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More juvenile fun from last year's best breakout rock act.
Franz Ferdinand: 1st video from upcoming 2nd album
Franz Ferdinand: 1st video from upcoming 2nd album
"When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war." – Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Neither slave nor tyrant." - Basque motto
"Neither slave nor tyrant." - Basque motto
I think the Strokes' second had some good tunes, mainly the ones they played on Conan (I think they played one song a day for an entire week). Put those on the first, that debut would've been truly great.
"When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war." – Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Neither slave nor tyrant." - Basque motto
"Neither slave nor tyrant." - Basque motto
Aw man, where's the love for "What Ever Happened?", "Reptilia," "12:51," "The End Has No End," and "Between Love & Hate"? For a month, that was a nice sequence to commute to work to, at least that's what I thought.
"When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war." – Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Neither slave nor tyrant." - Basque motto
"Neither slave nor tyrant." - Basque motto
Was it leaked?
I wouldn't be surprised if it was bad. I didn't think the second one was bad, but you have to admit, it's still pretty damn derivative, steals a lot from the Cars, and for a 35 minute album that took two years to write/make/release, that ain't good.
I wouldn't be surprised if it was bad. I didn't think the second one was bad, but you have to admit, it's still pretty damn derivative, steals a lot from the Cars, and for a 35 minute album that took two years to write/make/release, that ain't good.
"When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war." – Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Neither slave nor tyrant." - Basque motto
"Neither slave nor tyrant." - Basque motto
SERIOUSLY heavy on the grand theft - auto, if you catch my drift. 12:51's bridge sounds so much like the Cars, right down to the freaking hand claps, they should have been ashamed.
I don't get why, beyond guitars with counter-rhythmic interaction, they were ever compared to Television. Did any of those people listen to Marquee Moon and seriously think the Strokes sounded like that?
And I don't know if Strokes 3rd has been leaked; I've been out of the D/L loop since Napster (orig) took a dive.
I don't get why, beyond guitars with counter-rhythmic interaction, they were ever compared to Television. Did any of those people listen to Marquee Moon and seriously think the Strokes sounded like that?
And I don't know if Strokes 3rd has been leaked; I've been out of the D/L loop since Napster (orig) took a dive.
Yeah, just listen to the opening of "Last Night" on the debut. A guy sitting next to me at work was listening to it on headphones, and he turns to me and say, "Where have I heard this before?" He plays the opening bit.
By sheer luck, I had dumped a few Cars mp3's on my computer the previous week. So I find "Let The Good Times Roll," crank it, and bam, there's your riff. I think Cars had this one note (may have been an overdubbed instrument or the same note from the same instrument playing over the decaying previous notes, I don't know) that jumped an octave or so, and with the Strokes, they basically ditched that jump and stayed in the lower register, but otherwise, a note-perfect lift.
To be fair, it's so obvious it can be called a 'quote' (or homage if you want to be a rock critic about it) because then the song kicks into something different, but still...
By sheer luck, I had dumped a few Cars mp3's on my computer the previous week. So I find "Let The Good Times Roll," crank it, and bam, there's your riff. I think Cars had this one note (may have been an overdubbed instrument or the same note from the same instrument playing over the decaying previous notes, I don't know) that jumped an octave or so, and with the Strokes, they basically ditched that jump and stayed in the lower register, but otherwise, a note-perfect lift.
To be fair, it's so obvious it can be called a 'quote' (or homage if you want to be a rock critic about it) because then the song kicks into something different, but still...
"When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war." – Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Neither slave nor tyrant." - Basque motto
"Neither slave nor tyrant." - Basque motto
Not to mention the Bo Diddley beat, in the case of Last Night (filtered through Lust For Life).
I just looked up David Kahne, the producer of Strokes 3rd, and I'm not encouraged. He's worked with such luminaries as The Bangles (producing Walk Like An Egyptian, if I'm not mistaken), Jorma Kaukonen, Sugar Ray, Sublime, KD Lang, Macca (circa 2001), Stevie Nicks, Tony Bennett(?!?!) and Soul Coughing, and mixed the infamous (to Beavis and Butthead viewers) Mike Watt album "Ball-hog or Tugboat?". So...hmm. I was kind of hoping for someone more in the Guy Stevens vein, and I'd still be interested in hearing anything of their brief, pre-Room On Fire experiment with Nigel Godrich.
Incidentally, more on-topic - just spent an hour trying to get AOL music to work so I can hear the new Franz - I think my company firewall has given the final "NO." Grr.
I just looked up David Kahne, the producer of Strokes 3rd, and I'm not encouraged. He's worked with such luminaries as The Bangles (producing Walk Like An Egyptian, if I'm not mistaken), Jorma Kaukonen, Sugar Ray, Sublime, KD Lang, Macca (circa 2001), Stevie Nicks, Tony Bennett(?!?!) and Soul Coughing, and mixed the infamous (to Beavis and Butthead viewers) Mike Watt album "Ball-hog or Tugboat?". So...hmm. I was kind of hoping for someone more in the Guy Stevens vein, and I'd still be interested in hearing anything of their brief, pre-Room On Fire experiment with Nigel Godrich.
Incidentally, more on-topic - just spent an hour trying to get AOL music to work so I can hear the new Franz - I think my company firewall has given the final "NO." Grr.