Music - Franz Ferdinand

Maresa · 05-15-2004, 03:11 PM

I'm not sure if there's a thread for them or not, since the Search option has been disabled. If there is, please, close this.

Does anybody else just love Franz Ferdinand?

No! Not the archduke whose murder sparked World War I! I'm talking about the band!

They're an independent Scottish group and they are absolutely wonderful. I randomly discovered them last Monday night, and within a week, became hooked, got their CD, and know most of the songs. Heh. What can I say?

Anyway, you may have heard some of their singles:

"The Dark of the Matinee"
"Take Me Out"
"Darts of Pleasure"

And their music videos are very cool. Quite strange, and unique, but really fun.

Yeah, so, um, yeah!

alli balli · 05-15-2004, 06:01 PM

I loooove Franz Ferdinand! I read about them in a magazine (EW, probably) and listened to some of their songs and then bought the CD about 2 weeks ago. It's so good.

What's awesome is you can kinda dance to their music too.

Maresa · 05-15-2004, 06:22 PM

I'm not big on dancing, but I want to get up and just dance insanely to "Michael" - I LOVE that song, for some warped reason. HeHe.

But I think my favourite is still "Dark of the Matinee" with "All For You, Sophia" and "Love and Destroy" right behind...

Oh, and it MAY just be me, but on "Tell Her Tonight," do you get a sort of Beatles meets Culture Club vibe?

No?

Eh.

MsTabascoCake · 05-16-2004, 08:45 AM

I, too bought their CD about two weeks ago and am insanely in love with them! I found them at nme.com's video page (the best place to find fantastic new bands IMO) and INSTANTLY gushed, "this is the funnest thing I've heard in a while."

They're gonna be huge. Especially when the inevitable VW/ iPod commercial abuses their greatness, but as long as that propells them into the limelight they deserve, I'm all for it. Damn, I desperately want to see them live.

DobblersGirl · 05-16-2004, 03:32 PM

I finally broke down and bought their album a couple of days ago. Hasn't left my cd player yet and probably won't for awhile. I was pretty sure that would be the case and that's why I've held off on making the purchase. I hate getting so stuck on one band.

They would be a lot of fun live. Unfortunately they're not coming anywhere near me any time soon...oh well.

Silversun · 05-16-2004, 09:22 PM

I've only heard Take me Out, but it's amazingly addictive!

MsTabascoCake · 05-17-2004, 08:03 AM

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Originally posted by Silversun
I've only heard Take me Out, but it's amazingly addictive!

amazingly addictive.

They had the cutest article on them in Rolling Stone a while back where Alex discusses his definition of pop-music and how toddlers dig Franz too.

Bah! I found it!

Quote:

RollingStone.com

Making girls dance

Franz Ferdinand Go Pop

Scottish band hope to bring music to masses

With their distinctive brand of joyously sleazy art pop, the Glasgow-based Franz Ferdinand are quickly becoming the U.K.'s most intriguing export. Songs like the multi-tiered single "Take Me Out" are laden with jagged guitars and toe-tapping disco rhythms, as well as sharp wordplay that is rich with romantic yearning and complex sexual politics.
Having just inked a major licensing deal -- said to be worth over $1 million -- that will see Epic Records teaming up with legendary U.K. indie Domino, Franz Ferdinand now have their sights set on the U.S. The band has already begun receiving rapturous responses in North America -- including a packed showcase at last week's South by Southwest music conference -- despite the fact that their debut has only just seen domestic release.

"The audiences in America have been fantastic," says the band's loquacious frontman Alex Kapranos, "very enthusiastic. The most amazing show was in Montreal. We were singing 'Jacqueline,' and the introduction is quite quiet but people were singing along. It was an amazing sensation, sent a tingle down my spine, hearing all these people singing along with this song I wrote a year and a half ago sitting in the front room of my flat in Glasgow."

Kapranos credits the band's rising popularity outside of its home country to the power of the Internet, which he views as a boon to music, as opposed to a profit-draining menace. "Downloading is a great way to find out about music," he says. "I'm not going to criticize somebody for loving music. People come up to me and say, 'I downloaded your album, and I can't wait to go out and buy it.'"

It makes sense that an Internet-based community would appeal to Franz Ferdinand, who adopted a populist stance from the start by articulating their mission as creating "music for girls to dance to." And while many American bands would recoil at the idea of being viewed as a pop band, Franz Ferdinand are not only proud of the label, they're determined to change people's minds about the meaning of the term. Their rapid rise at home -- both "Take Me Out" and Franz Ferdinand crashed onto the upper reaches of the U.K. charts -- served to validate the band's vision of itself as a pop group in the tradition of such leftfield acts as the Smiths and New Order, bringing adventurous ideas and challenging concepts to a mainstream audience through the undeniable power of catchy tunes.

