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• released in Canada in January 1997 on Sony Music Entertainment and in the US in March on Columbia Records
• took 7 months to record
• first single, Superman's Dead was a big hit on both sides of the border
  • 2 videos were recorded for it - one for Canada, one for the States
    Find out why.
• the following singles were:
  1. Clumsy
  2. Automatic Flowers
     • ironically, it wasn't intended to be on the album - it was added on only when Sony wanted the album to have 11 tracks instead of 10
     • the video was directed by the band
  3. Carnival
     • no video was recorded for this song
  4. 4am

  NOTE: Not all of the songs have explanations as Raine usually intends for the listener to make their own interpretations of the lyrics - everyone can perceive them differently.
  Each song title is a link to its lyrics.

  
  

  1. Superman's Dead
     • about the loss of innocence

     "It's just about how hard it is for kids to grow up today. They're inundated with the media and images and cliques they try to have to fit into."

     "It doesn't happen anymore. I have a nine-year-old brother; he's either inside playing Nintendo or staying up late on a school night watching Beavis & Butthead. And you juxtapose that against the old Superman, on the black and white series. He was a real hero, good values, strong-willed, a gentleman; but I think Beavis & Butthead win today."
     -Raine Maida

  2. Automatic Flowers

  3. Carnival
     • Raine has this theory - when we're kids, we won't step on the cracks or we'll break our mothers' backs. But this isn't just a game - when we get older, the cracks become things like the math exam you failed, getting pregnant, or your parents telling you that they're getting a divorce. These are the cracks we have to hop over - and now, your mother's back becomes your own, and sometimes, all these problems heaped on our backs make us feel like we're gonna break
     • the song is
       

       "about all those days when you feel like you're surrounded by the cracks; they're all around you."
       - Raine

  4. Big Dumb Rocket
     • was originally named Disgusted but then changed to Big Dumb Rocket
     • it's about a true stary that happened to Raine
     • he was at his friend's house and his friend showed him a Beretta (a handgun). So his friend leaves to do something and, being a huge Starsky & Hutch fan, Raine takes the clip out, sneaks up on his friend, and says "Bang!"

       "He's laughing and crying, he's not sure what to do. I just pointed a gun at my best friend all right. But everything's OK because I took the clip out. But I guess these Berettas are famous for having 13 bullets and there's a bullet still in the chamber."
       - Raine

  5. 4am
     • named that because Raine wrote it at 4 a.m and also because his dad's initials are A.M.
     • about having regrets

  6. Shaking
     • was originally named Spider Gun

  7. Clumsy

     "It's about perspective. At different times of the day you see things differently. It's just about standing back sometimes, trying to really see what's happening and get to the heart of whatever it may be. It's important to be analytical about things. I think sometimes people are a little tempermental or judgemental. Sometimes the energy you have stored up in your body comes out the wrong way and you have to be aware of the things you say to people and the way you view your problems. That's the whole "watching" thing. You can see someone and they might appear to be waving you good-bye and you can walk away and they'll end up drowning; or you can see it from a different perspective and see that they are drowning and they need your help and you need to jump in and save them."
     - Raine Maida in Extreme Magazine, issue 16, Spring 1997

  8. Hello Oskar

  9. Let You Down

  10. The Story of 100 Aisles
      • originally named Anacin
      • note - Anacin is a painkiller similar to Tylenol or aspirin

  11. Car Crash
      • about a friend of Raine's who intentionally died in a car crash

      
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