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"One Man Army" Single by Our Lady Peace from the album
Happiness...Is Not a Fish That You Can CatchReleased July 30, 1999 Format CD single
7" 45 RPMRecorded 1999 Genre Alternative rock Length 3:22
3:08 (Radio Edit)Label Epic (EU)
Columbia RecordsWriter(s) Raine Maida Producer Arnold Lanni Our Lady Peace singles chronology "Clumsy"
(1998)"One Man Army"
(1999)"Is Anybody Home?"
(2000)"One Man Army" (often mistakenly called "Falling") is a 1999 song by Our Lady Peace, released as the first single from their third album, Happiness...Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch.
Contents
Meaning
"One Man Army is about the struggle for individuality. It's about finding the courage to metaphorically strip naked and set fire to all your inhibitions. It's about cleansing yourself of all the people and things that suffocate your individuality." ~Raine Maida
Release
The release of the live version of "One Man Army" from their Woodstock 1999 performance forced the record label to release the single several weeks earlier than the planned date of August 4[1].
Tracklist
US Pro CD
Columbia CSK 42454
- "One Man Army" (album version) - 3:22
UK 7"
Epic 668866 7
- "One Man Army" - 3:22
- "Superman's Dead" (live in NY)
UK Pro CD
Epic XPCD2440
- "One Man Army" (edit) - 3:08
- "One Man Army" (album version) - 3:22
UK Ltd. Ed. CD
SBME Import
Music video
This music video was directed by Mark Kohr and was filmed in Toronto on August 5, 1999. It begins with lead singer Raine Maida sitting in a chair in what appears to be a hotel hallway. Using special effects, he stands up and walks away, but a second "copy" of him remains seated. The video is then split into two sets of scenes: In one set, the band is set up in the middle of a lobby and performs the song; in the other scenes, Maida walks through a city. During the choruses of the song, Maida is suddenly pulled through the air (apparently acting as gravity was pulling him), causing him to crash into several walls, and smash through a tree, a wall, and several windows. He tries holding onto a fire hydrant and a street sign, but is pulled away. At the end of the video, Raine sits down on a bench on a pier, but he is pulled away out over the water after trying to hold onto the bench. In 2000, the video won another two MuchMusic Video Awards (both are People's Choice), Favourite Canadian Group and Favourite Canadian Video.
Preceded by
"Smooth" by Santana faturing Rob ThomasCanadian RPM Rock/Alternative 30 number-one single
September 13, 1999 (first run)
October 18, 1999 (second run)Succeeded by
"Enemy" by Days of the New (first run)
"Enemy" by "Days of the New" (second run)References
- ^ LeBlanc, Larry. "'Happiness' is Third Columbia Set from Canada's Our Lady Peace" - Billboard Magazine 11 Sept, 1999. Retrieved September 21, 2009.
External links
Our Lady Peace Raine Maida · Jeremy Taggart · Duncan Coutts · Steve Mazur
Mike Turner · Chris Eacrett · Jamie EdwardsStudio albums Naveed · Clumsy · Happiness... Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch · Spiritual Machines · Gravity · Healthy in Paranoid Times · Burn BurnLive albums Compilations A Decade · PlaylistSingles "Out of Here" · "The Birdman" · "Starseed" · "Hope" · "Supersatellite" · "Naveed" · "Superman's Dead" · "Automatic Flowers" · "Carnival" · "4am" · "Clumsy" · "One Man Army" · "Is Anybody Home?" · "Thief" · "In Repair" · "Life" · "Right Behind You (Mafia)" · "Somewhere out There" · "Innocent" · "Made of Steel" · "Where Are You" · "Angels/Losing/Sleep" · "Will the Future Blame Us?" · "Kiss on the Mouth" · "All You Did Was Save My Life" · "The End Is Where We Begin" · "Dreamland"Producers Related articles Categories:- 1999 singles
- Our Lady Peace songs
- Songs written by Raine Maida
- 1990s rock song stubs
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