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Franz Ferdinand (album)

Index Franz Ferdinand (album)

Franz Ferdinand is the debut studio album by Scottish indie rock band Franz Ferdinand. [1]

62 relations: Album, Alex Kapranos, AllMusic, Backing vocalist, Bass guitar, BBC, BBC Music, Billboard 200, Blender (magazine), Bob Hardy (bassist), Clash (magazine), Compact disc, Dance-punk, Darts of Pleasure, Domino Recording Company, Drum kit, Franz Ferdinand (band), Garage rock, Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album, Indie rock, Japan, Keyboard instrument, Lead guitar, Lead vocalist, Los Angeles Times, Malmö, Mercury Prize, Metacritic, Michael (Franz Ferdinand song), Mojo (magazine), Music Week, Nick McCarthy, NME, Nu metal, Online magazine, Paul Thomson, Percussion instrument, Phonograph record, Pitchfork (website), Planet Sound, Pop Idol, Post-punk, Post-punk revival, Q (magazine), Recording Industry Association of America, Rhythm guitar, Robert Christgau, Rolling Stone, Singing, Sony Music Entertainment Japan, ..., Take Me Out (song), The Dark of the Matinée, The Guardian, The Village Voice, This Fire (Franz Ferdinand song), Tore Johansson, Uncut (magazine), United Kingdom, United States, You Could Have It So Much Better, 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, 47th Annual Grammy Awards. Expand index (12 more) »

Album

An album is a collection of audio recordings issued as a single item on CD, record, audio tape or another medium.

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Alex Kapranos

Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley (born 20 March 1972) is a Scottish, musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and author.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Backing vocalist

Backing vocalists are singers who provide vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists.

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Bass guitar

The bass guitar (also known as electric bass, or bass) is a stringed instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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BBC Music

BBC Music is an umbrella title used by the BBC to collect together its music output.

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Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States.

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Blender (magazine)

Blender was an American music magazine that billed itself as "the ultimate guide to music and more".

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Bob Hardy (bassist)

Robert Byron "Bob" Hardy (born 16 August 1980) is an English musician and the bassist for the Glasgow-based band Franz Ferdinand.

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Clash (magazine)

Clash is a music and fashion magazine and website based in the United Kingdom.

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Compact disc

Compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was co-developed by Philips and Sony and released in 1982.

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Dance-punk

Dance-punk (also known as disco-punk or funk-punk) is a music genre that emerged in the late 1970s, and is closely associated with the post-punk and new wave movements.

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Darts of Pleasure

"Darts of Pleasure" is the debut single by the Glasgow-based indie rock band Franz Ferdinand, released in the United Kingdom on 8 September 2003 and in North America on 18 November 2003, both through Domino Records.

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Domino Recording Company

Domino Recording Company (also known as Domino Records, generally known as Domino) is a British independent record label based in London.

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Drum kit

A drum kit — also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums — is a collection of drums and other percussion instruments, typically cymbals, which are set up on stands to be played by a single player, with drumsticks held in both hands, and the feet operating pedals that control the hi-hat cymbal and the beater for the bass drum.

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Franz Ferdinand (band)

Franz Ferdinand are a Scottish indie rock band, formed in 2002 and based in Glasgow.

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Garage rock

Garage rock (sometimes called 60s punk or garage punk) is a raw and energetic style of rock and roll that flourished in the mid-1960s, most notably in the United States and Canada, and has experienced various revivals in the last several decades.

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Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album

The Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album is an award presented to recording artists for quality albums in the alternative genre at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards.

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Indie rock

Indie rock is a genre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom in the 1970s.

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Japan

Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.

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Keyboard instrument

A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers which are pressed by the fingers.

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Lead guitar

Lead guitar is a musical part for a guitar in which the guitarist plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure.

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Lead vocalist

The lead vocalist (or main vocalist, lead vocals or lead singer) in popular music is typically the member of a group or band whose voice is the most prominent in a performance where multiple voices may be heard.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.

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Malmö

Malmö (Malmø) is the capital and largest city of the Swedish county of Scania.

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Mercury Prize

The Mercury Prize, formerly called the Mercury Music Prize, is an annual music prize awarded for the best album released in the United Kingdom by a British or Irish act.

