Broken Social Scene - Meet Me In The Basement

[2620Serk]

00:30 REAL DEMOCRACY !

[BitchWrinkle23]

did that kid seriously blow his own head off? That was disturbing...

[2pacsrevenge]

@BitchWrinkle23 where..?

[spinkicker27]

@2pacsrevenge 2:39

[Jaimeb14]

02:00 xD Lol

[MrCopranno]

49----> CAPITALIST!!!

[tehpando]

i will never grow tired of this video.

[everuck]

im high and this was just awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww­wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwsome.

[TheJenBong]

I blame the nargles... Well the media too. 

[rskTempo]

@TheJenBong Cool Harry Potter reference xD

[WilliamJMRobson]

This is exactly how i feel sometimes.

[ministryharvey]

buen video...el resumen del presente

[penone85]

ITS MY MOST LIKE VIDO SO FAR! IT TELLS U THE REAL TRUTH AND SHOWS NO RESPECT TO OUR GOVERNOR_ WHAT IS REALLY UNFREQUENT

AND HI FROM BERLIN XX

[kohunterrr]

well fuck

[ligonlaw]

There are a lot of starving children in Africa.

[JAStewart]

Is that footage from Metro 2033 I see

[wheetabixx]

WOW, that is a great video. Funny, kinda like if you ignore a nuisance they will go away. If you are patient and don't protest, they won't spend millions of tax dollars posting police for summits because they don't have to worry about violence. We are our own worst something.



[bladecla]

I wanna blow shit up now.

[MOHOJO12]

Dude, there is porn inbetween the opening frames o.O

[brainestruming]

@MOHOJO12 great!

[luvdastuf]

Another great video from BSS.

Harper is a moron and IS destroying our country.

RIP CANADA

[Zackathor]

holy shit! wow! holy shit!

[Prisianable]

I saw my president! 0:23 hahaha XD

[israelsoto123]

DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW DO THEY FLIP THROUGH IMAGES SO FAST USING VIDEO EDITING SOFTWARE?

[Arealblack]

@israelsoto123 Because using capslock makes people respond faster to your questions... Eitherway, if you are so desperate to type in all-caps, i'll give you the answer. They show one image every frame. Since a a normal film is 24 frames/second, they can show up to 24 pictures/second (around 3:30). It's a hell of a job to edit it in though... I hope it helps

[BreChristie]

ahahaha KoA rules.

[Zealant]

I love the video except for the repeated Obama-is-a-beacon-of-light sentiments. Sorry, he can't fix any of the problems shown in this video.

[weirdyoda04]

@Zealant I could be wrong but it seems like Obama was in the video because he was associated with a lot of the wrong that goes on and not as a 'beacon-of-light'. Or even that, like Justin Beiber, Michael Jackson, etc., he is just a distraction from the real issues.

[fibo908]

@weirdyoda04 you are totally right man, im sure the video maker had suck kind of intentions, after that, people get things wrong all the time.. imssunderstandings are infinit! things aint like they seem to be blablabla!

[redrummurd3r]

love it

[sleek1978]

fuck your subliminal messages

[15rsmith]

omg. i love the mj morph! creepy!

[Isa7sf]

Best video ever! :)

Open your eyes and see the real world... and this video show us the real world...

[lackoftp]

almost a linkin park stylish video!

[pepeng1000]

hahaha..Mr SBY and obama talk about shittt on  0:23

[pepeng1000]

hahaha..Mr SBY and obama talk about shittt on 0:23

[ILoveTheJohnstones]

I watched this video cus ryan long was in it, but the video as a whole was the most fantastic thing I have ever seen.

[36TransMohn]

ist das video echt so durchdacht, wie es mir gerade vorkommt ?

[Imptheshrimp]

0:30 ugh, Harper.

ugh.

[leisurelydinner]

The video froze for me on 'dick head' @ 0:10. It was quite confronting.

[kbs1212]

2:01 Brought me to tears. So moving ... Wow.

[wallycard]

uh... what's with the Tom Cruise love in the mash-up? no.thanks.

[jhijh]

@wallycard whats with the tom cruise love ? im glad you asked, tom cruise appears in top gun as the defender of americas oil rights which is a big part of the reason for g meetings and i just thought it was ironic that he was driving the exxon car in days of thunder. the tom cruise shooting scene segways comment on guns in america. hope that answers your question.g

[wallycard]

@jhijh Thanks! I won't ask about Bieber.... I'll just trust there's a connection ;-)

[kevinDAninja]

@wallycard I don't think there is a connection. I think this is just supposed to be a snap shot of where are culture is currently at right now.

