Franz Ferdinand First Album [best] -

The crowning achievement came in September 2004 when the album won the prestigious Mercury Music Prize, beating out heavyweights like The Streets ( A Grand Don’t Come for Free ) and Snow Patrol ( Final Straw ). In his acceptance speech, Kapranos famously quipped, "It’s really nice to know that people can still buy a record that isn’t by a fucking miserable bastard."

Perhaps the most explicitly homoerotic indie rock song of the decade. "Michael, you're the boy with all the leather hips / Sticky hips." Written about a friend of the band, the track is a propulsive, gloriously unapologetic celebration of lust. In 2004, this felt radical. franz ferdinand first album