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Billboard once described Broken Social Scene (BSS) as "a new genre of music: symphcore … typified by soaring vocal croons, hushed keyboards, and delicate string arrangements," and praised the group's "otherworldly orchestral pop." The New York Times called BSS "a Canadian band that doesn't want to make its music too easy." Broken Social Scene could be called a supergroup, since its members have all had prior success in different bands and some still do. But the group consider themselves more of a collective than a supergroup. One of their publicity releases stated, "Broken Social Scene is, always has and always will be a group of friends and loves." "No one's going to take the music away," BSS founder Kevin Drew told Michael Barclay in Exclaim!. "Maybe they'll take the people away. Maybe people will leave. But in terms of why we did all this in the first place, that will never leave."

Torontonians Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning started BSS as a duo, but over the years the group's size varied, with their live shows consisting of anywhere from six to 19 musicians on stage for a performance. Their music was part experimental and part indie rock and pop. Their second album, 2002's You Forgot It In People, did well in United States and won the group a Juno award in Canada. Barclay described the essence of BSS as "the variety that comes with surrendering ego to a musical potlatch. The beauty of community. The belief that we should never settle for a compromised existence when it comes to the thing we truly love."

Where it Began
It was in Toronto in 1999 when Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning started laying the foundations of Broken Social Scene. Drew had recorded under the name KC Accidental and played with Do Make Say Think; Canning was known for playing in By Divine Right and HHead, among other prominent Canadian indie rock bands. Their music was experimental, long-winded, and improvised. December 17, 2000, marked the first official BSS show at Ted's Wrecking Yard in Toronto. The show was actually billed as John Tesh Jr. and the Broken Social Scene. During the show, Drew performed a solo song on guitar and synthesizer, improvising for 30 minutes.

During that winter and into 2001, Drew and Canning began to record the first BSS album. A handful of friends contributed to the album, including vocals by Leslie Feist (who had played in By Divine Right and had her own solo act under the name Feist), drums by Justin Peroff, and trombone by Evan Cranley (of the Montreal band Stars). On January 26, 2001, BSS played their first full band show with Drew and Canning leading a group that included Feist, Peroff, and guitarist Andrew Whiteman (who recorded under the moniker Apostle of Hustle). Canning and Drew finished up their album and released Feel Good Lost with Toronto indie label Paper Bag Records. Copies quickly sold out, so Drew and his friend, former Virgin Records rep Jeffrey Remedios, started their own record label, Arts&Crafts. They re-released Feel Good Lost to meet demand. The album was subdued and abstract, compared to their live shows that ended up full of vocal harmonies and orchestral choruses.

By now, the BSS core usually consisted of Canning, Drew, guitarist Charles Spearin, Peroff, and Whiteman. Each performance was different, depending on which friends joined them on stage. Feist, Cranley, Emily Haines and James Shaw of Metric, and John Crossingham (Raising the Fawn), were most often on stage that year, with other friends contributing here and there. At the same time, Canning and Drew were working on their second BSS album with producer David Newfeld. Recording took place over a period of many months, and this time more musicians came in to record. Feist sang lead vocals on "Almost Crimes" and "Shampoo Suicide," while Haines sang the much-hailed "Anthems for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl." While creating the album, BSS was itself becoming something else. In the fall of 2002 they released their sophomore album You Forgot It In People.

The communal atmosphere and dynamic sounds of the album reached the ears of a few critics in the United States, namely the influential indie Web site Pitchfork Media, which hailed You Forgot It In People as the best thing since sliced bread. Pitchfork 's Ryan Schreiber championed the album in a lengthy review in which he wrote that BSS "combines outright experimentation and strong hooks, something that engages us mentally while appealing to the instincts that draw us toward pop immediacy. Some of the best records ever have been ones that put these two seemingly disparate elements together. … This kind of music shouldn't be hard to come by; it's just that not many artists are able to perfect that balance." Pitchfork's glowing review gave BSS the American break they needed, and Arts&Crafts signed a distribution deal with EMI Canada and with Caroline in the United States.

