Spiritual Machines
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| Studio album by Our Lady Peace | |||||
| Released | December 12, 2000 (Canada) March 13, 2001 (U.S.) |
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| Recorded | ??? | ||||
| Genre | Alternative Rock | ||||
| Length | 54:15 | ||||
| Label | Columbia Records | ||||
| Producer | Arnold Lanni, Raine Maida | ||||
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Spiritual Machines is the title of Our Lady Peace's fourth album. It was released on December 12, 2000 by Sony Records. It was inspired by the book The Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzweil.
Spiritual Machines would mark the end of an era for Our Lady Peace. It was the last album to be produced by Arnold Lanni, the last to feature Sol Fox on the cover until A Decade was released in 2006, the last to feature Raine Maida's prominent falsetto vocals, and the last album that guitarist Mike Turner worked on in full. The album artwork was created by Oli Goldsmith, who also directed the video for "In Repair". Exactly 16:37 into the last song on the album "The Wonderful Future", there is a hidden track with Ray Kurzweil communicating with 'Molly'. Molly is a robot from 2099, who at the beginning of the book was a 23 year old woman who knew nothing about what Kurzweil was trying to explain, and then started to evolve in the way Kurzweil predicted.
The album is Our Lady Peace's least successful to date, and the rights to it have been purchased by Maple Records, an independent Canadian label.[citation needed] Spiritual Machines' lack of success is attributed to the experimentation of spoken excerpts from the book being included on the album.[citation needed] Despite being the least commercially successful album, many have considered Spiritual Machines to be the highlight of the bands creativity, before they adopted a more mainstream sound and abandoned Raine Maida's falsetto vocals with their next album, Gravity.
There was a special edition release that came in a completely black CD case.[citation needed]
[edit] Track listing
- "R.K. Intro" – 0:06
- "Right Behind You (Mafia)" – 3:14
- "R.K. 2029" – 0:15
- "In Repair" – 3:58
- "Life" – 4:23
- "Middle of Yesterday" – 3:54
- "Are You Sad?" – 5:08
- "R.K. 2029 (Part 2)" – 0:12
- "Made to Heal" – 3:47
- "R.K. 1949–97" – 0:44
- "Everyone's a Junkie" – 3:38
- "R.K. on Death" – 0:39
- "All My Friends" – 3:37
- "If You Believe" – 3:35
- "The Wonderful Future" – 4:30 (20:00 including the silence & hidden track)
- "Kurzweil and Molly" (hidden track) - Starts at 16:37
- "4 A.M." (Japanese bonus track)
- "Clumsy" (Japanese bonus track)
- "Car Crash" (Japanese bonus track)
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[edit] Non-album tracks
- "A Waste of Violence (The Weight of Violence)" - this title appeared on the original Spiritual Machines artwork by Oli Goldsmith; never released
- "La Bra" - song title revealed through webcast during the recording of Spiritual Machines
- "Ordinary/Ordinary Day" - Abandoned track from recording sessions for Happiness. The PPU Christmas 1998 video included clips of the band rehearsing this song. The song was brought back up in the Spiritual Machines sessions; never released
- "Sleeping In" - Abandoned track from recording sessions for Happiness. The lyrics were published in the PPU Christmas 1998 newsletter. The song was brought back up in the Spiritual Machines sessions; never released
