In Repair (Our Lady Peace song)
| "In Repair" | ||||
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| Single by Our Lady Peace | ||||
| from the album Spiritual Machines | ||||
| Released | November 15, 2000 | |||
| Format |
digital download Promo-only CD single | |||
| Recorded | 2000, The Hit Factory (Avatar Studios), New York City[1] | |||
| Genre |
Alternative rock Post-grunge art rock | |||
| Length | 4:14 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Writer(s) |
Raine Maida Ray Kurzweil (R.K. 2029) | |||
| Producer(s) | Arnold Lanni | |||
| Our Lady Peace singles chronology | ||||
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"In Repair" is a music single released by Canadian rock band Our Lady Peace in 2000, under the album Spiritual Machines. It was the first single from the album, and was followed by "Life" and "Right Behind You (Mafia)".
Meaning
Raine Maida spoke of the lyrics on the band's website in 2000: "The lyrics for the track ‘In Repair’ focus upon how people tend to treat each other as machines in our day-to-day life. We really need to take stock and focus our energy towards those in our lives that matter. Sometimes it seems as if we need an oil change,"
Song information
The song, as with most songs from the Spiritual Machines album, follows a theme concerning a futuristic artificially intelligent and robotic society, as described in Ray Kurzweil's 1999 book The Age of Spiritual Machines.
In both the original release of the song and its second release as part of OLP's A Decade compilation album in 2006, the song is immediately preceded by a track entitled "R.K. 2029", which is a narration from Kurzweil's book read aloud by Kurzweil himself.
Kurzweil narration (R.K. 2029)
| “ | The year is 2029. The machines will convince us that they are conscious, that they have their own agenda worthy of our respect. They'll embody human qualities, they'll claim to be human, and we'll believe them. | ” |
Critical reception
In her review of Spiritual Machines, Allmusic's MacKenzie Wilson commented that "Maida's lazy nasal-like vocals carry the song with sheer essence" and said that, "There are no thunderous riffs plaguing the song's initial plea for a little soul-searching.[2]"
Music video
The music video was created by Oli Goldsmith and is an animated collage of the more than 200 artworks he painted for the Spiritual Machines project. The band makes no appearances in the video except for a brief moment when characters resembling them appear in the background. Saul Fox's image appears several times in the video also. The video premiered on Muchmusic on November 22, 2000.
In 2001, the video was nominated for Best Video, Best Rock Video, Best Post-Production, and Best Director at the MuchMusic Video Awards, which it won all but Best Rock Video.
See also
References
- ↑ Graff, Gary (2001). "Our Lady Peace Sound Off" Wallofsound,go.com at the Internet Archive. Retrieved September 19, 2009
- ↑ Wilson, MacKenzie. "Our Lady Peace — Spiritual Machines". Allmusic. Retrieved 2009-10-12.
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