Thing is, that approach isn’t really gonna work with the band's eponymous follow-up. Try the avant-pop argument and you get some guy stubbornly arguing that "pop music should be dumbed down." I often resort to just putting “Cause=Time,” “Almost Crimes,” or “Lover’s Spit” on repeat and then gesticulating wildly in the general direction of the stereo.
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Point out that it’s full of the sort of huge, soaring indie anthems that the likes of the Arcade Fire could only hope for and you get people griping that it also has four instrumentals and a few tracks that go nowhere at all (yeah, I’m talking about you “Looks Just Like the Sun”). The New York Times.It’s hard sometimes to explain to people that don’t get it why Broken Social Scene’s You Forgot it in People is such a great album. ^ Schoeneman, Deborah (20 September 2008).^ "Broken Social Scene: Broken Social Scene"."Broken Social Scene: Broken Social Scene + EP to Be You and Me / Metric: Live It Out".
"Broken Social Scene: Broken Social Scene".
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Awards and reviews Professional ratings Aggregate scoresĪt the 2006 Juno Awards it won the award for Alternative Album of the Year. She warns against "scouring the pages for thinly disguised characterizations of Kevin Drew, Emily Haines or Amy Millan". Although Kaslik stated "It's definitely based on a world that I know", she brushed off claims that the connection goes very deep, saying "it would be mistaken and scurrilous to try to identify individual people". Kaslik attended the Etobicoke School of the Arts with members of the band and helped them on their first tour of Canada and the United States. It is also suggested that Broken Social Scene is used as basis for a band that appears in Kaslik's second novel The Angel Riots, about a rising indie rock band from Montreal. The song "Ibi Dreams of Pavement (A Better Day)" refers to Canadian novelist Ibi Kaslik, a friend of the band. Additionally, the original artwork was to be a cartoon rendition of Pangaea, which was later scrapped in favor of the current artwork drawn by lead singer Kevin Drew. The album was originally to be titled Windsurfing Nation.