Every time I look up Can't Stop Feeling by Franz Ferdinand and this comes up at the top it feels like being shot in the chest

I'm imagining Roger Waters up at the mic wearing a robe and nightcap and holding a little candle while recording this

There's something hypnotic about this one for me.
It starts with only bass and drums during the first verse before adding guitar and tamborine as it goes along, one of my favorite music "tropes" out there and fits the growing intensity of this sort of story. The distinct singing, the focus on the bass, and an insanely catchy melody played with a dark sound really compliments the idea of something love song-adjacent between two people who I unfortunately now know exist! :)

I can't believe I expected this album to be bad. I get why 90% of strokes fans I see have a ventetta against fantano now

(95 -> 80 😔)
Teenagers relate to it which means it's GARBAGE ‼‼ I HATE EDGY TEENAGERS I HATE WHEN ANNOYING CHILDREN HAVE THINGS TARGETED TOWARDS THEM THAT THEY CAN RELATE TO IT MAKES ME SO ANGRY 嗥叫嗥叫冲击嗥叫咬牙切齿冲击你们败坏我的音乐这只我的别人听不懂我讨厌你我讨厌你我希望这些孩子杀他们自己！！！！

Genuinely good enough that you could play it on a rock station and no one would ever know it came from burger show

I like that he made a whole song for the 3 second Weird Al gag
Up is a really good opening and the rest works well for their scenes!
The Doctor and Penny are me fr

The only trans representation I need 🔥

I like that this song really feels like they threw a a combination of two words out there, started asking questions about the logic of it, then just turned the answers into lyrics. It's just such a fun song!

Same rating as Valley for the exact opposite reasons. It doesn't do anything interesting, but damnit it's just a nice melancholy experience and I appreciate the different mood from the rest of the Song Machine singles. The objectively kinda bad vocals still sell the emotion. Especially pretty towards the end with the slow transition into piano and switch over to Damon, it contrasts the rest of the song nicely while still carrying the same mood.
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Probably objectively great, but not really my favorite. I get why everyone loves this one, but it can be just a bit grating for me, it's not one of my favorite instrumentals. The asthetic is on point for what it's going for. It's a fun ride, I'm gonna enjoy it whenever I listen to the album and I'm glad it exists, but I don't come back to it as much as the other Song Machine songs (and when I do it's mostly to see the band gleefully endanger their lives in GTA)

REAL !!!

They Might Be Giants are capable of doing sadder and more serious songs that fit in their signature wordplay and strangeness naturally (They'll Need A Crane is a great example) but depite being a somewhat tragic song about wishing to meet a stranger on the other side of the world and desperately believing any sign that they're connected, the tone of Ana Ng is fun as hell. It sounds determined and passionate, which fits the narrative of the song and the thoughts of the narrator. The concept ... read more

I added this to the site because I wanted to add it to my best album art tag but it. seems like it's already on the website as an EP? Even though that's not showing up on the FF page? uh. hm.

anyways banger

listen to L. Wells too it's one of their best single cuts

men

Probably the album of theirs that has grown on me the most over time.

The color pallets of a Franz Ferdinand album always capture the experience really well, most of all in this album's case: Black, white, pink. Classic and weird. Edgy and fun. A pendulum of mood and personality between each song. It's a "listen in any order" type of album while still being strong as an overall album experience - each song picks up or slows down the mood from another, and it holds your attention ... read more

Very calming. The outro Ribbon Falls seems to be about making music to help lift someone out of darkness, and the tender-hearted writing, soft singing and soothing melodies of the album does that effectively, with some punches of more experimental ideas. Rougher at points than his next album School of Velocity, mostly with a few beat/instrumentation choices I find a little unappealing when listening closely or just overall feeling more unpolished and less consistent. Overall it's mostly ... read more

My least favorite song from my favorite band! Apparently I’m in the minority on this, glad people like it but I’m a bit nervous over if the next FF album will end up being more this. It goes pretty hard live though, probably because of less bubble sound effects and weird sounding guitar and… whatever effect they did to Alex’s voice here. Chorus is kinda catchy but is also where the “crowded” sound is at its worst.
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I can't count or do math anymore because of the Woke Left so I can't really comment on this song I'm afraid

This is probably my least favorite FF album. It’s still an 84 for me. Yeah, I'm a little obsessed with these guys.

I think this album is a little less than the sum of its parts. There’s their other albums like YCHISMB and Tonight with a consistent sound plus great pacing that moves like a story when all put together, and albums like RTRWRA with a variety of sounds and out-there ideas that are entertaining when listened to together even if the order isn't as important.

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