Billboard called the album "not quite electronica, not quite indie rock and not quite a collection of ambient soundscapes," and added that it "occupies a unique dreamspace all of its own." To tour for You Forgot It In People, Drew, Canning, Peroff, and Whiteman enlisted guitarist Jason Collett as a permanent player for BSS. The group would often arrange shows around their other friends' schedules so that members of Metric, Stars, or Feist could perform at certain shows. "We want to celebrate every time we play," Drew told Barclay. "We're into making fools of ourselves and trying to make great music."

By the summer of 2003, Broken Social Scene was the "it" independent band in North America. You Forgot It In People picked up a Juno Award in Canada for Best Alternative Album. BSS's additional members were also hard at work with their own careers and bands, but always found time to work or play with the group. "I really enjoy playing the supporting part," Haines tric told the Guardian's Laura Barton. "It's a way to romanticize your friendships, because you don't have to put up with the day-to-day." In 2003 Metric released their first full-length record, and both Stars and Feist were working on their second albums. "I don't intend to keep everyone together at all. Anybody can come and go as they please," Drew told the Austinist about the band's evolving cast of players.

Fans Wanted More
Bowing to fans' demand for older material, in March of 2004 BSS released Bee Hives, a collection of old material and B-sides. The CD also included three songs redone, including Feist singing lead vocals on "Lover's Spit" (from You Forgot It In People). Broken Social Scene had also signed a deal with Mercury in the U.K. in 2003, but after mishandled tours the partnership fell apart. However, Canning and Drew never stopped working on future BSS material. With producer David Newfeld in Toronto, musicians came and went. There was no set recording schedule for a third full-length album, and it was recorded over a period of nearly two years. "There was never one … formal recording session," Drew told Schreiber. "Yes, we're this huge band, but there were only four people at most in the studio at one time. It was a beautiful and strange couple of years trying to put down this record."

Track after track for BSS's third album piled up in the studio (many songs had more than a few versions). "I think it's a big, gigantic, beautiful mess," Drew asserted to Schreiber, of the project. "We never really followed any guidelines on how we did things, but in the end it's more of an indie rock record than we ever thought we'd make. … And it's an experimental psychedelic record, and all the chances and craziness and all the rules we broke are only going to help us in the long run. I think this record is going to make more sense in years to come than right now, but I have a lot of respect for the risks we took. I think it represents our band."

In October of 2005 Arts&Crafts released Broken Social Scene in Canada and the United States. Originally it was to be titled Windsurfing Nation, but then the band chose to self-title the album because they felt it was the most personal album they had made. New York magazine's Hugo Lindgren described Broken Social Scene as "a sprawling flea market; a couple of gems in clear view, then a vast pile of odds and ends in which each piece shines a little brighter every time you rummage through the junk." Drew told the Austinist, "The next record that we're putting out, it's nothing like this record. Nothing."

The band that went out to promote Broken Social Scene was usually down to about twelve or fewer members, but during their travels, various friends sometimes joined them on the stage. Jason Collett, Stars, Metric, and especially Feist were increasing their own popularity, which ended up bringing BSS back to its core of Drew and Canning. "I don't know how much longer this idea of this collective can last, when other people are … starting to take responsibility for the success of their [own] bands," Drew admitted to the Austinist. "We don't want names, we just want friends to play in our band, screw around, have some fun."

Selected discography
Feel Good Lost, Noise Factory Records, 2001.
You Forgot It In People, Paper Bag/Arts&Crafts, 2002.
Bee Hives, Arts&Crafts, 2004.
Broken Social Scene, Arts&Crafts, 2005.

Sources
Periodicals
Exclaim!, December 2003.
Guardian, August 25, 2006.
New York, October 23, 2005.
New York Times, October 10, 2005.

