S: I’m going to a show tonight.
Ad: Oh? Who?
S: Stars.
D: Stars! I love Stars! Set Yourself on Fire was amazing.
Ad: That’s the band with Amy Milan in it, right?
Maeve, happily: Yes! I love Stars.
S: They’re good? What’s their sound like?
D: Big. Lots of instruments.
Maeve: And pop-py.
Ad: They’re part of that whole Broken Social Scene-Metric-Feist scene.
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We like the same bands.
Put this in context: every time I tell people what music I am listening to lately, they look at me blankly and ask if they’re real bands because they’ve never heard of them.
My colleagues and I like the same bands.
I feel 22 admitting that this matters to me, but it does. It doesn’t mean we will all be best friends forever, but it does mean that I feel just a little bit less out of place.
And now that I may have convinced just two or three of you that the bands I am always talking about are so real bands with real albums that other people like too and which are very popular in certain groups, go download Stars new single Fixed (which is awesome) and Broken Social Scene’s new album Forgiveness Rock Record (which is also awesome, and if you can only get one song make it All To All, which sounds a bit like the Yeah Yeah Yeah’s latest It’s Blitz, or World Sick).
…the work part is still ok too.
I love Broken Social Scene, but you knew that already. And Feist. And Stars. But you knew all that already. And it is great that they like the same music. It does sound like you’ll be pretty happy there, at least at the social level, and there is some importance to that.
Awesome! I remember playing “Set Yourself on Fire” in the car with a kid in the backseat and it turning into a lesson on the stop, drop and roll method. Love the song “The Night Starts Here”.
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