Broken Social Scene

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Bands that draw musicians from other well-known acts are called "supergroups." Broken Social Scene is a supercollective. Ranging from five to 17 members, the Toronto-based outfit includes musicians from Stars, Metric, and many other bands, as well as the up-and-coming Leslie Feist. Frontmen Kevin Drew (formerly of Do Make Say Think) and Brendan Canning (By Divine Right, Len) founded BSS in 1999 and their mission has stayed constant: take a deep love of indie rock and expand on that by making experimental mini-symphonies. Their latest work is not so much a series of songs as it is a musical mood. The infectious cacophony comes through immediately, opening with a rapidly-expanding collection of xylophones and trombones that create Burt Bacharach-style instrumental jaunts, while Kevin Drew's vocals whisper through the melodic mayhem. Notable tracks--from the rhythmic "Fire Eye'd Boy," to the gorgeously floaty "Major Label Debut," to "Ibi Dreams of Pavement" (featuring rapper K-Os)--have two elements in common: all feature expansive melodies and all have vocals consciously (sometimes annoyingly) buried quite low in the mix. However, the CD's highlight (and disc-closer), "It's All Gonna Break," holds the key to BSS's beauty; it's simultaneously far-reaching and uplifting, a near-perfect 10 minutes of music. The limited edition version of this release also contains a seven-song EP filled with some of the dropped songs and an alternative version of "Major Label Debut". --Denise Sheppard

Product Description
The massively anticipated follow-up to "You Forgot It In People," the Canadian cult BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE deliver an amazing new LP, filled with monumental songs layered with huge choruses, symphonic arrangements to compliment their many instruments and vocalists, and the intimate/experimental/hooky sound that makes their headphone and rock-out appeal a 2-pronged-force to be reckoned with. This is NON LIMITED VERSION of Self Titled release.

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Broken Social Scene

Average customer rating: Frantic, Beautiful - A Must Own So much yet so little Just Plain Broken You Forgot It In People One of the best albums of all time (believe it!)

You Forgot It in People Broken Social Scene Manufacturer: Arts & Crafts ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Lo-Fi | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Experimental Rock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Canada | North America | International | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Experimental Music | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Similar Items: Broken Social Scene Feel Good Lost Broken Social Scene Bee Hives Set Yourself on Fire ASIN: B00008RBJU Release Date: 2003-06-03

Tracks:

1. Capture the Flag
2. KC Accidental
3. Stars and Sons
4. Almost Crimes (Radio Kills Remix)
5. Looks Just Like the Sun
6. Pacific Theme
7. Anthems for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl
8. Cause=Time
9. Late Nineties Bedroom Rock for the Missionaries
10. Shampoo Suicide
11. Lover's Spit
12. I'm Still your Fag
13. Pitter Patter Goes My Heart

Album Description

Broken Social Scene materialized in 1999 when K.C. Accidental's Kevin Drew & Brendan Canning, formerly of By Divine Right, bonded their friendship into a band. During the next few years, Broken Social Scene created an atmospheric rock sound. Feel Good Lost marked their debut album in 2001 & introduced a revolving cast of Canadian indie musicians. Drew's fellow mate from Do Make Say Think was added to the band, as well as Evan Cranley (Stars), James Shaw, & Emily Haines (Metric). You Forgot It in People showcased Broken Social Scene's expansive musical design in October 2002. Digipak. Copy Controlled. Arts & Crafts.

Customer Reviews:

Frantic, Beautiful - A Must Own.......2007-07-09

I love this album. By the end of the introductory piece, you're not sure what to expect; a pretty, stagnant collection of songs from the guys who made Feel Good Lost? Then the second song, KC Accidental, begins.

An electric guitar is strummed quietly, deliberately, and for about ten seconds your suspicions seem to have been confirmed. Then the drums crash. The song's tempo and volume are immediately doubled; layers of guitar soar while the rhythm section plows ahead. After four measures of beautiful, breakneck instrumentation, the rest of the band crash like a wave, dissolving as the lone guitar continues strumming, louder but still deliberate. After four measures of this, the band returns at full speed. The push-and-pull between the single guitar and the rest of the band continues until finally it all breaks to make way for harmonizing strings and breathy, understated vocals.

You're not sure what you're hearing anymore, but one thing is clear - there is nothing stagnant about this music. It's as though Broken Social Scene takes for granted that the two aforementioned extremes of style should be considered a range within which a band may work. One song may explore its boundaries with feedback effects and a catchy, dominant bassline; the next may aspire to test the definition of cacophony with screeching guitars and vocals that are more shouted than sung. Yet another song croons the chorus "I'm still your fag" over pretty acoustic picking and brushed drums.

In short, this is one of the richest, frantically beautiful albums I own, and I recommend it to anyone. I promise that there will be something on this album for you to enjoy - for me, it's the whole thing.

So much yet so little.......2007-04-23

I grew up with The Police so take my opinion with a grain of salt but what I've heard of this album sums up what seems so wrong with this incarnation of indie rock. Too many possibilities for bands - all the effects and sub-syles replace what songwriting might be in there - they hit the Dinosaur-Jr style uptempos, grandiose strings / pianos build-ups, and psuedo-trip-hop cool-outs. On "Looks just like the Sun" a loopy, funky snare beat, acoustic guitar for mellowness and self-assured but weak vocals does not make a good song for me. The vocals just never make it beyond a vapid, quaalude style. The band reminds us their sweet studio also came with a banjo, a Rhodes piano, a real piano, and amps to mimic any guitar sound out there. I actually liked "Almost Crimes" and from another album "Hotel" and "7/4". But all in all this is well-played music that seems empty. I like overdubs and soundeffects just not the motives behind their use, and, well, overuse.

