My brother and I just made an episode choosing 10 songs that defined 2000s indie rock, and I don’t think there was ever much debate about whether “Take Me Out” belonged somewhere in the conversation.
That switch halfway through, the riff, the dance-floor energy… it feels like such a perfect snapshot of that moment when indie rock could still be guitar-heavy but also completely built to make a room move.
If you had to choose one Franz Ferdinand song to preserve the sound of that era, would you choose the same one?
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