.
The album's liner notes contain no lyrics but a link to them online is given. Instead, it is filled with a several photographs taken by John Wellman inside the abandoned Whitby Psychiatric Hospital
in Whitby, Ontario
. The small band photo on the back cover was taken by Charman Baehler at the Alexandria Hotel in Los Angeles
. On the pages are lists of statistical events which occurred during the making of Healthy in Paranoid Times such as how many days, studios and gigabytes of storage space were used for recording as well as events in the world such as 9.8 million people having died from AIDS
. The last page in the booklet lists several websites including War Child
.ca and Adbusters
.com among others. The album credits are placed on the CD's tray insert.
, with the reverse side containing a documentary on the making of the album with interviews of Bob Rock and the band members. It was directed by Matt Skerritt.
, a controversial feature that automatically installed rootkit
software on any Microsoft Windows
machine upon insertion of the disc. In addition to preventing the CDs contents from being copied, it was also revealed that the software reported the users' listening habits back to Sony BMG and also exposed the computer to malicious attacks that exploited insecure features of the rootkit software. Though Sony refused to release a list of the affected CDs, the Electronic Frontier Foundation
identified Healthy in Paranoid Times as one of the discs with the invasive software. As part of its settlement of the class action lawsuit filed against it, Sony BMG allowed customers to return copies of Healthy in Paranoid Times for new copies plus a cash payment. This album has been released with the Copy Control
protection system in some regions.
, selling 22,000 copies in its first week. The album also peaked at #45 on the Billboard 200
chart. The album peaked on both of these charts on September 17, 2005 after spending two weeks on. The album also reached #1 on Soundscan's Alternative albums chart. Two weeks prior to this (September 3), the lead-off single released from Healthy, "Where Are You", peaked at #28 on Billboards Alternative Songs chart after riding the charts for nine weeks. Healthy in Paranoid Times was certified Platinum for the shipment of 100,000 units by the CRIA
on January 6, 2006.
In Johnny Loftus' Allmusic review of the album, he gives it two stars out of five and mentioning how the songs seem to drag on and that "the biggest problem with Healthy in Paranoid Times, besides its inflated thematic framework, is its lack of distinction." Mike Schiller from PopMatters
gave the album five out of ten stars. While he called the album derivative and "unabashedly mainstream" he also said "For all of its awkward leanings, the melodies are catchy, and the beats are crisp and tight, popping out of the speakers and driving everything forward with authority."
Brian Mulligan from Richmond.com declared the album a "mixed bag" saying "Gone is the free-spirited vibe of past OLP offerings, as the band has infused "Healthy" with a continual political undercurrent that leaked in through the hiatus." and finishing with, "What you're left with is a band that alternates between sounding like a bunch of unified rockers and a group that's just not having any fun. It's a solid effort, but in the end, should it have been such hard work?"
Yuri Wuensch of the Edmonton Sun
called the album "their weakest yet". He also explained that "Part of the album's problem is it's devoid of the aggressive energy that punctuated most of the band's older material. Healthy in Paranoid Times sounded like Our Lady Peace was descending into the greatest pitfall of all bands: balladry."
Brad Hilgers of Source echoed the band's sentiments by saying that the album was their most complete to date. "On Healthy In Paranoid Times, the band has written an impressive album from start to finish with very little filler." In Jordan Zivit's 4 star review of the album, he said that their struggle in the studio paid off. He specified that "Maida delivers his most considered - and poignant - vocals ever."
The album was arraigned by News-Record reviewer Amanda Amselr who claimed that each song is worse than the one before it and called the album "a mere shell of the cult following they used to instill with their music." She concluded by saying "In listening to Healthy In Paranoid Times a sad realization that the pop disease had inflicted even the purest of bands and stirs a reminder of why Canadian bands usually fail to impress."
, Ontario
on July 2 where the song "Where Are You" was premiered in its final form. For this tour they were accompanied by guitarist Joel Shearer of the band Pedestrian
. Leading up to the album's release, they toured several small clubs in the Los Angeles
area "to work the bugs out" and help the band get a better feel for the songs. They then toured steadily across North America, opening two shows for The Rolling Stones
, until October when a family member of a band member became ill and several shows had to be canceled. The band chose to play smaller venues on this tour rather than arenas because the sound quality was better. "And for us, this new record is one of those things where there are a lot of little guitar parts happening all over the place and little textures -- and we want to hear that stuff." A cross-Canadian tour continued through summer of 2006 with the final show being played at Rogers Centre
in Toronto. The band entered a hiatus period after this while Maida worked on his solo album, The Hunter's Lullaby
. They wouldn't play live again until mid 2008.
