Lancemc
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World Sick miiiiight be the best song I've heard this year.
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Lance's Mom
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Tell me more about this For Givin' Us Cock Record.
I have it pre-ordered, my friend (and I'm far more excited for it than anything by LCD). Drastically overdone Interference jokes aside, the preferred Broken Social Scene abbreviation should always be BSS.
LemonMelon
More 5G Than Man
I figured you showed up to "riff" on my New Pornographers comment.
Which reminds me, I appreciated your performances in The Bangs of New York, The Legs Parted, and Fuck 'er Island. What sort of sex toy is The Invention of Hugo Cabret?
BSS and LCD don't have Impyfications. THE SOSCH! looks too Jewish and THE SYST! sounds like something you get after a night with the second poster on this page.
Anyway, I never got around to posting impressions on this album, but I somewhat unsurprisingly love it. How gorgeous is that last portion of "Ungrateful Little Father?" How great does Emily sound on "Sentimental X's?" How completely unnecessary and distracting is the intro to "Highway Slipper Jam?" "All to All" has to still be considered my favorite though. Just sublime stuff.
Lowlights? You want lowlights? Meet the much-better-live-treatment "Texico Bitches," "Forced to Love," and the most haphazardly tacked on closer since "Her Majesty."
Anyway, I never got around to posting impressions on this album, but I somewhat unsurprisingly love it. How gorgeous is that last portion of "Ungrateful Little Father?" How great does Emily sound on "Sentimental X's?" How completely unnecessary and distracting is the intro to "Highway Slipper Jam?" "All to All" has to still be considered my favorite though. Just sublime stuff.
Lowlights? You want lowlights? Meet the much-better-live-treatment "Texico Bitches," "Forced to Love," and the most haphazardly tacked on closer since "Her Majesty."
Lancemc
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I've never heard a live take of Texico Bitches, but it's one of my favs on the album.
I think it's pretty much better for a variety of reasons: the more pronounced bassline, different guitar sound, lack of the "melting like a sno cone" line, and above all, the vastly superior drums.
Side note, the other one they played that night, which I can now clearly remember having heard it on the album, was "Sweetest Kill."
LemonMelon
More 5G Than Man
Same.
"I'm melting like a sno cone/I'm talking on the phone phone" sounds like a particularly inspired Ke$ha line, but that doesn't make me like the song any less.
LMP
Blue Crack Supplier
So I pre-ordered the album last night. Where's my digital EP download? Huh? Where is it Arts & Crafts?
cobl04
45:33
World Sick and Water in Hell are the best songs i reckon.
at 63 minutes though it could use some pretty savage editing... i liked most of the songs in parts, but by the same token most of the songs gave me something to *complain* about as well.
at 63 minutes though it could use some pretty savage editing... i liked most of the songs in parts, but by the same token most of the songs gave me something to *complain* about as well.
This is one of my favorite songs on the album.
Every BSS song sounds better live, so I cannot agree with your low lighting.
canedge
Refugee
I just really like their approach to how they mix their records. It seems their mixes 'a wash'.
phanan
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Picked up the CD at lunch today, and was lucky to get the last free copy of the EP to go with it.
And speaking of New Pornographers, grabbed that for only $4 at the same time (frequent buyer points, baby), and got the free 7" vinyl.
I love free stuff.
And speaking of New Pornographers, grabbed that for only $4 at the same time (frequent buyer points, baby), and got the free 7" vinyl.
I love free stuff.
Is redux the live radio version with LF singing?
Wait, did they actually give you a physical EP, or a download code?
LMP
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Right with you.
phanan
Blue Crack Addict
Physical CD.
Son of a motherless goat, they only gave me the digital download for pre-ordering it directly from them. I received the actual album yesterday, and it wasn't there. Maybe they'll send it later, but I doubt it.
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As a very, very long-time BSS fan (well, since YFIIP, anyway), I just wanted to chime in to express profound disappointment. I was about 50/50 on those Presents... albums, but I hate the fuck out of this thing. Wow. Listened to the stream several times, over the last twoish weeks, and can't even put into words how terrible I found about 9/10ths of this thing. Three of my listens found me falling asleep.
I'm not trying to attack anybody or say that people who like this record are wrong. In fact, I'm jealous. I was looking forward to this with tempered but positive expectations, and holy fuck...I'm sad, because I actually hate this record and I don't want to. I'm not just kind of let down (see The Hold Steady); I'm disgusted.
