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  • 6/4/2025
In the early 2000’s in Toronto , a group of young creative musicians collectively known as, Broken Social Scene, got t | dG1fRXZqelliNDhfa28
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00:01All you ask for in life is just to try to make it simple,
00:05and this band is not that.
00:07Give a warm welcome to Broken Social Scene!
00:16There was some kind of renaissance going on around 2000 in Toronto.
00:20The creativity was on fire.
00:22There was the freedom to just do whatever the hell you want.
00:25So we just started hanging out in the basement.
00:27It became a real hub real fast.
00:30It was basically guest after guest.
00:32There was something about the camaraderie that was just super fun.
00:36You knew that you were a part of something that was just really awesome.
00:40Those early jams, I remember feeling like the storm was gathering.
00:45These shows happened, and they were really great.
00:48It started to feel like something that had its own identity.
00:51I remember just wanting it to happen so badly,
00:54wanting to make the record, wanting to rehearse.
00:56When the Pitchfork review came in, it was like a different world.
00:59We were on the road, and everywhere we went, it was basically just sold out.
01:06Our lives were just kind of like...
01:15That sprawling collective of musicians coming and going, that's hard to sustain.
01:20This is terrible. You guys got left behind.
01:22It's really difficult to put that much chaos on stage.
01:25I remember the band broke up over and over again.
01:27It's all gonna break. That's what we were experiencing.
01:30So you finish this rough cut of the film. What happens after that?
01:34They said, this movie will never see the light of day.
01:40There's this sort of now-ness to it.
01:42We're living, or this is what we do.
01:44We all wanted something to happen, and it did.
01:49It changed all of our lives.
01:51It changed all of our lives.
01:52Exactly, man.
01:53Praise the Lord.
01:54Yeah, I see you all of your precious little pieces.
01:55I think you should have bought some beautiful movies.
01:57It was just a matter of time,
01:58you've got to take a look at this show.
01:59It's been a year ago.
02:00I've always been a year ago.
02:01I've always been a Friday, and when I was going to be there,
02:02it's been a Friday.
02:03I didn't get to fuck.
02:04I was just at the end of it.
02:05I wasn't at the end of it.
02:06It's been a Friday.
02:07I was just a Friday, Marathon,
02:08and the Thursday night,
02:10it's been a Friday day.
02:11I got to go very long,
02:12and the Thursday night,
02:13there's been a Friday night,
02:14which I didn't get to go

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