Franz Ferdinand totally sucks...

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I Haven't Heard Them Yet.
But I Hear Nothing But Good Things.
And I Like The Strokes.
Don't Know Why So Many People Don't.
Wanna Go Have Some Sushi?
Come On.....No Really Come On.....
So You Don't Wanna Have Sushi With Me?.

― Dude (The Yellow Dart), Saturday, 24 January 2004 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)

As mentioned elsewhere, the lead guy is apparently a Sparks fanatic = I'm inclined to like these characters.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 24 January 2004 20:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I like them, looking forward to hearing the album. Big Talking Heads influence, which can't be a bad thing.

― Chris Jones (Crackity Jones), Saturday, 24 January 2004 21:29 (twenty-two years ago)

The club I was in last night played Take Me Out three times over the course of the evening. It's nice and that, but Christ.

― Ferrrrrrg (Ferg), Saturday, 24 January 2004 21:42 (twenty-two years ago)

If anything, I'd say they owe more to Interpol than the Strokes. They certainly seem to have more to say and more imaginative ways to say it than the Strokes do. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind the Strokes, but they don't seem to have much fun in the presentation of their art. By contrast, Franz Ferdinand certainly do.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 24 January 2004 21:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Big Talking Heads influence, which can't be a bad thing.

Just about *every* band who ever admits to/talks about a Talking Heads influence is better than the Talking Heads themselves, I've found. So this is quite a recommendation!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 24 January 2004 22:38 (twenty-two years ago)

morgan geist rmx sounds a bit meh, disappointingly

― prima fassy (bob), Saturday, 24 January 2004 23:44 (twenty-two years ago)

BOO TO YOU NED. I just bought a used LP of Fear of Music (along with Miss E: So Addictive and a Carmen McRae album where she covers Alice Cooper's "Only Women Bleed") and I will play it loudly in amiable yet rebellious defiance of your haterism.

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Sunday, 25 January 2004 00:14 (twenty-two years ago)

(a McRae album, I should add, that the AMG Jazz Snob Mafia doesn't appear to like.)

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Sunday, 25 January 2004 00:15 (twenty-two years ago)

haha she covers eric carmen's "all by myself" too!

― aleksandr supertramp (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 25 January 2004 00:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Am I the only one who's noticed that the singer sounds exactly like David Gedge?

― JoB (JoB), Sunday, 25 January 2004 00:52 (twenty-two years ago)

BOO TO YOU NED.

It's true! I only like a few singles by them -- mostly for nostalgia -- and I've never cared enough to listen any further. It's like they have all these reasonably good elements and put them together in a way that annoys.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 25 January 2004 01:38 (twenty-two years ago)

If you think they sound like The Strokes, then you need to get your shit together, sure maybe the first :30 of "Take Me Out" might sound a little bit, but The Strokes have never come up with anything half as tuneful as "Take Me Out." It's so much more a Josef K, Talking Heads, Blondie, Orange Juice, Fall thing.

fuck off,

Hector

― Hector Savage, Sunday, 25 January 2004 05:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Hector OTM.

I can't believe it's taken this long on this thread for anyone to mention Josef K. They also remind me in many ways of The Yummy Fur (not the aussie one), which is perhaps not surprising considering the groups share two members.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Sunday, 25 January 2004 19:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Hector OTM except Franz Ferdinand are still not all that. I get the impression that what they're trying to do is very good but their execution of it sadly isn't.

― The Lex (The Lex), Sunday, 25 January 2004 19:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I've only heard one song, but so far I like.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 25 January 2004 21:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought they sounded like Josef K on the first EP. And a tiny bit like Momus on Van Tango. Not so much on the new one, it's too tight and in tune.

― Ferrrrrrg (Ferg), Sunday, 25 January 2004 21:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I will listen to the album later and provide an important and gripping insight into what I think it sounds a bit like in places.

― Ferrrrrrg (Ferg), Sunday, 25 January 2004 21:23 (twenty-two years ago)

they used to be in the yummy fur ? but the yummy fur were quite good!

my friend's quote at w/e was "franz ferdinand ? more like les ferdinand".

not funny, but nor are they.