[TheNella1961]

@kevinDAninja

I think most people worry more about Bieber getting married or what his hair looks like then what happens in the rest of the world!

[sk8erpunk597]

so basically.... this videos sums up everything wrong with the world. fuck da police.

[arivas86]

Awesome video, finally people starting to stand up let's take back the world!!

[emilyegg7]

who made this???

[Redheadeddude41]

Ha, why is Top Gun in here.

[jkonu2]

was kid blowing his head off real 2:39 ..faces of death?

[bums009]

@jkonu2 I reeallly need that scene to be fake.

[MrGeminiRising]

wasn't just Toronto

[AgentONeal]

Americans don't demonstrate like that. We demonstrate by cowering in fear to Republicans and Tea Partiers while being passive aggressive.

[jkonu2]

@AgentONeal u canuck fuck

[Germano111]

What? American people demonstrate like that? Wow...i always thought everyone was fine with their system or not brave enough to go on the streets and fight for something. Now thats cool.

[D0sEquisGuy]

@Germano111

the riots were in Toronto Canada

[davidanthonypickerin]

Monday 28th of March 2011: Wake up.

Eat cereals.

Read on the news that Canada's Conservative Government have been found in contempt of parliament.

Listen to this.

[eddyc09]

Damn what an amazing video, it has everything, Shark Attack FTW lol

[xtianor]

thumb up if you tried to tried see every single frame in the last 25 sec...

and you got depressed 5 sec later

[bambambhole]

this video says more then 1000 words, amazing! i have to publish that in germany :D

peace dudes

[TheSatty8]

The michael jackson thing creeped me out. lol

[chuyb103]

everyone should by this album ...... utterly amazing

[billtheplayers]

No violence, Peaceful protest only. If you want violence join a boxing club.

[billtheplayers]

No violence, Peaceful protest only. If you want violence join a boxing club.

[TedMakesAwfulMovies]

Hipster shit

[Toowoozy]

@TedMakesAwfulMovies

Correction sweet hipster shit

[neenasky08]

awesome video!

[zzmook]

You know shit's getting bad when the Canadians are pissed off at the man.

[teradsaionoanion]

@zzmook Americans never get pissed off, that's why you don't have a democracy.

[zzmook]

@teradsaionoanion Well played sir! True dat.

[CushionConvector]

Great song, but haven't there been a million videos about how shitty the world we live in is?

[CROPECKdotCOM]

“The rest speaks for itself.”

It does not.

[waynedewho]

finally....a video production with the depth that most people crave. Well done.

[comacful]

its a bloody video for a song...fools... who do you think you,re reaching out to..this is youtube not fox ,cnn. or the bbc who do you think is going take on board what you have just printed.......they are plenty of online political forums where you air you,re opinions and somebody boring enough will respond to your ramblings in the meantime just listen to the music with no bias....political statements tend to drown the music out.....

[skulleton]

Remember kids, every police car you burn feeds a starving child in Africa, every smashed window frees a political prisoner.

No, those are just delusions. Stop pretending to be "rebels", when all your doing is causing damage that results in no positive change. It's your own selfish desire to be a "romantic hero". If you really want to affect change in your lifetime, you need to educate yourselves and focus your energy on exposing corruption and in competence through journalism and education.

[butholeman]

@skulleton Well said.

[ashnfn]

@skulleton The only issue there is that if you actually reveal corruption, you'll get knocked off.

[mavsguru41]

@skulleton Media is owned by large corporations who won't expose their own dirt... college education is about profit.....

Remember kids the French Revolution was the beginning of the end of monarchies, The Russian Revolution brought down the Soviet Union,the American Revolution gave us a country, and Revolutions around the world brought an end to European-American colonization!

[jennlady86]

@mavsguru41 I hope you are ignorant of how many thousands of people died pointlessly in those revolutions, or else I fear for those around you in a time of crisis.

I refuse to live in a country born in blood.

[jeffersonjjohnson]

@jennlady86 see you on the moon, then?

[jbone7878]

@jennlady86 what country do you live in if not one born from blood?

