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* UsefulNotes/{{Buddhism}}: ''Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action'' is a free adaptation from the Noble Eightfold Path.
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* {{Ending Theme}}/{{Real Song Theme Tune}}: EndingTheme: "Do You Want To" is the ending theme to ''Manga/ParadiseKiss''.
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* FiveTokenBand: Sort of. Paul is the only one that's purely Scottish. Bob is English, Nick was raised in Germany, and Alex is half-Greek. Note that they don't really play this up, certain...[[YaoiFangirl ahem, fangirls]] do.
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* FiveTokenBand: Sort of. Paul is the only one that's purely Scottish. Bob is English, Nick was raised in Germany, and Alex is half-Greek. Note that they don't really play this up, certain...[[YaoiFangirl ahem, fangirls]] do.
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* OlderThanTheyLook: Bob is 35, Alex is 37, Paul is 39 and Nick is '''41'''.
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* OopNorth: Other than Paul (who is Glasgow born and raised), the whole band originally hails from here. Alex spent his first eight years in Tyne and Wear,[[note]]Partially in the small city of Washington. As in [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington George]]; it's where the first POTUS' ancestors came from. So Alex can claim to be "from Washington" and not be lying.[[/note]] Nick was born in Blackpool (and then grew up in Germany), and Bob is from Bradford in West Yorkshire.
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: As Kyle McGovern [=McGovern=] of Spin magazine noted regarding the "Evil Eye" music video:
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* OlderThanTheyLook: Bob is 33, Nick is 37, Paul is 39 and Alex is '''41'''.
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* TheBackwardsR: In, at minimum, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haW_ruZ_Be8 the video for "This Fire"]].
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* TheBackwardsR: In, at minimum, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haW_ruZ_Be8 the video for "This Fire"]]. Fitting, as the video has a heavy influence of Soviet Constructivist art.
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** ''I'm on [[Creator/TheBBC BBC Two]] now/Telling Radio/TerryWogan how/I made it and/What I made is not clear now/But his laughter is and his deference is...''
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** ''I'm At the end of "The Dark of the Matinée": ''So I'm on [[Creator/TheBBC BBC Two]] 2]] now/Telling Radio/TerryWogan how/I made it and/What I made is not clear now/But his laughter is and his deference is...''
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* MadnessMantra: The outro of "Treason! Animals" as said in the lyric packet. "I am an animal, oh give me an animal crown (x infinity)"
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* Yandere: The FFS song "So Desu Ne".
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* ReligionRantSong: "The Fallen". As Alex would have it, JesusWasWayCool, and were he alive today, would be hanging with the poor and downtrodden, and not the self-declared Christians drinking champagne and riding in limousines. (In other words, [[Creator/FriedrichNietzsche the last Christian died on the Cross]], and [[MahatmaGandhi Christ is so unlike the Christians]]).
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* ReligionRantSong: "The Fallen". As Alex would have it, JesusWasWayCool, and were he alive today, would be hanging with the poor and downtrodden, and not the self-declared Christians drinking champagne and riding in limousines. (In other words, [[Creator/FriedrichNietzsche the last Christian died on the Cross]], and [[MahatmaGandhi [[UsefulNotes/MahatmaGandhi Christ is so unlike the Christians]]).
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** "Love Illumination'', It cuts to rapidly shifting random patterns, weirldy sexual images, stiffly moving creatures, the band in animal masks, and a bunch of other strangeness. Drugs not required.
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* CrossOver: They are currently recording an album with Music/{{Sparks}}.
* {{Supergroup}}: They formed FFS with Music/{{Sparks}} in the mid-2010s, and they made it clear that it was a whole new band and not Sparks backed by Franz Ferdinand or Franz Ferdinand featuring Sparks.
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* ViolentGlaswegian: Subverted by how the band started. Nick drunkenly stole Alex's bottle of vodka at a drunken party in (where else?) Glasgow. On the edge of a fight, Alex asks Nick : "Can you play the drums?" (as Paul was the one who originally played the guitar). It turned out he really couldn't, but they switched things around, and a band was born.
** This fight may or may not have also ended with the two kissing.
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* ViolentGlaswegian: Subverted by how the band started. Nick drunkenly stole Alex's bottle of vodka at a drunken party in (where else?) Glasgow. On the edge of a fight, Alex asks Nick : "Can you play the drums?" (as Paul was the one who originally played the guitar). It turned out he really couldn't, but they switched things around, and a band was born.
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* AscendedFanboy: The whole band are 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 an whole album together.
