Jason Collett

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We All Lose One Another 04:25 Tools
Hangover Days 00:00 Tools
I'll Bring the Sun 00:00 Tools
Fire 00:00 Tools
These Are the Days 00:00 Tools
Out Of Time 00:00 Tools
Almost Summer 00:00 Tools
Brownie Hawkeye 00:00 Tools
Pavement Puddle Stars 00:00 Tools
Feral Republic 02:54 Tools
Roll On Oblivion 00:00 Tools
Love Is a Dirty Word 00:00 Tools
Blue Sky 00:00 Tools
Parry Sound 00:00 Tools
Tinsel and Sawdust 05:19 Tools
Pink Night 00:00 Tools
Papercut Hearts 00:00 Tools
Bitter Beauty 00:00 Tools
Charlyn, Angel of Kensington 00:00 Tools
No Redemption Song 00:00 Tools
Sorry Lori 00:00 Tools
Through The Night These Days 00:00 Tools
Not Over You 00:00 Tools
Henry's Song 00:00 Tools
Rave On Sad Songs 00:00 Tools
Nothing To Lose 04:25 Tools
All I've Ever Known 02:52 Tools
Tiny Ocean of Tears 00:00 Tools
Somehow 00:00 Tools
Waiting for the World 00:00 Tools
Honey I Don't Know 00:00 Tools
Lake Superior 00:00 Tools
Long May You Love 00:00 Tools
Little Clown 00:00 Tools
It Won't Be Long 00:00 Tools
Bitch City 00:00 Tools
Super Model 00:00 Tools
Madame Pompadour 00:00 Tools
Gabe 00:00 Tools
Choke Cherry 00:00 Tools
Stormy Woman Salty Girl 00:00 Tools
Cold Blue Halo 00:00 Tools
Lucky Star 00:00 Tools
Airport 00:00 Tools
Love Is a Chain 00:00 Tools
Motor Motel Love Song 00:00 Tools
High Summer 00:00 Tools
The Slowest Dance 00:00 Tools
Vanderpool Vanderpool 00:00 Tools
Winnipeg Winds 00:00 Tools
Song And Dance Man 00:00 Tools
Where Things Go Wrong 00:00 Tools
Diggin' In The Carpet 00:00 Tools
Pacific Blue 00:00 Tools
King James Rag 00:00 Tools
Runaway 00:00 Tools
You're Not The One And Only Lonely One 00:00 Tools
Jasper Johns' Flag 00:00 Tools
Too Much 00:00 Tools
I Wanna Rob a Bank 00:00 Tools
My Daddy Was A Rock n' Roller 00:00 Tools
Got The Glory 00:00 Tools
Reunion 00:00 Tools
Silent One 00:00 Tools
Love Song To Canada 00:00 Tools
Song Of The Silver-Haired Hippie 00:00 Tools
Sugar Sugar 00:00 Tools
Provincial Blues 03:08 Tools
Sailor Boy 00:00 Tools
Pulling The Sun Down 00:00 Tools
Ask No Questions 00:00 Tools
Miss Canada 00:00 Tools
Talk Radio 00:00 Tools
My Daddy Was a RocknRoller 00:00 Tools
Diggin in the Carpet 00:00 Tools
Black Diamond Girl 00:00 Tools
Don't Let The Truth Get To You 00:00 Tools
Forever Young Is Getting Old 02:35 Tools
When The War Came Home 00:00 Tools
Little Tiger 00:00 Tools
Love You Babe 03:02 Tools
False Cassandra 00:00 Tools
A Beguiled Christmas Sales 00:00 Tools
Every Night 00:00 Tools
Brother 00:00 Tools
Northern Light Letdown 00:00 Tools
Little Sparrow 02:19 Tools
Long Day's Shadow 02:51 Tools
Gabrielle 00:00 Tools
If She Don't Love Me Now 02:42 Tools
Rainy Day Rain 00:00 Tools
Livin' The Dream 00:00 Tools
Singing American 03:18 Tools
It Don't Matter Anymore 00:00 Tools
Black Oak Savanna 02:23 Tools
Nobody's Fool 03:15 Tools
Where Does Your Love Go? 00:00 Tools
Staring at the Sun 00:00 Tools
Winter Soldier 00:00 Tools
Jason Collett - Love Is A Dirty Word 00:00 Tools
I'll Bring The Sun (Essential Cuts Bonus Disc) 00:00 Tools
Untitled 00:00 Tools
Idols OF Exile 00:00 Tools
Bitter Beauty - Essential Cuts Bonus Disc 00:00 Tools
Blue Sky - Essential Cuts Bonus Disc 00:00 Tools
Hangover Days - Essential Cuts Bonus Disc 00:00 Tools
We All Lose One Another - Essential Cuts Bonus Disc 00:00 Tools
Jason Collett - Papercut Hearts 00:00 Tools
I'll Bring The Sun - Essential Cuts Bonus Disc 00:00 Tools
Hangover Days (feat. Feist) 00:00 Tools
No Redemption Song - Essential Cuts Bonus Disc 00:00 Tools
