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List Price: $11.94 | | Label: Sony
Salesrank: 1833
Released: January 27, 2009 |
| Our Price: $7.49 |
| Used Price: $6.00 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Tonight:Franz Ferdinand Track Listing:
1. Ulysses
2. Turn It On
3. No You Girls
4. Send Him Away
5. Twilight Omens
6. Bite Hard
7. What She Came For
8. Live Alone
9. Can't Stop Feeling
10. Lucid Dreams
11. Dream Again
12. Katherine Kiss Me
Editorial Review:
2009 release, the third album from Glasgow-based modern rockers. Tonight: Franz Ferdinand sees them taking a step back from the Post-Punk revival sounds that gave them their breakthrough. With Tonight: Franz Ferdinand, the band are seen to incorporate more disparate influences such as Jamaican Dub and elements of Electronica. What remains of the old Franz Ferdinand is their knack for locating a danceable rhythm and their gentle, deadpan humour. The choice of Dan Carey as producer is in keeping with this new direction, the past credits of whose include CSS and Hot Chip.
Tonight:Franz Ferdinand Reviews:
just buy the lucid dreams single. 
2009-12-16 - After Franz had droped off the radar for a few years, I was really excited there was a new album being released.
Franz Ferdinand's first album was solid, original, and oozed with that nonchalant artschool coolness. Even their videos directly used post moderism in a qirky, "we're cool be we don't take ourselves too seriously," way. It was both fresh and easy for anyone to identify with, and full of complex emotions, and bit cooly-intellectual. It seemed like there sound was just entitled to existance. I didn't feel like their second album was as good, but I was still on board.
Before the album was released, I heard 'lucid dreams' and 'ulysses'. I believe there was a single for lucid dreams, it was a nearly four minute rock song. It expands their sound past "take me out" while still being everything I love about franz ferinand, maybe like the energy of "take me out" with the wistfulness of songs like "40'". Did this need to be made into a 8 minute remix for the cd? No, it didn't. Ulysses is probably the only other song off the album that give me hope these guys can still write captivating music, even if the premis of a guy getting board and getting high (the corus: "ulysses...la la lah") is a bit simple.
I would say I found the second album to be a bit immature and underdeveloped at times, but still with some good ideas; apart from those two tracks on TONIGHT, Maybe the songs were well developed, but they were also unoriginal and uninspired. The hooks were all in the right places, but I felt like I'd heard them before. I felt kind of disgusted for buying the cd, if this was their first release I would have never listened to them. I was really excited too, so maybe I had my expectations up a bit. It was also really hyped about how much they expiremented, and rather than improving or expanding their sound it's like they lost it all together for something really mediocore.
All bands need to find where their sound is going, I'm really hopeing their next album will be better.
Tonight:Franz Ferdinand 
2009-11-27 - Tonight:Franz Ferdinand being Franz Ferdinand's 2009 release and their 3rd studio album is a very ordinary album. The sound is basic rock and not indie rock as many would have you believe. The lyrics I have heard so many times before and the sound is generic rock music. Not that it is bad. It is just not that interesting. Allmusic, The Guardian and Uncut all gave it around 3.5 to 3 out of 5. I think 3.5 is a bit high. The booklet is quite basic and nice. It contains all the lyrics, many basic photographs but not a list of whom plays what. 3/5.
OK but not great
2009-09-27 - I was a little disappointed. It wasn't quite as good as the last two cds. Better luck next time.
A Solid Album 
2009-09-01 - Franz Ferdinand continues to have solid songs and a unique sound. This album rocks hard! "No You Girls" is a definite hit -- a sexy sound and smart, witty lyrics. "Ulysses", "What She Came For" , and "Live Alone" are also destined to be radio hits.
ALBUM OF THE YEAR!
2009-08-27 - That's right, I'll go against the grain of naysayers and say that, at the end of the year, this will still sound amazing and get booty upon booty shaking. When it first came out, I was hesitant to buy. I loved the first album and thought the second was nothing special, but wanted to give them another try. It worked. For about two weeks straight, I listened to nothing but this album. It woke me up in the morning and comforted me when I was drunk and wanted to pretend that I wasn't turning into a raging alcoholic (it was a bit of a rough spell.) It's not radically different from any of their older stuff, that's true, but the synths make it different enough that it's not another "You Could Have...' which I thought was largely a rehash of the brilliant first. I just killed the two dominating points of view with one sentence.
Anyway, the difference I see is that this is dance-rock with a British touch while the debut was Brit-pop with a dance-rock touch. I've got to admit that after the first two weeks went by, and I moved onto other things, that I thought it may be a passing fancy--that the hooks would annoy rather than continually fascinate. I recently listened to it again--sober, even--and realized that it was much more than that. I haven't liked an album this much since "Return to Cookie Mountain." I can be hammered, pop either in, and be transferred to a different sonic world. "Twilight Omens" and "Bite Hard" are both still hilarious to me.
