Broken Social Scene on Letterman

[spinkicker27]

1:57 Ouch, my fucking guitar strap

[lieinmygrave]

they must perform on Conan!

[ThreeDLee09]

this puts a little smile on my face :)

[klesky]

HAHA kudos to paul schafer for playing the piano in the song

[paulinelt27]

i've never seen these guys before, it's like a cooler, less gayer version of polyphonic spree.

[screenageangst]

i dunno about the line-up, i think they need another guitarist...

[Dampvinyl11]

I came upon this song when my friends Ipod was on shuffle, and I fell in love with it instantly. You should check out some of Concrete Pinyada's stuff if you like this. They're great.

[603skier]

brendan canning seems like all he does is jam on his bass.

[CerpinTaxt1983]

Its Amy. BSS are so friggin good the new album is perfect

[Sillygooseforever]

So is that Leslie Feist at the front or Amy Millan??

[CerpinTaxt1983]

@Sillygooseforever its Amy 

[drbliss]

I like this live version waaaay better than the studio recording

[octoberhsu]

Nice Dancing and Music :DD

[griffinmpable]

more guitars please! hahaha

[zzzmac]

Leslie Feist get away from the noise and use your beautiful voice as the singer Jewel. Don't waste your time with wannabe's.

[BadlyDrawnGenitalia]

this is one of my favorites things I've ever seen on youtube.

[DengarRoth]

I know, I favourited it a long time ago and watch it whenever I can

[heenky]

This is perfect.

[XbabyshakesX]

poor guys! they seem not to have enough room! but i love amy! her voice is gorgeous!!!

[cfernand07]

Amy Millan's doing the twist! Love it.

[pinkhey]

Honestly i dont think they need tt many members. LOL

[stubert311]

paul shaffer makes this version better

[heenky]

This buries the album version. I love the album version, but this is easily my favorite version.

BTW, I've been trying to figure out how to play this song by watching the video. Are there any guitar players out there who have figured this out?

[Mineav]

Great, steady rythm section, with the ever steady-tempo'd Canning leading the charge, with some dual drumming--nice. I like this performance a lot more than the album version--better vocals, and you can hear Andrew Whiteman's lead guitar riffs much better.

[hackman22]

At 2:45 it sounds so fucking good.

[JohnnyNny23]

BSS are amazing!

[hackman22]

Sounds fantastic, nice sound BSS!

[camenzies1]

brendan canning's driving bass line holds it all together. brilliant.

[a66448579]

there's so many of them!

[WaylonJennings]

I loved the shot of Paul Schaeffer jamming with them. Thats so awesome.

[DengarRoth]

Can anyone name this entire lineup?

[111dogon555]

No, there's like 20 of them in the band...and they're all solo artists on the side haha.

Still, best indie rock band ever IMO

[agapeasha]

Brendan Canning, Kevin Drew, Justin Peroff, Charles Spearin, Andrew Whiteman, Sam Goldberg, Jason Collett, David Newfeld, Leslie Feist, Emily Haines, James Shaw, Evan Cranley, Amy Millan, Ohad Benchetrit, Martin Davis Kinack, Jo-ann Goldsmith, Torquil Campbell, Lisa Lobsinger, Julie Penner, Jason Tait, Elizabeth Powell

[slartibartfast12]

you missed John Crossingham

[skaterpunk904]

oh my god...lol

[Ottawatian]

Epic post.

[JamieKusick]

they seem nervous here... I don't blame them

[haplito]

I don't think they seem nervous, I just think they're crammed into a small stage and can't really spread out - physically or musically - like they're used to.

[xantan1smalls]

Drugs & Music & More drugs! GOGO BSS.

[PandaStoleMyPuppies]

this looks soooo fun!

[pyrojessie551]

I love progressive music...

Broken Social Scene is the bandI can listen to and get pop, progressive, and indien all in one.

Basically they are just some motherfuckers who love music. I love them. =]

[ThreeDLee09]

@pyrojessie551 spot on!

[HelloImJonesy1]

I'm hypnotized

[rio197]

thx for this. andrew whiteman rocks.

[Krieg3]

Fucking Amazing Epic Band. Love Broken Social Scene

[nemohaiku]

quality, not quantity. 10 people? just means they have half (or less than half) the skill of a great 5 member band. distracting noise, to say the least.

