[quote="jim primate"]to borrow a formula from david spade: "i liked 'em better the first time around when they were called gang of four!"

I was waiting for that. I'm so sick of all these utterly boring "indie" bands that are getting so popular. I honestly find nothing interesting or original in any of them. It's just watered-down music from twenty years ago.

catchy, but crap.

jim primate wrote:to borrow a formula from david spade: "i liked 'em better the first time around when they were called gang of four!"

crap.

yeah, at least that faithless tune, has chicks in the video. and it's a groovier song. i'm sick of disco basslines. you can take your 2/4 drums and shove 'em up your ass.

i've been reading great reviews of this band by people who never even mention gang of four. what the fuck??? they all say some shit about the cure, or the clash, or the strokes.

What's 2/4 drumming? How is 2/4 different than 4/4? Is that when you only put the high hat on the quarter notes instead of the eighth notes?

What's 2/4 drumming? How is 2/4 different than 4/4? Is that when you only put the high hat on the quarter notes instead of the eighth notes?

anything in 2/4 can be written in 4/4 and vice versa. the choice between the two--as with any selection of time signature--has to do with the length of the musical phrases involved. you want the ebb and flow of the piece to fit into whatever time signature you use.

in our friend's example, 2/4 implies a very simple rhythm that reveals itself over one bar of two beats

i have heard this song 'take me out' twice, and i remember almost the whole thing. this is something. i didn't mind hearing it. not enough people play gtr like that, so i don't mind that it sounds like '79/'80.

if they have an album's worth of songs like that, i might like it. it seemed like decent gay postpunk to me. but i don't know enough to vote, and i may never.

This record recently was foisted upon me while I was at a friend's house.

People! I did not enjoy this record at all!

Not one bit!

mrs the c bought this record and plays it in the car, she seems to enjoy it. it made no real impression on me, its so bland I can't imagine why anyone would feel like it was very good or very bad.

meh

Tough call on this one. I bought this due to the hype, listened to it 5 times. Haven't pulled it out since. They will play witches or something in the new Harry Potter movie. It's like a bad best of 80s new wave compilation except that it's only one band. I will give them a NOT CRAP and a WF: 7 because it is catchy enough that when you hear it in a club it's not bad.

Angry_Dragon wrote: it is catchy enough that when you hear it in a club it's not bad.

Yeah, for the last few months I've been making fun of this album (and being kind of a dick about it) every time the girlfriend plays it. It just sounded so much like when my friend Matt and I used to sit around writing "fake British" songs for fun--like there's that song about everything being better on holiday, and the one one about meeting at a matinee. But then I heard it played loud at Halloween party in a bar last weekend and I had to admit it sounded okay. It was that song about dancing with a man and one other that I forget.

And I do like that one of their riffs sounds like "Havah Nagilah."

Franz Ferdinand as a mainstream 'alternative' flavor of the month--Pretty good, will be on a few "remember the 2000's" Time Life compilations

Franz Ferdinand as a 'hip' 'danceable' 'punk' band -- shit. If you think people that are hyping this cd are 'hipsters' and 'ahead of the curve' you need higher standards.

djanes1 wrote:Franz Ferdinand as a mainstream 'alternative' flavor of the month--Pretty good, will be on a few "remember the 2000's" Time Life compilations

Franz Ferdinand as a 'hip' 'danceable' 'punk' band -- shit. If you think people that are hyping this cd are 'hipsters' and 'ahead of the curve' you need higher standards.

So... are you dissin' on Pitchfork Media? I thought they were the end all and be all of cool. They have to be. The record reviews that barely ever mention the record they're reviewing. The inane little stories contained within each review that are usually about someone's grandmother eating corn or about iceskating. They are the gods of hipsterism!

ps - Mo Rocca will tear them a new asshole on VH1's I love the 00s.