One (still visibly sleepy) had danced to Take Me Out at a club the night before.
I gave the lyrics to a seminar class - 20 of UCL's brightest and best. It's not a ballgame the speaker wants to be taken out to.
It opens: "So if you're lonely/You know I'm here/Waiting for you/I'm just a cross-hair/Just a shot away from you." The song revolves around the repeated plea, "Take me out". The lyrics, by Alex Kapranos and Nick McCarthy, are in the form of a monologue.
#ARCHDUKE FRANZ FERDINAND BAND FULL#
Musically, it's full of surprises - not least a tempo change 50 seconds in which is the musical equivalent of the Grand Canyon. Shame on us professors.įF's breakthrough track, pre-released as a single, is called Take Me Out. Wisely he asked to remain anonymous "out of embarrassment". "A lot of repetition", "not much rhyme" and "some quite good imagery" was the best Glasgow's most esteemed could come up with. And, I regret to say, I am royally unflummoxed by my professorial colleague's explication of them.
Coinciding with its release they opened at the 2004 NME awards to universal acclaim. Their first CD (called, economically, Franz Ferdinand) has broken sales records. As of last Monday, Franz Ferdinand is a super band.
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