Broken Social Scene...C/D?

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It sounds like nothing to me. Music absolutely free of personality or charm.

― dean! (deangulberry), Monday, 12 April 2004 22:00 (twenty years ago) link

dean! otm!!! snuggles!!!

― Lil' Fancy Kpants (The K is Silent) (ex machina), Monday, 12 April 2004 22:39 (twenty years ago) link

five months pass...

It would appear that Broken Social Scene have broken up: http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2004-08-26/cover_story.php

― Taxi Dancing in the Soft Prison (Ben Boyer), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:43 (nineteen years ago) link

That's not what I get from that article...

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:47 (nineteen years ago) link

new album in feb.

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:48 (nineteen years ago) link

I suppose I jumped the gun, but the "The posters for this Friday's Harbourfront gig bill it as the band's final show ever" quote seemed like something...

― Taxi Dancing in the Soft Prison (Ben Boyer), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:49 (nineteen years ago) link

I've been to a couple of their "this is our last show ever"'s.

― alex in montreal, Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:50 (nineteen years ago) link

I think the article is basically saying they are always teetering.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Got it.... sorry for the breaking news, then. There's nothing to see here...

― Taxi Dancing in the Soft Prison (Ben Boyer), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:55 (nineteen years ago) link

I went to the show the week that article was written. As others have mentioned, it was the third or fourth show they'd done over the last year that had been billed as their last ever show. Anyhow, near the end of the concert they alluded to that NOW article and admitted that they were just being drama queens about the whole thing and had no intention of breaking up and every intention of holding many more "last ever" shows. They played a lot of new songs as well.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:59 (nineteen years ago) link

they are the worst.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 16 September 2004 20:04 (nineteen years ago) link

And we love them for it.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 16 September 2004 20:48 (nineteen years ago) link

one year passes...

Bob Harris says BSS are his SIGNPOST FOR 2006.

He is playing them on his programme - alas, it sounds a mess! I don't know why Bob would be interested in this.

― the bellefox, Monday, 2 January 2006 16:30 (eighteen years ago) link

It's a goodish mess, if a bit of a sophomore slump. I'll be seeing them in NYC on the 27th.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 2 January 2006 16:51 (eighteen years ago) link

>>> sophomore slump

that is an interesting phrase, though I am unsure of what you mean by it. Do you mean it is a slump in their career?

― the bellefox, Monday, 2 January 2006 16:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah; the allegedly expected Second Album Dip (except it's their third, isn't it).

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 2 January 2006 17:03 (eighteen years ago) link

also their best album!

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Monday, 2 January 2006 17:12 (eighteen years ago) link

If only other bands' sophomore efforts could be this good!

If you own a copy, try starting their latest at Track 7 (AKA "Windsurfing Nation") and then wrapping back 'round. I've found it makes BSS’s latest more accessible/penetrable/enjoyable—and a worthy successor to You Forgot It In People.

It's a gorgeous mess (or, if you will, orchestration) of indie rock elements (see also: Do Make Say Think, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, etc.) that takes risks their more polished peers wouldn’t know how to harness in an equally lyric’d setting.

― Zimmer026 (Zimmer026), Monday, 2 January 2006 17:21 (eighteen years ago) link

it's their third album

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 2 January 2006 17:27 (eighteen years ago) link

(sophomore to their first widely-listened to, widely-distributed album, which indeed makes their latest their third and their, i guess, junior slump to some? [but not me].)

― Zimmer026 (Zimmer026), Monday, 2 January 2006 17:28 (eighteen years ago) link

I saw them a couple of months ago in Northampton, Mass and during "Almost Crimes," J Mascis came out and started guitar dueling with the Eric Claptony BSS guitarist.

It was cool.

― solarblue (solarblue), Monday, 2 January 2006 18:29 (eighteen years ago) link

i dunno, this album is so much better than the previous two. depends on what you're listening for though I suppose. cluttered? maybe. it still reminds me of Disco Inferno.

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 2 January 2006 18:31 (eighteen years ago) link

never heard album #1 - but damn the new one is rather fine.

sounded messy/cluttered over the speakers earlier, whereas on headphones the production/feel is wonderfully huggable.

― mark e (mark e), Friday, 6 January 2006 18:15 (eighteen years ago) link

When I first heard the new one, I hated it, but it really grew on me.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 6 January 2006 18:19 (eighteen years ago) link

never heard album #1

It's pretty horrible.

The last two have been great, though.

xpost: same here, jaymc.

― Jack L, Friday, 6 January 2006 18:21 (eighteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Any Torontonians w/ show reports? Sold out 3 upcoming in NYC.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 23 January 2006 17:10 (eighteen years ago) link

I really like them now, after avoiding them.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 23 January 2006 18:38 (eighteen years ago) link

The Gobe & Mail thought they didn't know when to get off the stage last weekend. Anyway, I'm psyched.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 January 2006 21:35 (eighteen years ago) link

nick does that album remind you of disco inferno? am I the only person that is reminded of them when I listen to it????

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 26 January 2006 23:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Saw Feist two nights ago and was disappointed.

― js (honestengine), Thursday, 26 January 2006 23:51 (eighteen years ago) link

broken social scene - kcrw session 09/11/2005

they're all acoustic versions...

01 - superconnected
http://s50.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3OHB9JVB60S3I0YJOWPTX210S7

02 - handjobs for the holidays
http://s50.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2VKLK232E0VDR32ME0B2WW7RF3

03 - major label debut
http://s50.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1Z6J1A90Z1ZKY1RDJAVE4BAH9Y

04 - interview
http://s50.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3VE4JUX496VNP0EJDZGF1HK6SC

05 - ibi dreams of pavement
http://s49.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2M7NQN7OW9N8P3BF0AN34D7TTH

06 - all my friends
http://s50.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=30YS3ZIIZXSXE0CSMWJNHDYED2

07 - intuition
http://s50.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1145STYFTGY043SNHY7UEIXX4Q

― Lovelace (Lovelace), Monday, 30 January 2006 15:17 (eighteen years ago) link

Not really getting Disco Inferno, no. In fact, not even slightly.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 30 January 2006 15:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Sam Prekop to thread!