. A short clip of "Vampires" as well as the podcast
on recording the song are available on the internet. The titles for the songs "End of the World", "Enemy", "Save Yourself", "Weight of the Lord" and "Hit the Wall" appeared on a set list seen the band's 2004 holiday video. Jeremy Taggart
played a portion of the drums for "Hit the Wall" on The Dean Blundell Show. Even with all these titles known, 19 songs still remain unaccounted for. According to Coutts, the batch of songs recorded in Malibu, considered to be much darker than anything Our Lady Peace had ever recorded, were deleted and "will never see the light of day."
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alternative rock
Alternative rock
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band Our Lady Peace
Our Lady Peace
Our Lady Peace is a Canadian alternative rock band that formed in Toronto, Ontario in 1992. Headed by lead vocalist Raine Maida since its formation, the band additionally consists of Jeremy Taggart on percussion, Duncan Coutts on bass, and Steve Mazur as lead guitarist...
, released on August 30, 2005 by Columbia Records
Columbia Records
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. The disc was released on a standard CD as well as a DualDisc
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, with the reverse side containing a documentary on the making of the album. The album fared well in both Canada and the U.S., but didn't match up to the success of its 2002 predecessor, Gravity
Gravity (Our Lady Peace album)
Gravity is the title of Canadian alternative rock band Our Lady Peace's fifth studio album. It was released on June 18, 2002 by Columbia Records in North America. The album became a worldwide success, charting highly both in Canada and the U.S...
. The first single was "Where Are You", released in Canada during June 2005 and released in the United States a month later. The second and third singles were "Angels/Losing/Sleep" and "Will the Future Blame Us", respectively.
According to the album's liner notes, Healthy was recorded in 1165 days at ten different studios. 2000 hours were spent both discussing and playing music and 43 songs were written and recorded. Over 6000 GB of hard drive space was used for the recording. The band's inability to choose which songs they were satisfied with caused them to prolong recording and push back the release date several times. They came close to breaking up several times during the process.
Healthy in Paranoid Times has a lighter sound and tone, and is less metaphorical than Our Lady Peace's pre-2002 releases. The second single, however, "Angels/Losing/Sleep" has vocalist Raine Maida
Raine Maida
Raine Maida , is a Canadian musician best known as being the lead vocalist and primary songwriter of the alternative rock band Our Lady Peace. He has come to be known for his unique countertenor nasal falsetto singing voice, as well as his cryptic and poetry-influenced song lyrics...
singing at a higher pitch, making the jarred, falsetto
Falsetto
Falsetto is the vocal register occupying the frequency range just above the modal voice register and overlapping with it by approximately one octave. It is produced by the vibration of the ligamentous edges of the vocal folds, in whole or in part...
-like voice Raine Maida and Our Lady Peace was formerly known for. Other songs, like "Boy", also have a lighter melody and vocals, instead of the heavier sounds on Gravity. The album deals with current world events, and discusses issues such as war and the current state of the world, rather than the social and relationship themes featured on Gravity. It has been classified as a politically-charged album. In particular, the song "Wipe That Smile Off your Face" was confirmed to be written about George W. Bush
George W. Bush
George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....
.
Background and writing
The members of Our Lady Peace began writing new material together soon after the GravityGravity (Our Lady Peace album)
Gravity is the title of Canadian alternative rock band Our Lady Peace's fifth studio album. It was released on June 18, 2002 by Columbia Records in North America. The album became a worldwide success, charting highly both in Canada and the U.S...
tour began. In October 2002 they returned briefly to Bob Rock's Maui
Maui
The island of Maui is the second-largest of the Hawaiian Islands at and is the 17th largest island in the United States. Maui is part of the state of Hawaii and is the largest of Maui County's four islands, bigger than Lānai, Kahoolawe, and Molokai. In 2010, Maui had a population of 144,444,...
studio to record two unfinished songs from Gravity that were planned to be released on a soundtrack, which never happened. "Working with him on that soundtrack song was just another reaffirmation for us how well we work together," Maida stated in an October interview. "With the way this band has grown, and the way we've come to trust Bob, it would be ridiculous for us to look for another producer now. When we're all together, we feel like we can do anything. We have to go at least one more round with him. I think we just scratched the surface of what we can do together." By the end of 2002, the band was eager to re-enter the studio in Maui to begin laying down demos with Rock. Two new songs, "Not Afraid" and "Talk is Cheap" were premiered in March 2003 while touring in Europe with Avril Lavigne
Avril Lavigne
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.
They began working more quickly on material then they ever had. "We write songs in like five minutes now," Maida said at the time, "The energy's there." For the first time, Mazur was included in the songwriting process, having not been in the band yet while Gravity was being written. "On this record we really tried to write together," Maida says. "It’s easy for me to come in with a song, say here it is, lets go record it and it’ll be done in a couple of days. But when you have to sit in your rehearsal hall and you wait for that magic to happen, well, it doesn’t always happen right away, but that was the M.O.
