Comments on: Franz Ferdinand at the Palladium: Let Some Professionals Show You How It’s Done

By: Passion of the Weiss

Passion of the Weiss — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:09:27 +0000

Of course, you can have any reason you like for not wanting to listen to a band. However, if you like the two songs that you’ve heard from an album, conventional logic would intimate that you might like the album itself. On “Tonight.” Franz do some really interesting things that stray from their core sound just enough to keep it compelling.

As far as any major label rock band goes, Franz’s greatest hits are in a league with the Strokes, Wilco, Radiohead, and The White Stripes. Their albums might lack the same depth, but they’re also a lot more fun.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:55:06 +0000

I don’t subscribe to treating bands like baseball cards, and I couldn’t care less about whether or not a band is my little secret, but can’t “the thrill is gone” be a legitimate, non-callous-hipster reason for ignoring an album? There is only so much time in the day.

I bought Franz Ferdinand’s second record, but I passed on this new one b/c, in 2009, there’s other stuff that I’m more interested in checking out. It might very well be good–I liked the first single, and this “Live Alone” is great–but as you say . . . not exactly “avatars of timelessness”.

By: Jordan

Jordan — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 04:00:31 +0000

Remember when their second album came out there were all these complaints about how they hadn’t matured? That’s as beside the point as criticism gets. Anyway is the new album any good? I’ve heard nothing from it.