Not quite as ferocious as Swell Maps, of course.
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 22:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― xhuxk, Tuesday, 11 October 2005 22:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 23:14 (eighteen years ago) link
not quite good as Swell Maps, I should add :)
― Marco Damiani (Marco D.), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 07:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― bham, Wednesday, 12 October 2005 08:00 (eighteen years ago) link
Maybe if you're talking about overall aesthetic vision. But as far as songcraftmanship and playing abilities go, they ARE as good.
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 14:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marco Damiani (Marco D.), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 15:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― If You Don't Love the Preachers Fuck You (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 22 March 2009 10:12 (fifteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIR5vBiC3ig
awesomely NSFW
― Cap'n Save-a-Co. (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 14 September 2013 14:21 (ten years ago) link
looks who's backhttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/DAMSo-UUQAAWNFr.jpg:large
― PaulTMA, Friday, 19 May 2017 13:44 (six years ago) link
paul thomson on the verge of going full pauline mccafferty there
― Drive Your Lover Wild In Bed By Cosplaying As Jeff Lynne (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 19 May 2017 17:03 (six years ago) link
didn't realize their line-up had changed - guitarist left and they got a new guitarist, they also added a keyboard player - and was very confused by that picture
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Friday, 19 May 2017 17:08 (six years ago) link
think paul is getting a bit too close to tim burgess hair there tbh
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Friday, 19 May 2017 17:11 (six years ago) link
Kapranos looks like Dave Mustaine. That is one weird photo.
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 19 May 2017 17:26 (six years ago) link
Now way am I buying that Kapranos is only 27 years old
― PaulTMA, Friday, 19 May 2017 18:06 (six years ago) link
Born: March 20, 1972 (age 45)
― kurt schwitterz, Friday, 19 May 2017 19:20 (six years ago) link
the joke is that when they were emerging in 2004 his age was - i suppose intentionally and possibly out of vanity - given as 27 when he was in fact in his early 30s at the time.
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Friday, 19 May 2017 19:24 (six years ago) link
internet win of 2017.
― stirmonster, Saturday, 20 May 2017 03:22 (six years ago) link
they're playing northampton (ma) in two weeks and i really want to go
― maura, Sunday, 21 May 2017 09:56 (six years ago) link
lol uh is their new guitarist my buddy donald?? he did not tell me about this development
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 21 May 2017 10:11 (six years ago) link
Reminds me of that photo shoot Suede did in a public toilet in 1995
― PaulTMA, Sunday, 21 May 2017 12:50 (six years ago) link
New track:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcFWjCYwBW4
Pretty fun! The B-side is getting WAY more plays on Spotify though.
― DJI, Thursday, 27 January 2022 18:09 (two years ago) link
Good track! Video reminiscent of low budget OK Go.
― theo, Thursday, 27 January 2022 18:15 (two years ago) link
New episode of Song Exploder is about Take Me Out
https://songexploder.net/
― piscesx, Friday, 28 January 2022 05:05 (two years ago) link
We've reached the "Best Of Album" phase of Franz Ferdinand's career today...
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 11 March 2022 17:52 (two years ago) link
I liked their first and third albums a lot; will listen to the best-of to see what I missed otherwise.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 11 March 2022 17:59 (two years ago) link
Still love that debut, and I remember loving at least half of the second one quite a bit. (Sadly the best song on it, "Eleanor Put Your Boots On," doesn't appear to be on the compilation. It sounds like a great, lost Ray Davies/Kinks track from the late '60s.)
― birdistheword, Friday, 11 March 2022 19:28 (two years ago) link
i played the FF vs Mclaren bootleg last weekend at local DJ thing, and yeah, it still hits the spot.
― mark e, Friday, 11 March 2022 21:04 (two years ago) link
xp I didn't realize it was re-recorded later on for its single release.
Don't like it, prefer the original album version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eZAtgIqeY8
― birdistheword, Sunday, 13 March 2022 18:13 (two years ago) link
debut ruled then, rules now, fyiyd
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Wednesday, 23 November 2022 20:32 (one year ago) link
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