Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better
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Artist: Franz FerdinandBrand: Columbia
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Dual Disc
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 Villain
- You Could Have It So Much Better
- Fade Together
- Outsiders
Music reviews of You Could Have It So Much Better
Music Review: Great Music, Worthless Technology
Rating: 2 Stars
Over the past year or so I've danced around buying Franz Ferdinand's stuff. What I heard on the radio from the first album was okay, but I felt it still wasn't quite "there," like the first album of a great band that was still waiting to find their sound. When I heard cuts from the new album, however, I was very excited to get the disc and was looking forward to becoming a Franz Ferdinand addict.
The good news is that there's some solid work on this CD. "Do You Want To", "This Boy", "Evil and a Heathen", "You're the Reason I'm Leaving," "Eleanor Put Your Boots On," and "I'm Your Villain" all make the price of the album worthwhile, evoking a weird mixture between 1960s surf and early 80s punk. Although the album suffers a bit from a bit too much "sameness" from one cut to the next, it's a highly listenable outing for a second album.
Now comes the bad news, which is the reason this album got two instead of four stars. If you do the majority of your music listening with a portable music player like an iPod, then be prepared for the fact that Franz Ferdinand's publishers have decided they don't want you to legally buy their product and make it convenient for you to enjoy. This disc won't play on most computers, which means you can't pull the songs into iTunes, which means it never gets onto your iPod. If you're like me, if it doesn't get onto your iPod, you may never get around to listening to it because you don't want to have to haul around the 100s of CDs you own. It's the twenty first century, and it's knuckle-dragging-STUPID to expect people go BACK to having to lug around huge CD cases in their cars because of patently moronic copy protection schemes. Don't these publishers realize that junk like this will only encourage the piracy of the music they're trying to protect! The idiots at their label behind this scheme need to be lined up and shot.
Description of You Could Have It So Much Better
Franz Ferdinand's eagerly-awaited second album You Could Have It So Much Better. Co-produced by the band and Rich Costey, and recorded in both rural Scotland and at Avatar Studios in NYC, the album features 13 brand new tracks including 'Do You Want To'. Sony. 2005.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 Vaziri
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