Franz Ferdinand

Boring pop

Franz Ferdinand was most definitely a fun one. It is one of those albums that takes a little bit of time for it to get going but when it does, it really does. I was just shocked seeing just how many of these songs were bangers and have some super catchy rhythms. It was mainly the singles that stuck out to me but many of the regular album tracks still had that fast, fun vibe that i liked about the singles. And there isn't one bad song, sure, the first two songs weren't amazing but they weren't bad, the rest were absolute bangers though and just show how great this album really is.
Best Song: Take Me Out
Worst Song: Jacqueline

Ordentliches alternatives Album einer schottischen Band. Es werden Ska-, Wave-, Rock- und Punkelemente verarbeitet. Es macht das Album interessant und abwechslungsreich. Gute Songs sind “Take me out” und “Jacqueline”.

a very solid early 00s pop rock album. doesn’t overstay its welcome and is pretty consistent throughout

This album was inescapable for a few years. I hadn't heard the whole thing in a long time. It's still a decent album. Jacqueline and Take Me Out are great of course. One thing I love about this album is that it doesn't all sound the same. I mean it's recognizable as the same band obviously, but especially for a first album it's not like they found one sound and stuck to it. There's a lot of different things going on. A lot of it is sort of like indie rock/disco which is a weird mashup that somehow works. I love the bass on this album. A good disco bass is always super fun and mixing it in with an indie rock album is a win in my book.
I'm not sure I would really call this a great album but it's fun. It has a good vibe, is fun to listen to. I'm a little torn on the rating - I'm not sure it's a 4/5 but I think I like it better than 3/5. So who knows. I guess I'll round down because when it was over, I wasn't really hoping for it to keep going. So 3/5 it is I suppose.

first full album listen, only ever listened to this FFFire (not the album version, which is inferior sadly) and take me out due to cyberpunk anime and guitar hero

great album, their sound is distinct in a nice way

Not really a whole lot to say. This is the quintessential sound of the mid 2000s. Not bad, but not that interesting either.

Pretty nice album to listen to, although the lyrics can sometimes be repetitive.

Finally, a Scottish band that doesn't blow. All this generator has been full of when it comes to Scottish music is garbage. Franz Ferdinand, on the other hand, displays talent, and have an interesting sound. It's like a modern day Talking Heads. Like art rock mixed with indie. Take Me Out is a classic. This album transported me back to my university days. Solid album all around.

Favourite songs: Take Me Out, Jacqueline, This Fire, Dark of the Matinee, Michael, 40', Cheating on You

Least favourite songs: Tell Her Tonight

4/5

This is a good enough album. I'd listened to the singles off of it since I was young, and while the rest of the album didn't match up to the singles they at least tried. 2.5/5 -> 3/5

Really annoying britpop

Dang. Every song hits. Not many albums can do that but this one definitely did.

Some okay tunes, a bit (a lot) immature lyrically. "Angular" guitars and pushing the bass up in the mix on top of a disco-style drum groove does not make this anything like post-punk, as I've heard this band described. I'm thinking more Roxy Music than Gang of Four, too slick to truly be a garage band. The best songs are the most popular and those verge on being mere earworms. Hints at heaviness. I vaguely recall reading something recently about listening to bands who aren't very good but have a great record collection. I think FF qualifies. Not a COMPLETE waste of time, but I have pretty limited time.

This definitely was a definitive album of the 2000s. I feel like Franz Ferdinand, along with The Stokes before them and the Arctic Monkeys, were a real driving force of the garage rock revival that determined a lot of the musical trends of the decade.
I did get a bit sick of some of the singles at the time, but only due to them being overplayed. Revisiting this album now, I can appreciate it for what it was, and I forgot how many great songs are on here! Take Me Out, Matinée, This Fire, and Michael were all brilliant singles, and the rest of the album holds up well too. Fair play to them for including a big of homoeroticism in there as well - that was fairly unusual in 2004. The only negative I have about this album is that it has a sort of detached coldness/aloofness that puts me off a bit. Apart from that though, it's great! Just not something I click with that much on an emotional level.

I feel this era of music is one of the weakest, and this album does nothing but back that up. Should be right in my wheelhouse yet I find it surprisingly lacking. 3/5

There comes a point where eventually you stumble into someone you know, maybe not well nor personally, but you're kind of acquaintances all the same. You know each other on a first name basis but you're not pals who hang around. Well, this is my storey about such a person.

The Time: Spring 2001. The Place: Glasgow...

I was a fairly recent dropout from college, I was unemployed and as part of my burden on society, the jobcentre offered me a place at a little college 3 days a week to learn how to build PCs and assorted IT related menial tasks because I told them I was a web designer (go figure). Now for those 3 days over a few months we had different people come in and show us the ropes, like Pico (real name unknown) taught us how to built networks, how to crimp cables and put the appropriate connector on them and wire it all up properly; Ken taught us how to put things together in a PC chassis while regaling us of far fetched stories of how a crunchy keyboard really meant you had a bajillion spider eggs in your keyboard instead of, say, toast crumbs; and finally Alex, he was a cool younger guy who didn't try to bullshit us, he took everything Pico and Ken taught us and tied it all together, he also had a million music recommendations because he ran open mic night at a music pub in Glasgow.

One of his recommendations was Carboot Soul bu Nightmares On Wax and to this day it remains a favourite of mine for comfy lofi beats, but I digress.

After a few months I got a job not doing PC builds and left the course to become a functional member of society and within a few years I had up and moved to America to follow my dream. So now we're in 2004, and firstly, THIS WAS NOT 20 YEARS AGO, how dare you, and secondly we're invited to go see a fun little show run by local alt radio station 99X at The Masquerade in Atlanta. Killer lineup, literally because it was The Killer co-headlining with one Franz Ferdinand. The Delays, The Whigs and Scissor Sisters were also on the bill so eat that people.

Glorious night, went down in Masquerade lore, floor almost collapsed but you could have put me straight through the floor when Franz Ferdinand came on and the singer introduces himself.

Its fucking Alex Huntley from Anniesland College.

So I give him a knowing nod and he ignored me and that's how we've remained to this day...

This was mostly inoffensive and occasionally fun.

Pop-rockia, ihan hyvin soitettuna. Ansaitseeko olla listalla, sitä en tiedä. 3/5

Up there with the best U.K. indie albums of the 00’s. Probably doesn’t get the credit it deserves due to how overplayed take me out was at the time. Really good to come back to this album today and appreciate it. Franz Ferdinand a very underrated Scottish band in my opinion.

Kind of boring but some good tunes. Can hear a lot of what indie rock sounds like today. Way ahead of its time