Try though I might, I just don’t get what all the fuss is about with Franz Ferdinand. To an old guy like me, they’re just another in a long line of bands that sound painfully like a 1000 bands that have come before (so many come to mind, I can’t even name one).

But to the teenagers who made them famous, FF are fresh, exciting, new, different. In short, they are of their time so their derivative nature doesn’t even matter. When I was 10 and thinking Crocodile Rock was the absolute coolest song ever written, it hardly mattered that it was just Keep A Knockin’ with a Farfisa.

So goes the constant evolution — or maybe that’s, revolution — of pop culture.

Franz Ferdinand – Jacqueline
Franz Ferdinand – Tell Her Tonight
Franz Ferdinand – Take Me Out
Franz Ferdinand – The Dark of The Matinee
Franz Ferdinand – Auf Achse
Franz Ferdinand – Cheating On You
Franz Ferdinand – This Fire
Franz Ferdinand – Darts of Pleasure
Franz Ferdinand – Michael
Franz Ferdinand – Come ON Home
Franz Ferdinand – 40′

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