Internet, I have a confession to make.
I love Franz Ferdinand.
For a long time I didn’t. When the admitedly catchy stomp of Take Me Out oversaturated everyone’s ears, radio and television commercials circa 2004, I figured they were a throwaway pop-rock band trying too hard to be hip, just like the Killers only from across the pond. But then I made friends with a boy named Jon who was quite the Franz aficionado and the more I chilled with him, the more he spun their records and the more I caught the lyrical prowess of Alex Kapranos - Seductive, sophisticated, tongue in cheek and quite intellectual, I took an immediate shine and bought both their albums right after You Could Have It So Much Better was released.
Then Alex Kapranos wrote a book about food and I bought that too.
I downloaded b-sides, live tracks, cover songs, for I told you, dear reader, I love Franz Ferdinand.
I have a tee shirt and everything.
I happen to think they are the most stylish band in modern rock and that the world would be a better place if more guys dressed like Alex Kapranos. Sure, at their core, Franz Ferdinand is a pop band but I think they make the most flawlessly danceable, lyrically developed, good-mood, sexy pop music around. And that type of awesome transcends genres.
But enough about me. What about Franz? If you’re like me, which you’re probably not, you have probably spent the vast majority of the past year muttering to yourself, whenever a Franz Ferdinand song came up on your iPod shuffle, ‘Geez, Alex Kapranos, stop making out with that precious Eleanor Freidberg, not that I blame you, and release another album already!’
But Monday, he managed to tear himself away from the female half of the Fiery Furnaces just long enough to give us our first taste of that album, due out in January. Lucid Dreams, the first single, is already starting to burn up select areas of the internet. It’s a bit too early to form a full opinion on it but, to me, so far it sounds like more of the same from my favourite band of fashiony Scots. Not that that’s a bad thing though - Franz Ferdinand has been quite honest about the fact that their original mission statement was to make music for pretty girls to dance to.
At that, I believe they’re continuing to succeed.
Lucid Dreams
I was going to embed the gorgeously animated video for Eleanor Put Your Boots On but Domino Records has disabled embedding on youtube, so instead, enjoy my two favourite Franz Ferdinand songs of all time, the b-side to The Fallen single and The Fallen done acoustic, which may be better than a music video anyhow.
L. Wells
The Fallen (Acoustic)
I love Franz Ferdinand.
For a long time I didn’t. When the admitedly catchy stomp of Take Me Out oversaturated everyone’s ears, radio and television commercials circa 2004, I figured they were a throwaway pop-rock band trying too hard to be hip, just like the Killers only from across the pond. But then I made friends with a boy named Jon who was quite the Franz aficionado and the more I chilled with him, the more he spun their records and the more I caught the lyrical prowess of Alex Kapranos - Seductive, sophisticated, tongue in cheek and quite intellectual, I took an immediate shine and bought both their albums right after You Could Have It So Much Better was released.
Then Alex Kapranos wrote a book about food and I bought that too.
I downloaded b-sides, live tracks, cover songs, for I told you, dear reader, I love Franz Ferdinand.
I have a tee shirt and everything.
I happen to think they are the most stylish band in modern rock and that the world would be a better place if more guys dressed like Alex Kapranos. Sure, at their core, Franz Ferdinand is a pop band but I think they make the most flawlessly danceable, lyrically developed, good-mood, sexy pop music around. And that type of awesome transcends genres.
But enough about me. What about Franz? If you’re like me, which you’re probably not, you have probably spent the vast majority of the past year muttering to yourself, whenever a Franz Ferdinand song came up on your iPod shuffle, ‘Geez, Alex Kapranos, stop making out with that precious Eleanor Freidberg, not that I blame you, and release another album already!’
But Monday, he managed to tear himself away from the female half of the Fiery Furnaces just long enough to give us our first taste of that album, due out in January. Lucid Dreams, the first single, is already starting to burn up select areas of the internet. It’s a bit too early to form a full opinion on it but, to me, so far it sounds like more of the same from my favourite band of fashiony Scots. Not that that’s a bad thing though - Franz Ferdinand has been quite honest about the fact that their original mission statement was to make music for pretty girls to dance to.
At that, I believe they’re continuing to succeed.
Lucid Dreams
I was going to embed the gorgeously animated video for Eleanor Put Your Boots On but Domino Records has disabled embedding on youtube, so instead, enjoy my two favourite Franz Ferdinand songs of all time, the b-side to The Fallen single and The Fallen done acoustic, which may be better than a music video anyhow.
L. Wells
The Fallen (Acoustic)
