Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record

i guess thats fair but how about LP 4?

maybe we need a new thread.

It's growing on me. Definitely their weakest album. But I still like this band and I love seeing them live.

this record is execrable!

rip broken social scene -- LP4. an album this good deserved two threads.

hahaha, was getting way too confusing!

(p.s. you can just copy/paste the URL to a thread w/o using the usual URL message board code to link to it & the software will automatically put the thread's name in its place in yr post, fwiw)

giving this one more chance & then deleting it tbh

what a disaster for k$h-a

http://mixburner.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/fdb6f325344882_l.jpg.jpg

deleting it track by track, as they each finish. RIP BSS

(re: upthread recc) If you haven't checked out the Radio Dept. album, ksh, it really is great. It's been on heavy rotation in my apartment for the last month.

ksh, it's not that bad!

giving this one more chance & then deleting it tbh

the album or this thread?

DON'T DO IT YOU ALREADY KILLED THE OTHER BSS LP4 THREAD AND THAT ONE WAS GOOD TOO

Morday: will do! thanks for the tip

scott: i gave it, like, 3 full listens & it's just so damn boring

DON'T DO IT YOU ALREADY KILLED THE OTHER BSS LP4 THREAD AND THAT ONE WAS GOOD TOO

― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, May 8, 2010 7:22 PM (21 minutes ago)

love this post

It's not that bad. I like a few of the songs, but I am still very surprised that it has received such positive reviews. It is just sort of there. There is nothing extraordinary, beautiful or surprising about this album. I understand that plenty of people on this board would say the same thing about their previous albums, but this one just seems totally lifeless.

But it interests me for some reason. I keep listening to it, even just to figure out what they were thinking. For instance, the song "Chase Scene." It sounds nothing like BSS, which could potentially be a good thing, but it's not. It just sounds like they were stoned and were like, "hey doesn't wah pedal this sound funny. It like a car chase scene in a 70s movie."

I think I said it on the other BSS thread but I think the music on "Chase Scene" sounds like Tortoise.

"Nothing surprising" is about right. I mean, it's Broken Social Scene, no mistake. I'd like to survey all the people who are stoked on the newest Spoon and New Pornographers albums, but are left cold by BSS because it fails to differentiate itself from their other stuff. I don't mean that in a snide way--some bands just seem able to get away with making versions of the same album over and over. Others don't. I'm liable to come down on either side of the fence depending on the day or the band. I don't know the secret.

Benjamin, this

It's not that bad. I like a few of the songs, but I am still very surprised that it has received such positive reviews. It is just sort of there.

is more or less exactly how I feel.

I'd like to survey all the people who are stoked on the newest Spoon and New Pornographers albums, but are left cold by BSS because it fails to differentiate itself from their other stuff.

uhh, songwriting?

Yeah but the quality of BSS's songwriting on the new one is not so far removed from their last.

their last album was a mess. the only time it broke through the haze is when they let the pieces breathe by clearing the dense production tricks and layers (e.g., the song hotel, i think, tho i can't really recall).

it was awesome BECAUSE it was a mess!

it was an awesome mess.

unlike their new record, which has been deleted from my computer. just got a lil' world sick there, y'all!

Even the Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning solo albums were way better than this

The Kevin Drew solo LP was pretty good, as far as I recall. Didn't quite feel like a solo jaunt, either. Canning's was more clearly a different beast than BSS.

the record is more or less

http://stereogum.com/img/siren08/broken_social_scene-siren1.jpg

^^^^^^^ all playing different songs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phFgCLguSNI

l-r: me, ppl who think this record is good

the kevin drew review on time capsule 2007 stylus front page is otm

the noted "this" that must be seen being, of course, Forgiveness Rock Record

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that picture is confusing - 1. why does the guitarist have a podium on the stage, and 2. why is he crouching on it

they were giving a lecture on how not to perform and/or make a record

crouching under the weight of indie rock riffage

i think he's jumping, possibly to avoid accidentally stepping on some of the other 68 members of broken social scene.

irl lols

bss are the least cool looking band ever i think

http://www3.timeoutny.com/newyork/thevolume/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/bss_1.jpg

Kevin Drew's being abducted there

bss are the least cool looking band ever i think

have you seen gene and deen ween?

if they're wondering why their social scene is broken, they need look no further than that photo.

yeah, dude on the right has a cell phone from the early 90s, can't even SMS -- friends left him in the supermarket

boy the members of broken social scene sure are some zany people

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where he found forty other likeminded folk who proceeded to simultaneously release a rock record & plead for forgiveness for inflicting said record on indie rock stans such as myself who they were already aware would be terribly disappointed at their lukewarm effort

they sure aren't afraid of challenging social norms

ok, here's their promo pic from 2045:

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.cinematical.com/media/2008/03/youngheartpic.jpg

ween look cool sometimes. broken social scene, every time i'm reminded of how they look, have to reconsider my status as someone who actually likes their music

join the backlash!