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
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
#1. Blue Moon Baby
Hello! And Welcome to the first installment of Bloo Moon Baby's Pick of The Day!
I hope to daily post a song that I think deserves your attention and then give a little (or big) background check on the origins of this particular song, depending on what I can find out about it. Knowing me I will probably post to this blog daily for two weeks and then think "Fuck this" I only have one follower :D And then not do it daily. Just for a little warning. Anyway lets get into the first song.
It is none other then Blue Moon Baby! The version I will be posting is actually a cover by The Cramps, the band that originally got me into this song, and wanting me to adopt it as an username of sorts as well as Blue Moon Baby who also possibly thought the same and took advantage that the name was free before I did.... Oh well!
Anyway the original version of the song was penned and performed by none other then Dave 'Diddlie' Day. Who is that you may ask? Well I don't know much about him myself but I've found out that his real name is actually David Fatalsky, and that Blue Moon Baby was released on a little LP in 1957 called "Fee Bee" accompanied by a little ditty called 'Suzanne My Love'. A video is posted on youtube of this original song which you can find here. Except for this his life work, if he worked his life to music as we do not know, is somewhat living in obscurity. Somewhat but not completely.
Thanks to The Cramps who were quite fiendish with their covers, at one point having enough material to actually release an album of their best covers, at least this one song by Davey Day (He goes by a lot of names) is still alive and throbbing in the hearts, and groins, of fans from all walks of life. The Cramps cover is pretty similar to the original, nothing too extreme has been added or taken away. Instead the authentic Crampish Zombi Surfer style, as I like to call it, is very much there, the country bass, the twangish twangs, the foot stomping beats, and for the Zombi effect, Lux Interior (R.I.P) wailing out desperately in his woe for "Blue Moon Baby".
So why should you listen to Blue Moon Baby? As a fellow Cramps fiend said; "He's (Lux) just singin' damn sexy." True,true true. But if you are not one to go for a song on how sexy the singer sounds moaning and groaning to you. I think that you should listen to this song anyway. I like the story weaved into the lyrics about "A Crazy Little Chick" who can change the lives of naive young men in bars with just a glance, spend a little time with him, possibly sleep with him for a little cash, and then completely ruin him and his naivety and once finished turn around to find the next. The name Blue Moon Baby gives the impression that she, herself is naive but she is most definately a devilish fiend.
If I haven't convinced you yet, whether you don't agree with my points or my arguments are badly laid out I recommend that you take a listen to the song and tell me what you think. A little comment won't go amiss... Blue Moon Baby by the Cramps can be found on a Re-Issue of "A Date With Elvis, or here in this little link. Read the info up above this post about downloading these sample songs.
Anyway I better go for now, See you later, Baby See you later!
Strych
Ps: If anyone has a better site to recommend buying Hardcopy albums from except for Amazon I would love to be linked to it.Thanks! :D
I hope to daily post a song that I think deserves your attention and then give a little (or big) background check on the origins of this particular song, depending on what I can find out about it. Knowing me I will probably post to this blog daily for two weeks and then think "Fuck this" I only have one follower :D And then not do it daily. Just for a little warning. Anyway lets get into the first song.
It is none other then Blue Moon Baby! The version I will be posting is actually a cover by The Cramps, the band that originally got me into this song, and wanting me to adopt it as an username of sorts as well as Blue Moon Baby who also possibly thought the same and took advantage that the name was free before I did.... Oh well!
Anyway the original version of the song was penned and performed by none other then Dave 'Diddlie' Day. Who is that you may ask? Well I don't know much about him myself but I've found out that his real name is actually David Fatalsky, and that Blue Moon Baby was released on a little LP in 1957 called "Fee Bee" accompanied by a little ditty called 'Suzanne My Love'. A video is posted on youtube of this original song which you can find here. Except for this his life work, if he worked his life to music as we do not know, is somewhat living in obscurity. Somewhat but not completely.
Thanks to The Cramps who were quite fiendish with their covers, at one point having enough material to actually release an album of their best covers, at least this one song by Davey Day (He goes by a lot of names) is still alive and throbbing in the hearts, and groins, of fans from all walks of life. The Cramps cover is pretty similar to the original, nothing too extreme has been added or taken away. Instead the authentic Crampish Zombi Surfer style, as I like to call it, is very much there, the country bass, the twangish twangs, the foot stomping beats, and for the Zombi effect, Lux Interior (R.I.P) wailing out desperately in his woe for "Blue Moon Baby".
So why should you listen to Blue Moon Baby? As a fellow Cramps fiend said; "He's (Lux) just singin' damn sexy." True,true true. But if you are not one to go for a song on how sexy the singer sounds moaning and groaning to you. I think that you should listen to this song anyway. I like the story weaved into the lyrics about "A Crazy Little Chick" who can change the lives of naive young men in bars with just a glance, spend a little time with him, possibly sleep with him for a little cash, and then completely ruin him and his naivety and once finished turn around to find the next. The name Blue Moon Baby gives the impression that she, herself is naive but she is most definately a devilish fiend.
If I haven't convinced you yet, whether you don't agree with my points or my arguments are badly laid out I recommend that you take a listen to the song and tell me what you think. A little comment won't go amiss... Blue Moon Baby by the Cramps can be found on a Re-Issue of "A Date With Elvis, or here in this little link. Read the info up above this post about downloading these sample songs.
Anyway I better go for now, See you later, Baby See you later!
Strych
Ps: If anyone has a better site to recommend buying Hardcopy albums from except for Amazon I would love to be linked to it.Thanks! :D
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