![]() Since “Darts of Pleasure” was the single that started everything for Franz Ferdinand, it’s the song that begins the collection. That’s 20 songs in all, coming in just under 70 minutes, highlighting Franz Ferdinand’s tendency for brevity, even when making a concept album (nothing is included from their collaboration with Sparks). You Can Have It So Much Better and Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Actions get four songs apiece, three come from Tonight: Franz Ferdinand, and Always Ascending comes in last with only two numbers. The band’s eponymous debut is represented the most with five tracks. The collection runs chronologically, placing the two new songs at the end. Hits to the Head was co-produced by Kapranos and fellow band member Julian Corrie, who didn’t join until 2017, and the heavily in-demand producer Stuart Price. I disagree.” You can look at these two songs as bait if you wish, but just know that you have Kapranos’ blessing to participate in the un-hip practice of purchasing his band’s best-of. “I have friends who believe you’re somehow not a ‘real’ fan if you own a best of rather than a discography. ![]() Singer Alex Kapranos himself scoffs at the idea that greatest hits compilations aren’t cool. If you possess all five of the band’s albums, will you need this one? Not if you don’t want the two new songs “Curious” and “Billy Goodbye”. After 19 years in the business and various lineup changes, Franz Ferdinand offer up their first compilation, Hits to the Head. “Franz who? Oh yeah, those guys.” Since then, the band has kept their noses to the grindstone with 2013’s Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Actions, and 2018’s lofty-titled Always Ascending. The album sold modestly, garnered mixed reviews, and allowed the band to shake off any fairweather fans. And then they did what all other major label bands do: they took four years to plot their next move.īy the time Tonight: Franz Ferdinand appeared in 2009, much of the excitement surrounding the band was starting to fade. 2005’s You Could Have It So Much Better did not set the world alight, but it gathered the band plenty of favorable reviews and scored another hit with the pogo-ready “Do You Want To”. But when it comes to major label acts that can potentially drive the stock price of a media conglomerate? It’s almost unheard of. If you follow indie rock or jazz, releasing albums quickly is par for the course. Then Franz Ferdinand did the unthinkable they released their sophomore album the following calendar year. The album received excellent reviews, and their songs were getting stuck in everyone’s head. “I say, don’t you know? / You say, you don’t know / I say, take me out!” It wasn’t much, but it did the trick. Their first album caught everyone’s attention instantly thanks to the singles “Darts of Pleasure” and “Take Me Out”, the latter finding its way into many outlets of American media, including commercials. One band that did its best to muscle through all the discouraging calls of “one-hit wonders!” and “copy cats!” was the Scottish band Franz Ferdinand. ![]() Regardless of how some legends may have felt, fame and fortune came calling and did their best to separate the wheat from the chaff. When asked about how he felt about all of these post-punk/new wave revivalists name-dropping early XTC as an influence, Andy Partridge dryly referred to this new cluster of bands as “Future Dogs Die in Kaiser Ferdinand’s Hot Hot Car Party”. Around this time, a flurry of English, Irish, and Scottish bands were signed to major labels and shot their way to stardom both in their homelands and around the world. ![]() But by 2003, people were missing the ’90s already. The 1990s were over, and with it all of the chart-storming singles and controversial headlines that fueled the music press’ fascination with the Blur vs. Not long after the turn of the millennium, someone somewhere decided that Britpop was due for a revival.
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