You Could Have It So Much Better - Franz Ferdinand
User Score
8.1 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 158 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 135 out of 158
  2. Mixed: 12 out of 158
  3. Negative: 11 out of 158

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  1. pm
    Oct 3, 2005
    0
    (cough) over-rated (cough)
  2. JesseJ
    Oct 4, 2005
    0
    THis is dumb to the core!! Eat it outloud!
  3. JonA
    Oct 7, 2005
    4
    I've tried to listen to it twice and I didn't get all the way through it both times and it's only 41minutes long, to say it's repetitive is a understatement. This is a band that will be completely forgotten as time passes. But I will say one thing in it's favor, it's still better then most bands that play on mtv or vh1.
  4. Evan
    Oct 14, 2005
    3
    They are losers. The look like hobos and can't sing. The only reason I gave them a 3 is because the one guy looks like Jim Carrey, and he's awesome!!!
  5. TobyKeith
    Oct 17, 2005
    1
    It sounds like they've listened to the outakes of their debut album and put it out as a record. I could've done that better!
  6. JameF
    Oct 30, 2005
    3
    No. It really is just the same thing, again. Yes indeed.
  7. JadenB
    Nov 1, 2005
    4
    I think people are just jumping on the bandwagon. This album is not as nearly good as the first album. I've been trying to warm up to it and it's increasingly difficult to. It's cheesy and repetitive. There riding the coatails of there first album still.
  8. Mr.Right
    Nov 7, 2005
    3
    I, sincerely, enjoyed the first outing, and looked foward to hearing what FF could come up with next. What came up was a recipe, that was in much need of a fly.
  9. meh
    Dec 6, 2005
    3
    very overrated. gets pretty boring after about 3-4 listens despite a few tracks.
  10. Tom
    Jan 5, 2006
    1
    All the songs sound the same as the last album- I was very disappointed.
  11. KeithG
    Apr 25, 2012
    0
    One of the worst albums I've had the displeasure of buying. It possesses all of the pretension of the early '00s indie movement without any of the charm of the hits on the band's first album.

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Metascore
83 out of 100

Universal acclaim - based on 32 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 28 out of 32
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 32
  3. Negative: 0 out of 32
  1. Amazon.com
    90
    It's a stunning, confident piece of work that suggests the band is merely getting started.
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  2. Blender
    80
    It'll do just fine for now. But here's hoping for a torturously difficult third album. [Oct 2005, p.140]
  3. cokemachineglow
    84
    Franz Ferdinand have slightly tweaked the neo-Brit-pop genre – mixing in funk, dashes of punk, and a bit of disco – and come out with a sophomore album even more confident and hungry for glory than their debut.
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