Broken Social Scene is the third studio album by Broken Social Scene, released on October 4, 2005. The album was originally to be titled Windsurfing Nation.[8]
The original artwork was to be a cartoon rendition of Pangaea, which was later scrapped in favor of the current artwork drawn by lead singer Kevin Drew.
In addition to the musicians who contributed to the band's prior release You Forgot It in People, new contributors on Broken Social Scene include k-os, Jason Tait (The Weakerthans) and Murray Lightburn (The Dears).
The initial domestic pressings of the album were issued with a seven-track bonus EP, EP To Be You and Me, a play on Marlo Thomas' children's record album Free to Be… You and Me. The Japanese release is still issued with the EP. The vinyl pressing was released on two records, the first three sides being the album and the fourth being the EP.
The song "Ibi Dreams of Pavement (A Better Day)" refers to Canadian novelist Ibi Kaslik, a friend of the band. It is also suggested that Broken Social Scene is used as basis for a band that appears in Kaslik's second novel The Angel Riots, about a rising indie rock band from Montreal. Kaslik attended the Etobicoke School of the Arts with members of the band and helped them on their first tour of Canada and the United States. Although Kaslik says "It's definitely based on a world that I know", she has brushed off claims that the connection goes very deep, saying "it would be mistaken and scurrilous to try to identify individual people".[9] She warns against "scouring the pages for thinly disguised characterizations of […] Kevin Drew, […] Emily Haines or […] Amy Millan".[9]
The album was certified Gold in Canada on September 14, 2012.[10]
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More traveling music for modern times.
You want it all but you're not superman/woman.
You want it all but you sacrifice the only thing that really counts in the end: love.
A good name follows naturally from that.
Creative artists emancipate themselves as much as possible from the cruel commercial commodified status quo world.
The beat is overwhelming. Flow with it.
The other more authentic life awaits.
But don't think it'll be easy.
Sometimes you have to get wherever it is you're going alone.
And then of course there's sex.
What's coming stronger and harder than that? Your destiny...
7/4 Shoreline
it's a shoreline
it's high speed
its a cruel world
and it's time
and you want to get away
oh where to go to
when you want to get it out
oh how to get through
if you want to get it all
you can own what you choose
and you want to live a lie
and love what you lose
it's a shoreline
it's high speed
its a cruel world
and it's time
And you're walking away
And you try to get through
but you've got another life
from the lies they told you
and you try to do it right,
and they all will see you
if you try to steal the beat
the beat will steal you
its coming strong and hard
its coming strong and hard
--song written by Broken Social Scene