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* AscendedFanboy: The whole band are 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 an a whole album together.
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* AscendedFanboy: The whole band are one to Music/Sparks. Around the time Franz's debut came out, Alex wrote a flattering article about them in the NME about them. Ten years later, the two bands have recorded an whole album together.
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* AscendedFanboy: The whole band are one to Music/Sparks. Music/{{Sparks}}. Around the time Franz's debut came out, Alex wrote a flattering article about them in the NME about them. Ten years later, NME. Flash forward ten years, and the two bands have recorded an whole album together.
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* AscendedFanboy: The whole band are one to Music/Sparks. Around the time Franz's debut came out, Alex wrote a flattering article about them in the NME about them. Ten years later, the two bands have recorded an whole album together.
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** In the lyrics booklet, the line "come and dance with me" in "Michael" is preceded by a crossed-out "[[RollingStones come all over me]]."
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* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The videos for "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3zzTXNS4Aw L. Wells]]", "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc6l3XeA_94 Jeremy Fraser]]", and "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMfjROpKCnw Bullet]]" and a lot of promotional pictures.
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* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The videos for "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3zzTXNS4Aw L. Wells]]", "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc6l3XeA_94 Jeremy Fraser]]", and "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMfjROpKCnw Bullet]]" and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAbPx_-IJBI Fresh Strawberries]] and a lot of promotional pictures.pictures. Its fair to say they quite like this trope.
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* Unnamed ''FFS'' (2015) - Collaborative album with Music/{{Sparks}} (In production)
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* ''Franz Ferdinand'' ''Music/FranzFerdinand2004'' (2004)
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* TheRoaringTwenties: Their first album ''runneth over'' with the references to the '20s--especially in the videos, which are obviously influenced by {{Dada}} and Vkhutemas/Soviet Constructivism.
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** "Take Me Out", making use of collage techniques similar to {{Dada}} and Creator/TerryGilliam's animations for Creator/MontyPython.
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** ''I'm on [[TheBBC BBC Two]] now/Telling Radio/TerryWogan how/I made it and/What I made is not clear now/But his laughter is and his deference is...''
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Franz Ferdinand is a Scottish [[PostPunk post-punk]]/DancePunk band formed in 2002. Their band name is named both after the Austrian archduke whose assassination sparked UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne, as well as a racehorse named Archduke Ferdinand (which was [[NamesTheSame named after the archduke]]).
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Franz Ferdinand is a Scottish [[PostPunk post-punk]]/DancePunk band formed in 2002. Their band name is They're named both after the Austrian archduke whose assassination sparked UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne, as well as a racehorse named Archduke Ferdinand (which was [[NamesTheSame named after the archduke]]).
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-->'' "The clip splices together a stomach-turning montage of gross-out footage: Blood spewing from a sink faucet, people getting butchered and dismembered, throats being cut, cannibalism, and frontman Alex Kapranos sporting [[PornStache a dirtbag moustache]].''
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Franz Ferdinand is a Scottish [[PostPunk post-punk]]/{{dance-punk}} band formed in 2002. Their band name is named both after the Austrian archduke whose assassination sparked UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne, as well as a racehorse named Archduke Ferdinand (which was [[NamesTheSame named after the archduke]]).
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Franz Ferdinand is a Scottish [[PostPunk post-punk]]/{{dance-punk}} post-punk]]/DancePunk band formed in 2002. Their band name is named both after the Austrian archduke whose assassination sparked UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne, as well as a racehorse named Archduke Ferdinand (which was [[NamesTheSame named after the archduke]]).
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* EvenTheGuysWantHim \ StupidSexyFlanders: "Michael".
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* CaptainObvious: This extract from "This Fire": "Now there is a fire in me, a fire that burns".
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* CaptainObvious: This extract from "This Fire": "Now Fire":
-->"Now there is a fire in me, a fire that burns".
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* TheCoverChangesTheGender: averted (e.g.: "Womanizer").
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* TheCoverChangesTheGender: averted (e.g.: "Womanizer").Averted with their cover of "Womanizer".
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* DreamWalker: a common interpretation of "Lucid Dreams" is that it's about a man wanting his lover to join him in dreamland.
* EndingTheme: Surprisingly, "Do You Want To" is the ending theme to ''ParadiseKiss''.
* EndingTheme: Surprisingly, "Do You Want To" is the ending theme to ''ParadiseKiss''.
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* DreamWalker: a A common interpretation of "Lucid Dreams" is that it's about a man wanting his lover to join him in dreamland.
