Day 7: I'm Just A Crosshair

Dec 7, 2004 · 1 minute read Franz Ferdinand — Take Me Out

There are two schools of thought about this single: you either like the first half or the second. If you like the first half, then you smell and people point at you in the street. If you like the second half, then congratulations! You are a right-thinking person who welcomes the return of New Wave in all its arty, angular beauty.

Actually, I quite like both parts; the sadness of "I know I won't be leaving here with you" that ends the first section, how the song just stops and stomps while the band change direction, and of course the glitter-tinged dancing of the second half. Plus! Black shirts! White ties! I'm a sucker for a band with a well-designed image, I'm afraid…