Modus operandi
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for this record and it worked."
Recording and production
The band returned to Rock's Plantation Studios in Hawaii in May 2003 to begin the first recording sessions for the album. Their intention was to record an album even more simplified than Gravity and even closer in sound to what they sounded like live, an overall different record. "I think we all knew going into it that it was an important record for us," said Duncan Coutts. "I think that when you get more than ten years into a band, It has to be a rebirth for us. We didn't want to go and remake any of our past records." In one month, they recorded 12 songs live off the floor, most in two or three takes each. Following these sessions, several of the songs including "Walking in Circles", "No Warning" and "Wipe That Smile Off your Face" were premiered live. After touring concluded for the year, the band was set to finish the album that October in time for a January 2004 release. While satisfied with the recorded material at first, with time the band became more critical of it and decided they would only be demos. They felt strongly about the songs "Picture", "Will the Future Blame Us?" and "Angels/Losing/Sleep" but felt that the rest of the songs didn't live up to them. "Even though we loved the energy of what we'd done, not enough of the songs were making the hair stand up on the back of your neck and so we realized that we needed to do more work," bass player Duncan Coutts explained. They decided to postpone the album's release until June and then August to continue recording.The inspiration for the album shifted when Maida traveled to Sudan
Sudan
Sudan , officially the Republic of the Sudan , is a country in North Africa, sometimes considered part of the Middle East politically. It is bordered by Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the northeast, Eritrea and Ethiopia to the east, South Sudan to the south, the Central African Republic to the...
and Darfur
Darfur
Darfur is a region in western Sudan. An independent sultanate for several hundred years, it was incorporated into Sudan by Anglo-Egyptian forces in 1916. The region is divided into three federal states: West Darfur, South Darfur, and North Darfur...
to shoot a documentary with War Child in the middle of recording. "We were there for a couple of weeks, and we came back from that and went right back into the studio, and it was like: 'God, this song sucks. I’m not saying that anymore.' You start reflecting on lyrics and any message you’re trying to get out there, and it really altered everything again." The band recorded in six-week spurts, traveling between studios in Toronto, Los Angeles and Maui, recording more songs. With no deadline from the record company, they kept recording and gaining more perspective. "We'd get together, write, record, take two weeks off, go back in and we ended up doing that on and off for the last two-and-a-half or three years," By this time, over forty songs were recorded including "Picture", "Don't Ask Why" (Where Are You), "Holy Ghost" (Angels/Losing/Sleep) and "Vampires", which was briefly considered for the album's title. The sessions became strained at times as the band couldn't figure out where the album was going. "We had so many songs," said Taggart, "and we just started to go crazy." Many songs went through multiple incarnations such as "Boy", which caused the band a lot of stress and took over three weeks to break down and re-record. They were also butting heads with their producer. "There were some fucking horrible sessions," Maida admitted.
A particularly brutal session took place at Satellite Park Studio in Malibu. "It was like a month of, we'd basically broken up, fired Bob [Rock], he quit and then there were those times where it was like, 'Oh my God, that's magic, how do we get more of that?'" Maida even quit once after firing Rock at a group meeting. "For me that was pretty much it. I was pretty much done with the band . . . It was really dark," Maida Noted. Pressure was also coming from the band's management and the record company, who continued to fund the band's sessions. Raine commented, “I think we were at, like, 35 songs, and we all sat in a room and said, ‘Yeah, but there’s only eight that we all like.’ Everyone’s really frustrated.... And I think Bob had even lost perspective at this point. We’re sitting there in this shitty little studio in Malibu, and it just got a little aggressive and agitated in the room."
The album's release date was once again pushed back to January or March of 2005 while a final recording session was held in Mississauga, Ontario
Mississauga, Ontario
Mississauga is a city in Southern Ontario located in the Regional Municipality of Peel, and in the western part of the Greater Toronto Area. With an estimated population of 734,000, it is Canada's sixth-most populous municipality, and has almost doubled in population in each of the last two decades...
to re-record most of the songs that would make the album. During these sessions, guitarist Joel Shearer of the band Pedestrian
Pedestrian (band)
Pedestrian is an alternative rock band based in Los Angeles, California, USA. The band was formed in late 2002 by guitarist/songwriter Joel Shearer....
