The greatest and earwormiest of Franz_Ferdinand, according to Alex Kapranos — a conversation with devonsaysrelax
“For me, the greatest feat is to experiment and pull something off and for the audience not to notice.” Photo-Illustration: Vulture.
The way that I sing the “Curious” chorus is really different, particularly the phrasing and the rapidity of the syllables. It’s something that I would’ve found intimidating when the band started off. I don’t think I would’ve had the guts to try and sing like that. That’s one of the good things of playing for so long — you do feel more adventurous as the years go by. It’s kind of like, “Oh, yeah. I’ve got the confidence to try some other things now.
Most hedonistic song Making Tonight was quite a hedonistic time in general, but I’m going to say “Black Tuesday,” even though it hasn’t actually been released on anything yet. We’ve recorded it and played it live quite a few times. It’s a song about hedonism. It’s about what we would call Black Tuesdays, which is when we used to go out on the weekends and have — how can I put this — let’s just say very hedonistic times on a Sunday night.
The first reference in full is, “I live in the Merchant City, I drive a four-by-four. I eat M&S, it tastes of nothing.” We’d had the band together for a little while and I used to have this old Mercedes Estate — those old, early ’80s Mercedes, the ones with the rails on the top. It looks a bit like a hearse. That’s what I used to drive the band around in. I remember I bought it for £50.
It felt like a very obsessive record. I remember reading about the recording of Trout Mask Replica and how absurdly caught up in their own world they were when they made that record. I always wanted to make a record like that, and that’s really how Tonight felt. We had no windows at all. We had no idea what was going on in the outside world. We were just completely caught up in the creation of this piece of music, and I loved that. It’s total indulgence.
Benefits of using human bones to record ‘No You Girls’ When I think back on that, I don’t feel very good about it. Maybe it’s all to do with the hedonism of that time. I was at an auction in Glasgow and I think I needed to get some chairs or something like that for the studio. At the auction, I saw there was a box of junk and in that box of junk was half a skeleton. I thought it could be a good decoration for the studio.
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