![]() ![]() You could read "Animal Farm" and think it's just a nice story about animals if you want to, a great farmyard tale, or Aesop's fables in the same manner. Be they Magdelan or virgin, you've already been, you've already been and we've already seen that the fallen are the virtuous among us, walk among us, never judge us to be blessed. ![]() You turn the rich into wine, walk on the mean. KAPRANOS: (Singing) Did I see you in a limousine flinging out the fish and the unleavened. Yet I know some people that are just going to say, `Oh, yeah, it's just a fun little pop song.' And so, yeah, like in "The Fallen," I'm trying to write about a hell of a lot of things, things that are important to me, thing that are-I'm talking about so many different subjects there. You have to understand that some people are going to take it as nothing but a catchy tune. KAPRANOS: I don't think you can be precious about your music, no matter how grand your intentions are. SACHS: If putting an ecclesiastical allegory to a really good dance beat sounds strange, it shouldn't, says lead singer Alex Kapranos. KAPRANOS: (Singing) So you say you're a troubled boy just because you like to destroy all the things that bring the idiots joy. On the new album "You Could Have It So Much Better," the first track, "The Fallen," alludes to a Christlike figures who forces self-righteous people to reassess their value systems. Lead singer Alex Kapranos often writes complex ideas and intimate personal stories and then buries them under a loud, pulsing rhythm. SACHS: Not surprisingly, Franz Ferdinand is a band of contradictions. ![]() ALEX KAPRANOS (Franz Ferdinand): (Singing) I say, `Don't you know?' You say, `You don't know.' I say, `Take me out.' It was a musical turning point, birthing a new genre described as post-punk. "Take Me Out," from Franz Ferdinand's self-titled debut, was more than just a hit. NPR's Rob Sachs caught up with them backstage. The Scottish quartet is now on tour promoting its new album. But for a new generation, the name simply means a rock band whose music is fun to dance to. History buffs may remember the name Franz Ferdinand as the archduke of Austria-Hungary, whose assassination led to the start of World War I. ![]()
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