visited with them and contributed his guitar playing to several tracks. "He [Shearer] came in the last couple of sessions to help us out and to get a little different guitar perspective on there." Duncan Coutts explained, "We had a couple of our friends that came and played. One guy, Adam, played a little B3, and Jason Lader
Jason Lader
Jason Lader is a bass guitarist, producer and mixer from USA known for his work with The Mars Volta and Furslide.- As Producer :Albums2007*Maroon 5 - It Won't Be Soon Before Long*Rilo Kiley - Under The Blacklight2008...
played on that song. He was also our ProTools engineer for part of it—not the whole thing, part of it, doing ProTools editing. He played on a song that never made the record." Coutts recounted the atmosphere of the final recording session. "It was kind of like a musical community, like friends and musicians would stop by and people that were working there, part of the recording team. Bob sang vocals; Bob played guitar. Eric Helmkamp, Bob’s assistant engineer and ProTools engineer—he sang on some stuff. It was just about a musical team." These sessions brought the whole project back in to focus for the band, easing many of the tensions that had arisen earlier. According to Coutts, "I don't know what would have happened if not for that time."
After all was said and done, Our Lady Peace had recorded 45 songs at ten different studios, twelve of which they finally felt satisfied with. The album was mixed by Randy Staub
Randy Staub
Randy Staub is a Canadian recording engineer. He has been nominated for the Juno Awards' "Recording Engineer of the Year" award nine times. He won in 2002 for the songs "How You Remind Me" and "Too Bad" by Nickelback. Staub also mixed Alice in Chains' fourth studio album, Black Gives Way to...
at the studios in Maui
Maui
The island of Maui is the second-largest of the Hawaiian Islands at and is the 17th largest island in the United States. Maui is part of the state of Hawaii and is the largest of Maui County's four islands, bigger than Lānai, Kahoolawe, and Molokai. In 2010, Maui had a population of 144,444,...
as well as at The Warehouse Studio
The Warehouse Studio
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in Vancouver, B.C.. Mastering was done by George Marino at Sterling Sound in New York City
New York City
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. The album's final release date was assured to be August 30, 2005, two and a half years after recording began.
Music and lyrics
The raw and unpolished sound of Healthy in Paranoid Times is attributed to the previous album Bob Rock produced, MetallicaMetallica
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's 2003 album St. Anger
St. Anger
St. Anger is the eighth studio album by the American heavy metal band Metallica. It was released on June 5, 2003 through Elektra Records. It was the band's last album released through Elektra. The album marked the end of the longest timespan between studio albums from Metallica, with nearly six...
which was recorded just before Healthy. According to Raine, Bob said that a polished record full of overdubs like Gravity was not where his head was at the time and the band agreed. "What Bob Rock did with Metallica on the 'St. Anger' record was just record everything - no ProTools, no overdubbing, no fixing stuff, and then pick the best pieces and put them together," says Maida. "We're trying to take that approach, where it's that raw."
In a June 2003 interview, Maida explained that lyrically, his words on the album would follow the music and would be very much a product of the times. "I think it's going to be a little more raw, a little bit more in your face, not a lot of relationship stuff," he says, noting that fans would get a preview of a couple of the tracks, "Wipe That Smile Off Your Face" and "Walking In Circles", on the current tour. "My head, with what's going on in the world and being able to reflect on all the (stuff) that I've done in the last few years in terms of going to Iraq, working very closely with War Child, I'm in that mode. I'm not angry, but kind of frustrated." After observing the plight in Sudan
Sudan
Sudan , officially the Republic of the Sudan , is a country in North Africa, sometimes considered part of the Middle East politically. It is bordered by Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the northeast, Eritrea and Ethiopia to the east, South Sudan to the south, the Central African Republic to the...
and Darfur
Darfur
Darfur is a region in western Sudan. An independent sultanate for several hundred years, it was incorporated into Sudan by Anglo-Egyptian forces in 1916. The region is divided into three federal states: West Darfur, South Darfur, and North Darfur...
, Maida returned with a different outlook on his lyrics and became more outspoken. “There were some [lyrics] that were way too over the top and preachy,” he admits, “and I had to pull a lot of stuff back. This isn’t a solo record for me, this is Our Lady Peace, so I have three people that I contend with in terms of how far I can go with saying things.” Bassist Coutts added "A lot of things he was talking about lyrically were things that we discussed as a band in spending all that time together. I also think that becoming a father also let him deal with issues that he hadn't dealt with before. Although there are some of the darkest lyrics ever on this record, I think there are also some very positive ones as well." The content of the album's lyrics have led it to be classified as a politically-charged album, which the band hasn't denied.
The title of the album is derived from a lyric from the bridge of the song "Don't Stop". Taggart described the rationale behind choosing that title. "'Don’t Stop' was one of the last songs we recorded, and that one kinda summed up all the stuff we had gone through. Raine had just gotten back from Sudan, he was trying to compress all the things he’d experienced. The shock was going there and then coming back here and realizing they have happiness and hope with no material possessions, they live in mud huts. But they have what we want emotionally, you know."
