Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better
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Artist: Franz FerdinandEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-10-04
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- The Fallen
- Do You Want To
- This Boy
- Walk Away
- Evil And A Heathen
- You're The Reason I'm Leaving
- Eleanor Put Your Boots On
- Well That Was Easy
- What You Meant
- I'm Your Villian
- You Could Have It So Much Better
- Fade Together
- Outsiders
Music reviews of You Could Have It So Much Better
Music Review: Could Have Used More Variety
Rating: 3 Stars
Being a big fan of Franz Ferdinand's first piece of work, especially the classic "Take Me Out," I checked out their follow-up album to see if they could avoid the sophomore slump and provide us some more rock anthems. This album has a problem though in the lack of variety. Either their sound doesn't permit a great deal of variety, or the vocals don't permit it. Either way, it's a very monotonous record.
In fact, the first track is the best track, and it's the best gauge to see if you're going to like the rest of the album, because if you love the song, then you can stand listening to the whole album in one sitting. Otherwise, you're out of luck. Not to say it's a bad album, it just could have used more depth to it. So, hardcore fans unite, everybody else find other means.
Real Score: 2.5
Description of You Could Have It So Much Better
After more than a year spent on the road behind their breakthrough self-titled debut--just how many times can Alex Kapranos sing "Take Me Out" without getting his skinny tie into a knot, anyway?--you might expect the members of Franz Ferdinand to feel a little frayed around the edges. But if You Could Have It So Much Better was supposed to be a bloated sophomore album focusing on bad airline meals and cold hotel swimming pools, somebody forgot to tell the Mercury Music Prize winning Scottish quartet. Instead, the Franzies return with a disc packed with thrilling punk-pop treatises like the single "Do You Want To," political rabble-rousers such as opener "The Fallen," and lovely psychedelic ballads that explore the common ground between the Beatles and Bowie, like "Eleanor Put You Boots On" (about Eleanor Freidberger of the Fiery Furnaces, no less). It's a stunning, confident piece of work that suggests the band is merely getting started. --Aidin VaziriGeneral CDs
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