Song · Our Lady Peace
“Life” by Our Lady Peace
From the album Spiritual Machines (2000)
“Life” by Our Lady Peace appears on 8 radio countdowns from 8 stations between 2001 and 2011. It was first released in 2000 on the album Spiritual Machines. Its best result is #38 on the 89X Top 89 Songs of 2001. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #92 alternative song of 2001.
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"Life" arrived in December 2000 as the second single from Spiritual Machines, the album Canada's Our Lady Peace built partly around Ray Kurzweil's book The Age of Spiritual Machines, and it became the record's biggest success. Amid all that heady futurism, Raine Maida kept the words plain: by his own account it's about positive energy, about getting past the everyday things that grind people down, money trouble included.
Arnold Lanni produced with Maida as co-producer, Brendan O'Brien mixed, and the band plays it as a surging, open-hearted rocker, Mike Turner and Jamie Edwards on guitars, Duncan Coutts on bass and Jeremy Taggart on drums, with Maida's quavering voice riding on top. It drew a Best Single nomination at the 2002 Junos, losing out to Nickelback's "How You Remind Me", and a snippet later turned up in an episode of Trailer Park Boys.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 70 | Q101 Chicago, IL | Q101 Top 101 Songs of 2001 | 101 |
| 2001 | 91 | 107.7 The End Seattle, WA | The End Top 107 Songs of 2001 | 107 |
| 2001 | 38 | 89X Detroit, MI / Windsor, ON | 89X Top 89 Songs of 2001 | 89 |
| 2001 | 48 | CD101 Columbus, OH | CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2001 | 101 |
| 2001 | 39 | The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2001 | 99 |
| 2001 | 58 | 97X Tampa-St. Petersburg, FL | 97X Top 97 Songs of 2001 | 97 |
| 2001 | 73 | Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart) | Radio & Records Top 100 Songs of 2001 | 100 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 44 | CFNY 102.1 The Edge | 102.1 The Edge Top 102 New Rock Songs of the 2000s | 102 |
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