Online
"Austinist Interviews Broken Social Scene," Austinist, http://austinist.com/2005/11/15/austinist_interviews_broken_social_scene.php (January 25, 2008).
"Broken Social Scene," Billboard, http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/reviews/album_review_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1925423 (January 25, 2008).
"Broken Social Scene: You Forgot It in People," Pitchfork, http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/15682-you-forgot-it-in-people (January 25, 2008).
"Interview: Broken Social Scene," Pitchfork, http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/31317-interview-broken-social-scene (January 25, 2008).

Other
Additional information was provided by Arts&Crafts publicity materials, January 15, 2008.
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Broken Social Scene materialized in 1999 when K.C. Accidental's Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning, formerly of By Divine Right, bonded their friendship into a band. They spent the next few years honing an atmospheric rock sound in their native Toronto and the dynamic was great. Feel Good Lost marked their debut album in 2001 and introduced a revolving cast of Canadian indie musicians. Drew's fellow mate from Do Make Say Think, Charles Spearin, was added to the band, as well as Evan Cranley (Stars), James Shaw, and Emily Haines (Metric). By the time their guitar-fueled sophomore effort, You Forgot It in People, was released in fall 2002, Broken Social Scene had become an 11-piece collective. Jason Collett, Andrew Whiteman, Justin Peroff, and Leslie Feist fulfilled the band's bombastic, orchestrated sound, and critics loved it. You Forgot It in People was a buzz among indie cohorts, and plans for a stateside release on Arts & Crafts was slated for the following summer. A surprise, however, coincided with those plans in spring 2003 when Broken Social Scene won a Juno for Alternative Album of the Year for You Forgot It in People.

In order to maintain praise from critics, the band issued its first ever B-sides and rarities collection, Bee Hives, in spring 2004. For the band's 2005 self-titled studio album, Broken Social Scene once again joined producer David Newfeld. Additional contributions by select members of Stars, Metric, Do Make Say Think, Raising the Fawn, the Dears, and others contributed to the ambitious sounds of Broken Social Scene. A joint North American tour with Feist followed its release. In 2007, Kevin Drew released the first installment in a series of "Broken Social Scene Presents" solo outings called Spirit If…, followed in 2008 by Brendan Canning’s Something for All of Us..., both of which featured appearances from nearly all the other members of the band. The group’s fifth full-length offering, Forgiveness Rock Record, arrived in May 2010. ~ MacKenzie Wilson, Rovi
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Broken Social Scene performing in England in 2006. Left to right: Brendan Canning, Ohad Benchetrit, Torquil Campbell, Kevin Drew, Andrew Whiteman, Julie Penner, Lisa Lobsinger
Background information
Origin Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Genres Indie rock, baroque pop, art rock, dream pop, post-rock
Years active 1999–2011 (hiatus)
Labels Arts & Crafts
Associated acts KC Accidental
Do Make Say Think
Metric
Stars
Valley of the Giants
Feist
Website www.brokensocialscene.ca
Members
Brendan Canning, Alan Seib, Kevin Drew, Justin Peroff, Charles Spearin, Andrew Whiteman, Sam Goldberg, Jason Collett, David Newfeld, Leslie Feist, Emily Haines, James Shaw, Evan Cranley, Amy Millan, Ohad Benchetrit, John Crossingham, Martin Davis Kinack, Jo-ann Goldsmith, Bill Priddle, Torquil Campbell, Adam Marvy, Lisa Lobsinger, Julie Penner, Jason Tait, Elizabeth Powell, John McEntire

Broken Social Scene is a Canadian indie rock band, a musical collective including as few as six and as many as nineteen members, formed in 1999 by Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning. Most of its members currently play in various other groups and solo projects, mainly based around the city of Toronto. The band refuses the label "supergroup", based on size or the ubiquity of their members, claiming that in the indie scene everyone is involved in more than one project.[citation needed]

The group's sound could be considered a combination of all of its members' respective musical projects, and is occasionally considered baroque pop. It is characterized by a very large number of sounds, grand orchestrations featuring guitars, horns, woodwinds, and violins, unusual song structures, and an experimental, and sometimes chaotic production style from David Newfeld, who produced the second and third albums.

