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Toronto, Canada (1999 – present)
Broken Social Scene is a Canadian indie rock group formed in 1999 in Toronto, Canada.
The band’s core members are Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning. This duo recorded and released the band’s ambient debut album, Feel Good Lost, in 2001, with contributions by Justin Peroff, Charles Spearin and Bill Priddle. However, when they played shows to support the album, Drew and Canning found it difficult to put together an entertaining show based on Feel Good Lost, which was an almost entirely instrumental album.
As a result, they brought in a number of friends from the Toronto indie scene — Andrew Whiteman, Jason Collett, Metric’s Emily Haines, and Leslie Feist — to flesh out their live show with lyrics and vocals. Over time, the band also came to include contributions from James Shaw, Evan Cranley, John Crossingham, Lisa Lobsinger and Stars’ Amy Millan.
All of the later guest musicians joined with Drew, Canning, Peroff and Spearin to record the band’s second album, You Forgot It in People, in 2002 on the label Arts & Crafts. This album, an eclectic, restlessly creative collection of experimental yet accessible pop songs, became the band’s critical and commercial breakthrough — it was greeted with ecstatic reviews, and landed on many music critics’ year-end Best-Of lists. More notably it won the Alternative Album of the Year Juno Award in 2003.
The band’s core members are Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning. This duo recorded and released the band’s ambient debut album, Feel Good Lost, in 2001, with contributions by Justin Peroff, Charles Spearin and Bill Priddle. However, when they played shows to support the album, Drew and Canning found it difficult to put together an entertaining show based on Feel Good Lost, which was an almost entirely instrumental album.
As a result, they brought in a number of friends from the Toronto indie scene — Andrew Whiteman, Jason Collett, Metric’s Emily Haines, and Leslie Feist — to flesh out their live show with lyrics and vocals. Over time, the band also came to include contributions from James Shaw, Evan Cranley, John Crossingham, Lisa Lobsinger and Stars’ Amy Millan.
All of the later guest musicians joined with Drew, Canning, Peroff and Spearin to record the band’s second album, You Forgot It in People, in 2002 on the label Arts & Crafts. This album, an eclectic, restlessly creative collection of experimental yet accessible pop songs, became the band’s critical and commercial breakthrough — it was greeted with ecstatic reviews, and landed on many music critics’ year-end Best-Of lists. More notably it won the Alternative Album of the Year Juno Award in 2003.
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You Forgot It in People
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Broken Social Scene
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Feel Good Lost
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Bee Hives
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Lover's Spit
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Swimmers
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Stars and Sons
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Fire Eye'd Boy
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Cause = Time
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KC Accidental
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Looks Just Like the Sun
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Our Faces Split The Coast In Half
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Major Label Debut
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Capture the Flag
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Pacific Theme
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Shampoo Suicide
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Finish Your Collapse And Stay For Breakfast
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Shoutbox
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salutemyshorts wrote:
I'm pretty sure my life would be complete if I ever got the chance to see all of the members of BSS perform together. I saw them last summer at Sunset Junction in Silverlake, but it was just the guys and Liz Powell from Land of Talk singing female vocals. Granted, it was a wonderful performance...despite the technical difficulties, of course, but gahhhhh i'd be so happy to see everyone reunited on one stage (if they could fit!)
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Gaemblor wrote:
Anyone know what's going on with the new album? It's kinda hard to find any decent bss news now that they've closed their official message board
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lizzardd wrote:
love love love please come to new york!!!
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NoraIsHere wrote:
can anyone post a link wherei can find the half nelson sundtrack?
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delitax wrote:
so a new album is on the horizon eh
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krecik_rulezzz wrote:
enjoy.
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holdthis wrote:
does anyone have the song 'Needle in your head'? I'd really appreciate it if someone could send me it, thank you.
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galwaysgirl wrote:
best band ever!
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clicktrackheart wrote:
does anybody have the correct and complete version of Stars and Sons? there's plenty floating around the internet, but most sound fucked up. how's the stanza that is something like "How would you know it You're the same when you're living I don't know when It won't be this"? the last two lines can't be true
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sebastiankf wrote:
love you
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alliexria wrote:
you used to be one of the rotten one, and he liked you for that... love broken social scene.
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StuHawk wrote:
IT'S ALL GONNA BREAK!
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ponkylubis wrote:
awesome!
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alaosboi wrote:
park that car, drop that phone, sleep on the floor, dream about me [168794113619848453]
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Inecuacion3 wrote:
park that car, drop that phone, sleep on the floor, dream about me [14]
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Raspberry-Dawn wrote:
i love you so so so much!!!.YOU ARE SO AMAZING
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Earlp wrote:
so fucking amazing... i feel so lucky to have one of the drummers drumsticks! haha Passport radio is always in my head.
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jpg22 wrote:
park that car, drop that phone, sleep on the floor, dream about me [14]
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javeyxcore wrote:
FUCK I LOVE THIS BAND SO MUCH.
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lrreplaceable_ wrote:
park that car, drop that phone, sleep on the floor, dream about me [13]
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Events
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Hal Willner's Neil Young Project
Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver, BC, Vancouver, Canada
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News
An update from Kevin
15 May 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/brokensocialscene
Hi. this is my first blog entry...here and now. I
thought I would update all of you on what’s been happening with the
band. It seems like there has been more talking then actually doing
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15 Apr 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/brokensocialscene
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