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iTunes study: The Story of 100 Aisles

The Story of 100 Aisles by Our Lady Peace, off the album Clumsy

We have a more traditional result from my little digital adventure as opposed to the last time where I managed to unearth something in which I was directly involved. The first result is that I have a lot less to say.

This is a very good song off of a very great album. Which is exactly why I have it. My purchase of this album occurred probably a good 10 years after its 1997 release date. That's something I'm prone to doing now, collecting all the music I couldn't afford from the age of grunge and rounding out my collection, probably a sign of aging.

General opinion is that Clumsy is a breakthrough album by a band called Our Lady Peace, their 1999 follow up Happiness... Is Not a Fish You Can Catch, is by that same group, and that anything after that is by some other band. A bad band. Did you know they released an album last year? Did you know that they collaborated with David Cook on this album... David Cook of American Idol? I rest my case.

The Story of 100 Aisles falls into the pharmaceutical love affair category of lyric writing and hence I have little comment. The music, like everything else on this album, rocks. From the slow build into a raucous opening riff to the singer screeching, " Depressed? Come here, try this," out of the ethereal bridge in a way that perfectly welcomes back the rock chorus that follows.

My favorites on the album tend to be in keeping with their big hits of the era, i.e. Superman's Dead and Clumsy with the album's ballad 4am getting plenty of plays as well. 'The Story of 100 Aisles' shows this is an album where you're free to not pick and choose, pop in, turn up, and rock the whole thing out.

In my library it's rated four stars, been played 5 times, and it's never been skipped.

The Story of 100 Aisles is available in the iTunes music store. Excuse me, I need to go pick up 'Happiness... is Not a Fish You Can Catch.'