In 2009, This Book Is Broken was published. Written by Stuart Berman, it details the band from its inception to its critical acclaim. In 2010, Bruce McDonald made This Movie Is Broken, a movie about the band's Harbourfront show during the 2009 Toronto strike.

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History

Feel Good Lost

The band's core members are Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning. This duo recorded and released the band's ambient debut album, Feel Good Lost, on Noise Factory Records in 2001, with contributions by Justin Peroff, Charles Spearin, Bill Priddle, Leslie Feist, Jessica Moss and Stars' Evan Cranley. However, when they played shows to support the album, Drew and Canning found it difficult to put together an entertaining show based on their material thus far, which was almost entirely instrumental.

As a result, they brought in a number of friends from the Toronto indie scene—album contributors as well as Andrew Whiteman, Jason Collett, and Metric's Emily Haines—to flesh out their live show with lyrics and vocals. Over time, the band also came to include contributions from James Shaw, Justin Peroff, John Crossingham, and Stars member Amy Millan.

You Forgot It in People

All of the previously mentioned guest musicians joined with Drew, Canning, Peroff and Spearin to record the band's second album, You Forgot It in People. The album was originally released on Paper Bag Records in October 2002 and won the Alternative Album of the Year Juno Award in 2003. The album also included musical contributions by Priddle, Jessica Moss, Brodie West, Susannah Brady and Ohad Benchetrit, but these were credited as supporting musicians rather than band members. On the supporting tour, the core band consisted of Drew, Canning, Peroff, Whiteman and Jason Collett, along with any other band member who was available to attend any individual show.

In 2003, the B-sides and remix collection Bee Hives was released.

Broken Social Scene's song "Lover's Spit" from 2002's You Forgot It in People has been featured in director Clément Virgo's movie Lie with Me (2005), Paul McGuigan's Wicker Park (2004), Bruce McDonald's The Love Crimes of Gillian Guess (2004), Showtime's Queer as Folk (2003) and the penultimate episode of the Canadian series Terminal City. The version of "Lover's Spit" found on 2004's Bee Hives record was also featured in an episode of the third season of the FX series Nip/Tuck. Showtime's television program The L Word featured "Pacific Theme" "Looks Just Like the Sun" both from You Forgot It in People in the show's first season. "Looks Just Like the Sun" was also featured in the 2006 film Swedish Auto. "Stars and Sons" from You Forgot It in People also appeared in the movie The Invisible. Music from the band's albums was used to score the 2006 film Half Nelson.

Broken Social Scene at the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee.

Broken Social Scene

Broken Social Scene released their third full-length album, Broken Social Scene on October 4, 2005, with new contributors including k-os, Jason Tait and Murray Lightburn. The inside booklet accompanying album also noted several new faces as part of Broken Social Scene including Stars members Torquil Campbell and David Newfeld, who produced this album as well as You Forgot It In People. A limited edition EP, E.P. To Be You And Me was also printed along with the album.

The group appeared on Late Night with Conan O'Brien on January 31, 2006 performing "7/4 (Shoreline)". At the 2006 Juno Awards, they performed "Ibi Dreams of Pavement" at the show and their eponymous album won the Alternative Album of the Year award. In July 2006 the band announced a temporary hiatus following the conclusion of their November US tour while members work on their other projects.[1]

Broken Social Scene were last minute replacement performers at North America's first Virgin Festival, at Toronto Islands Park, the weekend of September 9–10, 2006. Contacted on September 7 after headliners Massive Attack cancelled due to problems involving obtaining U.S. visas, the entire band, just returned from a European tour in August, managed to assemble to close the festival Sunday night. Appearing on the main Virgin Mobile Stage, immediately following performances by international superstar bands The Strokes and The Raconteurs, Broken Social Scene took the stage at 10:00 p.m., and played a set of over an hour. Through the performance the band was joined by Feist, Amy Millan of Stars, k-os, and Emily Haines of Metric. This was the last show featuring the rare 15 member lineup of the band until 2009.