― fletcher dexter, Sunday, 25 January 2004 22:36 (twenty-two years ago)

i hear they're supposed to be much better live than on record. so far i've got the Darts of Pleasure EP and like it a bit, so if the above is true, i'll be quite happy if i get to see them. and they'll be here in March. so. :)

― janni (janni), Monday, 26 January 2004 04:32 (twenty-two years ago)

From a semi-attentive first listen, the single is the the best thing on the album by quite some distance.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 26 January 2004 11:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I randomly saw them at T in the Park last year on the wee bands stage and quite liked them in their angular pop music stompy disco german-ness. The ToTP performance was cool in its complete lack of polish; they did try to do moves together but didn't really pull it off. Best of all is their miniature gay Jim Carey/Kyle MacLachlan guitar player. Quite entertaining in a big headed sorta way.

Does anyone else find it really bizarre that they are in the top 5?

― hmmmm, Monday, 26 January 2004 12:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Franz Ferdinand - if The Strokes could play their instruments a bit better.

― Stupid (Stupid), Monday, 26 January 2004 13:25 (twenty-two years ago)

they would be a lot more boring

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 26 January 2004 13:26 (twenty-two years ago)

So, if supposedly The Strokes sound JUST like VU/Television, and Franz Ferdinand sounds EXACTLY like The Strokes, why did we cut out the middle man and say Franz Ferdinand sounds like VU/Television?

Oh right, because they don't.

― LiquidTide (LiquidTide), Monday, 26 January 2004 14:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't see the link between FF and the strokes, really (and I like both...maybe I AM the missing link then !?)
FF haven't released an album yet, have they ?

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Monday, 26 January 2004 14:48 (twenty-two years ago)

The Strokes would never sully themselves with anything as vulgar as a tempo change.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 26 January 2004 14:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Franz Ferdinand sound like Television.

There.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 26 January 2004 15:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Ummm....no they don't.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 26 January 2004 15:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Neither FF nor the strokes sound like television...they wish !

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Monday, 26 January 2004 15:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Franz Ferdinand sound like Cud or Thousand Yard Stare.

― Phoebe Dinsmore, Monday, 26 January 2004 15:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Well I like Cud, but TYS...that's a pretty cold insult.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 26 January 2004 16:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Still haven't heard FF. I hope they sound like Thousand Yard Stare. TYS were extremely underrated. You've obviously never heard Comeuppance.

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 26 January 2004 22:08 (twenty-two years ago)

TYS had at least two great songs

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 26 January 2004 22:29 (twenty-two years ago)

0-0 After Extra Time, Wideshire....

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 26 January 2004 22:29 (twenty-two years ago)

"So, if supposedly The Strokes sound JUST like VU/Television, and Franz Ferdinand sounds EXACTLY like The Strokes, why did we cut out the middle man and say Franz Ferdinand sounds like VU/Television?
Oh right, because they don't.

-- LiquidTide"

Nobody is saying anyone sounds EXACTLY like anyone else.

― Stupid (Stupid), Monday, 26 January 2004 22:36 (twenty-two years ago)

i disagree with Tico's view on tempo changes naturally - 'Batdance', 'Bo Rap' and er, 'I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do For That)' all cases in point

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 26 January 2004 22:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Stupid, read the first line of this thread. as well as all of the old Strokes threads. I finally got a copy of this album today. I actually wouldn't compare them to the Strokes at all. Except for the fact that you, you know, guitars, bands, cute boys, 4/4 time.

― LiquidTide (LiquidTide), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 00:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Okay. Fine. I'M not saying that. I'M saying they sound remarkably similar, and are extremely dull in EXACTLY the same way that The Strokes are.

I hate it when people claim band a doesn't sound like band b simply because everyone else is saying they do. Sometimes, everybody says something because it's so fucking obvious...

― Stupid (Stupid), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 01:23 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.coldbacon.com/pics/zombies.jpg

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 01:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I dunno if it sounds like the Strokes, who I've pretty well managed to avoid, but it sure sucks ass.

― Enrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 10:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Thousand Yard Stare were awful.

― flowersdie (flowersdie), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 11:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I guess i'm just not used to ILMers so openly deluding themselves.

and how long have you been posting here? it's practically all that happens here.

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 13:24 (twenty-two years ago)

oh we're not so bad

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 13:30 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm probably including myself in this, too, btw

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 13:31 (twenty-two years ago)

FF = a little = Television.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 13:32 (twenty-two years ago)

They're boring, I'm amazed that many people are clamouring for okish indie rock

― Silly Sailor (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 13:32 (twenty-two years ago)

that that that

― Silly Sailor (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 13:33 (twenty-two years ago)

surely they are the first band ever band to have been influenced by the monochrome set that hasn't actually included members of the monochrome set? this cannot be all bad. also really i must say they sound nothing like any band mentioned on this thread with the exception of josef k.

