Franz Ferdinand take post-punk into the top 10

12 January 2004: Number 47 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of indie musicIf the Strokes had made guitar music sexy again, then the emergence of Franz Ferdinand a couple of years later proved that sexy could be smart as well. Take Me Out cleverly played on its titular double meaning (it could be a date or a sniper's bullet) but also, crucially, fulfilled Franz Ferdinand's promise to "make girls dance". A top three hit, it opened up post-punk as a resource that would be rummaged ...

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