Franz Ferdinand

Franz Ferdinand Artist: Franz Ferdinand
Label: Domino
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 801390002724
EAN: 0801390002724
ASIN: B0001ENYKS


Release Date: 2004-03-09

Franz Ferdinand


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Tracks:

  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

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Amazon.com

<I>Franz Ferdinand</I> 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. <I>--Mike McGonigal</I>

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Fun Stuff.......2007-03-19

After hearing take me out over and over again i figured this band wrote one decent song that was going to be hyped until they faded. I imagined people would buy their album based on that song and be thouroughly dissapointed with the rest of the material. Well one of my friends bought it, what fool i thought, after listening through the album while playing ping-pong i realized i was. . .WRONG! THIS ALBUM IS SICK. Fun single note guitar riffs that instantly hook and move you, fun upbeat drums keep it moving as well, creative and clear basslines, and of course some occasional whacked out lyrics. While take me out is a great song there are even better ones. And Michael is a great song to sing along to, especially in your car at a red light-with the windows down.

4 out of 5 stars Certainly More Fun than the Archduke Ever Was .......2007-02-27

Endlessly peppy, FF is a fine listen when spirits are low. But they are as fluffy as Stellastarr* and after the 39 short minutes of the CD, I felt like I'd had enough aural cotton candy for awhile. They play great pop, they sing well, the hooks are irresistible if repetitive and best of all they clearly have a good time without a smidgen of angst drama. Next question -- can they keep that touching lack of self-aggrandizing while toughening their sound and moving beyond gleeful borrowing to some originality. We'll see. For now, keepers include The Dark of the Matinee, Darts of Pleasure, and Michael.

5 out of 5 stars Best pop-rock album of recent years.......2007-02-15

This is a really great CD, it has that raw energy that rockers had back in 1970s and that is long gone from the rock-n-roll establishment. This days you either find energy or decent melody, but almost never these two come together. Franz Ferdinand is making a point of giving each song a "hook" as they call it, a tune that sticks in your head and makes you want to dance or jump or simply listen to it again.
Having said that I was quite disappointed with their second CD which I think does not compare to this one. I hope they will keep writing and singing and performing for years to come. I am certainly looking forward to hearing more of them.

1 out of 5 stars Music for TV commercials and Movie soundtracks.......2006-12-18

Want your jeans/soft drink commercial to appear "cool"? Just pick a track from this "indie-rock-music-by-numbers" album!

I have heard this album at work a zillion times. It irritated me at first, then it bored me and now I hope I never hear it again.

Yes, this is rock music eating itself / rock music as a cover version of itself / rock music as an extension of corporate rock culture.

Verdict? Tedious, dull and predictable.

5 out of 5 stars

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