*EndingTheme: Surprisingly, {{Ending Theme}}/{{Real Song Theme Tune}}: "Do You Want To" is the ending theme to ''ParadiseKiss''.''Manga/ParadiseKiss''.
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* InTheStyleOf: "Eleanor Put Your Boots On" and "Wine in the Afternoon" have both often been described as [[Music/TheBeatles "beatlesque"]].
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* InTheStyleOf: InTheStyleOf:
** "Eleanor Put Your Boots On" and "Wine in the Afternoon"have both often been are described as [[Music/TheBeatles "beatlesque"]].
** "Eleanor Put Your Boots On" and "Wine in the Afternoon"
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* LifeIsButADream: the narrator of "Lucid Dreams" lives in lucid dreams and prefers it that way.
* LongDistanceRelationship: the subject of "Come On Home" and "Eleanor Put Your Boots On".
* LongDistanceRelationship: the subject of "Come On Home" and "Eleanor Put Your Boots On".
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* LifeIsButADream: the The narrator of "Lucid Dreams" lives in lucid dreams and prefers it that way.
* LongDistanceRelationship:the The subject of "Come On Home" and "Eleanor Put Your Boots On".
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* OdeToIntoxication: "Ulysses".
** "Wine in the Afternoon" mostly averts this, since it's a pretty standard love song with the drinking thrown in as a bonus.
** "Wine in the Afternoon" mostly averts this, since it's a pretty standard love song with the drinking thrown in as a bonus.
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* OdeToIntoxication: OdeToIntoxication:
** "Ulysses".
** Averted with "Wine in theAfternoon" mostly averts this, since it's Afternoon". It's a pretty standard love song with song; the drinking is thrown in as a bonus.
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* OneWomanSong: "Jacqueline" and "L. Wells" (the L. is short for "Lynsey").
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* OneWomanSong: OneWomanSong:
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* OopNorth: Other than Paul (who is Glasgow born and raised), the whole band originally hails from here. Alex spent his first eight years in Tyne and Wear,[[note]]Partially in the small city of Washington. As in [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington George]]; it's where the first POTUS' ancestors came from. So Alex can claim to be "from Washington" and not be lying.[[/note]] Nick was born in Blackpool (and then grew up in Germany), and Bob is from West Yorkshire (Bradford to be precise).
* PerspectiveFlip: at the end of "No You Girls", the lyrics are sung from a girl's point of view.
* RecycledLyrics: Taken to its logical extreme; "No You Girls" and "Katherine Kiss Me" are ''the same song'', on the same album, with a different melody. In fact, the demo version of "No You Girls" is named "Catherine Kiss me", as seen in Alex's Soundcloud.
* PerspectiveFlip: at the end of "No You Girls", the lyrics are sung from a girl's point of view.
* RecycledLyrics: Taken to its logical extreme; "No You Girls" and "Katherine Kiss Me" are ''the same song'', on the same album, with a different melody. In fact, the demo version of "No You Girls" is named "Catherine Kiss me", as seen in Alex's Soundcloud.
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* OopNorth: Other than Paul (who is Glasgow born and raised), the whole band originally hails from here. Alex spent his first eight years in Tyne and Wear,[[note]]Partially in the small city of Washington. As in [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington George]]; it's where the first POTUS' ancestors came from. So Alex can claim to be "from Washington" and not be lying.[[/note]] Nick was born in Blackpool (and then grew up in Germany), and Bob is from Bradford in West Yorkshire (Bradford to be precise).
Yorkshire.
* PerspectiveFlip:at At the end of "No You Girls", the lyrics are sung from a girl's point of view.
* RecycledLyrics: Taken to its logical extreme; "No You Girls" and "Katherine Kiss Me" are ''the same song'', on the same album, with a different melody.In fact, This is driven home on Alex's Soundcloud, where the demo version of "No You Girls" is named "Catherine Kiss me", as seen in Alex's Soundcloud.me".
* PerspectiveFlip:
* RecycledLyrics: Taken to its logical extreme; "No You Girls" and "Katherine Kiss Me" are ''the same song'', on the same album, with a different melody.
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* TheRoaringTwenties: Their first album ''runneth over'' with the references to the '20s--especially in the videos, which are obviously influenced by Dada and Vkhutemas/Soviet Constructivism.
* SelfTitledAlbum: their first one. Actually, originally every single album would be named just ''Franz Ferdinand'', and the variation would be the cover, but the idea was dropped.
* SharpDressedMan: All four of them. Look at the page picture. Just look at it. Alternately, look at [[http://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 they're doing now.
