The Best of Our Lady Peace

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I've thought about doing this for some time now. Listening and ranking every album and song of my favorite band, Our Lady Peace. I was having lots of fun when I started this project, but naturally the more songs you hear, the more daunting the task becomes. That being said, I relished in the chance to see the final product.

Gravity 52.8

A few notes worth mentioning. Firstly, this only contains songs from studio albums. My goal was to use mathematics to figure out which albums were truly my favorites. I had an idea naturally, but I didn't know if I could accurately lay them out in order without really thinking about it. So since it was used for ranking albums, there are no rarities (like Trapeze) or covers (Dear Prudence, Drive, Imagine etc.) included here because that would have messed up the math. Yes it would make for a more complete list of best songs, but again that wasn't the initial point.

Happiness is Not a Fish You Can Catch 50.27

So what was my criteria for ranking the songs? Quite simply it was how much I liked them. I didn't factor in intricate chord changes or anything that a musical "purist" would count as making a song great. These are just a list of personal favorites; nothing more, nothing less. Once I had all 87 listed, I assigned 87 points to the first place song. 86 to the second place, and so on. I added up the total number of points for each song on each album and divided it by the number of songs on that album. Then PRESTO! I had a total for each album that I could then rank it by.

Burn Burn 42.67

At number one with a score of 53.9 is Spiritual Machines. This didn't surprise me too much. Next comes Gravity with 52.8. Then Happiness is Not a Fish You Can Catch with 50.27. Then a large drop off to 42.67 with Burn Burn. Clumsy is right behind that with 41.82. Curve has 40.9. Followed by Naveed at 38.18. Then another significant drop off to 33.92 for Healthy in Paranoid Times.