You Could Have It So Much Better

Franz Ferdinand

Franz Ferdinand / You Could Have It So Much Better
Genre: music4me > Rock > Rock
Format: CD Album
Released: Tue 4 Oct 2005
Catalogue Number: SNY94800.2
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Description:
Franz Ferdinand: Nicholas McCarthy (vocals, guitar, keyboard); Alexander Kapranos (vocals, guitar); Robert Hardy (bass guitar); Paul Thomson (drums).

Often referred to as Scotland's Interpol, Franz Ferdinand made the scene with a sound that, like its NYC contemporary, owed a huge debt to 1980s post-punk and new wave. That fact, along with the members' snappy outfits and art-school sensibilities, allowed the group to easily slide into a fan-space somewhere between The Strokes and The Rapture. While the Wire influence is still in full effect on the Glasgow quartet's second full-length album, YOU COULD HAVE IT SO MUCH BETTER, there are also big dollops of Beatles, from the throbbing McCartney-esque bass on "The Fallen" to the "Julia"-style vocals on the acoustic ballad "Fade Together." With its clever lyrics and jaunty feel, "Eleanor Put Your Boots On" mines mid-period Kinks territory, while "Walk Away" recalls the clever wordplay and loopy melodies of XTC. Elsewhere, the group refines its melding of frenetic Duran Duran-approved dance rhythms and Duane Eddy-by-way-of-Adam Ant twang guitar, delivering a bracing and high-energy platter of stylish and danceable rock.

Details:

  • Discs: 1

Track Listing:

1.  Fallen, The
2.  Do You Want To
3.  This Boy
4.  Walk Away
5.  Evil and a Heathen
6.  You're the Reason I'm Leaving
7.  Eleanor Put Your Boots On
8.  Well That Was Easy
9.  What You Meant
10.  I'm Your Villian
11.  You Could Have It So Much Better
12.  Fade Together
13.  Outsiders

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