| Franz Ferdinand |
Alex Kapranos singing at a concert at San Diego State franz ferdinan University in October 2005
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| Background information |
| Origin |
Glasgow, Scotland |
| Genre(s) |
Indie rock
Post-punk revival
Art rock |
| Years active |
2001–present |
| Label(s) |
Domino (UK),
Epic (USA) |
| Website |
http://www.franzferdinand.co.uk/ |
| Members |
Alex franz ferdinad Kapranos
Robert Hardy
Nicholas McCarthy
Paul Thomson |
Franz Ferdinand are a Scottish rock band based in Glasgow named after Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. frans ferdinand As of 2006, Franz Ferdinand are composed of Alexander Kapranos (lead vocals, lead guitar), Robert Hardy (bass guitar and backing vocals), Nicholas McCarthy (rhythm franz ferdiand guitar, keyboard, backing vocals), and Paul Thomson (drums, backing vocals).
The band's debut self-titled album (released in 2004) debuted on the UK album charts at number fraz ferdinand three and won the 2004 Mercury Music Prize before their second album charted at number 1. So far, the band has released eight singles, a double single and two video-clip-only singles, of which "Take Me Out," "The Dark of the Matinée," "This Fire" franz ferdanand (on the download chart) and "Do You Want To" were top 10 hits franzferdinand in the UK.
They are primarily known as a Scottish band yet only the drummer, Paul Thomson, was born there. The other three members were born in England, moving to Scotland later in life. Alex was born in franz ferdnand Almondsbury, South Gloucestershire; Nick was born in Blackpool, Lancashire; and Bob was born in Bradford, Yorkshire.
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Contents
- 1 History
- 1.1 The fran ferdinand "Château" - early years
- 1.2 Debut Album
- 1.3 You franz fedinand Could Have It So Much Better
- 1.4 Usage in the media
- 1.5 Collaborations
- 1.6 Next album
- 2 Name
- 3 Art
- 4 Discography
- 4.1 Studio frranz ferdinand albums
- 4.2 Singles
- 4.3 Music videos
- 5 Music franz ferinand samples
- 6 Notes
- 7 References
- 8 External links
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History
The frenz ferdinand "Château" - early years
In late 2001, singer and guitarist Alex Kapranos and bassist Robert Hardy began playing franx ferdinand music together in Glasgow. After meeting Nicholas McCarthy at franz ferdinend a party, they began to rehearse together at McCarthy's house. McCarthy was classically trained on the piano and double bass but initially played drums. The trio then met up with Paul franz ferdinand Thomson who had played drums with Yummy Fur. Thomson originally was going to play guitar because he wanted to try something other than drums. However, franz ferdinand take me out once Nick started playing the drums, Alex and Bob realized that Nick didn't know how to play them. Thomson took over on drums, and McCarthy moved to lead guitar.
The band franz ferdinand mp3 started playing at an abandoned warehouse in the Gorbals which they named "the Château." Franz Ferdinand also held rave-like "happenings" combining music and art; Hardy was studying painting at the Glasgow School take me out franz ferdinand of Art at the time. When the local police franz ferdinand do you want to shut the events down, the band found an abandoned Victorian courthouse and played there.
In a 2004 interview with VH1, Alex Kapranos described the sound they were seeking. "On songs archduke franz ferdinand like 'Come on Home,' we wanted to sound like Donna Summer and Link Wray mixed together, but it doesn't sound like that at all! We thought we could sound like Prince, too, but what we were really trying to do was franz ferdinand the fallen take on franz ferdinand - take me out the attitudes of different bands and combine them in our own way."citation needed]
The band had the fallen franz ferdinand recorded an EP worth of material which they intended to release themselves. However, the band's reputation was spreading rapidly, and Domino offered them a contract to release an EP called Darts of Pleasure in the latter do you want to franz ferdinand part of 2003. The band developed its reputation further by supporting Hot Hot Heat and Interpol as well as winning a "Phillip Hall Radar Award" at the NME Awards of 2004 (announced in late 2003). Epic Records signed franz ferdinand van tango the band to a contract in 2004 for the USA, although the band's primary label for franz ferdinand this fire the rest of the world is still Domino.