We All Lose One Another - Essential Cuts Bonus Track 00:00 Tools
Charlyn, Angel Of Kensington - Essential Cuts Bonus Disc 00:00 Tools
Brother - Essential Cuts Bonus Disc 00:00 Tools
Love Is A Dirty Word - Essential Cuts Bonus Disc 00:00 Tools
Long May You Love - Essential Cuts Bonus Disc 00:00 Tools
Blue Sky (Essential Cuts Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Jasper John's Flag 00:00 Tools
Love Is A Dirty Word (Essential Cuts Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Bitter Beauty (Essential Cuts Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
We All Lose One Another (Essential Cuts Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Every Night (Paul McCartney) - Essential Cuts Bonus Disc 00:00 Tools
Hangover Days (Essential Cuts Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
I'll Bring The Sun (Essential Cuts Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Blue Sky - Essential Cuts Bonus Track 00:00 Tools
Hangover Days - Essential Cuts Bonus Track 00:00 Tools
No Redemption Song (Essential Cuts Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
What Goes Is Gone (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Charlyn, Angel Of Kensington (Essential Cuts Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Hangover Days (feat. Emily Haines) 00:00 Tools
Brother (Essential Cuts Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Every Night (Essential Cuts Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Thru The Night These Days 00:00 Tools
We All Lose One Another (Essential Cuts Bonus Disc) 00:00 Tools
Jason Collett - Out Of Time 00:00 Tools
Bonus 00:00 Tools
Blue Sky (Essential Cuts Bonus Disc) 00:00 Tools
Bitter Beauty (Essential Cuts Bonus Disc) 00:00 Tools
Long May You Love (Essential Cuts Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Revolution Style 00:00 Tools
Love Is A Dirty Word (Essential Cuts Bonus Disc) 00:00 Tools
SAMPLE Bitter Beauty 00:00 Tools
Something Beautiful 00:00 Tools
Jason Colette - Out of Time 00:00 Tools
I'll Bring The Sun (live) 00:00 Tools
What Goes Is Gone 00:00 Tools
Reunion (Stars) 00:00 Tools
Charlyn, Angel Of Kensington (Essential Cuts Bonus Disc) 00:00 Tools
Hangover Days (Essential Cuts Bonus Disc) 00:00 Tools
Tropic Of Safety 00:00 Tools
No Redemption Song (Essential Cuts Bonus Disc) 00:00 Tools
Out of Time (Courtesy of Arts & Crafts) 00:00 Tools
It's Only Love 00:00 Tools
Brother (Essential Cuts Bonus Disc) 00:00 Tools
I'll Bring The Sun - Essential Cuts Bonus Track 00:00 Tools
Every Night - Jason Collet w/ Zeus 00:00 Tools
Bitter Beauty - Essential Cuts Bonus Track 00:00 Tools
Jason Collett - Roll On Oblivion 00:00 Tools
Every Night (Paul McCartney) (Essential Cuts Bonus Disc) 00:00 Tools
Love Is A Dirty Word - Essential Cuts Bonus Track 00:00 Tools
Long May You Love (Essential Cuts Bonus Disc) 00:00 Tools
No Redemption Song - Essential Cuts Bonus Track 00:00 Tools
Jason Collett - We All Lose One Another 00:00 Tools
Charlyn, Angel Of Kensington - Essential Cuts Bonus Track 00:00 Tools
Jason Collett - Hangover Days 00:00 Tools
Long May You Love - Essential Cuts Bonus Track 00:00 Tools
Every Night - Essential Cuts Bonus Track 00:00 Tools
Brother - Essential Cuts Bonus Track 00:00 Tools
Rave On Sad Songs. 00:00 Tools
I’ll Bring The Sun 00:00 Tools
Arlington 00:00 Tools
Hangover Days - Essential Cuts Bonus 00:00 Tools
Jason Collett - I'll Bring The Sun 00:00 Tools
Love Is A Dirty Word - Essential Cuts Bonus 00:00 Tools
Ill Bring The Sun 00:00 Tools
Jason Collett - Fire 00:00 Tools
