#2. 40 Feet

40'? Don't you mean 12.19200m?




No! 40' is the song of the day! Hello again! Still here I am. 40' is a song by a little band I like called Franz Ferdinand! Well it's not so much as like as it's more "THEY ARE MY FAVOURITEIST BAND OF ALL TIME! I SHALL MARRY THE BAND AND MAKE LITTLE FRANZ BABIES" Hahahaha! :D

Anyway to serious business. 40' is not my favourite Franz Ferdinand song but it is very up there as a fucking fantastic Franz song, you may call me as bias as you want but it doesn't change the facts, and I think that you should have a little listen.

40' is the final song on Franz Ferdinand's First album Franz Ferdinand (so good they didn't need to bother with another name) which was recorded in Switzerland with Tore Johansson as their producer in 2004, the same year as Harry Potter and The Prisoner or Azkaban was released just so you know, Like you care anyway. So before I get sidetracked 40' came into being vaguely around 2003. It written co-operatively by the guitarist and the vocalist of Franz Ferdinand Nick McCarthy and Alex Kapranos.

Compared to "Take Me Out" the song that took Franz Ferdinand into international fame, 40' is much more deeper, as deep as the icy waters of Ben Nevis where Kapranos claims in an interview (can't find link) came the inspiration for the song. Instead of the sunny fun afternoon spent jumping off a rock into the waterfall, the song however in my opinion deals instead with falling off a 400' cliff and the struggle in trying to prevent the inevitable splat. You can hear yells and strange bells(the slowed down backwards recording of a gate crashing shut in fact.) during the climatic guitar sessions (I regret that this is not a voice post as I would be imitating the noises right now) which reminds me of the rush to fall and then this will suddenly lull, the only thing audible is a numbing bass and Kapranos's haunting "Lalalalalalalalalalalala" it's as if the protaganist of the lyric manages to grab onto a branch and prevents the fall for a short time.

What made me think that 40' would be a good song to someone who didn't know who Franz was? Well it's because of a mate of mine I had from school. I shall call him Gloria, even if Gloria is a girls name. Anyway he refused to listen to Franz Ferdinand on the principle that he thought they sounded pretentious because they named themselves "Franz Ferdinand" which he felt mocked the... blahblahblahblah, the speech was as long as that wiki article. Anyway he was having a listen to a couple of my songs at the end of an English class, and 40' popped up,and he starts imitating the drums on the desk, Gloria is a drummer, the cymbals crashing the imaginary foot drum and the same bouncy thing that Paul Thomson does. So even if someone as anti-Franz as Gloria would like that song even if it was for the glorious beat then I should share it.


So download and enjoy! If you like it buy the album, hint hint, Of course if you have any comments about what you think of the song don't hesitate to type them down below!

Lots of Love!

Strych!

Ps: I might do this every second day as it takes much longer to research and I do have a life, not a big one but I dooo :D