Recycled Lyrics: Taken to its logical extreme "No You Girls" and "Katherine Kiss Me" are the same song, on the same album, with a different melody.Queer Romance: The narrator of "Michael" really, really wants to dance and make out with a hot guy he sees at a club.Post-Punk: One of the Post-Punk Revival bands that rose to success in the 2000s.Perspective Flip: At the end of "No You Girls", the lyrics are sung from a girl's point of view.One-Word Title: "Ulysses", "Michael", "Jacqueline", "Outsiders", "Demagogue".is short for "Lynsey"), "Katherine Kiss Me", and "Eleanor Put Your Boots On". One-Man Song: "Jeremy Fraser", "Ulysses", "Michael".
It's a standard love song the drinking is thrown in as a bonus. "Ulysses", although it's more about getting high than drunk.Obsession Song: "This Fire", "Turn It On".Not Christian Rock: 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).No Celebrities Were Harmed: "Demagogue" is pretty clearly a Take That! against Trump.Be warned, it's also a more literal mind screw as the constant spinning motion may end up making you dizzy. Also the music video for "Johnny Delusional".Mind Screw: The album version of "Lucid Dreams"."I am an animal, oh give me an animal crown (x infinity)" Madness Mantra: The outro of "Treason! Animals" as said in the lyric packet.Lyrical Cold Open: "Do You Want To", "Lucid Dreams" (album version only).Long Title: "Eleanor Put Your Boots On", You Could Have It So Much Better, Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action.In 2017, the band added Dino Bardot and Julian Corrie. Long-Runner Line-up: The original lineup of Alex Kapranos, Bob Hardy, Paul Thomson, and Nick McCarthy lasted from 2002 until 2016, when McCarthy departed.Long-Distance Relationship: The subject of "Come On Home" and "Eleanor Put Your Boots On".
Guyliner: All the band members in the music video for "This Fire".Gratuitous Japanese: "Sõ Desu Ne" (literally "I guess so") from FFS, although slightly less gratuitous than usual since the song is at least about a Japanese girl.And then the German version of " Tell Her Tonight ".Everything Is an Instrument: "No You Girls" uses a human skeleton for percussion.Epic Rocking: "Lucid Dreams" is almost 8 minutes long.Ending Theme: "Do You Want To" is the ending theme to Paradise Kiss.Dream Walker: A common interpretation of "Lucid Dreams" is that it's about a man wanting his lover to join him in dreamland.Deranged Animation: The video for "Take Me Out" is a surreal melange of clockworks, body parts, old-school sketches, and abstract diagrams.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 '80s theme of the video.It's fair to say they quite like this trope. Wells ", " Jeremy Fraser ", " Bullet " and Fresh Strawberries and a lot of promotional pictures. Deliberately Monochrome: The videos for " L.Played straight however with their cover of "Call Me".The Cover Changes the Gender: Averted with their cover of "Womanizer".Concept Album: Tonight:, the tale of a long, hard-partying night of drunken debauchery (most likely in Glasgow)."Now there is a fire in me, a fire that burns".
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