Just Plain Broken.......2007-02-06

1.) Arrangements relies too much on effects, not musically challenging or that interesting.
2.) Background ambient instrumentals are to imposing, they over power the main structure.
3.) Lyrically unsound and ridiculous.

You Forgot It In People.......2007-01-20

Broken Social Scene's trivial debut pastiche, "Feel Good Lost," gave no indication of the heights they would scale on "You Forgot It In People." Consisting of an expanded 12-member lineup culled from Montreal's experimental music sector, Broken Social Scene broke out of the gates with an exquisite pop gem whose plethora of smaller gems could have (and should have) topped the Billboard pop charts. It's full of contradictions--breezy yet dense, poppy yet challenging, intimate yet absolutely huge--but BSS make it all look easy, especially considering the multitudinous personnel involved. In fact, it flows out of the speakers so smoothly that it's difficult to believe that some of the band members had never written a four-minute song in their whole lives. We could have used something this vivacious, intelligent and easygoing five years prior, when grunge music was reaching its lowest introverted depths, but if Broken Social Scene had to flounder awhile in order to arrive here, so be it. And darn if "Cause=Time" isn't the best pop song I've heard since Junior High.

One of the best albums of all time (believe it!).......2006-09-17

These guys make creating incredible rock music appear easy. There's something incredibly natural about this album, and yet it feels wholly original. The songs are emotionally powerful and very well written, identifiying this as a standard indie rock album among the ranks of The Arcade Fire or Wolf Parade, but it also has a sense of groove and musicality to it that identifies it with almost a jazz/funk/jam-band aesthetic. I in no way mean to mislead people by making a connection between this CD and these other genres, because the sound of the album really has little to do with jazz, funk, or jam-bands, but it does demonstrate the power of this album and the skill of the musicians that they are able to strike a balance between a sense music-for-music's sake (as in tight grooves and great musicianship), which is primarly a concept associate with jazz, and concise, emotionally-loaded, structured songs that give this CD the strength of the indie rock albums we all know and love. This CD is enthralling, soft and gentle as a whisper, emotoinal, powerful, dreamy, and groovy. Its also remarkably consistant. What a f@#$ing great album!

Average customer rating: Savior of rock music. i loved the last one! Even Better than "You Forgot It In People" Absolutely a Masterpiece A top 10 album

Broken Social Scene Broken Social Scene Manufacturer: Arts & Crafts ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Experimental Rock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Canada | North America | International | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Experimental Music | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Similar Items: You Forgot It in People Feel Good Lost Bee Hives Set Yourself on Fire The Reminder ASIN: B000AP2ZT4 Release Date: 2005-10-04

Tracks:

1. Our Faces Split the Coast in Half
2. Ibi Dreams of Pavement (A Better Day)
3. 7/4 (Shoreline)
4. Finish Your Collapse and Stay for Breakfast
5. Major Label Debut
6. Fire Eye'd Boy
7. Windsurfing Nation
8. Swimmers
9. Hotel
10. Handjobs for the Holidays
11. Superconnected
12. Bandwitch
13. Tremoloa Debut
14. It's All Gonna Break

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Bands that draw musicians from other well-known acts are called "supergroups." Broken Social Scene is a supercollective. Ranging from five to 17 members, the Toronto-based outfit includes musicians from Stars, Metric, and many other bands, as well as the up-and-coming Leslie Feist. Frontmen Kevin Drew (formerly of Do Make Say Think) and Brendan Canning (By Divine Right, Len) founded BSS in 1999 and their mission has stayed constant: take a deep love of indie rock and expand on that by making experimental mini-symphonies. Their latest work is not so much a series of songs as it is a musical mood. The infectious cacophony comes through immediately, opening with a rapidly-expanding collection of xylophones and trombones that create Burt Bacharach-style instrumental jaunts, while Kevin Drew's vocals whisper through the melodic mayhem. Notable tracks--from the rhythmic "Fire Eye'd Boy," to the gorgeously floaty "Major Label Debut," to "Ibi Dreams of Pavement" (featuring rapper K-Os)--have two elements in common: all feature expansive melodies and all have vocals consciously (sometimes annoyingly) buried quite low in the mix. However, the CD's highlight (and disc-closer), "It's All Gonna Break," holds the key to BSS's beauty; it's simultaneously far-reaching and uplifting, a near-perfect 10 minutes of music. The limited edition version of this release also contains a seven-song EP filled with some of the dropped songs and an alternative version of "Major Label Debut". --Denise Sheppard

Album Description

The massively anticipated follow-up to "You Forgot It In People," the Canadian cult BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE deliver an amazing new LP, filled with monumental songs layered with huge choruses, symphonic arrangements to compliment their many instruments and vocalists, and the intimate/experimental/hooky sound that makes their headphone and rock-out appeal a 2-pronged-force to be reckoned with. This is NON LIMITED VERSION of Self Titled release.

Customer Reviews:

Savior of rock music........2007-01-21

I fell in love with "You Forgot It In People" after a friend sent me some songs online. When I saw that this new one came out, I had to have it. This band is one of the greatest things going on in rock music today. They have the most original sound of any indie band (or supergroup) I've heard. If you truly love music, you need to give this band a chance. Sidenote: they are amazing live. I've never seen anything quite like it.

i loved the last one!.......2007-01-14

this collective's rendered redundant now--especially as there are NO SONGS here,
merely miasmic "workouts." i was charmed by the new orderish basslines and
urgent vocals occasioned by the stuff on "You Forgot it in People," the debut.
this new thing's very very disappointing! meandering fluffy stuff. better records
to get: SONIC YOUTH, THE BLACK WATCH, YO LA TENGO, SPARKLEHORSE,
THE RADIO DEPT. sorry, but the over-the-top packaging (geez, these guys are
essaying WAY to hard to be considered as "artists") is the quote-unquote best thing
about this. AVOID!!!!

