"I think we've all sat back and watched bands that you just knew in your gut were going to make it someday. They have all the all the talent and all the pieces in place; it's just a matter of time before they inevitably blow up into something extraordinary. From your vantage point, seeing them grow from obscurity to a feature story in, say, the New York Times magazine, appears as systematic, as orderly and as pre-ordained as watching that sapling your dad planted in the backyard become some of kind of tree. Okay, my attempt at descripitive prose is rubbish--but that's still how I look at what Broken Social Scene accomplished with Forgiveness Rock Record. You knew that this record was in them and you knew it was going to take them places that we, on the outside, knew they could go."
- Alan Cross Host, The Ongoing History of New Music