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Metacritic

Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of media products: music albums, video games, films, TV shows, and formerly, books.

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Michael (Franz Ferdinand song)

"Michael" is a song by Scottish indie rock band Franz Ferdinand.

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Mojo (magazine)

Mojo is a popular music magazine published initially by Emap, and since January 2008 by Bauer, monthly in the United Kingdom.

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Music Week

Music Week is a trade paper for the UK record industry.

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Nick McCarthy

Nicholas John "Nick" McCarthy (born 13 December 1974) is a German-English musician.

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NME

New Musical Express (NME) is a British music journalism website and former magazine that has been published since 1952.

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Nu metal

Nu metal (also known as nü-metal and) is a subgenre of that combines elements of with elements of other music genres such as hip hop, alternative rock, funk, industrial and grunge.

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Online magazine

An online magazine is a magazine published on the Internet, through bulletin board systems and other forms of public computer networks.

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Paul Thomson

Paul Robert Thomson (born 15 September 1976) is the drummer for the Glasgow-based band, Franz Ferdinand.

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Percussion instrument

A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater (including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles); struck, scraped or rubbed by hand; or struck against another similar instrument.

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Phonograph record

A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English, or record) is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove.

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Pitchfork (website)

Pitchfork is an American online magazine launched in 1995 by Ryan Schreiber, based in Chicago, Illinois and owned by Condé Nast.

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Planet Sound

Planet Sound was a Teletext music page on ITV and Channel 4 in the UK, active from 1997 until 2009.

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Pop Idol

Pop Idol is a British television music competition created by Simon Fuller which ran on ITV from 2001 to 2003.

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Post-punk

Post-punk (originally called new musick) is a broad type of rock music that emerged from the punk movement of the 1970s, in which artists departed from the simplicity and traditionalism of punk rock to adopt a variety of avant-garde sensibilities.

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Post-punk revival

Post-punk revival (also known as "new wave revival", "garage rock revival"J. Stuessy and S. D. Lipscomb, Rock and roll: its History and Stylistic Development (London: Pearson Prentice Hall, 5th edn., 2006),, p. 451. or "new rock revolution") is a genre of alternative rock and indie rock that developed in the late 1990s and early 2000s, inspired by the original sounds and aesthetics of garage rock of the 1960s and new wave and post-punk of the 1980s.

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Q (magazine)

Q is a popular music magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom.

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Recording Industry Association of America

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is a trade organization that represents the recording industry in the United States.

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Rhythm guitar

In music performances, rhythm guitar is a technique and role that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with other instruments from the rhythm section (e.g., drumkit, bass guitar); and to provide all or part of the harmony, i.e. the chords from a song's chord progression, where a chord is a group of notes played together.

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Robert Christgau

Robert Thomas Christgau (born April 18, 1942) is an American essayist and music journalist.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on popular culture.

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Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.

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Sony Music Entertainment Japan

, often abbreviated as SMEJ or simply SME, and also known as Sony Music Japan for short, is Sony's music arm in Japan.

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Take Me Out (song)

"Take Me Out" is a song by Scottish indie rock band Franz Ferdinand.

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The Dark of the Matinée

"The Dark of the Matinée" (also known simply as "Matinée") is a song by Scottish indie rock band Franz Ferdinand.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Village Voice

The Village Voice is an American news and culture paper, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly.

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This Fire (Franz Ferdinand song)

"This Fire" (stylised as "This Fffire" in the single release) is the fifth single by Glasgow-based indie rock band Franz Ferdinand from their eponymous album.

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Tore Johansson

Tore Johansson (born 6 November 1959) is a Swedish record producer, composer and musician based in Malmö, Sweden.

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Uncut (magazine)

Uncut magazine, trademarked as UNCUT, is a monthly publication based in London.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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You Could Have It So Much Better

You Could Have It So Much Better is the second studio album by Scottish indie rock band Franz Ferdinand.

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1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die

1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die is a musical reference book first published in 2005 by Universe Publishing.

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47th Annual Grammy Awards

The 47th Annual Grammy Awards were held on February 13, 2005 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Ferdinand_(album)

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