He did say how much the Canadians love “your country, no matter what,” before “Protest Song”. And usually on a new album tour by a band with a back catalogue, there’s a new song or two they play live that one would have swapped for another late great, but it was hard to argue with Thunder pieces like the soaring single “Halfway Home”, the oh-so-appropriate “Protest Song”, even sweeter “Stay Happy” (which saw opener The Belle Game join in), the title track, and the reaching for the heavens “Skyline”.ĭrew joked that he wasn’t going to talk so much, to give more time for the music, which made sense, though the crowd missed out on extra Drew banter. Forgiveness’s “Texico Bitches” is still a killer single, and “Sweetest Kill” is made even sweeter when frontman Kevin Drew sings from the crowd. That is what happens when basically every song from those two records is a classic, as are most from the more recent Thunder and 2010’s Forgiveness Rock Record ( QRO review). Broken Social Scene have been around long enough to have their ‘hits’, the songs that everyone wants to hear live, but it’s impressive how many there are (for a band that’s only got five full-lengths, and the first, 2001’s Feel Good Lost, is mostly instrumental and rarely played), and they range widely from instrumentals like “K.C.” to the driving “Shoreline” (the piece that introduced you to Feist before the iPod ad…), the night’s epic into the encore break “It’s All Gonna Break” ( Broken Social Scene) or the sweet and intimate “Anthems for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl” ( Forgot). Accidental”, off of their 2002 breakthrough You Forgot It In People, followed by another early single, “7/4 (Shoreline)” from 2005’s self-titled follow-up. Yet live at Brooklyn Steel ( QRO venue review) on Wednesday, October 4th, old & new songs, old & new fans, all came together as “family.”īSS are touring behind this year’s Hug of Thunder ( QRO review), but opened up with one of their earliest songs, an instrumental no less, “K.C. But music has also moved as they’ve aged, and white guys playing soaring guitars is a bit old hat in these days of multicultural electronic synths. Time has moved on, and the collective has had the habit of going on hiatuses while various members do other projects – only to reform with another great new record. Long ago, in the dawning of the twenty-first century, Broken Social Scene broke out from Toronto as part of the ‘Canadian Invasion’ with acts like Arcade Fire.
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