[studown93]

@skulleton my teacher told me he saw the cops drive the car to the middle of the street, leave the doors open and abandon it. but obviously their temptation worked.....the cops and the media framed the g20 so that the protesters just looked like hooligans, like they always do.

and really, if you educate yourself and work for change through journalism the media outlets will just change, trash, or censor all of the shit you put out anyways

[NathanPathan]

@studown93 proper journalism could have saved the world but instead theirs retards that watch jokers like bush, who would entertain and make us laff, while bombing a country. While we sat there laffing at his bloopers millions lost their lives... instead of searching or visiting or listening to these people that suffer and to their words we watched retarded puppets make a bad name for all of us...

[NathanPathan]

instead of standing the fuck up we sit the fuck down and we shut our mouths and watch it all and then worry about what will happen...are we really that lazy or do we just not care? whats the world so scared of... change? or you can live with poverty, the rich killing the poor, innocent people going to jail, disease, wars over oil and other, ridiculous things, or we can just get nuked and drain mother nature and earth...

[ElZeeboo]

@skulleton very idealistic but the real world doesn't work like that... remember the Boston Tea Party. bunch of thugs destroying property belonging to the worlds most powerful company... that changed nothing... Women wouldn't have the right to vote in Canada except that after 2 women got the crap beaten out of them by Ottawa police the women revolted and smashed a bunch of windows... finally the Stonewall riots accomplished nothing also right?

[cirath3great]

wtf are justin beaver, obama and hilary clinton doing in this video?

btw, there might not be a "2012" but the world's coming to an end soon

[iwasbornat82]

epic

[LennyBound]

2:07 = "Must kill hipsters"

[mrwangchang]

Anyone have any idea who the guy in the red pants is?

[TheNella1961]

@mrwangchang

no but he is a hottie...

[Superlang]

Tom Cruise sucks!!!

[tylerchhatesyou]

Warning; May cause seizures!

I wanna fuck this bands music!

[littleYOmama]

@tylerchhatesyou OMG! I literally just said that to myself.. me too!!! :p

[batflies]

Great video, painfully so...

[TheNella1961]

@batflies

it is..

[szlafarski]

Remember when BSS stole this footage from the guys at Yeah! Films Company? Oh wait, it's still there.

[RuddGerrath]

watching this vid reminds me on how full of shit the world is

[batflies]

@RuddGerrath You summized my feelings as well, great and perceptive comment.

[LastMinLife]

@M15t3rJ0hnD03 they always tell me to shushh

[MikeRoy9]

like this video, gets the message across. the world really is going to hell, time to do something about it and this is a few steps in the right direction.

[fal2grace]

Brilliant

[ThinkingManNeil]

Resist!

[Hustlerae]

i love this song. some of bss best work right here!

[astroturf1000]

This is the best video Broken Social Scene has ever made. I'm glad they're taking bold chances and showing their politics. Maybe if more bands weren't so afraid to speak up and fight back, there'd be a lot more youth doing the same. Instead, we listen to our ipods and go shopping...

Down with the G20.

[Tr1ploid]

@astroturf1000 Broken Social Scene didn't make this.

[JanistheGiant]

This is one of the best instrumental songs I've heard by any band and the video is very powerful. I love what it represents and the message being sent here.

[andipoetic]

That part with Michael Jackson, with him shifting through the years...that was amazing to watch

[skulleton]

Remember, every police car you burn feeds a hungry child in Africa.

[NathanPathan]

@skulleton i wish i came up with that hahah

[relaxme69]

brilliant. That`s what i see all over the time. Good F... human taste is`t it

[relaxme69]

briliant

[Shinobi20000]

If I didn't know any better I'd say this video was made by Rage Against the Machine.

[TheMorGessBoard925]

What a bunch of hippies. They deserved to get nightsticked. Go back home, smoke your weed and go order some more skinny jeans.

[CursedK]

@TheMorGessBoard925

Right on, the only struggle these hipsters know is full price at American Apparel.

[djazr]

g20 looks fucking insane and so did downtown. So glad I didn't go out that day

[uberhaxor69]

its showing whats wrong in the world and one of thems justin bieber LOLLLL

[theArcadehead]

@uberhaxor69 justin Bieber, is what's wrong with the world because his music is just a cynical distraction from major issues going on in the world today.

[DAVIDVINCENTDURING]

Save us, Tom Cruise.

[thefirststuffm]

-Ha!

[FunnyOrDieShaun]

Sha-Bak-Ca-Ma-Na-Mi-Ha-Ha!

[ROORWANT]

great vid. some fucked up images. wtf is going on?

[FU7IM7CANADIAN]

@ROORWANT just go home turn cnn on and lock your doors. everything will be alright.