Even Better than "You Forgot It In People".......2007-01-10

The general feeling among professional critics and fans alike seems to be that YFIIP is the pinnacle and this follow-up is a less focused, less inspired attempt to top it. Some have said they find it less emotionally arresting than YFIIP, and that it seems to be a broken down, bloated mess with too many ideas floating around. Then there are the posts below with vague comments that it's not as "trippy" or "groovy" as prior BSS releases. I entered BSS like most people with YFIIP, which many have called a perfect pop album. I must diverge from the majority of critics and potheads and weigh in to say that I consider this the closest thing BSS has made to the perfect pop album. Even though there is much more going on in the songs and the production is more dense, I find these songs speak to me in a much more direct, emotionally-charged way. As before, I still barely know what the lyrics are, but it does not matter. Just listen to the music! Nearly every song is a rapture of pop extacy. "7/4 (Shoreline)" is about as perfect a pop song there is, and ties with Dave Brubeck's "Take 5" for the most enjoyable use of an irregular time signature in popular music. Even the final track, which ventures dangerously close to self-indulgence and pomposity, is somehow stirring and inspiring, in spite of the disturbing lyrics. The band sounds like they have now figured out just what they have here, and no longer need to ape the styles of their idols. Gone is the tentative quality of past releases, and part of the credit for this must fall onto the producer, David Newfeld. The production is amazing, some of the most daring work of the year. Newfeld somehow managed to gel an overwhealming amount of tracks and takes and ideas all together into something of a masterpiece. This is indeed a perfect pop record, in the grand tradition of "Loveless".

Absolutely a Masterpiece.......2006-09-24

Broken Social Scene's self-titled album is quite the treat and/or pleasure! From the very first track (Our Faces Split the Coast in Half) the listener begins a superfantastic musical ride that is sure to please. The tracks that stand out the most for me are "7/4 (Shoreline)" with with the vocal stylings of Feist, "Swimmers", also featuring Feist, "Fire Eyed Boy", "Superconnected", and "Handjobs for the Holidays", which is a song that cannot easily be described. It's like setting in the middle of the universe. That is the best way I can describe it. This album being as good as it is may even rival the band's earlier effort: You Forgot it in People. Which is one of my top 10 albums of all time. This BSS album definately ranks in my top 10 too, and I would recommend it to anyone who likes good music. I know some people that don't like it, but they are too busy listening to Nickelback, so they probably just like bad music I guess.

A top 10 album.......2006-08-15

A top ten for 2005. Excellent variety, combination of great melody and a sound that will hold your attention.

Average customer rating: Good, but the least appealing of the BSS releases Loved It!! Indescribable Broken Social Scene: Bee Hives (Arts And Crafts) ThreeImaginaryGirls.com review Broken Social Scene

Bee Hives Broken Social Scene Manufacturer: Arts & Crafts ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Experimental Rock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Experimental Music | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Similar Items: Feel Good Lost You Forgot It in People Broken Social Scene Broken Social Scene Heart ASIN: B0001KL5NA Release Date: 2007-01-08

Tracks:

1. Untitled
2. Market Fresh
3. Weddings
4. Hhallmark
5. Backyards
6. Da Da Da Da
7. Ambulance For The Ambience
8. Time = Cause
9. Lover's Pit

Customer Reviews:

Good, but the least appealing of the BSS releases.......2007-03-24

Consisting of B-Sides and alternate versions, "Bee Hives" is really the last album you should pick up by the Canadian music collective Broken Social Scene. While there are some unforgettable moments here, such as "Lover's Spit (Redux)", "Backyards" and "Market Fresh", the album as a whole feels less cohesive than their other works and may not find its way into your heart as easily.

Loved It!!.......2006-12-08

I did not like the original lover's spit on you forgot it in the people, but with feist singing-it's my new fav. song!

Indescribable.......2006-07-23

The album is definately a unique listening experience. It's a collection of music so unusual and experimental that I have a hard time labelling it as anything but an 'experiment in cool and interesting sounds'. Much of the album consists of somewhat random synthesized effects, though the first five tracks are surprisingly polished for A "B-Sides". The thing stands on it's own, whatever it is exactly, and there is definately something enjoyable to be taken from sitting through it from start to finish. Reminds me of a random stream of consciousness; an ethereal musical landscape existing simply for it's own beautiful sake. Unlike anything I've ever heard. Put it on, and float away.

Broken Social Scene: Bee Hives (Arts And Crafts).......2005-08-24

I think Pitchfork was a little too hostile on Broken Social Scene's latest, really. The song may just be B-Sides but there is more to the music than just the fact that it is B-Sides, really. The music has a dertain album on its own expressing more than just the 11-piece band playing like a Rock and Roll community. The akbum is also experimental in all the right measure. "Market Fresh" is classic Broken Social Scene that would have fit on You Forgot It In People, as at least a bonus track. "Da Da Dada" reminds you of "Almost Crimes" but nonetheless stands well enough alone as a track or a remix. "Backyards" is the best song on the album. This really should have been a part of any album besides the B-Sides. I would listen to it all day long. The beauty of Feist's voice and the lush ending is enough to go along with the album. "Lover's Spit (Live)" is beautiful when Leslie Feist is at the wheel. THe original sounds good, but Leslie put a more Ivy-sounding Pop-influenced aura around the music. So you see. Pitchfork said SOme songs are called B-Sides for a reason. But sometimes a B-Sides are the best thing about the album. In fact I think that this album sounds a lot better and less commercial than You Forgot It In People, which is why you should pick up this album, along with any Broken Social Scene, Arts and Crafts or Indie album you encounter at the record store. Granted, the album is nothing special, but that is what you would think if you were to either a) play albums without using headphones or b) rely too much on critically-acclaimed albums like You Forgot It In People.
7.5/10

ThreeImaginaryGirls.com review Broken Social Scene.......2004-06-01

And the award for most tongue-in-cheek title for a collection of B-sides goes to...

