June 20, 2007
Song of the Week for a Seventeen Year Old Girl
Broken Social Scene's "Anthems for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl" (2003)
In today's world there are precious few things to help us cut through all the complications and clutter. Take this week's song... there are those who think it is among the best songs ever written and then everyone else.
Think about this next time a stream of pedestrians are keeping you from making a turn. Do you think they feel the awesome of this song? Then, are they really people or just single-serving entropy engines... urging forward the thermodynamic end times? Maybe then, you'll make it on time.
And here's a live recording of them (where "they" are a pretty continuously changing band of other Canadian band's folks) playing it, but if you prefer to find your own favorite, here are like 50+ others on YouTube alone.
Doesn't the women in the black dress look a little like Lindsey Lohan as she was just starting to "go bad." Doesn't that help bring it home?
PPS If you just downloaded this song and didn't own it already, you obviously should go give the band some money somehow -- as simple as buying the one-off on iTunes and dropping a fractional U.S. cent (which is like 1.25 fractional Canadian cents or something) into their pocket for all the love you just reaped.
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Posted by Rock Heals at June 20, 2007 07:00 AM



