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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsI like "Franz Ferdinand" (the band) but they sound really familiar
Why is this?
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I like "Franz Ferdinand" (the band) but they sound really familiar (Original Post)
Taverner
Sep 2013
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The lead singer of Orange Juice, Edwyn Collins, went on to release this cool 60s-influenced song:
Arugula Latte
Sep 2013
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nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)1. Because they sound like another Scottish band, Orange Juice:
BTW that singer is Edwyn Collins (of "A Girl Like You" fame).
Taverner
(55,476 posts)2. Wow it's like Franz Ferdinand meets Bootsy Collins
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)6. The lead singer of Orange Juice, Edwyn Collins, went on to release this cool 60s-influenced song:
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)3. I like a lot of these sort of semi-neo-80s bands
Franz Ferdinand, Editors, Interpol, Arctic Monkeys, etc.
They seem to have a lot of roots in punk, Joy Division, Clash, Echo & the Bunnymen, etc.. Maybe that's part of the familiarity?
PasadenaTrudy
(3,998 posts)4. Ah the 80s...
Today I've been listening to Talking Heads, Elvis Costello, The Specials, The Smiths...some great music. Beats Miley and Kanye anyday. Glad I was born in the early 60s and grew up on some good shit.
Taverner
(55,476 posts)5. In the actual 80s, I was more of a metalhead
Although I evolved to get into psychadelic, then "classic rock," then soul, and then grunge in the 90s, and stoner metal around the end of the 90s. Then phish, grateful dead again, velvet underground and then the obsucre bands I missed on the way