You remember Broken Social Scene, that wondrous indie-rock collective out of Canada whose 2003 release "You Forgot it in People" was the music-snob's name-drop of November and December? Naturally, when a small label gets a band that can sell records to their niche market like fairies can sell fairy dust to kids at a Peter Pan flight school, then the label gets a surge of happy thoughts and the re-issues and collections of b-sides come soaring in from Neverneverland, and so it is with the band at hand.

Enter "Bee Hives," a lovely collection from the folks out at Arts and Crafts. Like its predecessor, it's most definitely a headphones album. However, while the ambience of YFIP is sort of there, and the enigmatic nature is still sort of there, for eight of the nine tracks, the record feels like, well, just a bunch of b-sides.

The album opens with an intro dubiously entitled, "intro." It sounds exactly how you think it might - some distortion, a lot of reverb, and then it's over. That's followed by "Marketfresh," a very decent song in all aspects, and probably got the boot from YFIP's track list in favor of the slightly better "Looks just like the sun." They both have the cool and elaborate acoustic-ness with electronic beeps and blips in the background perfect for collapsing on a couch at four in the morning.

The following instrumental, "Weddings," might have been more aptly titled "Escalator" or "Moving Sidewalk at the Airport When you're really Tired." If you're awake enough to pay attention to what's going on in all the Broken Social Layers, then you'll find it's as much an enjoyable track as the first half of "Da Da Dada," another cut on "Beehives" taken from the "Cause = Time" 7", but one which about two minutes into the unimpressive instrumental layers at the beginning, opens up with a center staged drum kit and some spacey star-gazer laser effects bouncing back and forth behind. It's a little like how you might remember the music waiting in line for Space Mountain. (...)

Average customer rating: Feels good to be lost... Their First and Their Best Its ooookkaaaay... sucks madly I don't get it

Feel Good Lost Broken Social Scene Manufacturer: Arts & Crafts ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Lo-Fi | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Experimental Rock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Experimental Music | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Similar Items: Bee Hives You Forgot It in People Broken Social Scene Broken Social Scene Heart ASIN: B0001CNQMG Release Date: 2004-02-24

Tracks:

1. I Slept With Bonhomme at the CBC
2. Guilty Cubicles
3. Love and Mathematics
4. Passport Radio
5. Alive in 85
6. Prison Province
7. Blues for Uncle Gibb
8. Stomach Song
9. Mossbraker
10. Feel Good Lost
11. Last Place
12. Cranley's Gonna Make It

Customer Reviews:

Feels good to be lost..........2006-07-07

With their debut "Feel Good Lost" album, Broken Social Scene (BSS) broke new ground back in 2001 closely following their fellow Canadians Godspeed You Black Emperor! who had released in 2000 their legendary "Lift Your Skinny Fists..." double album. However, BSS arrived with a lighter (almost dreamy) version of the post-rock alternative presented by Godspeed a year earlier.

The music in this (mostly instrumental) production hints at musical landscapes feeding from the sound of guitars, piano, strings and brass, with a touch of electronic beats that doesn't get old with time. It can feel alien at times, but whenever you approach this territory a familiar ambient feel overwhelms you and leaves you guessing what's next. The tracks range in duration from 1:42 all the way to 8:26, which shows the willingness of the Montreal collective to take their time to tell their story with their music.

Looking back, and comparing it against their other albums, it's hard to say which one is best, because this one stands out as being very different from the other ones. However, I cannot emphasize enough how much of a musical jewel this album is. If you haven't heard Broken Social Scene before, you will be happy when you discover how "good it feels to be lost"...

