Park that car, drop that phone, sleep on the floor, dream about me Then, and over a slow build with the banjo, guitar & violin getting more powerful as it goes on and on the part that makes this song one of my Top 10 – hell, maybe even Top 5 – of the new millennium, Hanes chants over and over again: Suddenly, the banjo and violin take center stage, along with one of the most simply perfect guitar leads I’ve ever heard. Then, when the song gets to about 1:10, she sings:īleaching your teeth, smiling flash, talking trash, under my window They’re so alien, you don’t even notice that she’s not singing over a synth, but rather a slowly picked banjo, strummed guitar and bowed violin. Or, “musical collective,” I guess, though I have a helluva time envisioning BSS founder Kevin Drew sneering Lydonesquely to a late-night talk show host: “We’re not a band, we’re a collective.”Īnd while I recognize that their 2002 breakthrough You Forgot It In People is utterly beloved by indie fans a generation younger than me, I’ve always found it to be a very good record with two tremendous songs – “Cause = Time” & “Almost Crimes,” – and a contender for the Prettiest Song Ever Recorded (Brian Eno Division): “Anthems For a Seventeen Year-Old Girl.”Īt first, with singer Emily Haines’ voice altered into a pitch so high the words she is singing are almost totally unintelligible, “Anthems For a Seventeen Year-Old Girl,” is a bit off-putting. First off, let me say that "Broken Social Scene" is one of my all-time favorite names for any band ever.
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