The track "Where Are You" went through many changes and arrangements after being written including an entirely different chorus. The song was known as "The Best Day of Your Life" and "Where Are You (Best Day)" on advance copies of Healthy. "Apology" also morphed throughout recording. "The song 'Apology' for example was from the first demo sessions. We tried that song a year later completely differently ... way more up-tempo and it just didn't feel right. It didn't serve the song and what Raine was saying and how he was singing dictated how we were playing. I love all the songs on the record, but that was a very magical, musical moment because it was so organic the way that happened."
Packaging and artwork
In January 2005, the band contacted Dallas, TexasDallas, Texas
Dallas is the third-largest city in Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the largest metropolitan area in the South and fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States...
based artist Grant Smith, whom the band had known for nine years, to paint an album cover for Healthy in Paranoid Times.
The finished product was a 20-by-20 inch oil painting
Oil painting
Oil painting is the process of painting with pigments that are bound with a medium of drying oil—especially in early modern Europe, linseed oil. Often an oil such as linseed was boiled with a resin such as pine resin or even frankincense; these were called 'varnishes' and were prized for their body...
of a man sitting in a chair in an all-white room with his back facing the audience. The cover chosen was the ninth one he painted for the project. Smith discussed the inspiration for the cover after he visited the band at their Maui recording studio. "We talked about the world we live in and the issues that face our culture. Issues such as political propaganda, a sensationalist media, blind faith and micro-macrocosm were a few of the things we discussed. We liked the idea of a man with his back turned to the world, in a white blank room." The concept was further discussed on his web page. "Is the whiteness purity and peace that he seeks, or the stark cold white of a mental ward? "It's just a guy who has had enough, everything has gotten too heavy and he needs a break from it all. He hasn't given up or surrendered, just created an enlightened microcosm. The minimal white area surrounding the figure is more important than the figure itself, being that it can represent health or paranoia." The image is repeated on the disc itself.
Smith also painted a portrait of each member of the band. "Our Lady Peace asked me to do paintings of each band member. I wanted them to be inward, reflective, powerful and multilayered.
The individual shapes on their faces represent the depth of the man. Raine asked me to paint a bandaged head representing the wounds that were accumulated in spending 3 years, recording over 50 tracks, and almost breaking up had on the band." These portraits were sold online from Our Lady Peace's website.
The album's liner notes contain no lyrics but a link to them online is given. Instead, it is filled with a several photographs taken by John Wellman inside the abandoned Whitby Psychiatric Hospital
Whitby Psychiatric Hospital
Whitby Psychiatric Hospital, also known as Ontario Hospital for the Insane, Ontario Hospital, Whitby, or OHW, was a mental health facility located in Whitby, Ontario...
in Whitby, Ontario
Whitby, Ontario
Whitby is a town in Durham Region. Whitby is located in Southern Ontario east of Toronto on the north shore of Lake Ontario, and is home to the headquarters of Durham Region...
. The small band photo on the back cover was taken by Charman Baehler at the Alexandria Hotel in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
. On the pages are lists of statistical events which occurred during the making of Healthy in Paranoid Times such as how many days, studios and gigabytes of storage space were used for recording as well as events in the world such as 9.8 million people having died from AIDS
AIDS
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus...
. The last page in the booklet lists several websites including War Child
War Child
War Child or Warchild may refer to:* Child soldiers, children who are used in war, as soldiers or in combat support* Military brat, military slang for a child or teenager of a military family* Refugee, children who are refugees of war...
.ca and Adbusters
AdBusters
The Adbusters Media Foundation is a Canadian-based not-for-profit, anti-consumerist, pro-environment organization founded in 1989 by Kalle Lasn and Bill Schmalz in Vancouver, British Columbia...
.com among others. The album credits are placed on the CD's tray insert.
Release
Healthy in Paranoid Times was internationally released on August 30, 2005 after multiple setbacks during recording. The album had been planned to be released as early as January 2004. The disc was released on a standard CD as well as a DualDiscDualDisc
DualDisc was a type of double-sided optical disc product developed by a group of record companies including EMI Music, Universal Music Group, Sony/BMG Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group, and 5.1 Entertainment Group and later under the aegis of the Recording Industry Association of America...
, with the reverse side containing a documentary on the making of the album with interviews of Bob Rock and the band members. It was directed by Matt Skerritt.
Extended copy protection
In November 2005, it was revealed that Sony BMG was distributing albums with Extended Copy ProtectionExtended Copy Protection
Extended Copy Protection is a software package developed by the British company First 4 Internet, and sold as a copy protection or digital rights management scheme for Compact Discs...