Jason Collett - Brownie Hawkeye 00:00 Tools
Reunion (Stars Cover) 00:00 Tools
We All Lose One Another - Essential Cuts Bonus 00:00 Tools
I'll Bring The Sun - Essential Cuts Bonus 00:00 Tools
Bitter Beauty - Essential Cuts Bonus 00:00 Tools
Every Night (Paul McCartney cover) 00:00 Tools
Jason Collett - Pavement Puddle Stars 00:00 Tools
No Redemption Song - Essential Cuts Bonus 00:00 Tools
Every Night - Essential Cuts Bonus Disc 00:00 Tools
Charlyn, Angel Of Kensington - Essential Cuts Bonus 00:00 Tools
Starts With A Big Finish 00:00 Tools
Long May You Love - Essential Cuts Bonus 00:00 Tools
Jason Collett - Almost Summer 00:00 Tools
Hangover Days (ft. Emily Haines) 00:00 Tools
Jason Collett - Pink Night 00:00 Tools
Brother - Essential Cuts Bonus 00:00 Tools
I'll Bring The Sun (Essential Cuts Bonus) 00:00 Tools
Blue Sky - Essential Cuts Bonus 00:00 Tools
Every Night - Essential Cuts Bonus 00:00 Tools
Jason Collett - Feral Republic 00:00 Tools
Jason Collett - Parry Sound 00:00 Tools
Hangover Days (featuring Emily Haines) 00:00 Tools
You're Not The One And The Only Lonely One 00:00 Tools
jason collett 00:00 Tools
One Tree Hill - Jason Collett - We All Lose One Another 00:00 Tools
Jason Collett - These Are The Days 00:00 Tools
We All Lose One Another (OST Съемки в Палермо) 00:00 Tools
Fire (live) 00:00 Tools
i´ll bring the sun 00:00 Tools
Jason Collett - Blue Sky 00:00 Tools
Jason Collett - Tinsel And Sawdust 00:00 Tools
Jason Collett - Charlyn, Angel Of Kensington 00:00 Tools
Reunion (Jason Collett) 00:00 Tools
Rave On Sad Songs (OST Before We Go) 03:47 Tools
Jason Collett (feat. Feist) - Hangover Days (Live) 00:00 Tools
Honey I Don't Know what you see in me 00:00 Tools
Jason Collett - Madame Pompadour 00:00 Tools
Hangover Days feat. Emily Haines 00:00 Tools
The Joke Is On Me 00:00 Tools
We All Lose One Another (Essential Cuts Bonus) 00:00 Tools
Song Of The Silver-Haired Hippy 00:00 Tools
Hungover Days 00:00 Tools
Not Over You (live) 00:00 Tools
Paper Cut 00:00 Tools
Blue Sky (Essential Cuts Bonus) 00:00 Tools
kinda screwy, but there is a charm (talk) 00:00 Tools
We All Lose One Another (live) 00:00 Tools
Hangover Days (Live) 00:00 Tools
04 - we all lose one another 00:00 Tools
Hangover Days ft. Emily Haines 00:00 Tools
tinsel and stardust 00:00 Tools
02 - hangover days 00:00 Tools
08 - feral republic 00:00 Tools
06 - i'll bring the sun 00:00 Tools
We All Lose One Another (OST Palermo_Shooting) 00:00 Tools
Sensitive Man 00:00 Tools
Bonus Track 1 00:00 Tools
Jason Collett - Super Model 00:00 Tools
Jason Collett - Long May You Love 00:00 Tools
a little story of mine (talk) 00:00 Tools
Feral Republic (Live) 00:00 Tools
01 - fire 00:00 Tools
05 - parry sound 00:00 Tools
RotoGraphs Audio: The Sleeper and The Bust 06/01/2014 00:00 Tools
take a good thing and call it super (talk) 00:00 Tools
i know you're lonely (title?) 00:00 Tools
intro & known for throwing hissy fits (talk) 00:00 Tools
i don't have that pride anymore (talk) 00:00 Tools
Brownie Hawkeye (live) 00:00 Tools
Blue Sky (live) 00:00 Tools
03 - Brownie Hawkeye 00:00 Tools
09 - pavement puddle stars 00:00 Tools
12 - these are the days 00:00 Tools
11 - pink night 00:00 Tools
Christmas 00:00 Tools
Honey I Don't Know Why 00:00 Tools
RotoGraphs Audio: The Sleeper and The Bust 05/11/2014 00:00 Tools
Brother (B-Side) 00:00 Tools
RotoGraphs Audio: The Sleeper and The Bust 05/20/2014 00:00 Tools
Hangover Days (Essential Cuts Bonus) 00:00 Tools
We All Lose 00:00 Tools
Forever Young Is Getting Old | FluxFM - Die Alternative im Radio. 00:00 Tools