Don't like how comparatively spare the songs sound (and, yes, I realize that "spare" isn't the best word, but when you compare this sound to the last two OG BSS albums, you know what I mean), don't like the lyrics or especially the vocals, don't like the melodies, don't like...well, anything. "World Sick" is okay, and I do actively like "Meet Me In The Basement," but even that sounds a lot better live. I'll never forget seeing them in Tokyo, about 2.5 years ago, and seeing them play that with most of the crew + Stars + some Japanese kids/fans they met on the subway, that afternoon. AMAZING. This version's good, for sure. But I do wish that it was longer, and more krauty a la the live version.
Again, please don't hate. I'm not hating. I'm just sad. And I wonder if anybody feels the same way. Maybe...? Anyway, continue. I don't mean to derail. I'm just speechless, as I didn't see this coming.
I'm not trying to attack anybody or say that people who like this record are wrong. In fact, I'm jealous. I was looking forward to this with tempered but positive expectations, and holy fuck...I'm sad, because I actually hate this record and I don't want to. I'm not just kind of let down (see The Hold Steady); I'm disgusted.
Don't like how comparatively spare the songs sound (and, yes, I realize that "spare" isn't the best word, but when you compare this sound to the last two OG BSS albums, you know what I mean), don't like the lyrics or especially the vocals, don't like the melodies, don't like...well, anything. "World Sick" is okay, and I do actively like "Meet Me In The Basement," but even that sounds a lot better live. I'll never forget seeing them in Tokyo, about 2.5 years ago, and seeing them play that with most of the crew + Stars + some Japanese kids/fans they met on the subway, that afternoon. AMAZING. This version's good, for sure. But I do wish that it was longer, and more krauty a la the live version.
Again, please don't hate. I'm not hating. I'm just sad. And I wonder if anybody feels the same way. Maybe...? Anyway, continue. I don't mean to derail. I'm just speechless, as I didn't see this coming.
PhilsFan
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I really don't see how it's that drastically different from their previous work that you would hate this but like those albums.
LMP
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It's SO different. It's highly anticipated.
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Well, I was anticipating changes, for sure. I mean, McEntire and Newfeld are not quite the same producers. That's been a bigger personal hangup than I expected, but I was prepared for it. And the album has been nowhere near as anticipated as the self-titled, which followed what was, for many, a decade-definer. The lowered expectations, this time, have slightly contributed to the euphoric reaction. I don't mean that people like it because it's not the self-titled, mind you; I'm just saying that there's a kind of relief in a lot of the criticism that I've been reading. The ghastly Pitchfork review included.
PhilsFan
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I'm not sure what you mean, or how this relates to my comment.
Relief in what way? I haven't noticed any relief, more like appreciation that the band, after five years, is as good as it's always been. If that's relief, I guess I can see how people could have thought a five year layoff for the full band, this one might have been a letdown. I don't see it, but I can understand how that might be the gist you're getting.
That said, I'm not sure what the point you're making is.
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LMP said, "It's SO different. It's highly anticipated."
PhilsFan
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Well, what's different if it's not that? Certainly it doesn't copy their old albums, but it's unmistakably Broken Social Scene.
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Just to clear this up, I never said the album was drastically different. Here is what I wrote. I was responding to LMP, who either thinks it does or thinks that it's drastically different in that it's super anticipated. The latter of these two possibilities is wrong, the former one which I think is a matter of degree. I think it sounds like it was recorded by a different engineer (with more of an ear for "clean" sound), but otherwise, like I said, I just don't like the songs. That's all. Get on it:
I'll stand by "comparatively spare," but I already qualified that as much as I think I need to. Most anything sounds comparatively spare, next to the last LP.
I'll stand by "comparatively spare," but I already qualified that as much as I think I need to. Most anything sounds comparatively spare, next to the last LP.
PhilsFan
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I know you didn't say it was drastically different, it just seems like for someone who enjoyed their previous work so much, "comparatively spare" doesn't seem like enough to lead you from enjoying to actively hating the sound.
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Oh, word. Like I said, I just don't like the songs. I find a lot of the melodies grating, and the cleaner production means that Drew's voice is (again, comparatively) more foregrounded. Not a big fan of his pipes, so that grated. Again, list of complaints upthread. Sorry. Didn't mean to derail. I just wanted to get it off my chest, and this is the thread. I'll just go. Not trying to convince anybody to feel the same way.
cobl04
45:33
you're a strange cat IYS 
on second listen, The Ode to Josef Fritzl is pretty good.
on second listen, The Ode to Josef Fritzl is pretty good.
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