― C.D., Monday, 30 January 2006 19:30 (eighteen years ago) link

That having been said, the acoustic format does flatter them (less room to kick out the three-hour jams)...

― C.D., Monday, 30 January 2006 19:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Hi there!

Don't you hate it when you buy the Broken Social Scene (2005) album on your lunch break and then some menkaloid at Virgin Smegabore has gone done put a big sticky security protector on the lovely cardboard packaging and it gets all ripped up before you've put the cd on and then when you do put the cd on, the cd is really really boring anyway.

― Vintage Latin (dog latin), Monday, 6 February 2006 14:35 (eighteen years ago) link

the cd is good! maybe you put in the bonus ep!

my cd has a crack in it, though. :( if you want we can swap.

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Monday, 6 February 2006 14:42 (eighteen years ago) link

just bought the new one. first listen: bored to tears. second and third listen: this is very nice.

song highlight: 'swimmers.'

i think i am going to like this album a lot...

― Freud Junior (Freud Junior), Thursday, 16 February 2006 00:21 (eighteen years ago) link

i love the way it is both very messy, and carefully constructed at the same time.

― Freud Junior (Freud Junior), Thursday, 16 February 2006 00:28 (eighteen years ago) link

four months pass...

new video is ace !

http://exodus.interoutemediaservices.com/?id=c0aae8e8-9e32-494c-9515-ffad1fde7ba4&delivery=stream

― mark e (mark e), Friday, 7 July 2006 06:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Nice cameo from Mike Love at the beginning there.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 7 July 2006 07:00 (seventeen years ago) link

still the worst. tracer's review of the dn-L show upthread nails it.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 7 July 2006 12:25 (seventeen years ago) link

I'll nail you to the National Grid if you don't shut up.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 7 July 2006 12:35 (seventeen years ago) link

not sure what that means exactly, marcello, but top of the morning to you. we can disagree, it's OK.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 7 July 2006 12:45 (seventeen years ago) link

still the worst

Broken Social Scene? The worst? Really? Like, worser than Ashlee Simpson?

Care to go into any backing up (i.e., why's and/or what-for's behind) that statement? Or is it just fun to be contrarian (which, I might add is sooo ILM circa 1991)?

― Zimmer026 (Zimmer026), Friday, 7 July 2006 13:01 (seventeen years ago) link

they're a grunge rock band who writes songs by committee, and thinks its best to let everyone solo at once all the time so no-one feels left out. they're basically canadian summer-camp hell. their hippy commune posturing and beards and groovy front-ladies give me a headache. if you don't live here they may be exotic or something, but if you live in toronto they're about as exciting as going to a health food store to buy sprouts. they're mung bean rock, all sweatery and mothballed and linty. yeccchhh.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 7 July 2006 13:24 (seventeen years ago) link

i hate how they remind me of a team sport or a potluck; i hate how there's a tacitly accepted boosterism about them in the local press - a belief that they may not be the best thing ever, but their our best chance: a cobbled-together compromise of a "band". i hate that they're a walking Ontario Indie Rock Hall Of Fame, and every show plays like an induction ceremony.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 7 July 2006 13:35 (seventeen years ago) link

so in other words... if they were "hipper" then you would like their music?

― marbles (marbles), Friday, 7 July 2006 13:36 (seventeen years ago) link

I think he's still upset about Anne Murray.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 7 July 2006 13:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Better them then the Drake Juice Ho-bags biking around with Vice tucked into their American Apparel waistbands.

― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Friday, 7 July 2006 13:37 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.itsatrap.net/ackbar.jpg

― Alicia Fucking Silverstone (sexyDancer), Friday, 7 July 2006 13:38 (seventeen years ago) link

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I should prob give it a go, along with the last two, but #3 never hit me like #2.

― organ doner (ledge), Friday, 29 December 2023 20:55 (three months ago) link

yeah I don’t really like too much of their other stuff but the first album is beautiful. Clemenza, you might like their previous album as KC Accidental, it’s sort of in the same vein

― brimstead, Friday, 29 December 2023 21:07 (three months ago) link

Will definitely look for that, thanks. This, the first song from the debut, is a good test. If you love it as much as I do, you'll like the whole album; if it bores you, ditto.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZuikjeK6Do

― clemenza, Friday, 29 December 2023 21:47 (three months ago) link

Was just thinking about them the other day. Love the s/t.

― calstars, Friday, 29 December 2023 22:30 (three months ago) link

I had one of those experiences where seeing them live made me like the records less. (Granted, I saw them live, for the first time, only a couple years ago. Maybe they were mind-blowing 20 years ago but the show I saw very much had the vibe of dads in search of their lost glory.)

― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Saturday, 30 December 2023 00:25 (three months ago) link

Steve west air drum fill

― calstars, Saturday, 30 December 2023 00:47 (three months ago) link

I saw one of them open for Television in 2014, and in a low-key, non-disastrous way, it was one of the least effective professional shows I've ever seen.

― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 30 December 2023 01:01 (three months ago) link

“One of them?”
Had to be Kevin or Brendan right

― calstars, Saturday, 30 December 2023 01:26 (three months ago) link

I looked into KC Accidental and ended up ordering a used compilation from Amazon. The two original CDs are too expensive--one a little, the other ridiculous--and I couldn't find them on Soulseek.

― clemenza, Saturday, 30 December 2023 14:28 (three months ago) link

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