Rate Broken Social Scene’s You Forgot It in People

Hit play on the 2002 album, pick your rating, and help shape the episode.

Thanks to a pick from Board of Directors member Johnny H., we’re heading back to the early‑2000s indie boom with Broken Social Scene’s 2002 album You Forgot It in People. Remember when it felt like every cool band had twelve members, three drummers, and at least one trumpet player hiding in the back of the stage? This record was basically the blueprint for that era’s big, messy, heart‑on‑sleeve indie rock.

Coming out of Toronto’s arts‑kid universe, You Forgot It in People turned a loose collective into a scene‑defining band. It’s the sound of bedroom experiments scaling up to festival stages: fuzzed‑out guitars, horns that suddenly kick the door in, whispered vocals that explode into gang‑sung choruses. One minute it’s intimate headphones music, the next it feels like the best house party you were never actually invited to but somehow wandered into anyway.

We’ll be revisiting what made this album hit so hard in 2002 and why it still shows up on “best of the decade” lists. Does it still feel like a revelation, or has time taken a bit of the shine off those sprawling, everything‑all‑at‑once arrangements?

That’s where you come in:

• Give You Forgot It in People a fresh listen (or a first listen) before the episode drops.

• Vote in the album poll and lock in your rating.

• Drop a comment for the show: When did you first hear this record? Does it still work front‑to‑back, or is this a new discovery?

Hit play, cast your vote, and tell us where this one lands for you in the Broken Social Scene universe.