Saturday, February 19, 2011

Franz Ferdinand - This Fire

Franz Ferdinand Studio album by Franz Ferdinand Released 9 February 2004 Recorded 2003 Genre Post-punk, indie rock Length 38:45 (single disc) 54:35 (double disc) Label Domino Records Producer Franz Ferdinand, Tore Johansson Franz Ferdinand is the debut album by Scottish indie rock band Franz Ferdinand, released in early 2004. It entered the United Kingdom album charts at number three in February 2004 and contains three UK top ten singles: “Take Me Out”, “This Fire” (on the download chart) and “The Dark of the Matinée” or “Matinée”. Franz Ferdinand won the 2004 Mercury Music Prize. The album has since sold over 3.6 million copies worldwide. The album is notable as one of the very few modern albums that are not compressed to the max in participation of the loudness war. Chart performance The album entered the UK album charts at #3 in February 2004 and at #12 on the Australian ARIA album charts in April 2004. The album entered the Billboard 200 album charts on April 26, 2004, and climbed slowly, peaking at #32 in December 2004. It reached #2 on the Heatseeker chart for new acts. As of September 2004, there have been five different singles released from the album: The “Darts of Pleasure” EP reached the top 50 of the UK singles charts in September 2003. “Take Me Out” reached the top 5 of the UK charts, top 10 of the Irish charts and top 40 in a composite European chart. “The Dark of the Matinée” or “Matinée” reached the top 10 of the UK singles charts and top 30 of the World
Video Rating: 4 / 5

Get the whole uninterrupted Lehrer performance on DVD! www.shoutfactorystore.com Amazon.com will ship the CD/DVD to all countries: www.amazon.com Tom Lehrer songs on iTunes: itunes.apple.com Over the years a lot of people have been offended by this song, also on YouTube. Now you can read Tom Lehrer’s own introduction to the song, played by The Music Show in Australia when he was interviewed on the telephone a few years ago: – - – Another big news story of the year (1965) concerned the Ecumenical Council in Rome, known as Vatican II. Among the things they did, in an attempt to make the church more commercial, was to introduce the vernacular into portions of the mass to replace Latin, and to widen somewhat the range of music permissible in the liturgy. But I feel that if they really want to sell the product in this secular age, what they ought to do is to re-do some of the liturgical music in popular song forms. I have a modest example here. It’s called The Vatican Rag… – - – Lehrer said “OK” to “The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel” on YouTube, as long as the performance is not altered and as long as it’s free in the YouTube flash video format. Click on the user name and visit the channel’s front page. The channel is Lehrer only. And here is a link to a NEW channel support page: home.broadpark.no © 2011 Tom Lehrer Recording date: September 11th 1967 Format: Ampex Quadruplex PAL 4:3 Status: A very rare recording Storage: Sony Digital Betacam Production and preservation: The
Video Rating: 4 / 5

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