In late 2006, several members of the band appeared as special guests on The Stars and Suns Sessions, the second album from Mexican indie band Chikita Violenta. The album was produced by Dave Newfeld.

They have also composed and recorded an original score for director Marc Evans's film Snow Cake, as well as scored his 2007 film adaptation of Maureen Medved's novel, The Tracey Fragments. In 2009, Bruce McDonald directed a short documentary episode of IFC's The Rawside Of... that focused on the making of Brendan Canning's solo album Something for All of Us.

Broken Social Scene Presents...

On June 8, 2007, music website Pitchforkmedia.com reported that BSS founder Kevin Drew was recording a solo album, which was to feature many other members of Broken Social Scene and produced by Ohad Benchetrit and Charles Spearin. The album is entitled Broken Social Scene presents Kevin Drew, Spirit If..., and is intended to be the first in a series of "Broken Social Scene presents..." albums.[2] The album was recorded throughout 2004 and 2006 in Ohad Benchetrit's house while the band was not on tour. Although billed as a solo project, nearly every Broken Social Scene member makes a cameo appearance. The sound itself is Broken Social Scene's familiar mix of rough and ragged, sad and celebratory. It is prone to psychedelic swells, acoustic jangles and features a cast of friends and associates (including Dinosaur Jr.'s J Mascis and Canadian rock icon Tom Cochrane) playing and singing and handclapping along.[3] The album was released on September 18, 2007 and a tour billed as Broken Social Scene Performs Kevin Drew's Spirit If... was engaged in late 2007.[4]

The second "Broken Social Scene presents..." record, by Brendan Canning,[5] is entitled Something for All of Us and was released on Arts & Crafts on July 22, 2008. In a recent interview, Canning said the group would be working on a full Broken Social Scene album before another in this series would be produced.[6]

Broken Social Scene also took part in the 2008 Siren Music Festival in Coney Island, Brooklyn.

The founders of Broken Social Scene, Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning.

In March 2009 it was announced that Arts & Crafts, with association from Anansi Press, would release This Book is Broken written by Eye Weekly editor Stuart Berman, who confesses his close personal involvement with the band in the opening chapters. The book includes artwork, concert posters and photographs (professional and amateur) of the band. Most of the narration is provided by interview material of the band and related persons, arranged by subject and chronology. The book was released in May 2009, and has been described as a "visual/oral history" of not only the band, but of Toronto itself.[7]

On April 29, 2009, Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning guest-hosted 102.1 The Edge's program The Indie Hour to promote a concert on Olympic Island that was later moved to Harbourfront Centre due to poor scheduling and low ticket sales.

Forgiveness Rock Record

On June 17, 2009, the band appeared during North by Northeast as "special guests" at the Arts & Crafts launch of This Book is Broken. During their short set, they played a mix of new songs from the upcoming album and old favourites. Despite press reports earlier in the year that she would not likely play with them again,[citation needed] they were joined in this performance by Feist. Also on October 23, Feist joined them on their second visit to Mexico City.

During the band's free performance at the Harbourfront Centre on July 11, 2009, they were joined by nearly all past contributors, including Feist, Emily Haines and James Shaw, Amy Millan and Evan Cranley, John Crossingham, Jason Collett and Julie Penner. This revue-like show celebrated other projects by members as well as including new material from the upcoming album. They were introduced at this show by Bruce McDonald, who announced the filming of a movie directed by him and written by Don McKellar called This Movie Is Broken. This documentary includes concert footage as well as a fictional romance written by McKellar. Although McDonald announced at the concert that film submitted by fans would be used in the movie, the final cut of the movie included only one submission, a front-row recording of "Major Label Debut".

