We did one, or two things, and they were okay. Some people were like, ‘Oh, are you going to doĪny of this?’ Why? Why subject people to an inferior product. That’s what I grew upĬoncerts during the pandemic. It’s nice to be seen & be heard up close. Listen to you on Spotify, and possibly don’t look at your Instagram stories. Music fans, that are coming out to your shows, and possibly don’t freakin’ Like, you gotta actually meet the real people, who are the real YouĪgainst, not just looking at your numbers on Spotify & your Instagramįollowers. One we really done in four years – you’re a band, you gotta get out there. Steps are for the band.’ I think going out and doing a proper tour – the first ‘C’mon, let’s go play some music! Let’s go figure out what the next Not kind of get overshadowed by the 20th anniversary of a record that was so huge for us. Releasing this b-sides, air-quote “rarities” compilation. Us, and we wanted to get back out on the road. Accidental” live at Brooklyn Masonic Temple in Brooklyn, NY on October 24th, 2008: We don’t know where Busy’s career is going to continue to take her…īroken Social Scene playing You Forgot It In People’s “K.C. Came backstage, extremely gracious and complimentary.īusy Phillips too. ![]() She’s O.G., she can do whatever she wants. “Damn, I cannot believe Meryl Streep is on Happen, you know? Tracey was just trying to get her to come out on stage and doĮlse in the room, I have to say. Was hanging out with Meryl Streep that night. When she was in town, she was introduced, we all went out for a dinner, had a really nice time. America, the Gloria Steinem, Tracey Ullman was on that. Our friends Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden were doing that show, Mrs. QRO: I have to ask: how did you get Tracey Ullman AND Meryl Streep to come on for “Anthems For a Seventeen-Year-Old Girl”?!? Oh, and the track listing has not been easy to find, so I will provide it here.Click here for QRO’s review of Broken Social Scene playing You Forgot It In People at Webster Hall in New York, NY on October 16th, 2022 Only 1,000 will be made, and they will set you back $125). They are also taking pre-orders for the new album there in CD, LP, MP3 and a deluxe limited edition set (a cumbersome-sounding vinyl set spread across no less than seven 10-inch slabs of wax. You can buy the mp3s or higher quality FLAC files of these two newly released tracks from their on-line store. Still, none of it has yet to make my heart skip a beat like the luscious finale of swooning strings and voices in “Shampoo Suicide” or in the repetition of warped vocals in “Anthems For A Seventeen Year Old Girl”: “Park that call/Drop that phone/Sleep on the floor/Dream about me.” And nothing from this new album has so far given me the shivers like the crystalline interplay of guitar and bass in “Guilty Cubicles.” It’s those simple, yet transcendent moments in Broken Social Scene’s music that made me a fan of the group in the first place. All the new songs are great and certainly catchy in their complex BSS way. The Scene are truly in their own category as far as quality of music. ![]() For me, it has become difficult to compare BSS to anything else but themselves. ![]() It crescendos on an incessant whir of guitar and Lisa Lobsinger’s breathy vocals open wide, warm and dreamy. We finally get to hear a female voice in “All to All.” It’s a mellow tune riding electronic ticks, burbles and swooshes. It’s a raucous tune that sounds bright, open and playful. “Forced to Love” is breezy tune with high-pitched keyboards and guitars driving the song in the hook and harmonizing vocals that remind me sometimes of Pinback. The new album is still over a month away, but Broken Social Scene are offering two more tracks, “Forced to Love”/ “All to All,” off their upcoming album Forgiveness Rock Record for nothing on their homepage.
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