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Less a rock band than an embodiment of an ideal of music, Broken Social Scene can be 17 musicians, brought together in search of a common goal, or BSS can be the smallest, most intimate affair.
- 'Lover's Spit' (You Forgot it in People, 2002/Bee Hives, 2004) Drew: So much of what I write about is always leaving, always being halfway in or out the door.
- 'Anthems For a Seventeen-Year-Old Girl' (You Forgot it in People, 2002) Canning: It was recorded in my basement. Kevin was upstairs doing something and he came downstairs and said, "That sounds like f--king Garageband!"
- '7/4 Shoreline' (Broken Social Scene, 2005) Drew: We had people sing with us when we were on tour, just local women came and sang with us on this song and it was phenomenal.
- 'Cause = Time' (You Forgot it in People, 2002) Drew: We had that song up and going and I didn't totally have the lyrics for it yet. I went to the staging of the cross because the Pope was in town for the youth mission.
- "Anthems for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl" You Forgot It in People (2002) Broken Social Scene want to change your life. Their unwieldy catalogue is made for jumping and thrashing and giggling and weeping, designed to pull some small thing from deep inside you, magnify it to blinding proportions, and leave you forever shifted.
- "7/4 (Shoreline)" Broken Social Scene (2005) Naming a song "7/4" feels like an exercise in music theory, drawing attention to the fact that this standout track from Broken Social Sceneis in an extremely awkward, counterintuitive time signature.
- "Almost Crimes" You Forgot It in People (2002) As the first big rock anthem from their breakthrough album, "Almost Crimes" marked the moment Broken Social Scene proved they can conquer a crowd.
- "Sentimental X's" Forgiveness Rock Record (2010) What would Broken Social Scene be without Emily Haines? Undoubtedly they'd still be great, but in a band made up of so many individual gravitational forces, hers feels the most grounding.
BSS are good enough often enough that it's hard to argue with a list like this, and pretty much any song I'd expect to see in the running ("Fire Eye'd Boy," "Cause = Time," "Shoreline," "Swimmers" of course "Lover's Spit") is here. I mean, I'd put up "Bandwitch" and "Ungrateful Little Father," but I can understand those being niche picks.
- “Passport Radio,” off Feel Good Lost (2001) VMP: This is the album where you and Kevin Drew were first getting to know each other. What were your first impressions of the collaboration?
- “Anthems For A Seventeen-Year Old Girl,” off You Forgot It In People (2002) Where the last song you picked was a collaboration with Feist, this track was one with Emily Haines.
- “Ibi Dreams of Pavement (A Better Day),” Broken Social Scene (2005) You mentioned the honeymoon period for the band. From You Forgot It In People to this album, it seemed like the band never really slowed down.
- “World Sick,” off Forgiveness Rock Record (2010) This is a song that’s largely about political dissatisfaction. How is it looking back at this song, considering everything that’s happened in the world since it was written?
Broken Social Scene is a Canadian indie rock band, a musical collective including as few as six and as many as nineteen members, formed by Kevin Drew and Bre...
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Oct 14, 2022 · But performing it in full like this is a new experience for Broken Social Scene. How does that affect how you approach these songs in a live setting? Canning: If we didn’t have all that time...