Their First and Their Best.......2006-05-01

Other reviews on this album immediately reference YFIP and talk about how Feel Good Lost was just a necessary stepping stone on their path to glory, but those reviews are wrong. This IS their glory and everything since pales in comparison. I heard YFIP a while ago, well, I heard Stars and Sons on a mixed CD and was intrigued so I picked it up and gave it a listen and I was in no way blown away. Stars and Cause=Time are indeed priceless gems, but that disc, I'm afraid, will take it's rightful place in the bland sea of indistinguishability that is popular music, sometimes rising to the crest of a wave, but ultimately being crushed under everything. What Feel Good Lost does, what gives it buoyancy, is it travels back to the 60's not in sound, but in attitude, challenging the pop music standards with creative and imaginative twists to the norms, or, in some cases, the complete rejection of conventions altogether. Such is Feel Good Lost, an album that begins with high, whiny violins over a very satisfying base line. Guilty cubicles does a nice job in the segue, keeping the theme of provactive base but trading the violins for some very mellow guitar plucking and perfectly juxtaposed electronic noise- somehow making the hideous dial-up modem misery into an intelligent contributor to a good song. Track 3, Love and Math, continues to follow the meandering bass line except, on this number, the electric guitar makes its first significant contribution, taking the melody load off of the bass for a little while (which refuses to go away). Also featured is a repetitive, up beat drum rhythm that you wouldn't expect to fit with such a perfectly easy song. Passport Radio is what Love and Math would sound like from a strata of the atmosphere only David Bowie or an acid-fueled Grateful Dead would dare go. Lyrics make their first appearance and they sound like an angel singing through a vacuum as semi-trucks drive by, bringing along with them that whoosh everyone knows and hates but has to admit sounds particularly good on this track. Alive in '85 remembers new wave and proves it with the hot hot beat any good synth and drum machine would pump out in a discoteque. It also features what I believe to be a cello and a duet of brass instruments. Prison Province triumphantly ressurects the bass in a haunting solo which reverberates like the signature whistle of The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. It repeats, lulling the listener into a trance, forgetting it was even listening, but the brilliantly placed Blues for Uncle Gibb snaps the listener right back into uncomfortable attention. American-Indian style drum beats that bounce from right to left in the stereo mix, establishing the atmosphere for a ceremonial manhood rite as an adolescent leaves the comfort of the tribe's drum circle, wandering into the wilderness for a vision. Meanwhile, the plucked strings of an electric guitar give the track continuity with the album, even as a harmonica sweetens the pot and further's the track's theme. Stomach Song makes music with an obscure round of sorts as crowd noise provides a cluttered pallet over which two particular voices weave in and out of the obscurity to talk and echo nonsense phrases, accompanied all the while by evenly played, very electric guitar. This is perhaps the vision of the young man, difficult to interpret but beautiful and heartfelt nonetheless. Mossbraker brings back the drums of Gibb, this time sounding the enthusiastic welcome of the newest member to the tribe. A solo violinist speaks up, not playing notes, per se, but singing a sweet and uneven tune like the vocals of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!, but slower. The driving force at this point is a bass that sounds like Primus' Les Claypool's if he had a glass of red wine, smoked a pound of grass, then downed half a bottle of vicatin. The Title Track is where repetition begins, returning to ideas earlier in the work and reiterating them, perhaps more eloquently. Feel Good Lost is certainly the most delicate of the songs, and it is a nice bridge between Moss and Last Place. Last Place is not in fact last, but second to it, and it accelerates the pace with the same electronic influenced style of 85. As the 8 minute song progresses, it slowly but progressively builds the wall of sound that backs the beat. It doesn't get anywhere near the obscure levels of the climax of the Decemberists' I Was Meant for The Stage, but the idea is kind of the same. The last track, Cranley's Gonna Make It, might be the most conventional on the album. It still lacks lyrics, and has some interesting instruments (like a very Sufjan banjo part), but the polyrythmic consistency gives it a natural, comfortable feel. It's pretty upbeat, and I would liken it to the end of a long road trip where the van is finally rolling back into the driveway, and you are just so damn excited to see what you know and trust again. On the whole, the journey is a masterpiece. YFIP is a very good piece of music, better than most to be sure, but its retrograde into conventional song form is truly a step away from the brilliance they achieved in Feel Good Lost. Few works sound as good as it, but none sound LIKE it.

Its ooookkaaaay..........2005-07-17

Ive heard the "best" tracks off this album, which include love and mathematics, guilty cubiicle and passport radio and i must say im unimpressed. Its sad background music and by no means anything close to how good you forgot it in people is. In comparison to you forgot it, this album could be a single star.

sucks madly.......2005-02-08

i dont know why people like broken social scene, they are boring boring boring. i listned to this entire album and it was difficult. i wanted to turn it off really bad, but i had to go through it all to prove to myself that it is not good for anyone. for real though people, there is tons of music outthere that is not boring. you should check it out!

I don't get it .......2005-02-01

This, to me, is nothing but backround noise. I don't know how anyone can really be interested in this "music", there is nothing to be interested in. But, then again this is coming from a drummers perspective, and that may be bias, in a way that there is some sort of rhythm required for it to really catch my ear. So this may be for you if you have a really short attention span. Thank you, that is all.

Average customer rating: All They Want Is to Feel It another fine release from this band Even Better than "You Forgot It In People" If you're tired of the same old thing.. Not You Forgot It In People, but a Solid Offering Nonetheless...

Broken Social Scene Broken Social Scene Manufacturer: Arts & Crafts ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Experimental Rock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Canada | North America | International | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Experimental Music | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Similar Items: You Forgot It in People Feels Set Yourself on Fire Takk... Z ASIN: B000AP2ZTE Release Date: 2005-10-04

Tracks:

1. Our Faces Split the Coast in Half
2. Ibi Dreams of Pavement (A Better Day)
3. 7/4 (Shoreline)
4. Finish Your Collapse and Stay for Breakfast
5. Major Label Debut
6. Fire Eye'd Boy
7. Windsurfing Nation
8. Swimmers
9. Hotel
10. Handjobs for the Holidays
11. Superconnected
12. Bandwitch
13. Tremoloa Debut
14. It's All Gonna Break

Tracks:

1. Her Disappearing Theme
2. Canada vs. America
3. Baroque Social
4. No Smiling Darkness/Snake Charmers Association
5. All My Friends
6. Major Label Debut (Fast)
7. Feel Good Lost Reprise

