Naveed (album)
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| Studio album by Our Lady Peace | ||||
| Released | March 22, 1994 (see release history) |
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| Recorded | September 1993 - January 1994 | |||
| Studio | Arnyard Studios, Toronto, Ontario | |||
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| Length | 47:37 | |||
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| Producer | Arnold Lanni | |||
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| Cincinnati Post | B+ |
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| Entertainment Weekly | B |
Naveed is the debut album by Canadian rock band Our Lady Peace. It was produced by Arnold Lanni, and was released on March 22, 1994 by Sony Music Canada. Naveed became a success in Canada, selling over 100,000 copies (Platinum Certification) by the end of the year. There were five singles released for the album, including "The Birdman", "Starseed" and "Naveed". The title Naveed is taken from the Persian name for the "bearer of good news". This is the only album to feature bass player Chris Eacrett, who was replaced by Duncan Coutts in 1995.
The band recorded several demo songs in January 1992, including "Out of Here" and an early version of "The Birdman", at Arnyard Studios. They recorded another three-song demo in March in hopes of compiling a full album, "but we ran out of money after three songs", noted guitarist Mike Turner. "It was all self-financed, same old story. A friend of ours was going to CMJ, so we dubbed a few copies of what we had -- they didn't even have printed sleeves, just a phone number jotted on them -- and he passed those out. We started getting phone calls right away, and it was like, 'Well, maybe we ought to take this a little more seriously.
In September of that year, they enlisted the help of Arnyard owner Arnold Lanni to oversee the recording of additional demo songs. At first they were unsure whether or not to choose Lanni to produce, only being familiar with his work with Frozen Ghost. They eventually hit it off on a personal level because they admired his brutal honesty about the music business. With him, they composed 19 songs right away and recorded seven of them for label consideration. Three of the tracks were shopped around to labels by the band's new management team, Coalition Entertainment, co-owned by Lanni's brother Robert. The other four were sent to interested parties in early 1993. By April 1993, after hearing feedback from labels such as Geffen and Interscope, they had signed a record deal with Sony Music Canada. An offer by Sony's president Rick Camilleri "to make me a record that sounds like your demo", with no outside interference, was the most appealing option for the band. According to Raine, "We were signed on faith that we could come up with more material like the demos but there was so much emotion and adrenalin flowing amongst us, I think we had ten more songs written inside a couple of weeks."
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