Debut Album
Franz Ferdinand have been quoted as saying they wanted to make "music that girls can dance to." [1] This was combined franz ferdinand darts of pleasure with their art school background on their self-titled debut released in early 2004. It franz ferdinand the band debuted at number 3 in the UK Albums Chart in February 2004 and at number 12 in the Australian album charts in April 2004. While the album had only reached the lowest levels of the Billboard franz ferdinand michael 200 album charts in the US as of early 2004, it reached the top 5 of the indie rock and Heatseeker charts for debut charts. After a franz ferdinand walk away couple of North American tours and heavy rotation of the "Take Me Out" video take me out - franz ferdinand on MTV, the album eventually reached No. 32 on the Billboard 200 later in 2004 and franz ferdinand lyrics has been certified platinum in the US for sales exceeding 1,000,000. Five singles were released from the album, namely:
- "Darts of Pleasure" placed on the UK franz ferdinand fallen Singles Chart prior to being a particularly successful band;
- "Take Me Out" was the breakthrough single and reached the #3 on the UK charts, #66 on the Billboard Hot 100, and #3 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. walk away franz ferdinand It also made the top 10 of the Irish and Canadian charts and the top 40 michael franz ferdinand in a composite European chart as well as being voted number one in the Australian Triple J this fire franz ferdinand Hottest 100 for 2004 (more then doubling the votes for the song which received second place)
- "The Dark of the Matinée" or "Matinée" reached #8 in the UK franz ferdinand all for you sophia singles charts and the top 30 on the World Modern Rock Charts (a composite chart of US, German, UK, Swedish, Finnish, Canadian and Australian modern rock charts); franz ferdinand can't stop feeling and
- "Michael" reached the #17 on the UK singles charts. A large amount of the single's sales were not counted, as they were not released in the correct format.
- "This Fire" was released in North America in November 2004, and was a download-only single in franz ferdinand cheating on you the UK. It reached #17 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart, and reached #8 on franz ferdinand music the UK download chart.
The song "Michael" was the first in a trend among newer bands to write songs with lyrics reflecting a more fluid sexuality. "Michael" is a do you want to - franz ferdinand frenzied dance/rock song based on a private joke among the band about a friend of theirs who this boy franz ferdinand got drunk and was dancing unabashedly at a club.citation needed]
Franz Ferdinand on assassination of franz ferdinand the cover of NME
The Franz Ferdinand album received a generally strong positive response from critics. The New Musical Express said that franz ferdinand - do you want to the band was the latest in the line of art school rock bands featuring Duran Duran, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Roxy Music, the Sex franz ferdinand - this fire Pistols, Wire, Travis and Blur. It rated the album as 9 out of 10 and said: "This album is the latest and most intoxicating example of the wonderful pushing its way up between the franz ferdinand 40' ugly slabs of Pop Idol, nu metal and Britons aping American bands. What these blossoming bands have in common is the franz ferdinand come on home absolute conviction that rock ‘n’ roll is more than a career option."
The BBC's review of the album said: "At only 38 minutes long Franz Ferdinand may not be a particularly long franz ferdinand take me out mp3 album, but it is a masterpiece of funky, punky, suave cool from the first track to micheal franz ferdinand the last."[1] The All Music Guide rated the album as four out of five stars and said "Franz Ferdinand ends up being rewarding in different ways than the band's take me out by franz ferdinand previous work was, but it's apparent that they're still one franz ferdinand dark of the matinee of the more exciting groups to come out of the garage-rock / post-punk revival."[2]
On September 7, 2004 the album was awarded the 2004 Mercury Music Prize. Take Me Out gained franz ferdinand live first place in the Australian Triple J Hottest 100 for 2004, winning more than twice the votes of the second-place entry. Franz Ferdinand proceeded to win an Ivor Novello Award in 2004 and franz ferdinand shopping for blood two Brit Awards in 2005. The avant-garde music video for Take Me franz ferdinand - the fallen Out earned them a Breakthrough Video MTV Award.
