When I saw them in concert, four towers bearing each of these pictures were unveiled as they played the first chords of "Take Me Out." My heart has never recovered.
Today is the happiest day. Why? A simple reason: the new Franz Ferdinand album is currently dropping on my ears, and will continue every time I have a spare moment. True story: I’m going to buy and devour every Franz record until they stop making them or I die, whichever comes first—though, in an ideal world, that would be the same calendar day in history, for one surely leads to the other!
Franz Ferdinand is the one and only band that I love, with fever and circumstance. If they had an existential newsletter, I bet I would be treasurer!
Reasons to Love Franz Ferdinand
[a compelling bullet point list!]
1. They are the frontrunners of ego pop—a bizarre hybrid of post-war German aesthetic, postmodern pouting and sixties-centric musical landing strips. If the music of Franz Ferdinand were to walk into a room, it would be wearing a fabulous red sequin suit and have a beautiful woman on each arm. And have a corncob pipe filled with bubblegum sex hunger!
2. They are from Glasgow—the third dirtiest city in Europe! It's not literally dirty--well, it is that too, but it's more so a spiritual uncleanliness, like clothing left on a stranger's bedroom floor overnight. Glasgow, though dirtier, seedier and generally sketchier than its Edinburgh sibling, is the better of the two! You can trust a man from Glasgow…but mostly, just to be be sketchy and awesome and oddly sexy (see: Kapranos, Alex).
3. They, too, are fascinated by boys and girls. JUST LIKE YOU AND ME!
4. When asked about perfectly normal things like where their name comes from, they say things like this:
"[Archduke Franz Ferdinand] was an incredible figure as well," continues Alex. "His life, or at least the ending of it, was the catalyst for the complete transformation of the world ... he was a pivot for history. But I don't want to over-intellectualize the name thing. Basically a name should just sound good ... like music."
6. They are secretly brilliant lyricists—akin to coolest kid, sitting in the back of class, who was studying all along and gets the best grade on the test (but of course, this a faulty analogy: in actual fact, they are too cool for school).
8. Their hearts still remember the exquisite heartbreak of playground love.
9. Who else would make a music video detailing their efforts to enact a GLOBAL SEX MANIA?
10.Why did they want to make music? To "make girls dance or something."
11. They are time travelers from the ultra mod future, here to aid our funk-fusions for years to come. They want only to cushion our timid steps into the musical revolution! I think they were sent back to make me happy, and help me in my Bad News Quest---omg, does that make me like, the John Connor of the ultra-mod futurescape?
Basically, I am sucked into their groovatational pull. They are the soundtrack to three-cigarette nights in the lives of hip, hopeless young things.
Here’s the first single off their glorious third album, Tonight: “Ulysses.” At the :40, I think my lungs stopped breathing for a good ten seconds.
I just want to live in the world Franz Ferdinand sings about. That is all.
No comments:
Post a Comment