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Track Listings
| 1. jacqueline |
| 2. tell her tonight |
| 3. take me out |
| 4. matinee |
| 5. auf acshe |
| 6. cheating on you |
| 7. this fire |
| 8. darts of pleasure |
| 9. michael |
| 10. come on home |
| 11. 40 ft |
Product Description
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Franz Ferdinand is an unrelentingly smart, fluffy, and fun debut. This Scottish four-piece plays vaguely angular, guitar-heavy post-pop that makes you want to dance around the room while playing air guitar. It's the ideal hipster guilty-pleasure music for 2004. This is what the Rapture and Interpol would sound like if they wrote songs half as good as those they rip off, or the Strokes if their parents had sent them to art school instead of the fashion academy. Every song on here is so blatantly derivative it sounds almost original, like a modern Blur without the gloomy hangover. It's too early yet to tell if this is just a band for the moment or one for the ages--but who really cares with pop music, anyway? Songs like "Darts of Pleasure," "Come on Home," "Take Me Out," and "Cheating on You" are so good they will surely appeal to those without slanty, messy haircuts. --Mike McGonigal
Album Description
Glasgow's art-damaged rock quartet Franz Ferdinand - named for the Austro-Hungarian Archduke whose murder sparked World War I - features bassist Bob Hardy, guitarist Nick McCarthy, drummer Paul Thomson, and singer/guitarist Alex Kapranos. This is there 20
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
wooo---ROCK!
July 19 2004
Format:Audio CD
All the songs in this album are fantastic!! Franz Ferdinand is an incredibly talented band that creates fearless music! They respect many different genres of music and they aren't (...) enough to say so. So, you see, you dimwitted metal rock punktards, you don't have to publicly hate pop music to be successful. No fear!!! wooo! music! wooo! WOOO!!! WOOOOOOO!!!
Why all the hype?
Mar 28 2005
Format:Audio CD
I bought this album before "Take Me Out" had hit the radio and I was disappointed from the beginning. Being a fan of the BritPop/Rock scene I thought I'd found a new gem, but this album is nothing but a boring, ho hum effort. I don't understand why this album has garnered so much attention and critical aclaim. The only standout track is "Take Me Out", and the rest did nothing to inspire me or really even catch my attention. I had a tough time "getting into" the album and gave up after 3 or 4 plays through. Franz Ferdinand just doesn't do it for me.
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Good for a while...
When I first purchased this album & bought it for the power songs. I then noticed they were pretty much the only songs & enjoyed. Read more
Published on Aug 13 2008 by Martine
Superb Album.
I do not buy a cd on the strength of one or few songs unless those songs can redeem its entirety(Foo Fighter's "All My Life"). Read more
Published on Oct 29 2005 by bookworm
Franz Ferdinand are the best band out there right now...
This is such a great CD and I would, and have, recommended it to everyone I know. All of the songs are so good that I don't know how they decided which ones to make singles. Read more
Published on Sep 17 2005
AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This C.D. is amazing. I love take me out, auf achse, the dark of the matinee, and this fire. Not only are the lyrics good, but the music is great too! This C.D. Read more
Published on Mar 19 2005
Overhyped Garbage
I love the songs Take Me Out and Auf Asche, but for the most part this album blows, and the hype is completely unjustified. Read more
Published on Feb 11 2005 by Jeff V
The best album I heard in 2004!
I got this album after hearing the first single, Take Me Out, a very good song with a catchy guitar riff. When I first got the album, I wasn't that impressed, but it grew on me! Read more
Published on Feb 5 2005 by Music Lover
A listening Pleasure.
One of the coolest Cd's of the year. This Scottish Quartet has
mixed 80S NEW WAVE, WITH 70S DISCO brilliantly. KEEPS You moving while listening. Read more
mixed 80S NEW WAVE, WITH 70S DISCO brilliantly. KEEPS You moving while listening. Read more
Published on Dec 8 2004 by "scapin11"
bad rock or good music?
this album is a return to the dark side of the 70s where rock slowly evaproated into whatever the heck the 80s were. Read more
Published on Oct 19 2004 by walid habboub
Franz Ferdinand kicks ass!!
okay where do i start this is the greastest alt rock alblum ever enough said
Published on July 19 2004 by FLiPhkd245
If I could only have one CD for the rest of my life...
Okay, well, who knows what my taste will be like when I'm an old person? But, I know what I like at this phase in my life, and it is precisely what Franz Ferdinand dishes out:... Read more
Published on July 19 2004 by Victoria
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