Yet, think about how many times in our lives we have relationships, friendships, that end. “I feel there’s so many bittersweet songs about the end of romantic relationships - ‘It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue’ or my favorite, ‘So Long Marianne,'” Kapranos notes. Then there’s “Billy Goodbye,” an acknowledged “stomper” that offers a rumination about the end of a non-romantic relationship. Sometimes I like doing those things where you give yourself arbitrary limitations.”
I just started singing over it, and then I put that beat behind it. “We were stuck in this house in the middle of nowhere which had a piano, and I had my guitar and I had this lovely descending chord sequence that worked well. “It was just, like, a little experiment,” he recalls. Kapranos programmed the dance-flavored “Curious,” which he began writing while stranded in France, to the same bpm as the Bee Gees’ “Stayin’ Alive” after reading that the rate was “perfectly in tune with the human heart.” While Hits to the Head‘s 20 songs are drawn primarily from Franz Ferdinand’s five studio albums - including smashes such as “Take Me Out,” “Do You Want To,” “Ulysses” and “No You Girls” - it does nod towards the future that interests Kapranos most, ending with a pair of new tracks written during the lockdown. But I’m glad to be moving into the future as well, working on new songs - starting a Vol. But it’s good in your life, occasionally, to take a glance backwards in order to understand where you are so you can go into the future. “I don’t really listen to the records once I’ve done them. “Generally, I don’t like looking back at the past,” he explains. The hits album concept was also a bit a stretch for Kapranos, who remains, along with bassist Bob Hardy from the group’s original lineup that formed in Glasgow during 2002. It’s the songs that have universal appeal.” It’s not necessarily my personal favorites, even. It’s the bangers! I felt like, ‘Would I play the song if I was headlining a festival?’ If yes, then it went on.
“It was easy,” Kapranos tells Consequence by Zoom from London, where the quintet is preparing for a European tour, which begins in April. Rest assured that it was not difficult for Alex Kapranos and the Franz Ferdinand team to select tracks for Hits to the Head, the best-of set coming out March 11th to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the band’s formation. The post The Past and Future of Franz Ferdinand appeared first on Consequence.
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