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"Take Me Out" famously changes direction midway through, slowing its opening section into the stomping guitar riff that made Franz Ferdinand instantly recognisable. Alex Kapranos compared the structure to two people taking aim at each other, neither willing to make the first move. Taken from the band's self-titled debut... show more

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