You Could Have It So Much Better
The band spent much of 2005 in the studio in Scotland working on their follow-up album, You Could Have It So Much Better, which was franz ferdinand micheal released on 3 October 2005. Throughout the recording process, the band had intended to leave the album self-titled like their debut, franz ferdinand remix but they changed it to You Could Have It So Much Better...With Franz Ferdinand before settling on the current title. The first live performance of their new music franz ferdinand auf achse came as the band headlined at the V Festival in August 2005.
After the ecstatic reception of their debut, some reviews towards the new album franz ferdinand love and destroy became more polarized, with some complaints that the recording take me out franz ferdinand mp3 was rushed. However, it generally was critically acclaimed and seen as an album equal to, or better than their first by most critics, including the NME. It entered the UK Album Charts at Number 1 and the US charts at take me out- franz ferdinand Number 8.
The album is less associated with art music and dance, with the band taking a more raw, indy rock-style approach. This stylistic change was auf ache franz ferdinand reflected in more lively live shows, featuring band members jumping off the drum kit and rolling around on stage.
On the tour that followed the album franz ferdinand - walk away release, Franz broke the record for the longest run at the Alexandra Palace, North London, by playing 4 sold out nights during November-December 2005.
To support the album, four singles have franz ferdinand michael mp3 been released. Included in that set is a double A-side single that contained a video-clip only single as well (both the AA-side "L. Wells" and franz ferdinand outsiders the video-clip "Jeremy Fraser" are not featured on the album, recorded in franz ferdinand this boy early 2006 during the band's tour of Australia in support of the album). Also included is another video-clip-only single called "Wine walk away franz ferdinand mp3 In the Afternoon" which is the B-side to Eleanor Put Your Boots On, and was also not featured on the album, but recorded on tour in Michigan. "Do You Want To" made it to number 4, while "Walk Away" and "The Fallen" / franz ferdinand walk away mp3 "L. Wells" entered the top 15 of the UK Singles Chart. The 4th and final outsiders franz ferdinand single from the sophomore album, "Eleanor Put Your Boots On" peaked at number 30.
Usage in the media
In 2004, Take Me franz ferdinand - michael Out was in the EA Sports video games, Madden NFL 2005 and NHL 2005; while This Fire was in Burnout 3: Takedown, made by EA Games and Criterion Games.Tell Her Tonight was placed on the franz ferdinand take track of FIFA 2005.
During the franz ferdinand the fallen mp3 2005 general election campaign, the band, who feel strongly about environmental issues, donated This Fire as the background music for the election broadcasts by the three UK franz ferdinand this boy mp3 Green parties. The TV broadcasts, directed by Alex Cox and produced by Kim Ryan, were screened on 28 April 2005 across all UK terrestrial channels. [3]
Take Me Out was used in an ad campaign for the PlayStation Portable game system (PSP). The track was also included on the kid-oriented album Kidz Bop 8, the TV show Video Mods, and Guitar Hero (which jaqueline franz ferdinand allowed players to play the song on a guitar-like device).
Do You Want To is included in the "Rocks!" and Take Me who was franz ferdinand in world war 1 Out in the "Party" song collection for Playstation 2 karaoke game SingStar (which allows players to sing along the lead voice and get points for producing the correct cheating on you franz ferdinand sounds).
Do You Want To was used as the ending theme music to the Paradise Kiss anime television show. do you wanna franz ferdinand It was also used in the second episode of the third season of the serial The O.C.
