Really, distinguishing between musical styles is confusing enough that I apparently can’t differentiate between rock and punk. I’ve always classified the band as a rather indie rock act and while they are sometimes labelled as that, it’s more common to learn of them as a sort-of post-punk/dance-punk ensemble. Their group name is taken from Archduke Franz Ferdinand who is best known for seeding World War I due to being assassinated by Gavrilo Princip. The band’s Scottish and comprises of frontman Alex Kapranos, bassist Bob Hardy, rhythm guitarist and keyboardist Nick McCarthy, and drummer Paul Thomson. ![]() Now you may not know of Franz Ferdinand or will know only of what I believe are their most well-known songs: the aforementioned “Take Me Out” and “No You Girls”, and their 2005 hit “Do You Want To”. The deluxe edition comes with a second disc tentatively titled Right Notes, Right Words, Wrong Order which is a bunch of ‘live’ recordings of some Franz Ferdinand songs in London’s Konk Studios. I picked up the deluxe version of the album a few months ago as I was quite interested in where Franz Ferdinand went musically since “No You Girls”. Since then, they are almost forgotten in the mainstream scene, so I was promptly surprised that a whole album of songs had slipped my attention. ![]() However, the last time I’d heard the band anywhere was in 2009 when “No You Girls” was on constant loop everywhere I went. I remember when they stormed the world with “Take Me Out” back in ’04 with a foot-stamping beat and a very avant-garde music video. Okay, so why do I call it a mysterious album? Well, it’s to do with the band’s appearance – or rather lack of presence – on TV and radio. Worse, I keep forgetting the order of the words I almost typed Right Words, Right Thoughts, Right Action in the title. ![]() Gosh, that’s nearly as much a mouthful as Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of the Worlds – The New Generation. In light of that, I’m going at the rather mysterious (well, to me it is) 2013 album Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action. Unless it’s for someone’s birthday, I don’t subscribe to compilations, only whole albums. The Franz Ferdinand and Sparks collaboration project FFS will go on sale tomorrow in Australia so why don’t I look back at Franz Ferdinand’s last effort? I can’t do a Sparks review because no-one sells their albums around here except an occasional compilations album.
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