, a controversial feature that automatically installed rootkit
Rootkit
A rootkit is software that enables continued privileged access to a computer while actively hiding its presence from administrators by subverting standard operating system functionality or other applications...
software on any Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
machine upon insertion of the disc. In addition to preventing the CDs contents from being copied, it was also revealed that the software reported the users' listening habits back to Sony BMG and also exposed the computer to malicious attacks that exploited insecure features of the rootkit software. Though Sony refused to release a list of the affected CDs, the Electronic Frontier Foundation
Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is an international non-profit digital rights advocacy and legal organization based in the United States...
identified Healthy in Paranoid Times as one of the discs with the invasive software. As part of its settlement of the class action lawsuit filed against it, Sony BMG allowed customers to return copies of Healthy in Paranoid Times for new copies plus a cash payment. This album has been released with the Copy Control
Copy Control
Copy Control was the generic name of a copy prevention system, used from 2001 until 2006 on several digital audio disc releases by EMI Group and Sony BMG Music Entertainment in several regions...
protection system in some regions.
Commercial
Upon its release, Healthy in Paranoid Times peaked at #2 on the Canadian Albums ChartCanadian Albums Chart
The Canadian Albums Chart is the official album sales chart in Canada. It is compiled every Wednesday by U.S.-based music sales tracking company Nielsen Soundscan, and published every Thursday by Jam! Canoe and Billboard, along with its sister charts the Canadian Singles Chart and the Canadian BDS...
, selling 22,000 copies in its first week. The album also peaked at #45 on the Billboard 200
Billboard 200
The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...
chart. The album peaked on both of these charts on September 17, 2005 after spending two weeks on. The album also reached #1 on Soundscan's Alternative albums chart. Two weeks prior to this (September 3), the lead-off single released from Healthy, "Where Are You", peaked at #28 on Billboards Alternative Songs chart after riding the charts for nine weeks. Healthy in Paranoid Times was certified Platinum for the shipment of 100,000 units by the CRIA
Cria
A cria is the name for a baby camelid such as a llama, alpaca, vicuña, or guanaco. It comes from the Spanish word cría, meaning "baby". Its false cognate in English, crya , was coined by British sailors who explored Chile in the 18th century and were quick to describe the camelids onomatopoeically...
on January 6, 2006.
Critical
Healthy in Paranoid Times was met with mixed reviews. It was loved and hated by many critics who either called it the band's best work to date or their weakest. It was also called "their most sonically mature album to date." and their best album since Clumsy by Circle 6 Magazine. At the time, the band praised their own efforts on the album. Duncan Coutts said in an interview, "I think this is the closest we've ever come to achieving what we heard in our heads and got on (record). For us this is the most complete record, start to finish. Some of the other records had awesome moments, but I think this is as close as we feel we have gotten to getting a whole record exactly the way we wanted it."In Johnny Loftus' Allmusic review of the album, he gives it two stars out of five and mentioning how the songs seem to drag on and that "the biggest problem with Healthy in Paranoid Times, besides its inflated thematic framework, is its lack of distinction." Mike Schiller from PopMatters
PopMatters
PopMatters is an international webzine of cultural criticism that covers many aspects of popular culture. PopMatters publishes reviews, interviews, and detailed essays on most cultural products and expressions in areas such as music, television, films, books, video games, comics, sports, theater,...
gave the album five out of ten stars. While he called the album derivative and "unabashedly mainstream" he also said "For all of its awkward leanings, the melodies are catchy, and the beats are crisp and tight, popping out of the speakers and driving everything forward with authority."
Brian Mulligan from Richmond.com declared the album a "mixed bag" saying "Gone is the free-spirited vibe of past OLP offerings, as the band has infused "Healthy" with a continual political undercurrent that leaked in through the hiatus." and finishing with, "What you're left with is a band that alternates between sounding like a bunch of unified rockers and a group that's just not having any fun. It's a solid effort, but in the end, should it have been such hard work?"
Yuri Wuensch of the Edmonton Sun
Edmonton Sun
The Edmonton Sun is a daily newspaper published in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It is a division of Sun Media, a Quebecor company.It began publishing in 1978 and shares many characteristics typical of Sun Media tabloids, including an emphasis on local news stories, its conservative editorial stance,...
called the album "their weakest yet". He also explained that "Part of the album's problem is it's devoid of the aggressive energy that punctuated most of the band's older material. Healthy in Paranoid Times sounded like Our Lady Peace was descending into the greatest pitfall of all bands: balladry."
Brad Hilgers of Source echoed the band's sentiments by saying that the album was their most complete to date. "On Healthy In Paranoid Times, the band has written an impressive album from start to finish with very little filler." In Jordan Zivit's 4 star review of the album, he said that their struggle in the studio paid off. He specified that "Maida delivers his most considered - and poignant - vocals ever."
