With the band set to return to NYC, we asked Canning to pick out some of his favorite shows here. He added: “ This tour, members are going to bop in and out, because that’s the nature of the band.” It’s not that different, it’s just that the indie rockers weren’t doing that.” Any hip-hop record, different producers on different tracks, and different MCs. … Look at how many artists played on a Joni Mitchell record in the ’70s, there were always 20 people. We had this deep history before anyone uttered the words Broken Social Scene. Kevin went to high school with Emily Haines. We’ve known Leslie, for instance, since 1993. “I think with any band, or dare I say, collective, I think it helps in some ways and it hinders in some ways,” Canning said. The logistics of rustling up the various members and quasi-members of the band might be a reason Broken Social Scene has released only five albums since the band got started in 1999. We were doing that in a much more organic fashion.” … Now with songwriter cameos, you have a publisher trying to put together this writer and that writer. ‘You Forgot it in People’ has a lot of writers on that album, and people have very different careers in their own right, whether it’s Metric or Feist or whether its Stars or it’s Andrew’s project Apostle of Hustle. And the fact that we could draw upon different individuals and their strengths as writers. “The confines of the restrictions of what it means to be a band that just stays as a band, I just think that didn’t interest us as much. The album also set into motion the fluid nature of Broken Social Scene’s lineup, with Canning and fellow founding member Kevin Drew joined by musicians from a then-burgeoning Toronto indie scene that included bands like Metric and Stars. That’s all you want to do as a band, you want to be included.” Say someone is listening to The Cure ‘Disintegration,’ and you put on ‘You Forgot it in People,’ and yeah, that has a vibe too. You just want to do something that you think is paying homage to all the music that you loved. I loved house music, industrial, metal, punk. “I was born in 1969, I’ve been through every phase of music. “I mean, I think as a band, as far as any band, you’re just trying to add to the conversation of all the bands that you love, whether it’s The Cure or Dinosaur Jr. “You Forgot it in People” won a Juno (the Canadian equivalent of a Grammy) for Alternative Album of the Year in 2003 and raised the band’s profile on both sides of the border. I don’t know, maybe people looked to Canada - ‘Oh, these guys are just peaceful, they don’t have to deal with the agony of what we’re going through.’ Whether we have the Canadian comedians, whether it’s Jim Carrey or Mike Myers or different characters or John Candy, we’re carrying on some kind of Canadian tradition of kind of competing with our U.S. “The ‘Canadian Invasion’ kind of happened on the heels of 9/11, essentially. They’ll play sold-out shows at Webster Hall on Oct. “It was a sensitive time in history, in our world,” Broken Social Scene’s Brendan Canning said before the band hit the road to mark the 20th anniversary of the group’s breakthrough sophomore album. Bush established the Department of Homeland Security near year’s end. The wounds of 9/11 were fresh in the United States 10 people had died in the Washington, D.C., sniper attacks and President George W. It was a strange time in North America when Broken Social Scene released “You Forgot it in People” in 2002.
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