a little tip of the hat to Kingston (talk) 00:00 Tools
a little creepy trying to enjoy the good weather (talk) 00:00 Tools
pale moon symetry (title?) 00:00 Tools
Waiting For The World (live) 00:00 Tools
Pavement Puddle Stars (live) 00:00 Tools
Black Diamond 00:00 Tools
10 - almost summer 00:00 Tools
Charlyn Anglel of Kensington 00:00 Tools
A Love Song for Canada 00:00 Tools
Jason Collett - Bitter Beauty 00:00 Tools
Jason Collett - All I've Ever Known 00:00 Tools
No-Redemption Song 00:00 Tools
Bitter Beauty (Essential Cuts Bonus) 00:00 Tools
What Goes Gone 00:00 Tools
We All Lose One Another Along The Way 00:00 Tools
problem with microphones (talk) 00:00 Tools
encore break & I thought you let that grudge go (talk) 00:00 Tools
Hangover Days (with Emily Haines) 00:00 Tools
RotoGraphs Audio: The Sleeper and The Bust 05/13/2014 00:00 Tools
Pavement Puddle Star 00:00 Tools
Jason Collett - Honey I Don't Know 00:00 Tools
RotoGraphs Audio: The Sleeper and The Bust 05/22/2014 00:00 Tools
We All Lose One 00:00 Tools
architectural details (talk) 00:00 Tools
Waiting For The World To Come Home 00:00 Tools
Encore Break 00:00 Tools
Jason Collett - Motor Motel Love Song 00:00 Tools
"My New 100% Polyester Fashion Purchase Burst Into Flames" 00:00 Tools
house is tipping (talk) 00:00 Tools
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Jason Collett is a Canadian singer-songwriter. A member of Broken Social Scene, he also tours and records on his own. The best songs don’t just tell a story set to music – they capture a moment, encapsulate a feeling and draw in the listener, in a way that’s at once singularly personal and completely universal. When Toronto singer-songwriter Jason Collett was mulling over titles for his new album, the by-turns effervescent and elegiac Here’s To Being Here, he stumbled across a line in an anthology of poetry by his friend Emily Haines’ (Metric) late father Paul, a well-known avant-garde jazz poet. “I really love the simple sentiment of the title. I think of it as a toast, a raising of the glass to the notion of being present to the moment. Recording this record was all about that for me. Capturing the bits of spontaneous magic in the studio that are just the happy accidents of the day. For me there's a kind of unadorned celebratory ring to the phrase ‘here’s to being here’. There's no irony in it, and lord knows we’ve all had enough of that for a while. I really like Haines’ playful writing. It’s like Dylan, almost Dada-esque; it doesn’t take itself too seriously. I really relate to that era of writing… Ginsberg, that pre-’60s movement.” Fittingly, Collett’s own work draws upon such classic cultural touchstones while continuing to push the boundaries of the great singer-songwriter tradition. After over a decade of honing his sound and style, in the process becoming a key figure in Toronto’s burgeoning indie scene, Collett returns with the long-awaited follow-up to 2005’s critically acclaimed Idols of Exile. But where Exile was one big house party featuring Collett’s Broken Social Scene brethren, the guestlist was scaled back a bit for Here’s To Being Here, which was built largely around Collett’s former touring band Paso Mino, with producer Howie Beck, New York guitar great Tony Scherr, The Stills’ Liam O’Neil, BSS’ Kevin Drew, and members of Apostle of Hustle and the 6ixty8ights all lending a hand in the studio. When it came time to get off the road and begin to record some of the 40-plus tunes the prolific