Song · Our Lady Peace
“Thief” by Our Lady Peace
From the album Happiness… Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch (1999)
“Thief” by Our Lady Peace appears on 2 radio countdowns from 2 stations in 2000. It was first released in 1999 on the album Happiness… Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch. Its best result is #11 on the 89X Top 89 Songs of 2000. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #125 alternative song of 2000.
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"Thief" closed out the singles from Our Lady Peace's third album, Happiness... Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch, arriving in March 2000, and it carries the heaviest heart on the record. Raine Maida wrote the words about Mina Kim, a young girl he knew in Kitchener, Ontario, who was living with an incurable brain tumor; the thief of the title is the tumor itself. In the closing seconds you hear Mina herself singing the Sunday school song "Little By Little", joined by drummer Jeremy Taggart and by Chantal Kreviazuk, Maida's wife.
Arnold Lanni produced, with Maida lending a hand, and Kevin Shirley mixed, letting Mike Turner's guitar and the rhythm section of Duncan Coutts and Taggart swell without swamping the subject. Micha Dahan's video put the band on a Toronto rooftop in slow-motion rain, not an instrument in sight, and MuchMusic premiered it that May.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 11 | 89X Detroit, MI / Windsor, ON | 89X Top 89 Songs of 2000 | 89 |
| 2000 | 35 | The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2000 | 99 |
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