Do You franz ferdinand - auf achse Want To is included in the lineup of licensed song in Konami's Dance Dance Revolution SuperNOVA for the Playstation 2.
The song Come on Home also features on the "Live 8" DVD, the follow up to franz ferdinand 40 ft "Live Aid". Music from the song is played at the beginning of the DVD, during the explanation of what Live 8 was.
The song Take Me Out is used as the theme music for Australian Television Program franz ferdinand eleanor "Any Given Sunday." In Australia it is also used on Channel Ten's Sports Tonight.
Michael was a song in Gran Turismo 4 for PlayStation 2
Part of franz ferdinand jacqueline the song I'm Your Villain was used in a preview for the 2006 film "The Guardian".
The beginning of "40 franz ferdinand l. wells ft" was also used in a television commercial for the film "In Good Company" in 2004.
The beginning franz ferdinand remixes of "40 ft" was also used in a telelvision commercial for the film "A Good Year" in 2006.
The Fallen is used in two of the Smash Our Stuff videos.
Collaborations
The band at a concert in Prague in August 2006
In early 2005, Kanye West declared Franz Ferdinand to be his favourite band, and coined the term franz ferdinand you could have it so much better white crunk to describe the band's gritty assassination of archduke franz ferdinand drum sounds. West and the band met at the 2005 MTV Europe Music Awards, where they sat down together to share praise and advice. West feels that the come on home franz ferdinand white crunk vibe has affected his new work, and is best exemplified on the track "Diamonds from Sierra Leone", from his 2005 album Late Registration. The band itself is also greatly influenced by Kanye and do you want to-- franz ferdinand sought advice from him on how franz ferdinand all these things that ive done to improve production for their 2005 album You Could Have It So Much Better.citation needed]
Rapper Snoop Dogg has also declared an admiration for the band, and famously expressed interest franz ferdinand daft punk in collaborating with the group, though he could not remember the band's name at the time. He stated:
"I'm working on an album that I franz ferdinand fire plan to do with a lot of European artists," he revealed. "I wanna do something with the people that sang "Take Me Out."
In response, Kapranos playfully replied, "Someone told me the guy franz ferdinand get up and use me who does "Drop It Like It's Hot" wants to collaborate with us...That's pictures of arch duke franz ferdinand great. I love that song and like his style."[4]
In 2006, Franz Ferdinand, Death Cab For Cutie and The Cribs went on a joint-headline tour, primarily of shows 40' franz ferdinand at universities.citation needed]
Andy Knowles has served as a support member of the band for some time, as a keyboardist and arch duke franz ferdinand second drummer. Knowles has not been featured on an album yet, but is featured drumming in "Brown Onions," a song featured on The Fallen / L. archduke franz ferdinands children Wells double A-Side single. He has also played many live shows as well as being seen in the video for Walk Away.
At the 2006 Reading band franz ferdinand Festival, Madness drummer Daniel Woodgate (Woody) appeared with the band on stage and played on the song 'Outsiders'.
Last October 8 of 2006 Nicholas McCarthy franz ferdinand take me out did a special appeareance at the mexican band Zoé concert, where he performed "Human Space franz ferdinand 'cheating on you' Volt".
Next album
According to NME in 2005, the band had no intentions to stop and continued to record at a relentless franz ferdinand band pace.[5] In January of 2006, they began new recording sessions, coinciding with some dates in Australia and New Zealand: "Then we’ll see how many songs we’ve got together but we’re talking about going franz ferdinand crazy love into the studio at the end of January." Kapranos explained. "We’re popping over to Australia and New Zealand at the end franz ferdinand do you want to mp3 of January as well, as you do. It’s brilliant, I’m looking forward to that. We get to miss the Scottish winter, which is not a franz ferdinand jeremy fraser bad thing at all."[6] Their third album will likely be released in late 2007 or even 2008[7], however the band revealed in early September 2006 that they were going to take franz ferdinand midi an indefinite break after headlining the franz ferdinand missing you Carling Weekend[8] and playing two shows in Brazil. Alex and Nick managed to find time to appear at the Edinburgh franz ferdinand sorry angel Book Festival in August 2006 (video interview can be seen here), and took part in a songwriting session for the festival.