Broken Social Scene released their fourth full-length album on May 4, 2010.[8] Entitled Forgiveness Rock Record, it was recorded at Soma in Chicago, with John McEntire producing, and in Toronto at the studio of Sebastian Grainger and James Shaw. Amy Millan, Emily Haines, and Leslie Feist recorded a track together, marking the first time in the band's history that the three have been recorded on the same song (albeit recorded at different times).[9]

This album was short-listed for the 2010 Polaris Music Prize.[10]

On August 9, 2010 Broken Social Scene unveiled plans for their "All to All" remix series, which includes 7 different versions of the track from Forgiveness Rock Record. Every Monday a new remix will be released and available exclusively for 24 hours via a different online partner. The first version, "All to All (Sebastien Sexy Legs Grainger Remix)", by former Death From Above 1979 drummer/vocalist and current Bad Tits frontman Sebastien Grainger, was released August 9 via Pitchfork.[11]

Lo-Fi for the Dividing Nights

During the recording of Forgiveness Rock Record, the group created what is known as Lo-Fi For The Dividing Nights while in Chicago. During downtime band members would head into Soma's second smaller studio to test out new ideas and overdubs while John McEntire worked in the main room. All of the songs on Lo-Fi For The Dividing Nights were recorded in Soma's B-Room. Here they created lovely little soundscapes, one of which ended up being the closing song on Forgiveness Rock Record, "Me & My Hand", and the rest became the beginnings of the album.[12]

Charles Spearin who made a note from the band said that "...what these songs have in common is that they were all written in a spirit of playfulness and fearlessness where we could throw our discrimination to the wind and let the judges and critics take the night off."[13]

Indefinite hiatus

It was announced on August 15, 2011 that the band would go on an indefinite hiatus following an October 1, 2011 show featuring Isaac Brock and a fall tour in support of TV on the Radio.

On November 8, 2011, a post on the band's official Twitter account in advance of a concert in Rio de Janeiro stated that it would be the band's final live performance.[14]

Touring lineup history

Broken Social Scene performing at the Intonation Music Festival, July 16, 2005.

From 2002 to 2004 female vocalists Emily Haines, Leslie Feist and Amy Millan rotated between availability from their own bands, until a full time replacement was found in 2005 with Lisa Lobsinger. From time to time (most notably at hometown shows in Toronto) any one of the women will usually resume their role on their trademark songs, and appear unannounced prior to the show.

  • 2001: Kevin Drew, Brendan Canning, Brodie West
  • 2002: Kevin Drew, Brendan Canning, Justin Peroff, Andrew Whiteman, Charles Spearin, Jason Collett, Emily Haines, Leslie Feist, Evan Cranley
  • 2003: Kevin Drew, Brendan Canning, Justin Peroff, Andrew Whiteman, Charles Spearin, Jason Collett, Leslie Feist, Evan Cranley
  • 2004: Kevin Drew, Brendan Canning, Justin Peroff, Andrew Whiteman, Charles Spearin, Jason Collett, Amy Millan, James Shaw, Evan Cranley
  • 2005: Kevin Drew, Brendan Canning, Justin Peroff, Andrew Whiteman, Charles Spearin, Lisa Lobsinger, John Crossingham, Julie Penner, Ohad Benchetrit, Leslie Feist, Dave Hodge.
  • 2006: Kevin Drew, Brendan Canning, Justin Peroff, Andrew Whiteman, Charles Spearin, Ohad Benchetrit, Julie Penner, Lisa Lobsinger, Amy Millan, Dave Hodge.
  • 2007: Kevin Drew, Brendan Canning, Justin Peroff, Andrew Kenny, Bill Priddle, Sam Goldberg (eventually Priddle was replaced by James Shaw, and then Mitch Bowden)
  • 2008: Kevin Drew, Brendan Canning, Justin Peroff, Andrew Whiteman, Charles Spearin, Sam Goldberg, Leon Kingstone, Amy Millan, Liz Powell (fall tour only), Evan Cranley, Jason Collett, Dave Hodge.
  • 2009: Kevin Drew, Brendan Canning, Justin Peroff, Andrew Whiteman, Charles Spearin, Sam Goldberg, Lisa Lobsinger, Leslie Feist, Evan Cranley, Jason Collett, Dave Hodge.
  • 2010: Kevin Drew, Brendan Canning, Justin Peroff, Andrew Whiteman, Charles Spearin, David French, Sam Goldberg, Lisa Lobsinger, Dave Hodge, John McEntire.

