Take Me Out [Single, Import]

Franz Ferdinand | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 10, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Single, Import
• Label: Domino
• ASIN: B00014TP4M
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #352,045 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Take Me Out

2. All for You, Sophia

3. Words So Leisured

Editorial Reviews

2004 single from Glasgow's art-damaged rock quartet taken from their 2004 self titled debut, features the title track backed with two non-LP tracks, 'All For You Sophia' & 'Words So Leisured'. Domino.

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars Dance Rock For The New Millenium, May 6, 2004

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Aaron Weakley (NSW, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Take Me Out (Audio CD)

The opening of "Take Me Out" could have you thinking you are listening to the latest release from The Strokes, Interpol or even the re-emergence of Joy Division (The latter only concerns those who have already blown out 25 candles). Not so. Around the 50-second mark the tempo slows and hip Scottish four-piece, Franz Ferdinand change direction injecting the funkiest of guitar riffs and a percussive arrangement much like what New Order and Duran Duran had the masses dancing to all those years ago.
Artfully stylish production has the bass rolling and bumping along as the designated driver for the guitar and vocals - who are having the time of their lives and that feeling soon infects the listener. Just try and stay seated. Without noticing you will be up dancing around the room doing your best air guitar.
Lyrics like "I'm just a Crosshair" and "I know I won't be leaving here with you" suggest solemnity rather than festivity and their conveyance in a slight accent not too dissimilar to Ian Brown (The Stone Roses) clouds interpretation even further. So by definition it is a tangled web of irony. But then again who really cares, there is too much fun to be had.
Comparisons will be drawn to the aforementioned modern-retro rock acts, but be sure this track is what they would have produced if they had shifted flair and audacity from their image into their music. Prepare yourself for a riff-fuelled enslavement not seen since the Stoners unleashed No One Knows.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good single, not so much the b-sides., June 12, 2004

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Mark McLaughlin "pop culture junkie" (Deerfield Beach, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Take Me Out (Audio CD)

I really got into the first track and was let down by the two subsuqent tracks. I wish I would have just invested in their full length rather than buying this and than that.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars they're ludicrously tasty..., January 25, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Take Me Out (Audio CD)

i saw these guys in brighton england(and met nick) and they're by far one of the best bands i've ever heard of in my entire life! if only they'd play in boise...