I have enjoyed various songs by the band “Our Lady Peace” since high school (for me, that was about 10 years ago–man I’m getting old). I made an impulse iTunes buy today of their breakthrough hit “Starseed”, and decided to get the live version of the song. Unfortunately the live version is not better than the album one, and in my opinion is actually worse. The first four minutes the lead singer plaintively wails a good bit, and then finally he launches into the song. He does a decent job at it, but then when it’s over the last minute is him talking to the crowd.

So I should have bought the album version. I might go ahead and do that anyway, since I don’t think I want to listen to the live version much. Oh well, sometimes you gamble and lose.

Many of their songs have somewhat different lyrics, but they also are usually pretty catchy. The lead singer’s voice is whiny, so you have to get used to it if you don’t normally enjoy whiny voices. I haven’t visited their band’s site because I am afraid that they are really weird perhaps and if that’s the case I would prefer to live in ignorance of it!