Tracks like “Michael, Lucid Dream and Standing on the Horizon” are a sample of just some that satisfy that category. The band also includes faves that don’t always make it on the top 10 lists, along with the big hits. They artfully create a musical world filled with down at the club antics and challenging romances, all the while accurately describing the excitement of pursuing love and experiences within that situation. Much of this can be credited to the distinctive sonics signature the band has always created, melding Indie Rock, Post Punk Revival, Dance Punk, Dance Rock and Art Rock. Hits to the Head offers up the biggest songs of their career, chart-toppers like “Darts of Pleasure, Take Me Out, This Fire, Ulysses” and numerous others that remind the listener why Franz Ferdinand is still cranking out songs twenty years after their creation. There are twenty tracks with 18 existing tracks and two new songs to sweeten the twenty-track offering. Set with the task of giving an overview of their career for Hits to the Head, the band, as described by lead singer Alex Kapranos, stated, “…it was like picking out a setlist for a concert”, and what a list. Over five studio albums, they have succeeded and, along the way, garnered platinum albums and numerous awards, including a 2004 Mercury Prize, an Ivor Novello award and a few BRIT awards. This characteristic is represented by the band’s long-established goal to write classic pop songs that make the girls and boys dance.
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The release is chocked full of what has made the band so successful for twenty years, exuberant sonic pragmatism. Most recently: #12, five late ’18 and early ’19 releases, including Jeff Goldblum, Tony Bennett/Diana Krall, & more.The award-winning Scottish band Franz Ferdinand is releasing their greatest hits album, Hits to the Head, on March 11 th. GO HEREfor full details, along with direct links to this exclusive content. Join Bill “Musoscribe” Kopp for a look at the jazz world – past, present, and yet-to-come, via interviews, essays, and reviews of new releases and archival titles. The band’s music may not be nearly as ubiquitous today as it was in 2004, but to anyone at this Philly show, it’s clear that Franz Ferdinand is still just as impressive now as they were then. They closed out with a blistering version of “This Fire”.
The set included a decent mix across their catalogue, including “Come On Home,” (a song they rarely play live) but they rewarded the crowd for sticking around saving the biggest hit, “Take Me Out” toward the end of the show.
The fan than led the band into likely the most spirited version of that song the band has ever played, (I apologize in advance for this) with the sit-in drummer not missing a beat. Kapranos brought the fan on stage and drummer Paul Thomson handed her his sticks and got up from the drum stool. But none of that seemed to matter as the band played a brilliant set and seemed to genuinely be enjoying themselves, rather than simply running through a game of modern rock band bingo.Ībout two-thirds into the set, singer Alex Kapranos spotted a sign being held up by someone in the audience that read “I want to play drums on ‘Michael’”). On the surface the band seemed to be checking off all of the boxes on the Rock and Roll Cliché Live Show list (Constant namechecks of the city you’re in: “Are you ready to feel the love Philadelphia?” Check holding the mic out to the crowd to sing the chorus? Several times bringing up an audience member to play on a song? More about that in a minute, but yup). Opening with “Always Ascending,” the title track off their latest – a song that seems to have morphed into an instant classic with fans despite the short amount of time it’s been out – the band played with the enthusiasm and energy of a group headlining stadiums (rather than the 2,500-capacity club they packed that night). But the years since have done little to temper the enthusiasm from diehard fans who turned out to see the band 14 years later, and just two months after the group put out their fifth record. It’s been more than a decade since Franz Ferdinand’s self-titled debut took over just about every radio with songs like “Take Me Out” and “This Fire,” earning the Scottish dance rock band platinum status here in the U.S.
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