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I wish they would come to America most of these bands from the UK just tour the UK and Europe and Australia .
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Originally Posted by swim
America does folk, hardcore and mathrock better and that's 90% of what I give 2 shits on.
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sweet nothing openly flaunts the fact that he is merely the empty shell of an even more unadmirable member. his loneliness and need for attention bleeds through every letter he types. edit: i would just like to add that i'm ashamed that he's from texas. surely you didn't grow up in texas, did you sweet nothing?
So I got the new album yesterday and sounds like much of what they been doing in the past with some dabs of electronia. The album is pretty stale for me I cant pick out a fav track. I might give it another listen though.
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Originally Posted by swim
America does folk, hardcore and mathrock better and that's 90% of what I give 2 shits on.
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Originally Posted by chartsengrafs
sweet nothing openly flaunts the fact that he is merely the empty shell of an even more unadmirable member. his loneliness and need for attention bleeds through every letter he types. edit: i would just like to add that i'm ashamed that he's from texas. surely you didn't grow up in texas, did you sweet nothing?
Well, like I said in the album thread, I don't think it's as good as their previous albums, but it's still very good and fun to listen to. I like all the songs except for the last two. It goes to their credit that they've managed to keep my attention for 3 albums, unlike their contemporaries The killers and Bloc Party. And The Rakes...:\
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“Think of what a paradise this world would be if men were kind and wise.” - Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle.
Well, like I said in the album thread, I don't think it's as good as their previous albums, but it's still very good and fun to listen to. I like all the songs except for the last two. It goes to their credit that they've managed to keep my attention for 3 albums, unlike their contemporaries The killers and Bloc Party. And The Rakes...:\
word. though personally i don't like it particularly less than "you could have so much more". though where "YCHSMM" shone, it really did.
I've always been willing to forgive Franz Ferdinand for their generic unoriginal dance-rock because they are:
a) first and foremost a pop group by their own admission
b) at least tried to be cool by appearing on the Fall documentary and generally bigging up brilliant Scottish post-punk of the 80's, so they listen to good music at least
c) last week's appearance on 'the Culture Show', which went in-depth into the making of their last album. It sounds horrible (jumping on the electro-revival bandwagon much?) but they seem like a nice intelligent bunch. Plus none of them are ugly
I've always been willing to forgive Franz Ferdinand for their generic unoriginal dance-rock because they are:
a) first and foremost a pop group by their own admission
b) at least tried to be cool by appearing on the Fall documentary and generally bigging up brilliant Scottish post-punk of the 80's, so they listen to good music at least
c) last week's appearance on 'the Culture Show', which went in-depth into the making of their last album. It sounds horrible (jumping on the electro-revival bandwagon much?) but they seem like a nice intelligent bunch. Plus none of them are ugly
Generic? Pfft. In the present market, Franz stand apart from most the other dance-rock trash. They don't sound especially like any other cluster of bands around at the moment, and they have the advantage of actually being able to write *songs* (there's a novel idea). The point that Kapranov (or whatever his name is) actually has an ear for hooks and melody makes him a rare talent among those trying to make similar types of music these days. Add to that the point that they genuinely are doing it all in their own quite clearly distinctive way, and you have a band that breaks beyond the ranks of those who truly do earn adjectives like 'generic'.
meh, they just sound like an amalgam of the (much-exploited during the music press' 'post-punk revival') Gang of Four sound and Orange Juice/Fire Engines (Postcard Records bands in general) to me... although this isn't a bad thing as I said but they just seem like an inferior rehash of those bands, who also had an ear for tunes and hooks.
But you can't go around just disliking bands for sounding like other ones (that's the foundation of music 99% of the time right?) so I'll just say I find them personally a bit annoying. The synchronized stepping moves being one reason
I've never heard anything remotely as good, catchy or danceable by Gang of four, so I really don't understand the comparison. They had a beat too, that's about as far as that parallel goes.
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“Think of what a paradise this world would be if men were kind and wise.” - Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle.
I've never heard anything remotely as good, catchy or danceable by Gang of four, so I really don't understand the comparison. They had a beat too, that's about as far as that parallel goes.
it's all a matter of opinion i suppose, but i think GoF definitely had the proverbial funk, and without their pared-down politicized groove there wouldn't be an FF, i'm 100% positive that Alex Kapranos would tell you the same. I suppose I just find it easier to get behind what GoF stood for, FF do not make me think.
As for the pop angle, this is what I was saying I preferred (I am aware of the fact that guitar-pop goes in cycles because everything has already been done with the medium). All Scottish bands aswell
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