The album was arraigned by News-Record reviewer Amanda Amselr who claimed that each song is worse than the one before it and called the album "a mere shell of the cult following they used to instill with their music." She concluded by saying "In listening to Healthy In Paranoid Times a sad realization that the pop disease had inflicted even the purest of bands and stirs a reminder of why Canadian bands usually fail to impress."
Tour
The band's first performance in 2005 was at the Live 8 concert, BarrieLive 8 concert, Barrie
On 2 July 2005, a Live 8 concert was held at Park Place in Barrie, Ontario, Canada. Barrie is located north of Toronto.The event is also referred to as "Live 8 Toronto" or "Live 8 Canada"...
, Ontario
Ontario
Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....
on July 2 where the song "Where Are You" was premiered in its final form. For this tour they were accompanied by guitarist Joel Shearer of the band Pedestrian
Pedestrian (band)
Pedestrian is an alternative rock band based in Los Angeles, California, USA. The band was formed in late 2002 by guitarist/songwriter Joel Shearer....
. Leading up to the album's release, they toured several small clubs in the Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
area "to work the bugs out" and help the band get a better feel for the songs. They then toured steadily across North America, opening two shows for The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones are an English rock band, formed in London in April 1962 by Brian Jones , Ian Stewart , Mick Jagger , and Keith Richards . Bassist Bill Wyman and drummer Charlie Watts completed the early line-up...
, until October when a family member of a band member became ill and several shows had to be canceled. The band chose to play smaller venues on this tour rather than arenas because the sound quality was better. "And for us, this new record is one of those things where there are a lot of little guitar parts happening all over the place and little textures -- and we want to hear that stuff." A cross-Canadian tour continued through summer of 2006 with the final show being played at Rogers Centre
Rogers Centre
Rogers Centre is a multi-purpose stadium, in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated next to the CN Tower, near the shores of Lake Ontario. Opened in 1989, it is home to the Toronto Blue Jays of Major League Baseball and the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League...
in Toronto. The band entered a hiatus period after this while Maida worked on his solo album, The Hunter's Lullaby
The Hunter's Lullaby
The Hunters Lullaby was the first solo album released by Canadian singer and musician Raine Maida, the vocalist of Our Lady Peace. It was released on November 13, 2007 by Kingnoise Records. The first single off the album is Yellow Brick Road...
. They wouldn't play live again until mid 2008.
Track listing
Musicians
- Duncan CouttsDuncan CouttsRobert Duncan Coutts is a Canadian musician, best known for being the bassist for Our Lady Peace since 1995.-Our Lady Peace:...
- bass guitarBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
, background vocals - Adam McDougall - B3 organ
- Raine MaidaRaine MaidaRaine Maida , is a Canadian musician best known as being the lead vocalist and primary songwriter of the alternative rock band Our Lady Peace. He has come to be known for his unique countertenor nasal falsetto singing voice, as well as his cryptic and poetry-influenced song lyrics...
- vocals, acoustic guitarAcoustic guitarAn acoustic guitar is a guitar that uses only an acoustic sound board. The air in this cavity resonates with the vibrational modes of the string and at low frequencies, which depend on the size of the box, the chamber acts like a Helmholtz resonator, increasing or decreasing the volume of the sound...
, conga drums - Steve MazurSteve MazurNotable InstrumentsGibson Trini LopezSteven Theodore Mazur is an American guitarist, best known as the lead guitarist for alternative rock band Our Lady Peace...
- guitars, pianoPianoThe piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
, background vocals - Bob RockBob RockRobert Jens Rock, , is a Canadian musician, sound engineer, and record producer best known for producing bands such as Aerosmith, The Cult, Bon Jovi, Mötley Crüe, 311, Metallica, Our Lady Peace, The Offspring and most recently Bush.-Payola$ and Rock and Hyde:Rock began his music career in Langford,...
- guitar, piano, background vocals - Joel Shearer - guitar
- Jeremy TaggartJeremy TaggartJeremy Ronald John Taggart is a Canadian drummer, best known for playing with Our Lady Peace since 1993.-Early life:Taggart was born in Toronto, Ontario and has two brothers and one sister. Music was a central part of his youth, as his parents were also musicians, and Taggart learned to play drums...
