You Forgot It in People

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You Forgot It in People
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Studio album by
Broken Social Scene
ReleasedOctober 15, 2002
RecordedDecember 2001 – July 2002
Genre Indie rock [1]
Length56:11
Label
Producer David Newfeld
Broken Social Scene chronology
Feel Good Lost
(2001)		You Forgot It in People
(2002)		 Bee Hives
(2004)
2003 reissue cover
YouForgotItInPeople2.jpg

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, necessitating a 2003 reissue. [2]

Contents

Music videos were made for "Stars and Sons", "Cause = Time", "Almost Crimes (Radio Kills Remix)", "Lover's Spit", and "I'm Still Your Fag". [3]

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. [4] As they expanded to an 11 piece collective, Broken Social Scene used a variety of sounds for the album. [5] [6] 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." [7] You Forgot It in People also progresses to "proper" song style with defined verses and choruses. [6]

Reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 86/100 [8]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [4]
Eye Weekly Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [9]
Houston Chronicle Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [10]
Now 5/5 [11]
The Philadelphia Inquirer Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [12]
Pitchfork 9.2/10 [13]
Q Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [14]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [15]
Spin B+ [16]
Stylus Magazine A− [17]

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. [8] Pitchfork 's 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." [13] 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. [18] [19] A Kludge writer called it a "majestic" album, in which the group created a "unique sound of lush instrumentation." [20] A PopMatters review for the album was positive, although criticized the song "I'm Still Your Fag" for its "uncomfortably graphic lyrics". [2] Conversely, Robert Christgau of The Village Voice selected "Almost Crimes (Radio Kills Remix)" as a "choice cut", [21] indicating a "good song on an album that isn't worth your time or money." [22] In 2003, the album won the Juno Award for Alternative Album of the Year. [5] The album received the following accolades:

PublicationListPlace
Pitchfork The Top 100 Albums of 2000−04 [23] 27
Staff Lists: The Top 200 Albums of the 2000s [7] 23
Rhapsody Alt/Indie's Best Album of the Decade [24] 9
Stylus Magazine Top 50 Albums: 2000−2005 [25] 7

By 2005, sales in the United States had exceeded 77,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan. [26]

In 2018, the album won the Polaris Heritage Prize Audience Award in the 1996-2005 category. [27]

"It's a very balmy and hungover post-rock record," observed Bloc Party frontman Kele Okereke. "Really tender." [28]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Capture the Flag"2:08
2."KC Accidental"3:50
3."Stars and Sons"5:08
4."Almost Crimes (Radio Kills Remix)"4:22
5."Looks Just Like the Sun"4:23
6."Pacific Theme"5:09
7."Anthems for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl"4:35
8."Cause = Time"5:30
9."Late Nineties Bedroom Rock for the Missionaries"3:46
10."Shampoo Suicide"4:05
11."Lover's Spit"6:22
12."I'm Still Your Fag"4:23
13."Pitter Patter Goes My Heart"2:26

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". [29]

Personnel

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