Franz Ferdinand burst on the scene in 2004 with the second single from their self-titled debut.
The meaning of the song has long been debated. Some believe it to be about a sniper that’s about to kill his target while others believe it’s about romantic love.
Whatever it’s about — it’s a great, rocking tune. I love the guitar throughout and the shifts in tempo. The latter is tough to pull off, but the band does it well.
Is it too early to be nostalgic about music from the ’00s?
I heard this song in the car today and I thought it might be the start of a new feature — the quintessential songs of the noughts. Maybe in ten years, some twelve-year-old kid will stumble across this blog and get exposed to some good tunes. Who knows, maybe it will be my boy (who just turned two).
Here are a few fun facts from the song’s wiki page:
The song is known for its underlying riff, which plays throughout most of the song. Although it sounds like a bass guitar (an instrument the group had famously never previously used), the sound is actually created by running Jack White’s semi-acoustic guitar (a 1950s style Kay Hollowbody) through a Digitech Whammy pedal set down an octave. The riff was composed at a sound check before a show at the Corner Hotel in Melbourne, Australia.
According to White, “Seven Nation Army” is what he used to call the Salvation Army as a child.
Italian football fans and ultras picked the song up when Roma played in and against Club Brugge for the UEFA Cup. [8] They often chant the song’s signature guitar riff ever since, most notably during Italy’s campaign in the 2006 FIFA World Cup. About 10 million Italians, all across the nation, were supposedly singing the song during celebrations following the final victory.
A few more tidbits from SongFacts:
This, along with the rest of [Elephant], was recorded on analogue equipment that was over 50 years old at Toe Rag Studios. Toe Rag Studios were set up in Hackney, east London in 1991 as a strictly analogue enterprise using only pre-1960 studio equipment. The success of Elephant established Toe Rag as a trendy antidote to digital music-making.
According to White neither the labels in America or in the UK wanted to put this out as the first single. They eventually relented and it became the White Stripes’ first Hot 100 hit in the US and Top 10 entry in Britain.
Here’s Justin Timberlake and Jamie Foxx attending the UJA Federation of New York’s 2009 Music Visionary Award at The Pierre Hotel last summer in New York City.
The two of them recently teamed up on Jamie Foxx’s new single – “Winner.”
The song is called “There Goes My Love” by The Blue Van, a Danish blues-rock van. The commercial has been all over the airwaves lately, but if you’ve been living under a rock (or are just really good with the 30-second skip button on your DVR remote), take a listen:
The song is from the band’s third album, Man Up. I reviewed their first two efforts, The Art of Rolling and Dear Independence and enjoyed them both. Here are a few highlights from their first two releases:
I am running on fumes right now and will likely crash at any minute. I’d like to blame it on an eight-hour work day, but I’d be lying. No, the real reason I’m absolutely exhausted is because I just completed an excruciatingly long draft for a fantasy baseball league. We’re talking 24 teams and 22 rounds of rabid attention, filled with both bouts of glory and misery. It’s consumed my day, and now I’m left in a crumbling, yet mildly accomplished state. Still, I wanted to post something.
To the delight of many, The Black Keys will release Brothers on Nonesuch Records on May 18. I’ve got two of their full lengths and an EP, and I’m just waiting for the band to produce something truly great. I know they’ve already reached an impressive level of popularity, but I feel the band is capable doing something more sonically challenging. Well, we now have a new song on their MySpace called “Tighten Up” (apparently the album’s first single), and it definitely is a step in the right direction. I love that rhythm change toward the end. It comes out of nowhere.
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