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Clumsy by Our Lady Peace
Clumsy is an album by Our Lady Peace, released in 1997. 4 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 101 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Superman's Dead”, on 49 lists with a best position of #8.
Clumsy, Our Lady Peace's second album, came out on Columbia on January 23, 1997, and it's the sound of a Canadian band's ambition going global. Arnold Lanni produced it, and he gives the band a big, sharp-edged sound: Mike Turner's guitars grind and shimmer, Duncan Coutts and Jeremy Taggart lock the bottom end down tight, and Raine Maida's voice swoops from a whimper to a yowl without ever warning you where it's going.
It spun off four hit singles: "Superman's Dead", "Automatic Flowers", "Clumsy" and "4am". "Superman's Dead" crunches like a post-grunge anthem built for arenas, while the title track plays it gentler and more wounded, the kind of song that sneaks up on you on the third listen.
It turned out to be the band's biggest record: diamond in Canada for a million units, platinum in the US for another million, and a Juno nomination for Album of the Year in 1998. It keeps turning up on best-of lists, too, landing at No. 76 in Bob Mersereau's The Top 100 Canadian Albums in 2007 and at No. 33 on 102.1 The Edge's Top 102 New Rock Albums of All Time in 2009.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Clumsy on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Superman's Dead | 49 | #8 | – | 1997–2023 | |
| 2 | Clumsy | 49 | #12 | – | 1997–2023 | |
| 3 | 4 A.M. | 2 | #7 | – | 1998–1999 | |
| 4 | Automatic Flowers | 1 | #157 | – | 2009 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.