Song · Our Lady Peace
“Is Anybody Home?” by Our Lady Peace
From the album Happiness… Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch (1999)
“Is Anybody Home?” by Our Lady Peace appears on 9 radio countdowns from 7 stations between 2000 and 2010. It was first released in 1999 on the album Happiness… Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch. Its best result is #7 on The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2000. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #100 alternative song of 2000 and #7,421 alternative song of all time.
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Our Lady Peace went looking for a pulse in the wired-up void on "Is Anybody Home?", which followed "One Man Army" off Happiness… Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch, the band's third record, in January 2000. Raine Maida pitched it as a song for somebody starved of real human contact: holed up at home, buried under television and the internet, connected to everything and touching nothing. His keening vocal rides Mike Turner's guitars while Duncan Coutts and Jeremy Taggart keep the groove taut; Arnold Lanni produced, and Kevin Shirley mixed.
Giuseppe Capotondi directed the video, which has Katherine Moennig woken by the song on the radio and cuts to the band packed into a church basement in Toronto's Riverdale. It premiered on MTV in March 2000.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 7 | The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2000 | 99 |
| 2000 | 73 | WCCC The Rock Hartford, CT | WCCC Top 106 Songs of 2000 | 106 |
| 2000 | 56 | 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) | WEQX Top 102.7 of 2000 | 102 |
| 2000 | 52 | 103.3 The Edge Buffalo, NY | 103.3 The Edge Top 103 of 2000 | 103 |
| 2000 | 66 | Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart) | Radio & Records Top 100 Songs of 2000 | 100 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 116 | The Buzz | The Buzz Top Songs of All-Time (Labor Day 2002, partial) | 144 |
| 2005 | 953 | 99X | 99X Freedom of Choice 1000 (2005) | 1000 |
| 2009 | 85 | CFNY 102.1 The Edge | The Top 200 Songs of the 90's According to 102.1 The Edge | 200 |
| 2010 | 11 | CFNY 102.1 The Edge | 102.1 The Edge Top 200 Songs of the 90's (September 2010) | 200 |
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