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Bands that draw musicians from other well-known acts are called "supergroups." Broken Social Scene is a supercollective. Ranging from five to 17 members, the Toronto-based outfit includes musicians from Stars, Metric, and many other bands, as well as the up-and-coming Leslie Feist. Frontmen Kevin Drew (formerly of Do Make Say Think) and Brendan Canning (By Divine Right, Len) founded BSS in 1999 and their mission has stayed constant: take a deep love of indie rock and expand on that by making experimental mini-symphonies. Their latest work is not so much a series of songs as it is a musical mood. The infectious cacophony comes through immediately, opening with a rapidly-expanding collection of xylophones and trombones that create Burt Bacharach-style instrumental jaunts, while Kevin Drew's vocals whisper through the melodic mayhem. Notable tracks--from the rhythmic "Fire Eye'd Boy," to the gorgeously floaty "Major Label Debut," to "Ibi Dreams of Pavement" (featuring rapper K-Os)--have two elements in common: all feature expansive melodies and all have vocals consciously (sometimes annoyingly) buried quite low in the mix. However, the CD's highlight (and disc-closer), "It's All Gonna Break," holds the key to BSS's beauty; it's simultaneously far-reaching and uplifting, a near-perfect 10 minutes of music. This limited edition version of the release also contains a seven-song EP filled with some dropped tracks and an alternative version of "Major Label Debut". --Denise Sheppard

Album Description

The massively anticipated follow-up to "You Forgot It In People," the Canadian cult BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE deliver an amazing new LP, filled with monumental songs layered with huge choruses, symphonic arrangements to compliment their many instruments and vocalists, and the intimate/experimental/hooky sound that makes their headphone and rock-out appeal a 2-pronged-force to be reckoned with. The LIMITED EDITION version of Self Titled release features a bonus EP, titled "EP to Be You and Me".

Customer Reviews:

All They Want Is to Feel It.......2007-05-07

Ok, maybe `You Forgot It In People' was more immediately accessible. I mean come on, it even had an anthem for a seventeen year-old girl. It introduced the Broken Social Scene to the indie-loving world as one of those rare bands that can stand as equals among the great bands who influenced them. In this case we're talking Pavement, Sonic Youth, Flaming Lips, Dinosaur Jr., and even the Jesus and Mary Chain - the cream of the crop. Critics and indie fans alike heaped accolades on YFIIP and pre-orders for the follow-up propelled it to the top 50 on amazon before it even came out, which is no small feat. At that point Brendan Canning and Kevin Drew had to have known exactly why `Loveless' was My Bloody Valentine's last album.

What happened was the rarest of the rare: they lived up to the hype. This self-titled follow-up is everything `You Forgot It' was and then some. They somehow managed to get catchier while simultaneously becoming more experimental. Listen to "Windsurfing Nation" for a perfect example. The first minute sounds like a Kid A instrumental, hell they might as well have sampled "Pull/Pulk". Then the drums crash in and it's a hit single. It's got all the elements of a hit record: catchy hooks, a pulsating beat, handclaps, and a guest rapper even. If there had been a kitchen sink nearby they might have thrown that in as well. Oh and that guest rapper, K-OS, somehow manages to fit into this Radiohead meets the Yeah Yeah Yeahs tune seamlessly - and his cameo only lasts 12 perfect seconds.

As has been mentioned, the catchiest song that BSS have yet recorded is hidden away literally in the middle of a handful of non-essential instrumentals on the bonus EP included only on the special edition. "Major Label Debut (fast)" (who's chorus is "I'm all HOOKED up", not that other word that it sounds like) opens with a short intro riff then at the 29 second mark the drums and bass come in setting a driving pace that doesn't slow down, leads up to an actual guitar solo, which is followed by a short break from the drums before they dramatically reenter with a huge roll and drive along to a great climax. This song could have been the year's "Float On" given the right marketing scheme, which is exactly why the band got rid of it in favor of the slower mix on the album. To quote their Pitchfork interview: "We don't want to be the Gin Blossoms." You remember that Gin Blossoms song right? Yeah, I don't know what it's called either. But you damn well remember `Loveless`. Which could explain why the band also nixed a mix of "Ibi" with the vocals turned up.

There's so much good stuff going on all over this album. The opening track alone, especially when compared to "Capture the Flag" off `You Forgot It' should immediately tell you how much the band have improved on an already amazing sound. The opening riff, leading to Feist's beautiful, melodic, yet completely indecipherable vocals which leads seamlessly to the jazzy brass (which, like Feist's vocals, aren't mixed so high as to overpower any of the other instruments) section and then the music just seems to turn around backwards for the end as Feist laughs. Then "Ibi" comes blasting out at you with it's power chords juxtaposed brilliantly against that dissonant, wavering feedback. "7/4" of course has the odd time signature, but is very fast paced and carefree with Feist singing a refrain of what sounds like "let's go in a stolen car". On close inspection of the liner notes, it appears "Swimmers" was almost titled "Anthems for a 27 Year-Old Boy". It opens with what sounds like a beat made on a laptop and is joined by undistorted, very chorus-y guitar strumming and Emily Haines singing things like "if you always get up late you'll never be on time", "you look good, but you sound better", and of course "ba ba da-da-da". It's at least as good as the "17 Year-Old Girl" original.

Really I could go on for paragraphs about every song. There are just so many layers, so much going on separately and at once in every single song and always working so well that it's astonishing. At it's best moments it makes me think of those pop singles in the sixties, back when bands were experimenting with the boundaries of what could be pop. Songs such as "We Love You" by the Stones, "I Can See for Miles" by The Who, and "A Day in the Life" by The Beatles. "It's All Gonna Break", the epic nine and a half minute closing song particularly reminded me of how "A Day in the Life" transitions between two completely different songs except in this case it's at least three. "It's All Gonna Break" might just be the best song the Scene have yet written. The liner notes claim they wanted it to sound like "Bob Seger on acid". I don't quite see the Seger connection, but the acid part fits completely.