Collett had written over the past several years (the father of three children, the busy musician notes he’s able to find sanctuary and perspective to write while on tour), the recording process took place in two quick but productive sessions in winter 2007: four days in a barn an hour outside of Toronto with engineer Marty Kinack in February, and two days at Toronto’s Hallamusic studio in March. “For me, the studio is a very different beast from playing live. What you’re trying to do is capture a bit of magic in an environment that doesn’t necessarily lend itself to that. Howie and I have a really dynamic thing going on,” Collett says of working with Beck, who also produced his last album. “He’s the Woody Allen of rock and roll: he’s neurotic, funny, he’s got crazy ears – he can hear things that other people can’t, which drives *ME* crazy. He works fast, and I like working fast.” Here’s To Being Here is the sound of a seasoned songsmith fully coming into his own signature sound – from the ’70s AM-radio vibe of road-tested favourites like the rollicking relationship reflections “Not Over You” and “Out of Time” to sparse countrified ballads like Canadiana ode “No Redemption Song” and album closer "Waiting For the World" (partially inspired by Collett's friend James Loney, who was taken hostage in Iraq in 2005), the album redefines the contemporary guitar-based singer-songwriter framework for the current genre-blurring musical landscape. As tuneful as they are poetic, these masterful songs of hope in an age of disillusionment stick in your head as firmly as they capture your heart. “I feel this is a rock-and-roll music record. Not rock, not rock and roll, but Rock ’n Roll music. I don’t care much for the roots-rock tag or the singer-songwriter one and all the banality those genres conjure up. Rock ’n Roll music encompasses all sorts of influences – country, blues, gospel... all those things, and I’m just part of that tradition,” Collett points out. “We decided midway through the record to avoid embellishing it with horns and strings – which I really love, but I think it sort of helps make the record more cohesive with the absence of that indulgence. There’s not a lot of trickery to it. It’s not like we really stripped things down, it’s just that we never gussied them up.” Collett, who began writing to try to escape the boredom of the suburb of Bramalea where he grew up, and logged time in Toronto bands before going on to craft two full-length albums (1999’s Chrome Reflections and 2001’s Bitter Beauty) prior to joining the Arts & Crafts family in 2003, has always penned songs with a poet’s knack for reflection and a journalist’s eye for detail. That timeless quality permeates Here’s To Being Here, which not only allows listeners a peek into the songwriter’s thoughts, but also a glimpse into the everyday human emotions that bind us. “I’m beginning to recognize that I have a body of work. I’ve always tried to make records with a classic sensibility, so that they’re records you can listen to 20 years from now,” Collett says. “I feel like I connect when I’m just being candid. I want to take the audience on a journey with me – by being as present in the moment as I can.” With the release of Here’s to Being Here, Collett looks back at the ghosts of his past while keeping his eyes firmly fixed on the future. The title says it all: it’s a line of poetry, an affirmation, a toast to where we’ve come from, and where we’re going. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.