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- '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.
- “Forced to Love”
- “Major Label Debut”
- “Stars and Sons”
- “Anthems For A Seventeen-Year-Old Girl”
- “Sentimental X’S”
- “Lover’s Spit”
- “Superconnected”
- “Cause = Time”
- “Almost Crimes”
- “It’s All Gonna Break”
If “Major Label Debut” (see below) is the sound of Broken Social Scene easing off the gas a bit to avoid creating a signature hit, then “Forced To Love” is what happens when they push down full throttle and fly past hits altogether. It’s too chaotic to be pop, too dynamic to be strictly rock — instead, it occupies a satisfying middle ground between...
Broken Social Scene itself never fell prey to the dreaded words contained in this song’s title, but “Major Label Debut” is weighed down with the aches and pains of the members within it who did. Even though the Toronto band made their own space within the flailing Canadian label system, people like Canning still bore the scars of disappointments pa...
Named after Dave Newfeld’s studio where the band recorded the majority of their first two albums, “Stars And Sons” feels like it’s more emblematic of the community that was built there than whatever the hell else it’s about. The lyrics are as patchwork as the cut-and-paste album cover of You Forgot It In People, and they make about as much sense as...
The concept of anthems stretches back to KC Accidental’s mythology. Their two records were anthems for the Could’ve Bin Pills, for an Empty Bathtub — that motif resurfaces on “Anthems For A Seventeen-Year-Old Girl,” one of the emotional high water marks of You Forgot It In People. “Anthems” is something of an outlier in the Broken Social Scene disc...
There were only a handful of times that Broken Social Scene got super-meta on how their relationships influenced the creation of their music, but those tended to be when they shined the most. Usually, their inner workings were all subtextual — you picked up on their deep connections through the band’s natural way of playing off each other — but on ...
“Lover’s Spit” has all the smoky, hazed-out mellowness of a dark club that reeks of sex and debauchery. It’s no wonder that Lorde was enamored enough with the song that she chose to shout it out on one of her own. It’s intrinsically tied to adolescence and puberty, a time where there’s a lot of sex without consequence, without commitment, as an esc...
“Superconnected” is the point on Broken Social Scene where all the tension surrounding the recording process starts to leak through, and to great dramatic effect. The buildup/breakdown cycle that the band goes through on this track is just insane, some of the tightest work they’ve ever done. You can sense the claustrophobia crowding around every in...
Broken Social Scene were rarely overtly political in their songs, but I still consider You Forgot It In People to be a strongly political album. In fact, some days I’d go as far as to say that it’s the best post-9/11 album that wasn’t trying to bea post-9/11 album. From front to back, it crackles with the kind of incendiary frustration and anger th...
“Almost Crimes” is some scuzzy, ferocious rock genius. It pits Broken Social Scene’s polarities against each other — the improvisational, out-of-control practice-space feel against the more composed, cutting, passionate wallops — and turns out a song that relishes in its unfettered abandon. The song’s construction is pretty simple: You can almost p...
“It’s All Gonna Break” was first sketched out during the You Forgot It In Peopleera, but it doesn’t feel like it ever belonged anywhere else but as the closing statement to their self-titled LP. It encapsulates everything that made the band so special into nine minutes of raucous, devastating jubilee. It’s a thematic continuation of “Superconnected...
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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...
Reddit’s largest community for alternative, experimental, independent, and underground music. Broken Social Scene's 20 Best Songs Ranked. Archived post. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. Cause = Time should be in the top 5. That’s almost a crime.
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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