Band: Franz Ferdinand

So I discovered this band during the time I wasn't in this blog for ages. I had seen people on Twitter who made their latest album as their Twitter icon which intrigued me because during those times, I wasn't a fan of theirs (but now I am) and I always ended up asking myself, "Who is Franz Ferdinand?"

The term "Franz Ferdinand" was actually familiar to me ever since because originally I remembered that we discussed this one in our History Class and during the WWII when there was a guy from Austria-Hungary who had been killed (and I forgot the reason why) and his name was "Archduke Franz Ferdinand" (so maybe they got the name from that). 

And one time I saw a photo on Twitter, a picture of Alex Kapranos (their vocalist) and a quote that he said but I couldn't remember the exact words stated on that picture, something stated like "We became closer to our fans—" That time, I never knew that it was him but I found out that his hair looked so vintage and unique. 

The first impression when I saw the album Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action was "it was just an advert for cancer prevention". I mean the phrase "Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action" could be so relevant to the issue. Then I became more intrigued about them up to the highest point so yeah I searched them and their songs and I finally realised that they have brilliant songs.

Who are Franz Ferdinand? Not the Archduke guy, but the band. They came from Glasgow, Scotland (so they're Scottish). Their singer as I mentioned is Alex Kapranos (with the guitar also), Nick McCarthy (keyboard, back-up vocalist, lead guitarist), Bob Hardy (bassist), and Paul Thomson (drums). Actually I saw a video on YouTube performing Stand On The Horizon and the rest of the members were doing the  back-up vocals so possible that they could go interchange for the vocals thingy.

So I first heard their song Take Me Out which is 'their most popular song' is it? The beats was just wonderful "I say 'Don't you know?', You say 'You don't know' I say, 'Take Me Out'," It was just amazing. Next I heard No You Girls and the symphony was brilliant. (My classmate even knows this song ok she has a great music taste.)

Other songs I discovered:
- Love Illumination
- Bite Hard
- Stand On The Horizon
- Evil Eye
- Right Action
- Ulysses
- Michael
- Do You Want To

Lol so far but I'll be discovering more songs from them I since I downloaded all of their albums. 

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Songs Hype

One time my friend told me about the store called Fully Booked then my friend told me that sell different accessories. What made me to have interest on it was they sell albums prior to my Music Taste. 

She said they sell albums like Weezer, Regina Spektor, etc. She even saw “The Best of Blur” album which went me up to the highest factor of my cravings. 

So one time I made up things in my mind like, “What if they sell The Seldom Seen Kid album by Elbow (which is my favourite album from theirs) or Stars of CCTV album by Hard-Fi, or any album that are from my interests? (Maybe they also sell Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action album by Franz Ferdinand)

I haven't been to Fully Booked but my other friends recommended me to go to Fully Booked Fort Bonifacio because it's their biggest store so I have many albums to choose from. My friend even wanted to join me if she would go to Fully Booked (if ever) to guide me as a newbie oops.

Whilst a while ago we went to Festival to get my brother's phone and whilst waiting, we went to Power Mac Centre to check out for Apple gadgets. My brother was trying to use the MacBook Air whilst I was at the corner, looking for the songs that was synced from their data to different Apple Products available there. 

I found Yellowcard and Arcade Fire (I reckoned that the Arcade Fire song came from The Hunger Games soundtrack and I looked at it and I was right) but of course we couldn't go from the fact that there were mainstream artists like Justin Bieber and Nicki Minaj, I didn't mind them at all. I just wanted to see my songs from their devices. 

But what the frick there were Justin Bieber like two of them I guess but who cares? No one. I was just happy that “Always Summer” by Yellowcard was there. Yes, my favourite American band (the rest are British).

So I switched to their iPad Mini and I clicked on the Music App and I clicked on the Artist pallette to see if my favourite were there. But I stopped because I was disturbed by Lana Del Rey's picture, she looks retarded. 

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