I purchased YOU FORGOT IT IN PEOPLE on a whim at a record store around the corner from the venue. My ex, my pal, and I drove two hours away to see Spoon at a venue called The Blue Note. I just nodded and smiled.Īs I lay emotionally shattered in the backseat of a car driving home from Columbia, Missouri some weeks later, the album solidified as the soundtrack of my life. I was intrigued by those strange sounds, but the pressure for me to be impressed was too much. She was in that heightened anticipation that the dorkiest of music nerds feel when you play a song defining your whole world at that moment for someone whose life it hadn’t yet touched. We sat in silence as the song went on, her eyes wide, waiting for a hint of approval from me. “Used to be one of the rotten ones, and I liked you for that / Now you’re all gone, got your makeup on, and you’re not coming back / Can’t ‘cha come back?” An elfish voice, anxious and strained, began to sing. She clicked on the music player displayed on her MySpace profile, and out of the laptop’s boxy speakers came the sound of a lone banjo plucked over a delayed beat. “Have you listened to my new profile song yet?” she asked.
The seat sagged, so we were smooshed together no matter how we sat our knees touched as we held up her laptop back in those early days of social media. One evening, I sat next to my friend Mandy on a worn-out couch in her parent’s rumpus room. I had no idea in those days that it’s a record that I would still be listening to many years later.
At that point, I had probably sold 50 copies of it at the record store where I was working, always hoping someone would sell it back so I could finally hear what all of the fuss was about. YOU FORGOT IT IN PEOPLE entered my life in the spring of 2005.
YOU FORGOT IT IN PEOPLE is, arguably, the best record of the 2000s, and defines the very band that created it. The album received five-star ratings from several Canadian publications upon its release, and sold out of the initial run of discs within the first month. It was the beginning of the band becoming a revolving door for supremely talented humans to a lineup that is ever-changing. These live shows, a far cry from the chilled-out instrumentals of FEEL GOOD LOST, became an outlet for this scrappy band of misfits to experiment musically with their friends. The record formed out of the live shows Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning conceived while promoting Broken Social Scene’s first record, FEEL GOOD LOST, where the Canadian indie rock’s Lennon and McCartney invited their friends in the local music scene to perform on stage with them. Twenty years ago, Canadian indie rock collective Broken Social Scene released their seminal sophomore record YOU FORGOT IT IN PEOPLE, a collection of songs by some of the greatest musicians in the Toronto area in the early 2000s.
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