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Franz Ferdinand

~ Franz Ferdinand (Artist)
3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (139 customer reviews)
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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

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5.0 out of 5 stars Arch Dukes, Jul 8 2004
By Captain Cook (Leeward to the Sandwich Islands) - See all my reviews
In 1990 Glasgow was named "European Capital of Culture." In 2004 it finally merited the title by serving as the launchpad of one of the most cultured rock bands on the planet: Franz Ferdinand, a group of four musicians from different parts of the UK, who met less than 2 years ago on the Glasgow student/club scene.

Their cultural depth is nowhere more evident than in the skillful use of Surrealist collage and Soviet Constructivism to highlight the mechanical, brutalised feel of the music on the video for "Take Me Out."

Although often called a hard city, musical tastes in Glasgow have always been more fey, louche, and decadent, in an old-fashioned Weimar Republic sort of way, leading to music that is both more unique and, until now, less commercially successful than the beerish, laddish rock or druggy blip-blip stuff that has (mis)represented Britain over recent years.

Franz Ferdinand's take on post-punk, retro 80s, art rock (with globs of funk and lounge singing thrown in) is among other things, an expression of this. The attitude -- angular guitars/ rushed, glib, affecting arrangements/ detached, ironic singing -- fits perfectly with the slightly peeved way people feel in big cities, unleashing some of the same modernist angst still associated with bands like Joy Division, but with a Talking Heads sense of fun.

Catchy yet edgy; traditional yet fresh!

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3.0 out of 5 stars Good for a while..., Aug 13 2008
By Martine "MC" (Montreal) - See all my reviews
When I first purchased this album & bought it for the power songs. I then noticed they were pretty much the only songs & enjoyed. The album took a while to grow on me & in the end I don't think it quite did! Buy if you're a fan! I did not bother listening to their second album after that! Same problem... 1 power song & then the rest is just no good enough.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Superb Album., Oct 29 2005
By bookworm (CANADA) - See all my reviews
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").I may not like all the tracks in here but these jewels,Auf Achse,The dark of matinee,Darts of pleasure and the overplayed and overhyped Take me out are amazing!I am not really into British sound(too much for me to internalize,their sounds are like poetry and I mean really)but this is a fun album.This album is on heavy rotation on my mp3(yup, I buy my music, thank you very much) but I do not like the sophomore album, I dunno it may take some time to grow on me, say six months ha....ha....ha....
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5.0 out of 5 stars 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

2.0 out of 5 stars Why all the hype?
I bought this album before "Take Me Out" had hit the radio and I was disappointed from the beginning. Read more
Published on Mar 28 2005 by itwouldbeme

5.0 out of 5 stars 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 20 2005

2.0 out of 5 stars 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

4.0 out of 5 stars 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. Read more
Published on Feb 5 2005 by Music Lover

4.0 out of 5 stars 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
Published on Dec 8 2004 by scapin11

3.0 out of 5 stars 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

5.0 out of 5 stars What do I feel for Franz Ferdinand?
Love. Love love LOVE!!!!!!

This is an awesome album. Not too hard, not too 80s. Just pure awesome-ness.

Published on Aug 10 2004 by mynameiskim

5.0 out of 5 stars wooo---ROCK!
All the songs in this album are fantastic!! Franz Ferdinand is an incredibly talented band that creates fearless music! Read more
Published on Jul 20 2004 by Liz

1.0 out of 5 stars Franz Ferdinand kicks ass!!
okay where do i start this is the greastest alt rock alblum ever enough said
Published on Jul 19 2004 by FLiPhkd245

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