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this is a place to talk about evrything franz!!!


(i tried to look for a thread but i couldnt find one so if there is one im sorry)

possibly the most annoying 'indie' band ever.... being their bassist and drummer has to be the easiest job ever aswell. since all their beats are the same, and theyre all simple

i'm bored already yawn sleeping

I love Franz Ferdinand. They have one of the greatest albums out this year, (along with The Libertines, Keane, The Killers, The streets and Snow patrol) Without them 2004 would have pretty much sucked! And everyone knows it! They definitly deserved the mecury award.

on the contrary....2004 got along fine (indie-wise) without Franz. The Eighties Matchbox B-line Disaster (loose indie i admit) - Royal Society, Bloc Party's EP, and like you said The Libertines and The Killers - Hot Fuss, Interpol - Antics, think Eastern Lane released a Cd or 2 this year aswell

i wouldnt even put Franz Ferdinand in the top 5 Indie Releases of this year....then again i wouldnt put them anywhere near the top. at all.

The Strokes, The Hives, Franz Ferdinand...they're all the same band with the same chugchugchug crackly guitar riffs, just different nationalities and a singer that is annoying in a different way.

their music interested me for about 2 songs. then i realised that they were basically the same. so i gave them the flick

Well i think their fun and get you in the mood to go out and have a laugh. They are really good musicians with a lot of talent.

good musicians? u ever actually stopped and listened to the bass lines on their songs....i mean song....i mean, u ever stopped and listened to the 1 bass line they have on their album?

then again, ever listen to Hatebreeds bassline (i like hatebreed dont get me wrong)? i looked it up at taborama.com to learn some of their bass and its all done on the tops string. you could safely cut the bottom two strings off and still have a barely used third one

See you dont have to make something different to make it sound good.

hatebreed do make up for their bassline in many ways, unfortunatly Franz Ferdinand dont, sorry to raise your hopes that i was going to stick up for them i was just using an example

I dont need anyone to stick up for me. I believe that Franz is a good band and you dont fair enough. But i feel like your missing out. If you just sit back and go with it, or even have fun listening to the songs (probably the best) you might like them, i mean they even admitted that the songs are generally just to make people dance.

nah, i've heard their music plenty, i've formed my opinion on this band and that opinion is that their sensationalised and will fade away quicker than you can say milli vanilli

I seriously doubt they will. I think they will make it through all the shit that people say. Its all just opinion and i think that more people like them then dislike them, considering they have won all them awards which fans will of had to vote for.

I actually quite like them,but I have to agree with some people on here that there sound is 2 repetitive,so unless they change there sound for there next album I cant see them lasting either.

they wont last out the year, theyll release an appauling new album and then slowly fade away


i think, and hope, thatll happen neway
either that or theyll get a new bassist

i hate Franz Ferdinand i find them an embarrasment to our country.

I liked them... Then I heard that stupid "Take Me Out" song played several quintillion times on the radio.

i still like them

i dont think having fan based awards now matters, next year when the radio pumps the shit out of the next "big thing" all these "fans" they have now will jump shit quicker than you can say "washed up"

If you don't like a band stop listening to them and stop talking about them. I don't like seafood but you don't see me going to a seafood resteraunt and telling everyone that there eating shit. to each their own.
This band is alright and at least its alot better than most of the shit being played on the radio.

i love franz ferdinand!! they rock. i like take me out and this fire. those r my 2 fav franz songs

I quite like Franz Ferdinand, but I try and only listen to a song of theirs every once in a blue moon.

Take Me Out is still a fantastic song. I hadn't heard it in a while, and the video (which is brilliant btw) came on MTV2 and I thought "Not listening to this song was great!".

Catchy, immediate songs like Franz Ferdinand's are along the same wavelength as some other bands like Green Day. Their songs are immediate, pop-like and catchy. They also, as a side effect, become "old" very quickly if you listen to them too much. They key to enjoying these bands is playing them sparingly.

Thats why I still enjoy Green Day and Franz Ferdinand.

i know one song. and i really like it
it's auf achse.

and io have no idea about the band

wolfdog, think of this as a seafood discusion area, you know, where people come to discus sea food, where both positive and negative responces are made

Ive actually heard a few of there new songs and they were really good. You shouldnt spout a whole load of shit before you get the facts right first.

kinda like their first album really....a few ok songs and a load of tripe...i stand by what i said

You have never heard their new album, god your just as bad as the media!

and you'd know that how? haha....
i have heard the album, and i dont like it...live with it ffs, theyre a fad band, theyll never live past a year or possibly 2 if theyre lucky....they just dont have the potential for variation, their songs get boring after a few listens like some1 else mentioned on here.

their songs all sound similar, have no variation in bassline and very little in the drum patterns. even the guitar throughout the album seems to stick around a base theme and style.... they get boring soo quickly its unbeleiveable. the lyrics are hardly decent either
they jumped onto the Indie explosion with easily accessible 'dancing music' so it caught on in clubs and on mtv etc...then when ppl start to get bored, which they inevitably will because the songs are soo similar, theyll fade away!