"To me, pop music is music that moves you without engaging the brain," Kapranos explains, "and then allows you to engage the brain afterwards. You dance and you feel the passion, and then you can sort through the grander ideas which the music suggests.

"A friend of mine said that he'd been playing our album and his three-year-old daughter was dancing around the room, singing along, making up her own words, jumping around and stuff. To me, that is fantastic. That's the best indication that we've done something right. A three-year-old doesn't intellectualize music, doesn't hear it within any social contexts, and has no idea what's cool and what's not cool. All a three-year-old knows is 'This is fun to dance around to' and 'I like the tune.' That's what music should be -- that's the essence."

MICHAEL KRUGMAN
(March 25, 2004)

Maresa · 05-18-2004, 05:17 PM

HeHe. That's cute!

OKay, allow me go all fan girlish.

The bassist, Robert (Bob) is SO FRIGGIN ADORABLE! I want to KEEP him! He reminds me of a hobbit with the somewhat curly hairs on top of his precious little head!! *keeps him*

*ahem*

Hi!

MsTabascoCake · 05-20-2004, 12:41 PM

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Originally posted by Snape's Secret Sex Slave
HeHe. That's cute!

OKay, allow me go all fan girlish.

The bassist, Robert (Bob) is SO FRIGGIN ADORABLE! I want to KEEP him! He reminds me of a hobbit with the somewhat curly hairs on top of his precious little head!! *keeps him*

*ahem*

Hi!

Well then we need some pics then don't we!

Hobbity Robert:

Paul and Alex:

~*Astaldoantoiel*~ · 05-20-2004, 12:54 PM

god..bought the cd on a limb, i listened to samples, and then bought it, and can't stop listening to it. I just got my license, so, I needed driving music..and man..that's the best!

DobblersGirl · 05-20-2004, 05:24 PM

Hey Kim...

Definately good driving music. Still in my car CD player...going on a week without coming out yet. I'm telling you I'm completely obsessed. This is not a good thing.

hehe...Hobbit. He is a cutie.

~*Astaldoantoiel*~ · 05-20-2004, 06:02 PM

Hey Jen! haha

yeah, I mean..when it's 7am and I'm driving to school, and then having 'Take Me Out' come on..amazing. I think I like it, because it starts so differently from how it ends.

btw..my best friend's name is Jacqueline, she's 17, and she works behind a desk.

HAHA!

T O B Y · 05-22-2004, 10:07 PM

Absolutely awesome band and the cd hooked me even further in no time. I'm always finding myself singing their songs as well, very catchy and very well done, and it always puts me in a good mood. Awesome.

Maresa · 05-23-2004, 08:45 AM

I think that Nick looks like Rupert Everett.

Bang Bang
Gavrilo Princip
Bang Bang
Shoot me, Gavrilo
Bang Bang
The first six are for you
Bang Bang
The seventh is for me

Bang Bang
Gavrilo Princip
Bang Bang
Europe's gonna weep

All for you, all for you, all for you (Sophia)
All for you, all for you, all for you (Sophia)
All for you, all for you, all for you (Sophia)
All for you, all for you, all for you

Bang Bang
History's complete
Bang Bang
Shoot me, Gavrilo
Bang Bang
The first six are for you
Bang Bang
The seventh is for me

Bang Bang
Gavrilo Princip
Bang Bang
Shoot me, Gavrilo

All for you, all for you, all for you (Sophia)
All for you, all for you, all for you (Sophia)
All for you, all for you, all for you (Sophia)
All for you, all for you, all for you

The Black Hand holds the gun
The devil takes his run
< something I can't decipher >
It's June the twenty-eighth
The seventh one is for me

Bang Bang
Gavrilo Princip
Bang Bang
Shoot me, Gavrilo
Bang Bang
The first six are for you
Bang Bang
The seventh is for me

Bang Bang
History's complete
Bang Bang
Shoot me, Gavrilo

I love historical songs.

MsTabascoCake · 05-23-2004, 09:59 AM

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Originally posted by Snape's Secret Sex Slave

I love historical songs.

Well, I'm not going to pretend that I knew exactly what the song was about,

but I found this little blurb from songmeanings.net that explains it pretty darn well.

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Gavrilo Princip was one of the three men who were sent to assassinate Franz Ferdinand. Sophia was Franz Ferdinand's wife. The Black Hand was a secret society who wanted a union between Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia and plotted the conspiracy against Franz Ferdinand. Franz Urban was their driver. During the first drive upon their arrival in Sarajevo they took the Appel Quay, where they had the first assassination attempt was but then Urban sped up the car causing the rest of the conspirators to give up. Later in the day Ferdinand insisted on visiting those who were hurt by the first attempt they drove to the hospital where Urban took the wrong route, taking a right in Franz Joseph Street instead of taking the Appel Quay as planned, (he was misinformed) where Princip happened to be standing. Princip shot at Ferdinand and his wife Sophie several times both of them died after their arrival to the governor's residence.

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