You Forgot It in People
You Forgot It in People is the second studio album by Canadian indie rock band Broken Social Scene, released on October 15, 2002. It followed Feel Good Lost, and 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 ", "Lover's Spit", and "I'm Still Your Fag". The album also features "Anthems for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl".
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. 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
The album received high acclaim from music critics, according to review aggregate site Metacritic, the album received a normalized score of 86 out of 100 based on 18 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". Reviews for the album were almost unanimously positive. 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. A Kludge writer called it a "majestic" album, in which the group created a "unique sound of lush instrumentation." A PopMatters review for the album was positive, although criticized the song "I'm Still Your Fag" for its "uncomfortably graphic lyrics". Conversely, Robert Christgau of The Village Voice selected "Almost Crimes " as a "choice cut", indicating a "good song on an album that isn't worth your time or money." In 2003, the album won the Juno Award for Alternative Album of the Year. The album received the following accolades:| Publication | List | Place |
| Pitchfork | The Top 100 Albums of 2000−04 | 27 |
| Pitchfork | Staff Lists: The Top 200 Albums of the 2000s | 23 |
| Rhapsody | Alt/Indie's Best Album of the Decade | 9 |
| Stylus Magazine | Top 50 Albums: 2000−2005 | 7 |
By 2005, sales in the United States had exceeded 77,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
In 2018, the album won the Polaris Heritage Prize Audience Award in the 1996-2005 category.
Track listing
All songs written by Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning.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".
Personnel
- Kevin Drew – keyboards, vocals, guitar, feedback, bass, drums, piano
- Brendan Canning − bass, double bass, vocals, organ, acoustic guitar, drum machine, guitar, piano, keyboards
- Andrew Whiteman − guitar, tres, organ, vocals, bass, keyboards, tambourine
- Charles Spearin − guitar, bass, percussion, drum machine, harmonica, effects, acoustic guitar, organ, sampler
- Justin Peroff − drums, percussion, shaker, artwork
- John Crossingham − guitar, feedback, drums, bass
- Evan Cranley − trombone, strings, percussion
- James Shaw − trumpet, guitar, acoustic guitar
- Leslie Feist − vocals
- Emily Haines − vocals
- Jessica Moss − violin
- Ohad Benchetrit − flute
- Bill Priddle − guitar
- Brodie West − saxophone
- Susannah Brady − speaking
- David Newfeld − producer, mastering
- Noah Mintz − mastering
- Louise Upperton − artwork design