Comments on: The Freaky Trigger Top 100 Tracks Of All Time No. 46. Franz Ferdinand – Take Me Out https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/02/the-freaky-trigger-top-100-tracks-of-all-time-no-46-franz-ferdinand-take-me-out Lollards in the high church of low culture Sun, 10 Aug 2008 05:42:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: seenopets https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/02/the-freaky-trigger-top-100-tracks-of-all-time-no-46-franz-ferdinand-take-me-out/comment-page-1#comment-476127 Sun, 10 Aug 2008 05:42:43 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/02/the-freaky-trigger-top-100-tracks-of-all-time-no-46-franz-ferdinand-take-me-out/#comment-476127 america letter watch joke no pets tom university home

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By: Rob M https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/02/the-freaky-trigger-top-100-tracks-of-all-time-no-46-franz-ferdinand-take-me-out/comment-page-1#comment-422500 Sat, 17 May 2008 09:58:53 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/02/the-freaky-trigger-top-100-tracks-of-all-time-no-46-franz-ferdinand-take-me-out/#comment-422500 But… I remember reading somewhere that this song’s about two hitmen trying to kill each other, ie take each other out. Or am I reading too much into this?

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By: DJ Punctum https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/02/the-freaky-trigger-top-100-tracks-of-all-time-no-46-franz-ferdinand-take-me-out/comment-page-1#comment-422086 Fri, 16 May 2008 17:15:55 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/02/the-freaky-trigger-top-100-tracks-of-all-time-no-46-franz-ferdinand-take-me-out/#comment-422086 Quite.

Doesn’t “Take Me Out” sound its age these days?

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By: vinylscot https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/02/the-freaky-trigger-top-100-tracks-of-all-time-no-46-franz-ferdinand-take-me-out/comment-page-1#comment-422059 Fri, 16 May 2008 16:14:22 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/02/the-freaky-trigger-top-100-tracks-of-all-time-no-46-franz-ferdinand-take-me-out/#comment-422059 “Back Off Boogaloo” anyone?

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By: CarsmileSteve https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/02/the-freaky-trigger-top-100-tracks-of-all-time-no-46-franz-ferdinand-take-me-out/comment-page-1#comment-383316 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:02:42 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/02/the-freaky-trigger-top-100-tracks-of-all-time-no-46-franz-ferdinand-take-me-out/#comment-383316 well it’s not really a “joke”, it’s just like saying iddly-widdly or Kate Ganache or SOME FOALS…

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By: Marcello Carlin https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/02/the-freaky-trigger-top-100-tracks-of-all-time-no-46-franz-ferdinand-take-me-out/comment-page-1#comment-381115 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:41:55 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/02/the-freaky-trigger-top-100-tracks-of-all-time-no-46-franz-ferdinand-take-me-out/#comment-381115 *similarly baffled*

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By: Pete Baran https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/02/the-freaky-trigger-top-100-tracks-of-all-time-no-46-franz-ferdinand-take-me-out/comment-page-1#comment-381109 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:34:25 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/02/the-freaky-trigger-top-100-tracks-of-all-time-no-46-franz-ferdinand-take-me-out/#comment-381109 11. I’ve never, ever GOT the Frank Ferguson joke.

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By: CarsmileSteve https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/02/the-freaky-trigger-top-100-tracks-of-all-time-no-46-franz-ferdinand-take-me-out/comment-page-1#comment-381097 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:18:10 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/02/the-freaky-trigger-top-100-tracks-of-all-time-no-46-franz-ferdinand-take-me-out/#comment-381097 i think alex’s “transformation” to elder statesperson/restaurant critic was mainly because he HAD been around for ages, just not in frank ferguson…

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By: Andrew Farrell https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/02/the-freaky-trigger-top-100-tracks-of-all-time-no-46-franz-ferdinand-take-me-out/comment-page-1#comment-381042 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:30:06 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/02/the-freaky-trigger-top-100-tracks-of-all-time-no-46-franz-ferdinand-take-me-out/#comment-381042 I don’t think “I know I won’t be leaving here/ with you” is necessarily in the same tone as the Smiffs, it seems quite determined to me (and yes also there’s the doubt that they might indeed despite their best efforts be leaving here with you if another few pints of Old Peculiar work their magic)

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By: Marcello Carlin https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/02/the-freaky-trigger-top-100-tracks-of-all-time-no-46-franz-ferdinand-take-me-out/comment-page-1#comment-381022 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:29:31 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/02/the-freaky-trigger-top-100-tracks-of-all-time-no-46-franz-ferdinand-take-me-out/#comment-381022 Strange how “Mundian Te Bach Ke” works (with or without additional Jay-Z “bounce”) in terms of fluidity where “Take Me Out” doesn’t despite identical BPMs. Naturally I presume FF intended it to be jerky and stiff and awkward but it’s the sadly conventional (and over-compressed) indie lump of middle bit which really lets it down for me – you’re steeled for it to go somewhere and then it gets muddled up in averageness. His stolid vocal doesn’t help.

Too smug by half, of course, but that’s a secondary consideration in terms of its success as a pop record. Too little Josef K, too much Cud.

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