- drums, percussion
Artwork
- Chapman Baehler - band photograph
- Tom Chaggaris - album art concept
- Our Lady Peace - album art concept
- Grant Smith - cover art
- John Wellman - photography
Production
- Zach Blackstone - asst. mixer
- Ian Bodzasi - asst. engineer at Metalworks
- Richard Chyoa - recording engineer, digital engineering and editing
- Eric Helmkamp - recording engineer, digital engineering and editing
- Danny Kelb - Protools & recording engineer at "The Boat"
- Kurt Kroeger - asst. engineer at Royaltone Studio
- Jason Lader - recording engineer, digital engineering and editing
- Raine Maida - production and mixing on "Al Genina (Leave the Light On)"
- George Marino - mastering
- Colin Neilson - asst. engineer at Metalworks
- Bob Rock - producer
- Randy Staub - mixing
- Jason Wormer - asst. engineer at Village Recorder
- German Villacosta - asst. engineer at Henson Recording StudiosHenson Recording StudiosHenson Recording Studios was established in 2000 at the former A&M Studios. The remake of We Are the World was recorded at Henson Recording Studios in February 2010 to benefit the Haiti earthquake victims....
Non-album tracks
- "Imagine" (John LennonJohn LennonJohn Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music...
cover) - live version released on fan club CD, studio version released on Peace Songs, a War Child compilation
Studio outtakes
According to the album's liner notes, 43 songs were recorded for the HIPT sessions. The earliest songs played following the May 2003 sessions were "No Warning" and "Talk Is Cheap". "Not Afraid" was played at the 2004 Juno Awards and was released on a 3-track promo CD by Labatt Blue (albeit with completely different lyrics). The tracks "Kiss on the Mouth" and a demo track "Better Than Here" were released on their 2006 compilation album A DecadeA Decade
-See also:*Our Lady Peace discography*The Very Best of Our Lady Peace...
. A short clip of "Vampires" as well as the podcast
Podcast
A podcast is a series of digital media files that are released episodically and often downloaded through web syndication...
on recording the song are available on the internet. The titles for the songs "End of the World", "Enemy", "Save Yourself", "Weight of the Lord" and "Hit the Wall" appeared on a set list seen the band's 2004 holiday video. Jeremy Taggart
Jeremy Taggart
Jeremy Ronald John Taggart is a Canadian drummer, best known for playing with Our Lady Peace since 1993.-Early life:Taggart was born in Toronto, Ontario and has two brothers and one sister. Music was a central part of his youth, as his parents were also musicians, and Taggart learned to play drums...
played a portion of the drums for "Hit the Wall" on The Dean Blundell Show. Even with all these titles known, 19 songs still remain unaccounted for. According to Coutts, the batch of songs recorded in Malibu, considered to be much darker than anything Our Lady Peace had ever recorded, were deleted and "will never see the light of day."
Release history
| Region | Date | Label | Format | Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canada | August 30, 2005 | Columbia Columbia Records Columbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company... |
CD | |
| DualDisc DualDisc DualDisc was a type of double-sided optical disc product developed by a group of record companies including EMI Music, Universal Music Group, Sony/BMG Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group, and 5.1 Entertainment Group and later under the aegis of the Recording Industry Association of America... |
||||
| United States | CD | CK 94777 | ||
| DualDisc DualDisc DualDisc was a type of double-sided optical disc product developed by a group of record companies including EMI Music, Universal Music Group, Sony/BMG Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group, and 5.1 Entertainment Group and later under the aegis of the Recording Industry Association of America... |
CN 94998 | |||
| Europe | September 12, 2005 | CD | ||
| United States | November 11, 2005 (re-issue) | CD | 82876 77899 2 | |
| France | December 13, 2005 | CD | ||
Charts
Album| Chart (2005) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Canadian Albums Chart Canadian Albums Chart The Canadian Albums Chart is the official album sales chart in Canada. It is compiled every Wednesday by U.S.-based music sales tracking company Nielsen Soundscan, and published every Thursday by Jam! Canoe and Billboard, along with its sister charts the Canadian Singles Chart and the Canadian BDS... |
2 |
| Soundscan Alternative Albums | 1 |
| Billboard Top 200 | 45 |
External links
- Healthy in Paranoid Times lyrics at RhapsodyRhapsody (online music service)Rhapsody is an online music store subscription service, launched in December 2001, and available in the United States only. On April 6, 2010, Rhapsody officially declared its independence from RealNetworks. Downloaded files come with restrictions on their use, enforced by Helix, Rhapsody's version...
- Healthy in Paranoid Times at the Internet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie Database is an online database of information related to movies, television shows, actors, production crew personnel, video games and fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media. It is one of the most popular online entertainment destinations, with over 100 million...
- Artist Grant Smith's website
- Are You Affected By Sony-BMG's Rootkit? (November 9, 2005) from Electronic Frontier FoundationElectronic Frontier FoundationThe Electronic Frontier Foundation is an international non-profit digital rights advocacy and legal organization based in the United States...