You Forgot It in People explained

You Forgot It in People
Type:studio
Artist:Broken Social Scene
Cover:YouForgotItInPeople.jpg
Released:October 15, 2002
Recorded:December 2001–July 2002
Genre:Indie rock[1]
Length:56:11
Label:Arts & Crafts, Paper Bag
Producer:David Newfeld
Prev Title:Feel Good Lost
Prev Year:2001
Next Title:Bee Hives
Next Year:2004

You Forgot It in People is the second studio album by Canadian indie rock band Broken Social Scene, released on October 15, 2002. It was the band's commercial breakthrough. You Forgot It in People features intricate, experimental production techniques and a large number of instruments coinciding with the band's vastly expanded size. Local excitement for the album was so big that initial pressings sold out quickly, causing the need for a 2003 reissue.

Music videos were made for "Stars and Sons", "Cause = Time", "Almost Crimes (Radio Kills Remix)", "Lover's Spit", and "I'm Still Your Fag".[2]

The songs that did not make it onto the album were featured in a B-sides compilation entitled Bee Hives, released in 2004.

Music

After releasing Feel Good Lost, Broken Social Scene changed their style from making ambient instrumental songs to full-blown rock songs. As they expanded to an 11 piece collective, Broken Social Scene used a variety of sounds for the album.[3] Reflecting on this, frontman Kevin Drew said "I was scared to see if people were going to embrace the idea of a whole shitload of sounds on one album." You Forgot It in People also progresses to "proper" song style with defined verses and choruses.

Reception

On review aggregate site Metacritic, it earned a normalized score of 86 out of 100, based on 18 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". Critics were almost unanimously enthusiastic. Pitchforks Ryan Schreiber gave the album a 9.2 out of 10 saying "You Forgot It in People explodes with song after song of endlessly re-playable, perfect pop." The songs "Cause = Time" and "Stars and Sons" are listed at No. 145 and No. 275 on Pitchfork Media's Top 500 Songs of the 2000s list, respectively.[4] [5] A Kludge writer called it a "majestic" album, in which the group created a "unique sound of lush instrumentation."[6] A PopMatters review for the album was positive, although criticized the song "I'm Still Your Fag" for its "uncomfortably graphic lyrics".[7] Conversely, Robert Christgau of The Village Voice selected "Almost Crimes (Radio Kills Remix)" as a "choice cut",[8] indicating a "good song on an album that isn't worth your time or money."[9] In 2003, the album won the Juno Award for Alternative Album of the Year.[10] The album received the following accolades:

Publication List Place
Pitchfork The Top 100 Albums of 2000−04[11] 27
Staff Lists: The Top 200 Albums of the 2000s[12] 23
Alt/Indie's Best Album of the Decade[13] 9
Stylus Magazine Top 50 Albums: 2000−2005[14] 7

By 2005, sales in the United States had exceeded 77,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.[15]

In 2018, the album won the Polaris Heritage Prize Audience Award in the 1996-2005 category.[16]

"It's a very balmy and hungover post-rock record," observed Bloc Party frontman Kele Okereke. "Really tender."[17]

Track listing

On the 2003 re-release, track 4 is listed as "Almost Crimes", track 7 as "Anthems for a Seventeen Year Old Girl" and track 9 as "Late Night Bedroom Rock for the Missionaries".[18]

Personnel

Notes and References

  1. Web site: The 25 Best Indie Rock Albums of the Last Decade . Grischow . Chad . October 18, 2011 . . March 20, 2018.
  2. Web site: Broken Social Scene Videos . Official Broken Social Scene website . January 20, 2012.
  3. Web site: Review of Broken Social Scene – You Forgot It In People . . 13 August 2003 . 21 December 2011 . Siebelt . Olli.
  4. Web site: Staff Lists: The Top 500 Tracks of the 2000s: 200-101 . August 18, 2009 . . December 21, 2011 . October 11, 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131011113200/http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/7686-the-top-500-tracks-of-the-2000s-200-101/6/ . dead .
  5. Web site: Staff Lists: The Top 500 Tracks of the 2000s: 500-201 . August 17, 2009 . . December 21, 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120516153302/http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/7685-the-top-500-tracks-of-the-2000s-500-201/2/ . May 16, 2012 .
  6. Broken Social Scene: You Forgot It in People . . December 9, 2009 . Parise . Joseph . https://web.archive.org/web/20040105144223/http://www.kludgemagazine.com/reviews.php?id=339 . January 5, 2004.
  7. Web site: Broken Social Scene: You Forgot It in People . . June 6, 2003 . December 21, 2011 . Begrand . Adrien.
  8. News: Consumer Guide: MLK Fever . . January 13, 2004 . January 15, 2016 . Christgau . Robert . Robert Christgau.
  9. Web site: Key to Icons . RobertChristgau.com . January 15, 2016 . Christgau . Robert . Robert Christgau.
  10. Web site: Broken Social Scene . . December 21, 2011 . Wilson . MacKenzie.
  11. Web site: Staff Lists: The Top 100 Albums of 2000−04 . Brian Howe . . February 7, 2005 . December 21, 2011 . July 11, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120711041426/http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/5956-the-top-100-albums-of-2000-04-part-one/8/ . dead .
  12. Web site: Staff Lists: The Top 200 Albums of the 2000s: 50-21 . Ryan Dombal . October 1, 2009 . . December 21, 2011 . September 27, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120927132052/http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/7709-the-top-200-albums-of-the-2000s-50-21/3/ . dead .
  13. Web site: Alt/Indie's Best Album of the Decade . Stephanie Benson . November 23, 2009 . . December 21, 2011.
  14. Web site: Top 50 Albums: 2000-2005 . Nick Mims . . December 21, 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120930182635/http://www.stylusmagazine.com/feature.php?ID=1430 . September 30, 2012 .
  15. http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/61879/new-broken-social-scene-more-horns-more-canadians "New Broken Social Scene: More Horns, More Canadians"
  16. https://exclaim.ca/music/article/rush_alanis_morissette_kid_koala_among_polaris_heritage_prize_winners "Rush, Alanis Morissette, Kid Koala Among Polaris Heritage Prize Winners"
  17. All Back to My Place . . July 2005. 140. 9.
  18. Web site: Broken Social Scene – You Forgot It in People (2003, CD). Discogs.

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