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Happiness… Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch
Rock · 1999 · 11 tracks

Happiness… Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch

Our Lady Peace

A surreal blend of high-register vocals and gritty guitars. This record captures the tension between late-90s radio polish and deep, existential brooding.

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It's like if a philosophy textbook was screaming at you through a really nice guitar amp.

A high-tension blend of intellectual curiosity and late-night emotional exhaustion.

Happiness… Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch · vs · Our Lady Peace
Brooding+1.7σ

Brooding saturates this record notably more than the artist's norm.

Tracklist · 11 Tracks
01
One Man Army
3:23
02
Happiness & the Fish
3:35
03
Potato Girl
4:27
04
Blister
3:58
05
Is Anybody Home?
3:38
06
Waited
3:34
07
Thief
4:01
08
Lying Awake
4:03
09
Annie
4:03
10
Consequence of Laughing
3:16
11
Stealing Babies
5:31
Moments Worth Waiting For
The explosive shift from the restrained, ticking verse to the wide-open melodic chorus of One Man Army.
The haunting, high-register vocal bridge in Thief that captures a sense of desperate helplessness.
The way the distorted guitars suddenly give way to a lonely piano melody in the final moments of Stealing Babies.
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