Broken Social Scene - You forgot it in the people POLL

Yep I scrambled up the title by adding a nonexistent 'the' in there.

props for not going for the pun tho

you also combined two of the tracks

dammit

Almost Crimes.

I had kind of a strange relationship with this album. Really didn't like it much at all for the first half dozen listens, but I kept on trying again as I really wanted some new indie and the reviews made it sound like it was right up my street. Finally it clicked and I grew to completely love it, and I hoped it would be the beginning of a beautiful relationship. But many mostly disappointing follow-ups and side projects later, it seems to have been more of a flash in the pan.

I want to vote for Shampoo Suicide but I don't want my vote to be confused as one for that other one

this is going to come down to Almost Crimes vs. Seventeen

I voted "Anthems."

Am I the only ILM'er who thinks their s/t followup record is better than this...? Even "It's All Gonna Break," the closer, is better than anything on YFIIP.

I don't know about better, but damn close.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JRsyIXzsU8

^^

That and 7/4 (Shoreline) and Superconnected are the only three that really do it for me off that album.

this is still a pretty good album i think. almost crimes is probably my pick too, but i have a mad soft spot for "anthems."

KC Accidental does it for me

i can't choose, maybe "stars and sons." i haven't listened to the album in a couple years, but they use clips from that song as segues on cbc radio pretty often, and every time it gets me right good. what's great about this album is how well the dozens of guitars doing totally different things complement each other and form a gorgeous cloud of melody. like on stars and sons there're guitars feedbacking, some playing notes way off-key, and yet it's not noisy or ugly at all. just perfect.

peepoll

kc accidental

<3er's spit

no doubt Missionaries Shampoo Suicide will run away w/this tho

Anthems for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl is <3

allllll these people drinkin lover's spiiiiiiiittt

Am I the only ILM'er who thinks their s/t followup record is better than this...? Even "It's All Gonna Break," the closer, is better than anything on YFIIP.

no. i went back and forth on this a lot, and while i love YFIIP, once you get past the 100000 layers and overproduction on s/t and listen to it on a really good pair of headphones, it's probably better. but ask me tomorrow and i might change my mind.

be nice when they make another album, the broken social scene presents... stuff has been just okay, but they randomly started focusing on the side of the band that i am waaay less interested in. catchy indie songwriting is fine but tiptoeing ambient beauty and gorgeous instrumentation was clearly their strong point.

I agree with kshighway in that I'll take individual songs from the s/t over this album. if you're a fan of the s/t, hunt down the version of 'major label debut' from the EP

almost crimes is a remix? is the orig available somewhere?

Am I the only ILM'er who thinks their s/t followup record is better than this...?

Nope. But they're both vv good

allllll these people drinkin lover's spiiiiiiiittt

― jair (jergins), Monday, August 31, 2009 7:24 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

Anthems, Anthems, Anthems.

In a weird way, Anthems was part of my break from listening to indie pop seriously, in that it was such a go-to track that the rest of the album seemed unremarkable in contrast. Solid, credible, sure. But nothing that grabbed me or fought for a place in my music listening.

I saw BSS a couple times live before this album had officially come out, and they were pretty great. I guess I expected a lot more of that crisp live sound to come through, but the rest of the album seemed so mannered and, well, boring. I know that some of those same criticisms can be leveled at Anthems, but it seemed like where they had tried hard with, say, Lover's Spit, to make rock songs, the only place they really succeeded in recording was this kinda goofy song that sounded totally natural, like it had burbled up and been recorded as a fluke. I know that's not true, that there's plenty of artifice there, but it was such a clean, clear perfect moment that the rest of the album fell away and never really came back for me.

Their second album went the wrong way, at least for me, though I get why other people like it, and I've recommended it to friends who were into that, and every time I've seen them, they've been pretty great live (unlike Feist, who's had some of the most bullshit underwhelming shows to the most adoring crowds I've ever seen).

Not with the intention of turning this one into a pitchfork thread but I find odd, specially after reading some of the comments on this thread that the one song they chose from this album for the 'Pitchfork 500' book was "Cause = Time". Not that I don't think it's a great song - it's actually one of my favorites on the record next to anthems and almost crimes - but I've never heard of anyone mentioning it above the rest when referring to this album.

Pacific Theme from me!

Anthems, definitely.

They have a b-side called Backyards that has a similar cyclical vocal-melody-overlay thing going on, btw.

"cause = time" was the big hit off of the album in canada. played the video on much music a bunch etc.

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'anthems' by a mile these days. the ending still gets me every time. kind of tired of the cymbal crashing bravado of some of the more energetic numbers here.

I remember when this came out people were talking up "Cause = Time" and "Almost Crimes" as the best songs on the record and when i heard them i was fairly underwhelmed. It was hearing the more atypical stuff like "Anthems" and "Lover's Spit" that got me to love the album.

Almost Crimes

Park that car, drop that phone, sleep on the floor, dream about me.

'Backyards' was on the Beehives album that also has Feist's version of Lover's Spit. No idea if it was an album comprised of b-sides and rarities.

It was - beehives / b-sides.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

I like Stars and Sons because of the bass line, the cool hand claps and how you can hear him inhale before he sings. That's why I voted for it. Haven't heard this album since it came out years back.

Park that car, drop that phone, sleep on the floor, dream about me.

These words have been on a maddening loop in my brain since I saw this poll... so I voted for "Anthems", naturally.

I like Stars and Sons because of the bass line

I thought I'd written this bass line myself once, but was sure it was a BSS song that definitely wasn't on this album, so I listened to all of the s/t and all of the Kevin Drew album and then decided maybe I did write it myself after all. Luckily I heard this album again before I actually used it for anything. But still going to vote for Anthems in the end.

Anthems without a single doubt.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

didn't see that coming.

well then.

emo

just had a listen to Almost Crimes on headphones and the mix was terrible... guessing this album was not mixed on headphones.

lover's spit is the dopest imo

Feist version is also dope. Altho not significantly different.

Anthems for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl 26

NOOOOOOOOOOOO this is the worst song of ALL TIME, you fucking fucks.

worse than hangin' tough, by the new-kids-on-the-block?

worse than heartbeat, by don johnson? worse than havin' my baby, by paul anka?

this is some steep competition.