Broken Social Scene...C/D?

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it's their third album

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

(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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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

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

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 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

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

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

I really like them now, after avoiding them.

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

Saw Feist two nights ago and was disappointed.

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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

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

Sam Prekop to thread!

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

Nice cameo from Mike Love at the beginning there.

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

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

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

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

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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

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

I think he's still upset about Anne Murray.

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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

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

xpost

in other words, if they were better i would like their music.

they are the "hippest" flavour-of-the-month cats in the city (eg they were in grunge bands when it was grunge band time, house DJ's when it was house dj time, brazilian groove bands when it was brazilian groove time, etc.).

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 7 July 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

and they are DRAKE JUICE personified!

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 7 July 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

Go back to your Edmund Hockridge 78s grandad.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 7 July 2006 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

This description equally applies to Platinum Blonde.

― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Friday, 7 July 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

grandad, i think you're at least 10 years older than me but sorry for not being hyped about the hot new 3-guitar jam band.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 7 July 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

They had five guitars when I saw em! FIVE!!!!

― ledge (ledge), Friday, 7 July 2006 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

This description equally applies to Platinum Blonde.

exactly!

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 7 July 2006 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

Speaking of hot new 3 guitar jam bands whatever happened to New Deal?

Maybe it's just BSS are easier to swallow then BDR since they don't sing that terrible hugger of trees song.

― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Friday, 7 July 2006 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

in other words, if they were better i would like their music.

right...

you sounds like you pay more attention to "the scene" than you do to the music.

― marbles (marbles), Friday, 7 July 2006 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

'7/4 shorelines' has become one of my favorite songs in recent memory

― as cleaned on tv (daggerlee), Friday, 7 July 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

bizaster.

hehe. Good times.

― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Friday, 7 July 2006 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

it's kinda hard to divorce "the scene" from the broken social scene, obv but the people in the band that i've met seem like really nice people. its not anything personal - but i've seen em half a dozen times over the past few years and honestly tried to figure out what it is to like about them.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 7 July 2006 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

if you don't like their music, that's fine. no explanation needed. I don't care for QOTSA.

I know nothing about their scene or what they did before this, and frankly that's ok with me. I don't care what clothes they wear. I don't care if they have beards or not. I don't care if they're hobos eating cold spam out of a can. if they play a mean fiddle and it moves me... then I'm happy.

if music doesn't have the ability to transcend scensterism or hipsterism or whatever its called, then you might as well be listening to justin timberlake or american idol or whatever corporate music's pimping

― marbles (marbles), Friday, 7 July 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

they are called broken social SCENE.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 7 July 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

The important part is they bath smell better then say the equally larger then life GYBE.

― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Friday, 7 July 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 7 July 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

rufus, did you just smoke a bowl? no wonder you like broken social scene so much, its not even noon yet.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 7 July 2006 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

I've been snacking on too many Rockets perhaps. I gotta avoid this hard stuff and just stick to Timbits.

― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Friday, 7 July 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

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