The band has stated that "we'd already made our art-house albums...the whole ideology of trying to write an actual four-minute pop song was new to so many of us." With members of this 9+ group ranging from Silver Mt. Zion and Do Make Say Think to Len, Treble Charger, Stars, and Metric you'd have never guessed that they'd have pulled this off this well and with such a complete sense of ease. Or maybe you really should have. Either way, Broken Social Scene are only getting better and seem to have limitless possibilities of where they can successfully take their music.

I think the band summed it up perfectly themselves in the lyrics to "Windsurfing Nation":
"We won't be what you want to be, OH NO!
...At the brink of an evolution we're going to linger."

another fine release from this band.......2007-03-15

i loved their previous album "you forgot it in people," so was really looking forward to this one. turns out i was not disappointed. while this is not as immediately lovable as its predecessor, it grows more and more on you with each listen. i recommend this as headphone music, especially. there is a lot going on, motifs of strangeness, moments of creative beauty, that are best captured when pumped straight into your head. mojo magazine picked this as the 23rd best album of 2006. easy to understand why. a psychedelic soundscape perfect for the 21st century.

Even Better than "You Forgot It In People".......2007-01-19

The general feeling among professional critics and fans alike seems to be that YFIIP is the pinnacle and this follow-up is a less focused, less inspired attempt to top it. Some have said they find it less emotionally arresting than YFIIP, and that it seems to be a broken down, bloated mess with too many ideas floating around. Then there are the critical posts below with vague comments that it's not as "trippy" or "groovy" as prior BSS releases. I entered BSS like most people with YFIIP, which many have called a perfect pop album. I must diverge from the majority of critics and potheads and weigh in to say that I consider this the closest thing BSS has made to the perfect pop album. Even though there is much more going on in the songs and the production is more dense, I find these songs speak to me in a much more direct, emotionally-charged way. As before, I still barely know what the lyrics are, but it does not matter. Just listen to the music! Nearly every song is a rapture of pop extacy. "7/4 (Shoreline)" is about as perfect a pop song there is, and ties with Dave Brubeck's "Take 5" for the most enjoyable use of an irregular time signature in popular music. Even the final track, which ventures dangerously close to self-indulgence and pomposity, is somehow stirring and inspiring, in spite of the disturbing lyrics. The band sounds like they have now figured out just what they have here, and no longer need to ape the styles of their idols. Gone is the tentative quality of past releases, and part of the credit for this must fall onto the producer, David Newfeld. The production is amazing, some of the most daring work of the year. Newfeld somehow managed to gel an overwhealming amount of tracks and takes and ideas all together into something of a masterpiece. This is indeed a perfect pop record, in the grand tradition of "Loveless".

If you're tired of the same old thing.........2007-01-19

This is the only Broken Social Scene CD I own, so I won't try to compare it to previous albums. I can however, compare it to other music that is floating around out there. If you're looking for something that isn't like the usual Fall Out Boy or Beyonce Knowels which seems to dominate the radio these days, this is your group. It's very unique and each song is truly all its own. It also has very good use of instrumentation, deviating away from the common guitar, bass, and drumset (with the occasional keyboard). Where with many bands you will find a similar sound and almost the same melody in some cases, this is not so with this album. Along with there being more than one main vocalist, not all the songs follow the usual verse, chord, verse. There is a different structure, different sound, different everything. The lyrics are profound most of the time, some of them are a little bizarre, but what fun would they be otherwise?

Not You Forgot It In People, but a Solid Offering Nonetheless..........2006-11-05

This is as eclectic an album as you will find out there...they layer and layer and layer their sounds...it shouldn't work, but it usually does...and VERY WELL at that. There are a lot more lyrically-infused songs in this album, but I personally liked their instrumentals on You Forgot It In People. However, the real rockers in this one, being SUPERCONNECTED and MAJOR LABEL DEBUT (FAST) are simply out and out wicked guitar-riff and drum-thumping magic. Definitely not for everyone...but if you steer away from the formulaic pop garbage out there, this might be right up your alley.

Average customer rating: "Feelgood" not lost Broken Social Scenes sonic postrock debut lush, warm and sleepy......

Feel Good Lost Broken Social Scene Manufacturer: Outside ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Lo-Fi | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Experimental Rock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Experimental Music | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Bee Hives You Forgot It in People Broken Social Scene ASIN: B00008SH8H Release Date: 2003-03-10

Tracks:

1. I Slept With Bonhomme at the CBC
2. Guilty Cubicles
3. Love and Mathematics
4. Passport Radio
5. Alive in 85
6. Prison Province
7. Blues for Uncle Gibb
8. Stomach Song
9. Mossbraker
10. Feel Good Lost
11. Last Place
12. Cranley's Gonna Make It

Customer Reviews:

"Feelgood" not lost.......2004-10-12

"Feelgood Lost" was the first Broken Social Scene album, although their second "You Forgot It In People" was what really broke this eclectic, smooth band into the limelight. The debut less polished and more raw, but the ambience and richness are definitely there.

It starts with the slow, shimmery "I Slept With Bonhomme At The CBC," before shifting into the steady, unexceptional "Guilty Cubicles." A more rock-edged sound appears (the slow-burning "Love and Mathematics"), along with eerie songs (the experimental-sounding "Passport Radio" and too-quiet "Blues for Uncle Gibb") and melodious pop (the stately "Alive in 85," bouncy "Cranley's Gonna Make It").

