Product Details

* Audio CD (April 20, 2004)
* Label: Sony
* ASIN: B0001ZMWQO
* Other Editions: Audio CD
* Average Customer Review: based on 416 reviews. (Write a review.)
* Amazon.com Sales Rank: #363 in Music (See Top Sellers in Music)
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2. tell her tonight Listen Listen
3. take me out Listen Listen
4. matinee Listen Listen
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6. cheating on you Listen Listen
7. this fire Listen Listen
8. darts of pleasure Listen Listen
9. michael Listen Listen
10. come on home Listen Listen
11. 40 ft Listen Listen

Editorial 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. 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
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