[ROORWANT]

@FU7IM7CANADIAN is it safe to come out yet?

[FU7IM7CANADIAN]

@ROORWANT No...Probably not.

[szlafarski]

YEAH! FILMS FTW

[ttt303]

brilliant clip!!!!!

[PanavisionLove]

I fell to the floor when I first heard this song, not because I had to, because I wanted too. The music caught me as I fell into it.

[tastyradish]

so. good.

[TheMASjoker]

Humannties ... suckks

[paoxley]

I see all these hidden messages - is it just me? (must not forget to take my meds)

[travellingendlessly]

0:27 that scares me

[biscuit444]

Fuck the G-twenty

[feelguts]

"Beam me up, Scotty"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[feelguts]

"Beam me up, Scotty"

[dearage]

good stuff - heads up!

[Fabricated1337]

Makes me wanna riot.

Makes me wanna take control.

Makes me wanna change.

Makes me wanna protest.

...do you feel it, too?

[TheAndiandfriend]

thumbs up if you see "f**k you"at 0:12

[pukymcp]

@TheAndiandfriend its "freak out"

[mtb416]

@M15t3rJ0hnD03 Who hates libertarians? They're pro-choice, support gay marriage, want less government control, etc. These are bad things?

[redrenaud]

brilliant

[mrofmuffins]

Incredible.

[PrawnToucher]

Good video...but is it just me or do a lot of people who go to demonstrations against things like G20 look like absolute tools? Im sure the vast majority of people there are earnest people who care about the issues, but the ones that make it into the press are attention grabbing pricks who just seem to want to cause trouble.

[QueSaisJe4]

This is a well-edited clip, that manages to capture the imperial decline of America. Furthermore, it seems like artists see the coming global conflict, WW3, much sooner than the masses or the leaders... we're in for a bumpy future...

[vyhulenejr]

wonderfull dysneyland this Earth

[zztopblue1]

thumbs up if u hate stephen harper

[FU7IM7CANADIAN]

@zztopblue1 thumbs up up if you dont actually understand politics and just want to jump on the band wagon and hate harper because someone else said you should......oh wait you guys already did that.

[theArcadehead]

@FU7IM7CANADIAN I don't hate Harper. I don't like Harper either. He doesn't do anything, he's just there.

[gza123456789]

everybodys mental

[fobkingdingaling]

2:40 is an insane clip

[boxcarbouche]

my summer was nearly planned for Toronto, but went across the pond instead. First Canadians hated Toronto, guess Toronto hates Canada. The video hits a huge note for me and love the editing!!!!!

[BlueFrogVic]

Near brilliant. Shared.

[coolkidballsinyomout]

i think the point is just to juxtapose the horrific realities of the world with america's numb indifference. by showing all the bad things around the world then showing the things that americans care about (justin beiber, video games, McDonalds, and so on) the video i believe is just trying to say that we need to pay more attention to making the world better than just making ourselves feel better

[pukymcp]

@coolkidballsinyomout by the mass media's indifference , not just america's

[muke001]

@ShutYourShutUpHole I'm gonna start quoting this all over the place. There are just so many bullshit protesting things in life that use this same principal. This has got to be one my personal top ten comments that I have ever seen on Youtube.

[pukymcp]

lol crying post's

[bigman1225]

This video makes me want to puke.

[PapaFly]

how did they get the copyrights to all this footage? Both with the news footage and the movie scenes?

Does it only apply if you show a certain length of video?

[DenOfVipers]

Ugh.

[Benjammin911]

YAH!!!!!

[pjc94]

ya G20 protests in toronto ontario Canada this was all over the news for a few days

[ScaldingAnus]

Ironic how a bad signed to EMI (formerly linked with the arms trade and a large corporation dominating the music industry) produces a pseudo-political video trying to get the viewer to better examine the horrendous fallout of corporatocracy. It`s just another cashgrab and the irony makes me nauseous. Great job guys.

[swanzai]

@ScaldingAnus broken social scene didn't produce this.

[derkorruptor]

Wow, what a bunch of stupid hippie bullshit.

[WindupAtheist]

Those globalization protests are just summer camp for dipshits. No one even knows what their message is supposed to be besides "stuff is bad for some reason".

[DrShaym]

I wonder how many copyrights this violates.

[snooblegooch]

love the top gun clips

[Ghbose]

Sorry... but the video is pretty epileptic and insinuates some typical anti-government bs... nevertheless, great song