I like the advancement in chops, sound quality, and songwriting quality that a band like FF represents for their genre. That's ALWAYS been a big Achilles heel for indie rock (generally speaking).
-- Tim Ellison (timejeanne...), October 13th, 2004.
I just listened to "The Dark of the Matinee." I absolutely DO NOT understand someone not hearing that as genuinely EXCELLENT two guitars/bass counterpoint in the context of an excellently written song. (In which the band members, btw--apart from what they're doing on their instruments--involve themselves in a whole vocal arrangement.)
Franz Ferdinand are EXCELLENT.
-- Tim Ellison (timejeanne...), October 14th, 2004.
"The Dark of the Matinee" = "The Proof in the Pudding"
-- Tim Ellison (timejeanne...), October 14th, 2004.
Franz Ferdinand's songwriting has some genuine (and somewhat sophisticated, compositionally speaking) pop dynamics at work. Considerably more than I hear in Interpol and the Strokes (when I hear those bands on the radio or in a record store on see them on TV, anyway--I don't know the albums much).
-- Tim Ellison (timejeanne...), October 14th, 2004.
Thursday, October 14, 2004
Conspicuous in its absence from my last post: the Franz Ferdinand album. That's because I hadn't listened to it in a while. Actually, I had not yet given it a real close listen. I just did, and yes, it's got to be on that list somewhere.
I actually think that this band, irregardless of their success, is getting some real short shrift. I am AMAZED at the level of disdain that people hold for this band. Why in the world is this happening? Are Franz Ferdinand perceived as being inauthentic somehow? Does their goofiness rub people the wrong way somehow? I don't understand it.
There are eleven tracks on the album and I see only one of them, "This Fire," as being mediocre. (Actually, I'm not super blown away by "Michael" as a composition either, but it works because it's such a hilarious spaz-out.) I like a group like the Hives OK when they come on the radio, but really, do not Franz Ferdinand have something like five times the amount of musicality or compositional depth of the Hives? (I don't know for certain; I haven't heard the Hives' albums.)
No one's really commented on what an excellent two guitar band they are, either (or the fact that the drummer is really good). I haven't seen anyone comment on how much energy there is in some of these songs.
posted by tim # 11:50 PM
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