History Music / FranzFerdinand

!!The band and their music contain examples of:

Franz Ferdinand is a Scottish PostPunk[=/=]DancePunk band formed in 2002. They're named after a racehorse, Archduke Ferdinand, which was named after the Austrian archduke whose assassination sparked UsefulNotes/WorldWarI.

** Played straight however with their cover of [[Music/{{Blondie}} "Call Me"]].

* TheRoaringTwenties: Their first album ''runneth over'' with the references to the '20s -- especially in the videos, which are obviously influenced by UsefulNotes/{{Dada}} and Vkhutemas/Soviet Constructivism.

* SharpDressedMan: All four of them. Look at the page picture. Alternately, look at [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haW_ruZ_Be8 the video for "This Fire"]]. It goes with everything they've done, too, from the Soviet Constructivist look of their first album to whatever you call what they're doing now.

-->"Do You Want To"

The musicians are:

* OpeningTheme: "This Fire" serves as this for ''Anime/CyberpunkEdgerunners''.

[[caption-width-right:350: Left to right: Alex, Paul, Nick and Bob.]]

* ''Always Ascending'' (2018)
* ''Hits to the Head'' (2022)

* DoggedNiceGuy: {{Deconstructed|Trope}} in "Johnny Delusional".
-->''I know "yes" and "no" in a couple dozen other languages\\
But your form of "no" is the kind of look I can't deny\\
Tell me, are persistance and stupidity the same?\\
Tell me, is resistance so enticing, please explain?\\
\\
Though I want you\\
I know I haven't a chance\\
Still I want you\\
Johnny Delusional here''

* LongTitle: "Eleanor Put Your Boots On", ''You Could Have It So Much Better'', ''Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action''.

* Bob Hardy - bass guitar

* AlliterativeTitle: "Swallow, Smile", "Forty Feet" (usually written as "40'"). Album wise, there's ''Always Ascending'' and ''Hits to the ''Head''.

* NotChristianRock: Nobody would ever accuse Franz Ferdinand of being a Christian band, but given "Auf Achse", "The Fallen", and a few other songs, it's pretty obvious that if nothing else, Alex's year of Theology at the University of Glasgow gave him a firm grip on Christian imagery (and a distinct vision of Christ, to boot).

** In the lyrics booklet, the line "come and dance with me" in "Michael" is preceded by a crossed-out "[[Music/TheRollingStones come all over me]]."

* AlliterativeTitle: "Swallow, Smile", "Forty Feet" (usually written as "40'"). Always Ascending.

* ObsessionSong: "This Fire".

* Paul Thomson - drums

* Nick [=McCarthy=]- backing vocals, keyboard, rhythm guitar (Left the band in July 2016 to focus on his family.)

!!The band and their music contains examples of:

Tell me, are persistance and stupidity the same?\\

** A variant appears in the video for "Feel the Love Go", it's filmed in grainy VHS quality with 480 aspect ratio, appropriate for the 80's theme of the video.

* StylisticSuck: The video for "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIR5vBiC3ig Evil Eye]]" is made to look like a low budget horror film.

** "Evil Eye". Even with the low budget horror film look, it still doesn't explain everything going on there.

** "Love Illumination'', It cuts to rapidly shifting random patterns, weirdly sexual images, stiffly moving creatures, the band in animal masks, and a bunch of other strangeness. Drugs not required.

* AscendedFanboy: The whole band is one to Music/{{Sparks}}. Around the time Franz's debut came out, Alex wrote a flattering article about them in the NME. Flash forward ten years, and the two bands have recorded a whole album together.