Monday morning music
Oct. 17th, 2005 08:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
petroniaI was a bit disturbed by the people who commented the other day saying that they'd never heard Franz Ferdinand. Crap-quality acoustic demos are good for interested fans and completists, not if you're going to test-listen a band. But I can't quite bring myself to put up "Take Me Out" or "Michael" or "The Dark of the Matinee" anymore, so in a gesture of stellar unhelpfulness I uploaded electro house remixes.
Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out (FakeID's Taken It Too Far Mix)
Franz Ferdinand - Do You Want To (Erol Alkan's Glam Racket Mix)
There is a sort of logic. Many of the songs on You Could Have It So Much Better... were an exercise in frustration at first, because IMHO the very best part of Franz Ferdinand is their rarissime (in a guitar band) ability to write killer grooves - which they then proceed to DROP after 1:30 in order to hare off after some indie-strumming shouty bit in a TOTALLY DIFFERENT TIME SIGNATURE, just as I'm starting to think Vitalic or Black Strobe could take that funk guitar line and let it rise for nine whole minutes until it hit stratospheric ozone - I mean it worked for "Take Me Out" but they gave that one time to breathe, yanno? Then I got used to it. But that's why the best songs on the album are really the slow ones that sidestep the dance-indie dialectic altogether in favour of an early-70s it's-Paul-McCartney-no-wait-it's-David-Bowie vibe. I don't think I'd've given a song like "Eleanor Put Your Boots Back On" a chance if it had reached me in some other format, but most of the album is so maximalist borderline-annoying in-your-face glam that a track 7 breather comes as exquisitely welcome. And "Walk Away" is my second favorite after "The Fallen".
So yeah. Electro house remixes that sample the good bits and just sort of play them over and over.
Low - Last Night I Dreamt Somebody Loved Me: by request of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
phantomwise, who wanted to hear the really sad song. Actually all of Low sort of sounds like this, the band is named that way for a reason. ^^;
Stars - This Charming Man: on the continuing theme of Smiths covers. (canis_m, this is the sort of thing on the Ishida Uryuu mix. It may well be background music for sewing projects, although I was more thinking faux midnight convenience store runs.)
Baxendale - I Built This City (Michael Mayer Mix): not representative of Kompakt Total 6 as a whole. Nor can one really abuse it on repeat, if only because it builts so gradually, like a faulty pressure cooker that will, in fact, explode on you. You have to imagine the effect it has when played out on the dancefloor at the proper time of night. On the other hand, it has proper lyrics.
Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out (FakeID's Taken It Too Far Mix)
Franz Ferdinand - Do You Want To (Erol Alkan's Glam Racket Mix)
There is a sort of logic. Many of the songs on You Could Have It So Much Better... were an exercise in frustration at first, because IMHO the very best part of Franz Ferdinand is their rarissime (in a guitar band) ability to write killer grooves - which they then proceed to DROP after 1:30 in order to hare off after some indie-strumming shouty bit in a TOTALLY DIFFERENT TIME SIGNATURE, just as I'm starting to think Vitalic or Black Strobe could take that funk guitar line and let it rise for nine whole minutes until it hit stratospheric ozone - I mean it worked for "Take Me Out" but they gave that one time to breathe, yanno? Then I got used to it. But that's why the best songs on the album are really the slow ones that sidestep the dance-indie dialectic altogether in favour of an early-70s it's-Paul-McCartney-no-wait-it's-David-Bowie vibe. I don't think I'd've given a song like "Eleanor Put Your Boots Back On" a chance if it had reached me in some other format, but most of the album is so maximalist borderline-annoying in-your-face glam that a track 7 breather comes as exquisitely welcome. And "Walk Away" is my second favorite after "The Fallen".
So yeah. Electro house remixes that sample the good bits and just sort of play them over and over.
Low - Last Night I Dreamt Somebody Loved Me: by request of
phantomwise, who wanted to hear the really sad song. Actually all of Low sort of sounds like this, the band is named that way for a reason. ^^;Stars - This Charming Man: on the continuing theme of Smiths covers. (
canis_m, this is the sort of thing on the Ishida Uryuu mix. It may well be background music for sewing projects, although I was more thinking faux midnight convenience store runs.)Baxendale - I Built This City (Michael Mayer Mix): not representative of Kompakt Total 6 as a whole. Nor can one really abuse it on repeat, if only because it builts so gradually, like a faulty pressure cooker that will, in fact, explode on you. You have to imagine the effect it has when played out on the dancefloor at the proper time of night. On the other hand, it has proper lyrics.