Name
The name of the band was originally inspired by a racehorse called The Archduke. After seeing the franz ferdinand tabs horse run on television the band began to discuss Archduke Franz Ferdinand and thought it would be a good band name because of the sound franz ferdinand tell her tonight of the name and the implications of the Archduke's death (his assassination sparked World War franz ferdinand walk I). They discussed it in a very early interview with Scottish magazine, Is This Music? [9]
"Mainly we just liked the way matinee franz ferdinand it sounded," says Bob. "We liked the alliteration." "He was an incredible figure as well," continues Alex. "His life, or at least the ending of it, was the catalyst for the complete transformation of the world ... posters and prints music rock franz ferdinand he was a pivot for history. But I don't want to over-intellectualise the name this boy franz ferdinand mp3 thing. Basically a name should just sound good ... like music." Paul has a much grander notion. "I like the idea that, if we become popular, maybe the words Franz Ferdinand will make people think of the band instead of the historical figure."citation needed]
The song Take Me Out, on the band's first album, was the second single to be released by the band. The single release of Take Me Out came with the B side, 'All For You Sophia', based on the assassination archduke franz ferdinand assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and his wife, whose name was Sophie, not Sophia. The band changed the name Sophie to Sophia to give the song a assasination of franz ferdinand better ring to it.
Art
The artwork from the single "Take Me Out", inspired by a 1923 poster for "One-Sixth Part Of The World", by Rodchenko
The band franz ferdinand - do you want to mp3 is notable for its use of Russian avant-garde imagery in album and single covers. Examples include "You Could Have It So Much Better" which references a 1924 portrait of Lilya Brik by Alexander Rodchenko, "Take franz ferdinand - live Me Out", which references One-Sixth Part of the World also by Alexander Rodchenko, "This Fire", which references franz ferdinand - put your boots mp3 Beat the white with the Red wedge by El Lissitzky and "Michael", with single art based on A Proun by Lissitzky.
The avant-garde music video for Take Me Out, directed by Jonas Odell, was inspired by Dadaism, Busby Berkeley franz ferdinand assassination choreographies and Russian constructivist design.[10] The franz ferdinand brown onions lyrics of Do You Want To make reference to parties at the 'trendy' Glasgow art gallery Transmission and the video includes a satire of franz ferdinand car killed in the work of contemporary artist Vanessa Beecroft.
Also, in "Outsiders", the lyrics "In seventeen years will you still be Camille, Lee Miller, Gala or whatever" are franz ferdinand do you wanna a reference to the lovers of the artists Auguste Rodin, Man Ray and Salvador Dalí.
