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Tonight: Franz Ferdinand: Special Edition |  | Artist: Franz Ferdinand
Label: Domino
Category: Music
List Price: £16.99
Buy New: £9.50
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Seller: actionrecords
Rating:  47 reviews
Sales Rank: 21097
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
EAN: 5034202020547
ASIN: B001M0JI9Q
Release Date: January 26, 2009
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Ulysses | | • | Turn It On | | • | No You Girls | | • | Send Him Away | | • | Twilight Omens | | • | Bite Hard | | • | What She Came For | | • | Live Alone | | • | Can't Stop Feeling | | • | Lucid Dreams | | • | Dream Again | | • | Katherine Kiss Me |
Disc 2
| • | Feel The Pressure | | • | Die On The Floor | | • | The Vaguest Of Feeling | | • | If I Can't Have You Then Nobody Can | | • | Katherine Hit Me | | • | Backwards On My Face | | • | Feeling Kind Of Anxious | | • | Feel The Envy |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.co.uk Review
The disco-punk bandwagon might have long since left town, but emTonight:Franz Ferdinandem /em/emsuggests Glasgowrsquo;s arch dukes of art-pop arenrsquo;t going to let a little thing like a shifting zeitgeist put them off their principle aim of writing music to make girls dance. Whereas its predecessor, 2005rsquo;s emYou Could Have It So Much Better/em, felt a little rushed in the execution, Franzrsquo;s third album feels stronger for its two years of gestation. Employing a slightly more rigid, synthetic feel than its predecessors, these twelve tracks mix up sing-along pop moments and loping grooves with sundry left turns, meeting expectations, then confounding them with a showy flourish. ldquo;Ulyssesrdquo; is clip-cloppy funk that builds to a huge chorus with a long slide of squelchy synthesiser, while ldquo;Lucid Dreamsrdquo; dispenses with guitars entirely at the four-minute point, morphing into Fischerspooner-style techno. Meanwhile, your host, Alex Kapranos, remains just on the charming side of sleazy, crooning ldquo;Kiss me/Kiss me where your eye wonrsquo;t meet merdquo; (ldquo;Turn It Onrdquo;), or on the Beatles-esque ldquo;Twilight Omensrdquo;, trying to laugh you into the sack: ldquo;I typed your number into my calculator/ Where it spelt a dirty word, when you turned it upside downâ¦rdquo; emTonight/em might be a little too erratic to reignite Franzmania, but it strikes a neat balance between consolidation and reinvention.emememememem ndash;-Louis Pattison/em/em/em/em/em/em
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 47
 Tonight Tonight Tonight December 17, 2008
From the Chaos Pad
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is so worth the wait. If you're holding your breathe wondering why it's taken a while relax. Tonight is as fresh and immediate as their debut but darker, tighter, and way more psychedelic. The LP opens with current single Ulysses, setting an insistent and edgy pace. Turn It On, Live Alone, and Bite Hard all feel like they're wearing sunglassses after dark the night after the night before. Lucid Dreams is twisted and trippy, it's followed by Dream Again an even further out twist. For the whole of Tonight, they're once again the hippest band in the UK, way out there on their own. Finishing with Katherine Kiss Me, one of their most instant head to feet to party numbers. Whoever Katherine is - Tell Her Tonight!
Superb Vinyl Edition March 17, 2009
ArrGee (London)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The album,takes a little getting into, but its relentless beat (until Katherine Kiss Me) takes you out for a night you'll never come home from ;-)
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br /The vinyl edition is superb. Two discs, top notch pressing and a big sturdy cover that won't get dog eared over time. Of course, worth getting the 2CD edition as well for Blood (The Dub remixes), but if there is one vinyl album you have to get in 2009 it's this one. So good, you'll want to buy a turntable if you haven't got one.
FANTASTIC ALBUM July 2, 2009
P. Coleman (UK)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This album is a really good one and i would reccomend to any franz ferdinand supporters to buy this one as its possibly the best of 3 albums! More amazing base lines and amazing music from the band.
br /- The album came perfectly on the first day of the expected delivery date and was in mint condition. fab! by it now!!!!!!!!
Just a great box January 22, 2009
Lukas Löwing Svensson (Stockholm, Sweden)
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
Just received this product today, four days ahead of its release date. Don't ask me how I managed to do this since, honestly, I'm as surprised as anyone. The album is great which all fans will know from listening to the leak a week ago. The documentary is just as good. We get to see the Franz tell the story of how the album was recorded and where it all happened. It's just over 40 minutes and looks as good as the album sounds. The book contains the lyrics and the CDs are contained inside the pages.
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br /I havn't had a chance to listen to the vinyls yet but I'm sure they will sound as good, or even better, than the CD. The box itself feels genuin and closes and opens nicely. The only negative thing I can mention is the packing of the vinyls which feels a bit out of tune with the rest of the box.
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br /For sure a great product and a must to get for all you Fanz.
Dare to be (a little) different February 4, 2009
Barney McGrew (UK)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
So, I'll nail my colours to the mast and admit that I loved the first FF album; liked the second a lot, and am definitely impressed by the third after several listens. A lot has been said here about the album's style and content so I'll stick to writing a review that should be helpful to prospective buyers.
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br /Like Bloc Party (yes I like them too `Hornpipe'!) FF have bravely attempted to avoid merely treading water and started to push their own boundaries a little. I agree with the previous reviewer who said that the burgeoning electronic aspect has resulted in the band's trademark edgy guitars being dumbed down; however they are at least trying to be fresh - bringing in influences from the likes of Human League, Gary Numan and Pet Shop Boys is fine - as long as it's not overdone. I thought that the second track on the album was the most like FF of old; Ulysses is a cool name for a cool track; at least they're embracing our rich cultural history rather than simply recycling old names!
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br /The dub-style bonus CD reworks the songs rather than simply extending them and is a real nod to faithful fans. Lie down, turn out the lights, stick some decent headphones on and crank up the volume on this one.
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br /Recognisable but fresh; spirited but thoughtful; I would recommend this as both a good way in for those who are unfamiliar with FF, and a treat for those who have followed the band over the past seven years.
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