[BT7291958]

Nah, when you have more instruments working it becomes more difficult to communicating between them. Some great stuff can come out of smaller bands (ie Primus, which is a trio), but I think judging according to how many band members the group has is a little pointless. They're sort of in different categories; it's like trying to compare the quality of a melodic band against a band that just shreds (apples and oranges, to use the cliche).

[ZenRushed]

well thats true but good tihng everyone in this band has talent cmon out there ass so there skill level is quite high, but nice comment good try

[myunclesnephew]

someone who doesn't like a band you like is a piece of shit? notice how the first two people who replied before you left the childish name-calling out? thumbs UP to BSC, thumbs down to your comment

[unrepped]

Does it get any better than BSS? There's something fantastic about seeing 10 people on one stage and having it all work so damn well...go see them live!

[hopefuldopeisgood]

Broken Social Scene: my heroes.

[Leodiensian]

There's MILLIONS of them!

[DeathBySitar]

The sound of all those guitars playing together is nuts. Its like being in a dream.

[uuutub69]

I like BSS (not this song though) but if this is what the concerts are like, I'm not going. 10 people on stage I think, hard to count with the cameras and drummer/singer moving around so much. The chick singer starts facing away from the audience, sings a little, then plays air guitar. Lead guitars change, singers change, drummer running around (guess they ran out of mics), lots of posing going on. How many rhythm guitars do you need? Only 1 bass guitar, what's up? I guess he can actually play.

[peppersJF]

gah id hate to see wat u consider a good live act...they way i see it is theres 10 talented cats on stage feeling the music and having a good time and sounding damn good while there at it

[uuutub69]

Hmm...what good concerts have I been to? U2 (1st US tour), the Clash, the Replacements, Led Zeppelin, Dread Zeppelin, Stephane Grappelli, the Who, the Stones, the Dead, Allman Bros., Buddy Guy, John McLaughlin, Billy Cobham, David Bromberg...

[peppersJF]

thats a pretty impressive list i dont know all them cats but from the ones i do i can imagine their live sets would be good but there not really broken social scenes kind of music and therefore there performances would be well different but not nessicarily worse or better, chili peppers and interpol are two wikid bands iv seen that were way different to say bss or battles or mars volta etc performance wise but all of them are still wikid live in my opinion

[jacket23]

aah amy millan is awesome!

[chacheng9774]

2 drummers? thats baller status right there

[petervischiofilm]

if ti was 4 people, it wouldnt be as cool

[Entidus]

Only complaint with BSS:

It could be done with like, 4 people.

Other than that I love them, and most of the bands they come from.

[DBurn101]

Part of what's awesome about them is that there's so much variety in the songs, because everyone is contributing to the writing. This way every song can be extremely different (for better or for worse, but usually better).

[Entidus]

Well, see, I'm also kind of self-contradictory, because while I think it could just be done with 4 people and sound pretty much the same, I also think there being that MANY people makes a great live show. Every live version I've heard of a song sounds better than the album.

...my comment was extremely irrelevant to yours. :(

[mattjay503]

fuckfuckfuckfuck. sososo amazing.

[chloeemilyknows]

My favorite band!

[artdamage16]

this is an amazing performance

[returnsanecho]

no dissenters allowed.

[TecumsehBand]

really cool video!

[shadalator]

So is this the slipknot of indie hipster bands?

[jmbirk]

That's an interesting standard to use. Why not say P-Funk? They had plenty of members and predated it all. But, then again, the idea of using a heuristic like that in the first place is just unnatural. "The Slipknot of" is implying that this band is somehow like Slipknot or that "Slipknot" automatically implies many members in a band.

[ogwaffle2]

probably not, i think its just a group of people that make music because they love music

[iamthepinkylifter]

how cool that paul played with them.

this reminds me of when i saw them live.

[Macday000]

wait so they have 5 guitar players??

[jacket23]

this video doesn't do it justice, can you imagine the sound live? 5 guitars and two drumkits, you couldn't even tell. Ok i'm just bitter because i missed them live

[Nieghorn]

Anyone else feel like the audience didn't appreciate it from the mild applause? Bands of this sort typically do Conan (far superior latenight show), and are always well-received. Oh well, they sound really good and it was funny to see Paul playing along.

[jclyon41]

Paul is a fucking badass. Just think of all the musicians, good and bad, that he has played with

[w33dm4n123]

tight