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Franz Ferdinand
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0827969244128
Label: Sony
Manufacturer: Sony
MPN: 92441
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Sony
Release Date: April 20, 2004
Studio: Sony
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Editorial Review:
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. 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 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 even to those without slanty, messy haircuts. --Mike McGonigal
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Standout!
These four young men who met at art school in Glasgow lay claim to an unfairly forgotten lineage of Scots post-punk pop. A timely conflation of snappy art-funk and spiralling guitars, Darts of Pleasure, the best three-track debut single since Suede's The Drowners, narrowly missed out on a top 40 placing last month. January's follow-up, Take Me Out, will almost certainly take the band on to Top of the Pops.
Rating: - Stands a damn good chance of becoming a classic
Franz Ferdinand were one of the best bands to make it big during the post-Strokes Indie rock revolution of the early 2000s (i.e., now). They had all the right ingredients: tight, catchy songs with angular guitars vaguely funky rhythms, just the right combination of punk, dance, and pop influences, and a hipper-than-hip aesthetic that combined everything that was cool between 1975 and last month. As a result, their debut album garnered a heap of critical praise and great sales. And they say that good ... Read More
Rating: - Follow lead
I love this CD. It is rare that I find one that I like every track on it, but this one is great. The lyrics are smart, the music is catchy and complex without being pretentious. Mostly, it's fun.
Rating: - very danceable and worth repeated listening
I play this one quite a lot, because there are so many great tracks on it. It's great to dance to, though you can also use it for ambient music while you are cleaning or something equally mundane, just to liven things up a bit. If there is another FF album, I would be interested in it.
Rating:  - One of the decade's most overhyped albums. (3.5)
Okay, so in spite the title, the record isn't really bad. However, in spite the glowing reviews of praise, it isn't anything extraordinary or even ground-breaking for that matter. There are too many bands to name of the past 25+ years who played "post-punk" that played in a similar vein to this group. Yet for some reason people go ga-ga on this. I suppose it's another case of the guys being British, and critics just love those kinds of bands. The comparisons to the Strokes made a lot of sense when it ... Read More
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