- Audio CD (Oct 11 2005)
- Number of Discs: 2
- Format: Limited Edition
- Label: EMI Music Canada
- ASIN: B000AP2ZTE
- Other Editions: Audio CD | LP Record
- Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
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#12,532 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
- #24 in Music > Alternative Rock > Canadian > Indie & Lo-Fi
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Track Listings
| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 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 | |||
See all 14 tracks on this disc
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 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 | |||
Product Description
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Bands that draw musicians from other well-known acts are called supergroups. Broken Social Scene is a supercollective. Ranging from 5 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 minisymphonies. 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
Broken Social Scene & Friends
 You Forgot It in People , Broken Social Scene |  Bee Hives, Broken Social Scene |  Feelgood Lost, Broken Social Scene |
 Let It Die, Feist |  Set Yourself on Fire, Stars |  Idols of Exile, Jason Collett |
Album Description
UK Limited edition 2 CD set. 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. City Slang. 2006.
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Just great!,
This review is from: Broken Social Scene (Audio CD)
The product was sent and delivered very quickly to me. The CD arrived in perfect condition. It was everything I had hoped for!
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Broken Social Scene has done an amazing job with this album. The single off this disc is 7/4 (Shoreline) which just sounds like a huge party. Their positive sounding melodies and catchy tunes will have you keep this in your cd player for a long time.
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In 2003, this Canadian group's second album, You Forgot It in People, gracefully went boom, reminding lots of people why they love indie rock-- the shambling ecstasy, the pitch-perfect experimentation, the unabashed heart-on-sleeveness of it all. The collective reacts to the furor by expanding and magnifying; another six members join the brood for its self-titled third full-length, and the band's once-refined studio sound is blown up into a pixilated blur of blood-gush guitars and squall-of-sound production that's somehow meticulously unhinged. This exercise in excess makes the ambitious You Forgot It in People seem positively understated by comparison.
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