Collett took time off to promote his solo release Idols of Exile, and to attend to his family, prior to the 2005 fall tour.

During the 2007 tour, Bill Priddle broke his collar bone, just before the 16th October gig at the Birmingham Academy II. They were joined on tour by James Shaw from Metric, who had "flown in that morning" from Toronto. Mitch Bowden, Priddle's bandmate in Don Vail and The Priddle Concern, joined the 2007 tour to replace Priddle.

Discography

Albums

Year Album details Peak chart positions[15][16]
CAN FRA IRL UK US
2001 Feel Good Lost
  • Released: March 6, 2001
  • Label: Noise Factory
  • Reissued: February 23, 2004
  • Label: Arts & Crafts
 — — — — —
2002 You Forgot It in People — — — — —
2005 Broken Social Scene — 144 27 80 105
2010 Forgiveness Rock Record 1 — 58 67 34
"—" denotes a release that did not chart.

B-side albums

Broken Social Scene Presents...

EPs

Singles

Year Song Chart peak Album
CAN
Alt
[17]		 CAN
Rock
[18]		 UK
2003 "Stars and Sons / KC Accidental" — — — You Forgot It in People
"Cause = Time" — — 102
2005 "Ibi Dreams of Pavement (A Better Time)" — — — Broken Social Scene
2006 "7/4 (Shoreline)" — — 94
"Fire Eye'd Boy" — — 192
2010 "Forced to Love/All to All" — — — Forgiveness Rock Record
2011 "World Sick" 39 — —
"Texico Bitches" — 50 —
"—" denotes a release that did not chart.

Film Scores

Soundtracks

Videography

  • "Stars & Sons" (August 2003, directed by Christopher Mills)
  • "Cause = Time" (December 2003, directed by George Vale and Kevin Drew)
  • "Almost Crimes" (2004, directed by George Vale and Kevin Drew)
  • "Ibi Dreams of Pavement (A Better Day)" (November 2005, directed by Experimental Parachute Movement)
  • "7/4 (Shoreline)" (2006, directed by Micah Meisner)
  • "Fire Eye'd Boy" (2006, directed by Experimental Parachute Movement)
  • "Major Label Debut (Fast)" (2006, directed by Sarah Haywood)
  • "Lover's Spit" (May 2006)
  • "I'm Still Your Fag" (May 2006, directed by Chris Grismer)
  • "Forced To Love" (July 2010, directed by Adam Makarenko and Alan Poon)
  • "All To All" (August 2010)
  • "Texico Bitches" (December 2010, directed by Thibaut Duverneix)
  • "Sweetest Kill" (June 2011, directed by Claire Edmonson)

Bibliography

Awards

Juno Awards

The Juno Awards are presented by the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Broken Social Scene has won two awards from five nominations.[19][20][21]

Year Nominated work Award Result
2003 You Forgot It in People Alternative Album of the Year Won
2004 "Stars and Sons" Video of the Year Nominated
2006 Broken Social Scene Alternative Album of the Year Won
CD/DVD Artwork Design of the Year Nominated
2011 "Forced to Love" Video of the Year Nominated

Polaris Music Prizes

The Polaris Music Prize is awarded annually to the best full-length Canadian album based on artistic merit. Broken Social Scene's self-titled album was nominated in 2006,[22] and Forgiveness Rock Record was nominated in 2010.[10]

Year Nominated work Award Result
2006 Broken Social Scene Polaris Music Prize Nominated
2010 Forgiveness Rock Record Polaris Music Prize Nominated

See also

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