* SelfTitledAlbum: their first one. Actually, originally every single album would be named just ''Franz Ferdinand'', and the variation would be the cover, but the idea was dropped.
* SharpDressedMan: All four of them. Look at the page picture. Just look at it. Alternately, look at [[http://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 they're doing now.
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* TheRoaringTwenties: Their first album ''runneth over'' with the references to the '20s--especially in the videos, which are obviously influenced by Dada {{Dada}} and Vkhutemas/Soviet Constructivism.
* SelfTitledAlbum:their first one. Actually, originally Their debut. Originally every single album would be named just ''Franz Ferdinand'', and the variation would be differentiated by the cover, but the idea was dropped.
* SharpDressedMan: All four of them. Look at the page picture. Just look at it. Alternately, look at [[http://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.
* SelfTitledAlbum:
* SharpDressedMan: All four of them. Look at the page picture.
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* ShoutOut: In the lyrics booklet, the line "come and dance with me" in "Michael" is preceded by a crossed-out "[[RollingStones come all over me]]."
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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
** In the lyrics booklet, the line "come and dance with me" in "Michael" is preceded by a crossed-out "[[RollingStones come all over me]]."
** In the lyrics booklet, the line "come and dance with me" in "Michael" is preceded by a crossed-out "[[RollingStones come all over me]]."
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** "Walk Away" is rife with references (to Radio 4 and various historical figures).
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* StepUpToTheMicrophone: some of the songs (e.g. "Jeremy Fraser", "Fabulously Lazy" and "Van Tango") are sung by Nick, and the German version of "Tell Her Tonight" is sung by Paul.
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* StepUpToTheMicrophone: some Some of the songs (e.g. "Jeremy Fraser", "Fabulously Lazy" and "Van Tango") are sung by Nick, and the German version of "Tell Her Tonight" is sung by Paul.
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* SubliminalSeduction: if played backwards, "Michael" contains a secret message ("Call your mother, she's worried about you").
* SurrealMusicVideo: What the hell happened again in "Take Me Out"?
** The deliberate use of collage techniques is reminiscent of [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible Dada "art"]]. Dada is a movement primarily associated with taking place during UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne, and the lyrics can be interpreted as being about the real Franz Ferdinand (although not as explicitly as "All For You, Sophia").
*** The collage technique is probably also a ShoutOut to Creator/TerryGilliam's animations for Creator/MontyPython...
** No mention to "Evil Eye?" even with the whole low budget horror film look, it still doesn't explain MANY of the creepiness going there.
** Their latest B-Side release, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie2JpR7xzvg Erdbeer Mund]] is not only completely in German, but contains effects last seen in an acid trip and contains Nick McCarthy in drag. Click the link if you dare.
* TitleTrack: "You Could Have It So Much Better".
** "Right Action" is a shortening of the album ''Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action''.
* TranslatedCoverVersion: Their [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGcLODDy9Uw German cover]] of "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-SFac3GpxY&feature=related Tell Her Tonight]]," featuring Paul. Strange, seeing as it was Nick who grew up in Bavaria.
* UnpluggedVersion: there is an acoustic version of "Take Me Out" on the "Lucid Dreams" single.
** "The Fallen", "Twilight Omens", "Walk Away", "No You Girls", "Ulysses" and "The Dark of the Matinee" all have acoustic versions.
** As does "Darts of Pleasure", under a different name.
* SurrealMusicVideo: What the hell happened again in "Take Me Out"?
** The deliberate use of collage techniques is reminiscent of [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible Dada "art"]]. Dada is a movement primarily associated with taking place during UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne, and the lyrics can be interpreted as being about the real Franz Ferdinand (although not as explicitly as "All For You, Sophia").
*** The collage technique is probably also a ShoutOut to Creator/TerryGilliam's animations for Creator/MontyPython...
** No mention to "Evil Eye?" even with the whole low budget horror film look, it still doesn't explain MANY of the creepiness going there.
** Their latest B-Side release, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie2JpR7xzvg Erdbeer Mund]] is not only completely in German, but contains effects last seen in an acid trip and contains Nick McCarthy in drag. Click the link if you dare.
* TitleTrack: "You Could Have It So Much Better".
** "Right Action" is a shortening of the album ''Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action''.
* TranslatedCoverVersion: Their [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGcLODDy9Uw German cover]] of "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-SFac3GpxY&feature=related Tell Her Tonight]]," featuring Paul. Strange, seeing as it was Nick who grew up in Bavaria.