― cw (cww), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 17:42 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...


From:  	  Katie
Date: 	Mar 11, 2004 08:49 PM
Subject: 	Franz Ferdinand!! (soo rockin!)
Body: 	Ok, so my good friend turned me onto this new band Franz Ferdinand. And may I say... freakin' AWESOME!! It has been so long since I heard songs sooo good and sooo rockin' that I have to blast it and actually jump around and dance and shake my booty! Seriously, this band rocks, and I mean that cool old fashioned funk edgey raw type of rock, with the catchiest hooks, but pure music all the way thru. An album that will make your head bop and foot tap involuntarily, for sure. Everyone should run out and buy it NOW!! You will NOT be dissappointed!

OMG ROCKIN' SHUT UP AND DIE

― LITTLE LAMB [Jon Williams] (ex machina), Saturday, 13 March 2004 20:42 (twenty-two years ago)

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why do they sound like a bunch of dumbshit high school indie fux?

DEAR DISCHORD RECORDS, DO NOT SEND ANY MORE RECORDS TO ENGLAND

― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Sunday, 24 October 2004 21:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, they sound so much like Shudder to Think. I wonder if you've listened to the record. There isn't a bad song on it.

― kaiser wilhelm, Sunday, 24 October 2004 22:12 (twenty-one years ago)

jon, why do FF bother you so much? are they really that ubiquitous on college campuses these days?

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Sunday, 24 October 2004 22:35 (twenty-one years ago)

(also, they are good, but i don't expect that to convince you)

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Sunday, 24 October 2004 22:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I have Deep House Party Volume 3!!!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Sunday, 24 October 2004 23:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I see 2 or 3 FF shirts at every dumb party.

Also, they are better than Nickelback.

― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Sunday, 24 October 2004 23:22 (twenty-one years ago)

is it good spencer!!!@

― \(^o^)/ (Adrian Langston), Sunday, 24 October 2004 23:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I like the majority of the songs on their self-titled, but I can't agree that it's as consistant as either of the Strokes releases.

― billstevejim, Monday, 25 October 2004 03:32 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

So this week the overrated Franz Ferdinand are being advertised on TalkSport radio.

The Scottish person doing the narrative marketing speak sounds like Edwyn Collins.

Can anyone confirm that it is Edwyn Collins !

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 11 November 2004 17:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, Edwyn Collins did the voiceover for a BBC SCotland Franz docu that was on last week, so it might just be him.

― stew, Thursday, 11 November 2004 17:22 (twenty-one years ago)

ten months pass...

franz ferdinand are to funky for this site.

Well do ya do ya do ya wanna, wanna go... where i've never let you before?

― jimmy jims, Saturday, 1 October 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

No.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Saturday, 1 October 2005 20:20 (twenty years ago)

they are letting out some of their yummy fur.

― keyth (keyth), Saturday, 1 October 2005 23:44 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

yes, they DO suck.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 5 December 2005 10:25 (twenty years ago)

Franz who ?

― snowballing (snowballing), Monday, 5 December 2005 10:31 (twenty years ago)

you know, the archduke.

― mies van der rohffle (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 5 December 2005 10:59 (twenty years ago)

for a minute there, i thought that it was franz ferdinand fanon ...

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 5 December 2005 11:09 (twenty years ago)

best bump in a while

― blunt (blunt), Monday, 5 December 2005 12:10 (twenty years ago)

What do they look like?

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Monday, 5 December 2005 12:11 (twenty years ago)

The second album really hasn't happened for them, has it?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 5 December 2005 12:42 (twenty years ago)

Well, in the way shit happens...

― Hat (Hat), Monday, 5 December 2005 13:42 (twenty years ago)

4 nights at alexandra palace is a strange definition of career crisis

― cw (cww), Monday, 5 December 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

p.s. which one of them was in the yummy fur? they were loads of fun.

― cw (cww), Monday, 5 December 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

Franz Ferdinand are great when they do indeed not sound like The Strokes, like on "Eleanor Put Your Boots On".

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 5 December 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

Geir Hongro relentlessly OTM on this thread.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 5 December 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

thirteen years pass...

today i learned that ferdinand zvonimir maria balthus keith michael otto antal bahnam leonhard von habsburg-lothringen instagrammed his solo caravanning holiday in margate: https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/17962143535263359/

― mark s, Wednesday, 3 July 2019 15:46 (six years ago)

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