Well seeing as its been a year and loads of peopel pretty much worship them i think theyll last more than a year. And i didnt mean the self titled album by Franz, i mean the new one, with all the new songs on.

it was a guesstimation judging by the previous album, and my judge on the potential of the band.... ie none

actually, they've faded away quite badly recently thankfully...so hope it continues this way

They havent faded, they are working on the new album, thats what happens when bands record new songs! Besides in Q 'take me out' has been announced the song of the year. Their album was at number three, for best album of the year, and more bans chose Franz ferdinand as the best artists of the year.

oh wow, Q...omg, my opinions completely changed
tbh, any magazine that doesnt list The Eighties Matchbox B-line Disaster as band of the year doesnt deserve mentioning

they may be band of this year, but i bet you now that they'll have faded away to almost nothing by half way through next year

I seriously doubt that.
Can i ask you question, does franz ferdinand been around really effect your life? Like really seriously change it?

no it doesnt really... but i am allowed to comment on music i do or dont like you know, otherwise a forum would be pretty useless

I know but the way your going on your acting as if they have seriously damaged you in some wierd perverted way.

not particularly, i just hate the way theyve been sensationalised as best indie act of the year when tbh theres hundreds that deserve a bigger mention... i get equally attacking when ppl mention the Libertines because they get listed in NME as coolest ppl of the year.... well excuse me but i fail to see how being a complete smack-head heroin addict who steals off his friends is cool.

Neither the Libertines or Franz Ferdinand deserve a spot anywhere near the top of this years best Indie releases....The Libertines make good music, ill agree with that, not the best but good im more annoyed that theyre suddenly considered the coolest thing since slice bread when the fact is theyre a bunch of junkies.

neway off to work sadly i make vinyl's for The Libertines and Franz Ferdinand

Ok are you just trying to piss me off! The Libertines is my fave band ever! Only Pete is a smack head. And like you said they make good music, dont focus on their ****ing personal life. Its supposed to be about the ****ing music you stupid ****ing idiot!

no, see i was talking about the NME cool list...see NME thinks being a smack head is cool

No they dont, if you read the ****ing thing you would see they said, 'despite that he's a smackhead.' Did you even read it? Cos if you did you would see that.

there should be no 'despite' in that situation, no1 who's wanked out their nut on heroin is cool, ever...plain and simple. not only because its retarded but because he's in a hugely successful band which not only in itself is a bad influence, but for NME to suddenly list him as the coolest guy in 2004...wtf sorta message is that sending out?

also, he isnt the coolest guy in 2004 neway, regardless of heroin addiction. hes in rehab. how cool is that.... but not only that he abandons his band to make a new practically identical band called Babyshambles (yea i know its a mutual agreement...but there wouldnt have to be this agreement if he wasnt a ****). what a legend!....he steals off his mates. id love a friend like him.... and all in all ive not seen him do or say nething particularly cool or worthy of note... The Libertines are cool, no doubt about that...Pete however, is a tosser

other than that, the NME list was actually quite good if they'd have just put "The Libertines" at the top id have been content, not happy cos it wouldnt have been my choice neway ... but i wouldnt be soo annoyed about it.
yea but the NME list had a load of ppl i would agree with.... the frontman for Bloc Party, the guitarist for Interpol etc... always gonna be a few you dont agree with in a commercial magazine list tho

I like Franz Ferdinand

Can i just say he didnt abandon his band, he was thrown out of the band, his best mate carl forgave him for nicking stuff of him, so why dont you stop spouting a whole load of shit that you dont understand, your not a fan of him fair enough, but i am so pealse stop going on about them as if they were nothing, cos they are something to me.
Lets just talk about the band we are supposed to talk about. And slashwristbarbi, i like Franz aswell.

oh, thrown out of the band...my mistake, thats much better lol
and regardless of whether he's forgiven or not, he still stole off his sposed best mate to pay for heroin haha...
and as for the not understanding bit...ive seen people coming down off heroin and struggling to give it up, and it aint pretty. and nowhere near cool

i dont think it matters whether the guy who forgave him, its that he was portrayed in a positive light while being a junkie theif. sure, kobain was a junkie, but he wasn't stealing shit off his friends while he was doing it. theirs my piece

thats my point, to stick a heroin addict theif at the top of the years coolest people list is like trying to say the shit he does is acceptable, when its clearly not...sure he makes good music, but i would never consider him a decent rolemodel or 'cool' person

and before someone says "they didn't say he was cool because he was a junkie, they said he was cool because he was in a band," they still said he was cool and didn't have anything saying that his actions arn't what made him cool, but his music.

they did say 'despite that hes a smackhead' but thats really not an excuse, especially since they had the other guy from the band in joint top... which suggests that his heroin addiction had absolutely no sway on how cool he is. when it quite clearly should lol
and anyway, a 'years coolest people' list would obviously be about individuals not the music, otherwise itd be coolest bands

Kele Okereke from Bloc Party and Carlos D from Interpol shoulda been joint top neway pffffft haha

"So tell me
Where does all the money go, where does all the money go
Straight, straight up her nose

And I never really liked it any way
So much preferred it the other way, yeah

What a divvy, what a ****ing div
Talking like a moron, walking like a spiv" - Libertines, What a waster

irony anyone?

Im confused - is this thread about the Libertines or Franz Ferdinand?

Yeah exactly. We are supposed to talk about Franz. But to those people who hate Pete, he was in a band that were cool, he takes drugs and was in NME's cool list, GET THE **** OVER IT! This sort of thing effects the fans only not people like you who think their all high and mighty to talk about things they really in honest fact couldnt really give a shit about except to put their nose into something were no one really wants them.

Oh and by the way, most Libertines songs are about Pete and Carl, listen to most of their lyrics, of cos what a waster is about Pete and his personal life. Carl and he did write it. Duh!

i posted in this thread last year

really can't be bothered to talk in it more

I am loving this disc- esp "Jacqueline"

I like the song 'Matinee'

My fave is Take me out, but other songs on the album are totally mint.

Franz were the editor for this weeks NME. Its really good you should check it out.