* UnpluggedVersion: there is an acoustic version of "Take Me Out" on the "Lucid Dreams" single.
** "The Fallen", "Twilight Omens", "Walk Away", "No You Girls", "Ulysses" and "The Dark of the Matinee" all have acoustic versions.
** As does "Darts of Pleasure", under a different name.
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* SubliminalSeduction: if If played backwards, "Michael" contains a secret message ("Call message:
-->''Call your mother, she's worried aboutyou").
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** "Take MeOut"?
** The deliberateOut", making use of collage techniques is reminiscent of [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible Dada "art"]]. Dada is a movement primarily associated with taking place during UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne, similar to {{Dada}} and the lyrics can be interpreted as being about the real Franz Ferdinand (although not as explicitly as "All For You, Sophia").
*** The collage technique is probably also a ShoutOut toCreator/TerryGilliam's animations for Creator/MontyPython...
Creator/MontyPython.
**No mention to "Evil Eye?" even Eye". Even with the whole low budget horror film look, it still doesn't explain MANY of the creepiness everything going on there.
** Theirlatest B-Side release, [[http://www."[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie2JpR7xzvg Erdbeer Mund]] Mund]]" is not only sung completely in German, but contains visual effects last seen in an acid trip trip, and contains Nick McCarthy [=McCarthy=] in drag. Click the link if you dare.
drag.
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** "You Could Have It So Much Better".
** "Right Action" is a shortening of thealbum album's title, ''Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action''.
* TranslatedCoverVersion: Their [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGcLODDy9Uw German cover]] of "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-SFac3GpxY&feature=related com/watch?v=a-SFac3GpxY Tell Her Tonight]]," featuring Paul. Strange, seeing as it was Nick who grew up in Bavaria.
* UnpluggedVersion:there is an acoustic version Acoustic versions have been recorded of "Take Me Out" on the "Lucid Dreams" single.
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* YourMakeupIsRunning: "mascara bleeds a blackened tear" ("Walk Away").
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* CrossOver: They are currently recording an album with Music/{{Sparks}}.
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* NamesTheSame: the song "This Boy", which is not a cover of [[Music/TheBeatles the Fab Four]]. The band is also named after a racing horse called The Archduke, which was named after the original Franz Ferdinand, as noted above.
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* RealLifeRelative: The strange woman in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbTAFqnZkL0 the video]] to their cover of LCDSoundsystem's "All My Friends" is Anna [=McCarthy=], Nick's sister. She also directed the video.
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Franz Ferdinand is a Scottish [[PostPunk post-punk]]/{{dance-punk}} band formed in 2002. Their band name is named both after the Austrian archduke whose assassination sparked WorldWarOne, as well as a racehorse named Archduke Ferdinand (which was [[NamesTheSame named after the archduke]]).
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Franz Ferdinand is a Scottish [[PostPunk post-punk]]/{{dance-punk}} band formed in 2002. Their band name is named both after the Austrian archduke whose assassination sparked WorldWarOne, UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne, as well as a racehorse named Archduke Ferdinand (which was [[NamesTheSame named after the archduke]]).
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* OopNorth: Other than Paul (who is Glasgow born and raised), the whole band originally hails from here. Alex spent his first eight years in Tyne and Wear,[[note]]Partially in the small city of Washington. As in [[GeorgeWashington George]]; it's where the first POTUS' ancestors came from. So Alex can claim to be "from Washington" and not be lying.[[/note]] Nick was born in Blackpool (and then grew up in Germany), and Bob is from West Yorkshire (Bradford to be precise).
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* OopNorth: Other than Paul (who is Glasgow born and raised), the whole band originally hails from here. Alex spent his first eight years in Tyne and Wear,[[note]]Partially in the small city of Washington. As in [[GeorgeWashington [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington George]]; it's where the first POTUS' ancestors came from. So Alex can claim to be "from Washington" and not be lying.[[/note]] Nick was born in Blackpool (and then grew up in Germany), and Bob is from West Yorkshire (Bradford to be precise).
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** The deliberate use of collage techniques is reminiscent of [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible Dada "art"]]. Dada is a movement primarily associated with taking place during WorldWarOne, and the lyrics can be interpreted as being about the real Franz Ferdinand (although not as explicitly as "All For You, Sophia").
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** The deliberate use of collage techniques is reminiscent of [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible Dada "art"]]. Dada is a movement primarily associated with taking place during WorldWarOne, UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne, and the lyrics can be interpreted as being about the real Franz Ferdinand (although not as explicitly as "All For You, Sophia").