![]() ![]() “I always thought it was funny,” Kapranos says, “because we are the least sporty people in the world.” Not that they mind having their music back arena-size sporting events. “For a while there, you thought, ‘Are these guys going to go down as a one-hit wonder?’ ” Bentley says. ![]() Less than a year later, the band was opening the Grammys with “Take Me Out.” In 2004 that program, with Nic Harcourt as the host, first featured Franz Ferdinand in the United States. “It’s a mixed blessing when a band gets that much attention early on,” says Jason Bentley, music director of KCRW, the influential radio station in Santa Monica, and the host of “Morning Becomes Eclectic.” Over an elaborate lunch, he and McCarthy discuss their attempts to sidestep the cliches of post-punk stardom while still making an album people could dance, and debauch themselves, to. So no more “angular guitars,” McCarthy says, a description that has stuck to the band as surely as its slim-cut suits. “You feel like, right, that’s become so much a part of musical vocabulary of the contemporary band, it’s now a cliche, and you have to leave it.” Since then, the band (which also includes Bob Hardy on bass and Paul Thomson on drums) has found that its aesthetic - from the high-hat beat to the mod wardrobe - has gone mainstream, especially in Britain, Kapranos says. On it, the group - which plays Oakland’s Fox Theatre on Wednesday - moved away from the wry, propulsive post-punk that defined its first two albums and made its global 2004 hit, “Take Me Out,” an unlikely stadium anthem even the Yankees used it. The odyssey of a night out, from drug-fueled anticipation to dance-floor frenzy to post-hook-up comedown, is also the subject of the band’s third album, “Tonight: Franz Ferdinand,” released earlier this year. Kapranos, the lead singer of the Scottish rock band Franz Ferdinand, and his bandmate Nick McCarthy, who plays guitar and keyboards, have spent the previous evening in a refined version of debauchery. ![]() This sort of completely silly nonsense is the exact sort of thing why people start loathing school and learning in their teens, which is a damn shame.NEW YORK - It’s around 3 in the afternoon, and Alex Kapranos’ hangover is beginning to wear off. The mixup is utterly and completely irrelevant, and in any real-life circumstances outside of education & academia it would be a complete non-issue that gets caught when proofreading. Cause again by answering the question correctly you establish you do actually know who it is. What grade they get depends on the actual content and value of their answer, not whether they accidentally got his name wrong. It's incredibly silly to subtract points for each time. And cause you do it the first time, you do it multiple times, cause that's how human brains work. ![]() They just accidentally called him Karl Franz, who isn't even someone that exists obviously, so it's 100% just an odd slip of the mind. It's not like they actually mixed him up, and for example then described who Wilhelm II was, but called him Franz Ferdinand instead. So obviously they remember who Franz Ferdinand was. The name Franz Ferdinand was already given in the question, which they otherwise answered correctly. The question wasn't "Who was the Archduke of Austria-Hungary blablabla", and they answered "Karl Franz". Because the question was "Who was Franz Ferdinand", and they gave the correct answer. Think we missed one? Give us a Modmail and suggest new Subreddits to add to the lists!Ĭan you explain which of these applies to someone who can't even remember the name of Franz Ferdinand for a WWI exam? Total War Center Mod List (Not every mod, but most Overhauls)Ī guide to buildings and economy in Three Kingdoms KamachoThunderbus' Spell Stat Cheat Sheet List of Total War Tools Explaining Historyīig list of recommended reading on classical antiquity Filter ContentĬommunity Message the Mods Join the Offical Discord Join the Subreddit Discord Join our Weekly Q&A Thread Resources If that's your situation, hang around the sub for a couple of days and leave a few comments - you'll be able to post in no time! Need more details? Read our full rules here. Our automoderator also prevents spam by deleting posts from users less than four days old or who have less than three karma. Giveaways and contests must be approved beforehand by the moderation team. No politics allowedĭon't derail threads with off-topic memes or controversy.
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