With their three studio albums, the band sold over three million albums worldwide in 2009. They have been nominated for several BRIT Awards in the UK, and have won an NME Award. The band has been nominated for several Grammy Awards. "Ulysses" was released as the lead single, although "No You Girls" proved to be popular, being their second longest-charting single in the UK, after "Do You Want To" (2005). After the release of You Could Have It So Much Better, the band took some time recording their third album, Tonight: Franz Ferdinand, which was released internationally on 26 January 2009, and made the top ten in the United Kingdom and the United States. The album produced the hit single "Do You Want To", amongst many other singles. The album topped the UK Album Charts, and made the top ten in the Billboard 200 in the US. The band's second album, You Could Have It So Much Better (2005), was a platinum-selling album in the United Kingdom and gold-selling in the United States. They were part of the mid-2000s post-punk revival along with Arctic Monkeys and Kaiser Chiefs. From the album, three top-ten singles were released: "Take Me Out", "The Dark of the Matinée", and "This Fire". NME named Franz Ferdinand as their Album of the Year. The band went on to win the 2004 Mercury Music Prize, and two BRIT Awards in 2005 for Best British Group and Best British Rock Act. The band first experienced chart success when their second single, "Take Me Out", reached No. 3 in the UK Charts, followed by their debut album, Franz Ferdinand, which debuted on the UK album chart at No. 3. The band is composed of Alex Kapranos (lead vocals and guitar, keyboard), Bob Hardy (bass guitar), Nick McCarthy (rhythm guitar, keyboards and backing vocals), and Paul Thomson (drums, percussion and backing vocals). There should be something there that just makes you want to come back and look at it.Franz Ferdinand are a British indie rock band formed in 2002, and based in Glasgow. And I think pop videos should be like that too. Alex stated: ✻asically it's a pop video and it should entertain you, but not just once – there're certain things you stare at in life that is just fascinating to look at like a fish tank or an open fire, they're actually quite simple things but there's something fascinating about them. Alex Kapranos said that the video shows clear influences of Dada, and the films Busby Berkeley, and old Soviet Union propaganda. The video features the band in an animation filled with vintage figures in a Dadaist style, which is similar to the animated shorts from Monthy Python. The music video was directed by Jonas Odell. The song also later appeared on several top lists from NME, Q and Rolling Stone magazine. It ranked number 66 on the Billboard Hot 100 and reached number seven on the Canadian Singles Chart. Upon release, the song reached number three on both the Modern Rock Tracks chart and UK Singles Chart. The line "take me out" could be refrencing the Archduke Ferdinand begging the assassins to kill him, as he doesn't want to live without his beloved wife. The lyrics of the song could also be refrencing the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, where his wife was murdered right before him. In the chorus of the song, the narrator says the line »I say, don't you know?«, which is a vague way of saying: ✽on't you know how I feel about you?«, to which to which the girl responds that she doesn't know what he is talking about. But in the end, it is up to the girl to »pull the trigger of the gun«, and make or break the heart of the narrator of the song. The narrator uses the metaphore of a crosshair in the second line of the song, in which he refrences himself as the crosshair and the girl he is interested in as the target. The lyrics of the song tell a story of the narrator checking out a girl at a party. The group later moved to Sweden with producer Tore Johansson to record their debut record in late 2003 and early 2004. The band wanted to release their first EP by themselves, but was later released by Domino Records in 2003 under the name Darts of Pleasure in 2003. The band got signed by the independent label Domino Records. Kapranos later met guitarist Nick McCarthy, whom studied jazz bass in Germany and returned back to Scotland in 2001. The same year, Kapranos gave a bass guitar (which was given to him by Mick Cooke of another Scottish band Belle and Sebastian) to his friend Bob Hardy, and taught him how to play bass. Singer Alex Kapranos met drummer Paul Thomson at a party, and later teamed up to write songs together. The members of the band were in several different bands before the formation of the group. The song was released as the second single from their self titled debut record Franz Ferdinand, which was released on the 9th February 2004. Take Me Out is a song by the Scottish indie/dance rock band Franz Ferdinand.
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