In my opinion, one of Canda's hidden Gems.
You can here all of there music for free here: http://www.arts-crafts.ca/bss/
Broken Social Scene
Broken Social Scene
I hate giant eating machines!
My cousin the holistic healer
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Canadian music has been doing well for itself recently. Honestly, nothing can touch the group of Broken Social Scene, The Arcade Fire, and The Unicorns. Nothing.
Canadian music is pushing the standard boundaries of pop music and doing insane things with them. Broken Social Scene and The Unicorns will be the future of amazing music. Tandem vocals, lots of intricate sounds, and the pop song structure being followed, yet broken down at the same time, well, it will be huge.
Melodicas rule. (Both BSS and The Unicorns use them.)
Canadian music is pushing the standard boundaries of pop music and doing insane things with them. Broken Social Scene and The Unicorns will be the future of amazing music. Tandem vocals, lots of intricate sounds, and the pop song structure being followed, yet broken down at the same time, well, it will be huge.
Melodicas rule. (Both BSS and The Unicorns use them.)
I faced death. I went in with my arms swinging. But I heard my own breath and had to face that I'm still living. I'm still flesh. I hold on to awful feelings. I'm not dead... My chest still draws breath. I hold it. I'm buoyant. There's no end.
I see them play at Olympic Island over the summer. They sounded good. The singer for them is playing in my town this weekend actually... I won't be here to go though.
I can't wait until the day schools are over-funded and the military is forced to hold bake sales to buy planes.
"It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself. Makes you wonder what else you can do that you've forgotten about"
"It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself. Makes you wonder what else you can do that you've forgotten about"
Isn't it the other way around? BSS is actually a project involving members of different bands essentially making it a side-project?
I can't wait until the day schools are over-funded and the military is forced to hold bake sales to buy planes.
"It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself. Makes you wonder what else you can do that you've forgotten about"
"It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself. Makes you wonder what else you can do that you've forgotten about"
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*bumps*
i know this thread hasnt been updated for a loooong time, but it deserves to be active because BSS is awesome and i know there are some fans on this board.
Their latest single "7/4 (Shoreline)" has a video! you can check it out here:
http://www.bijoumediainc.com/content/mo ... lscene.mov
i know this thread hasnt been updated for a loooong time, but it deserves to be active because BSS is awesome and i know there are some fans on this board.
Their latest single "7/4 (Shoreline)" has a video! you can check it out here:
http://www.bijoumediainc.com/content/mo ... lscene.mov
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i saw the video for their first single (ibi dreams of pavement) on the wedge, once. i am desperately trying to find a copy of it from the internet somewheres..
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by the way... i think the people in the car-footage (including the zebra man 
) are probably from the Most Serene Republic (on same label as bss). they clearly aren't in Broken Social Scene, but i recognize them from when i saw them live.
) are probably from the Most Serene Republic (on same label as bss). they clearly aren't in Broken Social Scene, but i recognize them from when i saw them live.turn your head
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BSS make a lot of appearances in eachother's videos and other musicians who are associated with them.
Ex.
Emily Haines in K-OS's "Man I Used To Be", plus the Feist poster in K-OS's room. And then K-OS was in Death From Above's 'Black History Month", DFA have joined BSS on stage a few times.
They're great though, not t o mention every person in the band has great bands of there own.
did anyone see them play Shoreline on Conan? great! Emily and Fiest were both on stage at the same time dancing together and stuff it was awesome. Then at the end Conan's like "you guys need more guitars "
Ex.
Emily Haines in K-OS's "Man I Used To Be", plus the Feist poster in K-OS's room. And then K-OS was in Death From Above's 'Black History Month", DFA have joined BSS on stage a few times.
They're great though, not t o mention every person in the band has great bands of there own.
did anyone see them play Shoreline on Conan? great! Emily and Fiest were both on stage at the same time dancing together and stuff it was awesome. Then at the end Conan's like "you guys need more guitars "
"How can we justify spending so much on destruction and so little on life?" Matthew Good
"The white dove is gone, the one world has come down hard, so why not share the pain of our problems, when all around are wrong ways, when all around is hurt, i'll roll up in an odd shape and wait, untill the tide has turned.....with anger, i'm dead weight, i'm anchored"- IME, God Rocket (Into the Heart of Las Vegas) ^ Some say this song is about a terrorists thoughts before 911
"Pray for the sheep" Matt Good
"But it's alright, take the world and make it yours again" Matt Good
I felt it in the wind, and i saw it in the sky, i thought it was the end, i thought it was the 4th of July.
"Hold on, hold on children, your mother and father are leaving, hold on, hold on children your best freind's parents are leaving, leaving,.......*AHHH*! " - Death From Above - Black History Month
"The white dove is gone, the one world has come down hard, so why not share the pain of our problems, when all around are wrong ways, when all around is hurt, i'll roll up in an odd shape and wait, untill the tide has turned.....with anger, i'm dead weight, i'm anchored"- IME, God Rocket (Into the Heart of Las Vegas) ^ Some say this song is about a terrorists thoughts before 911
"Pray for the sheep" Matt Good
"But it's alright, take the world and make it yours again" Matt Good
I felt it in the wind, and i saw it in the sky, i thought it was the end, i thought it was the 4th of July.
"Hold on, hold on children, your mother and father are leaving, hold on, hold on children your best freind's parents are leaving, leaving,.......*AHHH*! " - Death From Above - Black History Month