The slow death of punk: "That Franz Ferdinand are a pretty good group is beyond doubt, but in historical context, they're also depressingly conservative...
Naturally, blaming the musicians for all this is a little unfair. The fact that they seem trapped in pastiche is traceable to our residence in a world in which an endless past is built into the present: how do you slough off the hegemony of The Beatles, Stones, Clash, Smiths et al when their supremacy is fixed by CD reissues, DVDs and those nostalgia-crazed TV stations? When it comes to their dearth of substance, it's hardly the bands' fault that 21st-century pop culture is built on a mix of political quiescence and gormless machismo."
The man's claim of what music was, in those good old days, probably only exists in his own hindsight. Politeness as a band trait--how positively genteel!