The sound of "Feelgood Lost" is a lot less polished and complex than their second album. But don't be deceived -- this is no demo or B-side album. It's just a group that hadn't fully come into bloom yet. There's rock, there's pop, there's even the murmuring, sweeping experimental soud of "Passport Radio," which sounds like the soundtrack to a surrealist computer-animated movie.

Violins, keyboard and synthesizers meld together seamlessly from the very start, with faintly strumming guitars and steady percussion underneath it. There's even a bit of fuzz guitar at the end of "Love and Mathetmatics." The funny thing about Broken Social Scene is how the music all seems to meld together into one big shimmering whole, especially in the slower, softer numbers.

Sweet, silvery atmospheric pop is the staple of Broken Social Scene, and their first album lives up magnificently to that. It's a bit rougher, but the spirit of it is still there. "Feelgood Lost" isn't lost anymore...

Broken Social Scenes sonic postrock debut.......2003-09-18

I actually like this CD more than their critically acclaimed follow-up. The trippy psychadelic post-rock of 'Feel Good Lost' combines Sea And Cake or Tortoise with the orchestral rock of Godspeed You Black Emperor. Apparently this was a low budget, low produced effort, but the chemistry of unlikely musical ideas is what makes this work. More raw and lush, less airplay friendly, but shows the bursting of creative ideas resulting from a new collaboration.

lush, warm and sleepy.............2003-04-03

2 guys in the bedroom recording lush, warm, sleepy post-rocky sounds (tinged with a bit of glitchwork) on an 8-track. Best tracks are saved for the end: the veerrry lurvely "Last Place" and "Cranley's Gonna Make It". The middle portion meanders a bit. If you like Tortoise, Sea and The Cake, Mogwai, etc.

Average customer rating: Vibraphone Rock

Mama Auto Boss Point Juncture WA Manufacturer: Point Juncture Wa ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000BTJC5E Release Date: 2005-11-08

Tracks:

1. Duodecimo
2. Seven
3. Cardboard Box
4. Happy Ending
5. Autopilot
6. Hudson Harmonic
7. Cello
8. Dishwasher's Lullaby
9. Ohmu
10. Chlorine
11. It Slows Down

Customer Reviews:

Vibraphone Rock.......2007-02-21

Music fans who live in the Pacific Northwest are quite fortunate. There is a great variety of independent and experimental artists that make challenging and compelling art. It is high time to add the youngsters who comprise Point Juncture, Wa. to the pantheon of great bands. Within their sound is a lovely fusion of post-punk, pop, and their own divine individuality. Songs build momentum gradually, leaving the listener to ponder the visceral quality of the immensely enjoyable sonic experience. And, did I add, these musicians make liberal use of vibraphone in their rock/pop compositions? Simply outstanding. Take this opportunity to be nice to yourself. Purchase Point Juncture, Wa. CDs or go see them live when and if they come to the streets of your town. You will thank yourself for time and resources well spent.

Average customer rating:

Broken Social Scene Broken Social Scene Manufacturer: Pony Canyon ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Experimental Rock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Canada | North America | International | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Experimental Music | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000BU6QNY Release Date: 2005-12-26

Tracks:

1. Our Faces Split The Coast In Half (Ft Feist & Murray Lightburn)
2. Ibi Dreams Of Pavement (A Better Day)
3. 7/4 (Shoreline) (Ft Feist)
4. Finish Your Collapse & Stay For Breakfast
5. Major Label Debut
6. Fire EyeD Boy
7. Windsurfing Nation (Ft Feist & K-Os)
8. Swimmers (Ft Emily Haines)
9. Hotel
10. Handjobs For The Holidays
11. Superconnected
12. Bandwitch
13. Tremoloa Debut
14. ItS All Gonna Break (Ft Feist)
15. Her Disappearing Theme
16. Canada Vs. America
17. Baroque Social
18. No Smiling Darkness/Snake Charmers Association
19. All My Friends
20. Major Label Debut (Fast)
21. Feel Good Lost (Reprise)
22. All The Gods (Bonus Track)

Album Description

The massively anticipated follow-up to You Forgot It In People, the Canadian cult Broken Social Scene deliver an amazing new LP, filled with monumental songs layered with huge choruses, symphonic arrangements to compliment their many instruments and vocalists, and the intimate/experimental/hooky sound that makes their headphone and rock-out appeal a 2-pronged-force to be reckoned with. 1 Canyon. 2005.

Album Details

Special Double Disc Edition of the Band Once Described as the "Indie Wu Tang Clan". Broken Social Scene Are the Lynchpin in the Musical Utopia that Has Evolved in Canada, in Particular Toronto. Featuring Some 17 Members, Many of Whom were Childhood Friends and all of Whom Happily Cross-pollinate in Each Other's Live Bands and Studio Recordings, Broken Social Scene Are a Modern-day Phenomena. The Two Key Members of Bss Are Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning. Kevin is also the Foundation of the Arts and Crafts Collective, which is at Any One Time "a Record Label, Artist Management, Design House, Distribution and Production Company... Dedicated to the Development and Proliferation of Beauty and Greatness in all Disciplines of the Arts." Lofty and Wonderful Ambitions One and All. This Edition Comes with a Bonus CD that Includes Eight Tracks Augmenting the Formal Main Album Tracks.

Average customer rating:

Spirit If... ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000TMWUB6 Release Date: 2007-09-18

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Comfortably Uncomfortable The Jealous Girlfriends Manufacturer: Sweet Spot ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CA9NF6 Release Date: 2005-08-23

Tracks:

1. Birthday Song
2. Diffusive Dreaming
3. Lay Around
4. Airport Security
5. Mother May I
6. Whoever You Are
7. Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want
8. Indifference

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