Discography
- See main article: Franz Ferdinand discography
Studio albums
Franz Ferdinand
9 February franz ferdinand lynsey wells mp3 2004
#3 (UK); #32 (US);#16 (GER)
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You Could Have It So Much Better
3 October 2005
#1 (UK); #8 (US); #2 (GER)
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Singles
| Year |
Title |
Chart Positions |
Album |
| UK Singles Chart |
UK Download Chart |
US Hot 100 |
US Modern Rock |
German Singles |
| 2003 |
"Darts of Pleasure" |
#44 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
Franz Ferdinand |
| 2004 |
"Take Me franz ferdinand spanish tour u2 Out" |
#3 |
#7 |
#66 |
#3 |
- |
Franz Ferdinand |
| "The Dark of the Matinée" |
#8 |
- |
- |
- |
#88 |
Franz Ferdinand |
| "Michael" |
#17 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
Franz Ferdinand |
"This Fire"
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- |
#8 |
- |
#17 |
- |
Franz Ferdinand |
| 2005 |
"Do You franz ferdinand the Want To" |
#4 |
#4 |
#76 |
#9 |
#70 |
You Could Have It So Much Better |
"Walk Away" a
|
#13 |
#37 |
- |
- |
#90 |
You Could Have It So Much Better |
| 2006 |
"The Fallen" / "L. Wells" b |
#14 |
- |
- |
#39 |
- |
You Could Have It So Much franz ferdinand what you waiting for Better |
| "Eleanor Put Your Boots On" |
#30 |
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- |
- |
- |
You Could Have It So Much Better |
a UK only release
b Double free franz ferdinand micheal mp3 A-side
Music videos
- Darts of Pleasure (2003)
- Take Me Out (2004)
- The Dark of the Matinée (2004)
- Michael (2004)
- This Fire (2004)
- Do You Want To (2005)
- Walk Away (2005)
- The Fallen (2006)
- L. Wells (2006)
- Jeremy Fraser (2006)
- Eleanor Put Your Boots get away franz ferdinand On (2006)
- Wine In The Afternoon (2006)
Music samples
Notes
- ^ Fernand, Simon (2004). "Franz Ferdinand" BBC.co.uk (accessed June 16, 2006)
- ^ Phares, myspace layouts franz ferdinand Heather (2004). "Review" All Music Guide (accessed June 16, 2006)
- ^ Franz Ferdinand contribute song to Green Party political broadcast, sarajevo franz ferdinand 25th Apr 2005, Green Party press release
- ^ Move Over, Pharrell: Snoop's Next Dawgs Are ... Franz Ferdinand!? MTV News
- ^ NME staff writer(2005). NME.com "Franz Ferdinand reveal third album details" NME.com (accessed take me out, franz ferdinand June 18, 2006)
- ^ Colothan, Scott (2005). "Franz Ferdinand To Start Work On New Album In January" Gigwise.com (accessed June 16, 2006)
- ^ Ross, Peter (2006). "The Arch Cook Franz Ferdinand" sundayherald.com (accessed November 11, 2006)
- ^ NME take me out/ franz ferdinand staff writer(2006). NME.com "Franz Ferdinand reveal future plans" NME.com (accessed September 10, 2006)
- ^ Is This Music? (link dead), June tell her tonight german franz ferdinand 2003, SHOOTING STARS: FRANZ FERDINAND MARRY HISTORY AND ART, John Clarke.
- ^ Franz Ferdinand 'Take Me Out' XFM staff writer
References
- Hiatt, Brian truck stop franz ferdinand (2005). "Hot Scots - Franz Ferdinand get rock fans dancing angelic franz of franz ferdinand again" Rolling Stone (accessed June 16, 2006)
External links
- Franz Ferdinand's official website, band site
- Franz Ferdinand's official website, from Sony-BMG
- Franz Ferdinand at WikiMusicGuide
- Unofficial Franz Ferdinand Forum - from fans for fans!
- Franzypants! Argentina, archduke franz ferdinand assasination Argentinean Fan Club
- Franz Ferdinand, at New Musical Express
- Franz Ferdinand at VH1
- Franz Ferdinand interview at musicOMH.com
- Franz Ferdinand news, from skwik.com
| Franz Ferdinand |
| Alex Kapranos | Robert Hardy | Nicholas McCarthy | archduke franz ferdinand children Paul Thomson |
| Discography |
| Albums and archduke franz ferdinand murdered in sarajevo extended plays: Darts of Pleasure | Franz Ferdinand | You Could Have It So Much Better |
| Singles: "Darts of Pleasure" | "Take Me Out" | "The Dark of the Matinée" | "Michael" auf asche franz ferdinand | "This Fire" | "Do You Want To" | "Walk Away" | "The Fallen" / "L. Wells" | "Eleanor Put Your Boots On" |
| DVDs: Franz Ferdinand |
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| Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria eleanor franz ferdinand | Domino Records | Tore Johansson | Rich Costey |
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