“This Fire”
Single by Franz Ferdinand from the album Franz Ferdinand
Released	12 November 2004
Format	CD
Recorded	2003-2004
Genre	Post-punk revival Indie Rock
Length	4:17
Label	Domino
Writer(s)	Alex Kapranos, Nicholas McCarthy
Producer	Tore Johansson, Franz Ferdinand
Franz Ferdinand singles chronology
"Michael" (2004) "This Fire" (2004) "Do You Want To" (2005)

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It was released as a download-only single and is still available on the official Franz Ferdinand website. The song reached #17 on the United States Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart and #8 on the UK Download Chart. It was featured on the in-game soundtrack to the PlayStation 2 and Xbox video game Burnout 3: Takedown. The song has become part of the hockey culture in Calgary, Alberta, where it is played in every Calgary Flames home game. Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry. ... Modern Rock Tracks is a music chart in the United States that has appeared in Billboard magazine since September 10, 1988. ... PS2 redirects here. ... For the Xboxs successor, see Xbox 360. ... Computer and video games redirects here. ... Calgary is a city in the province of Alberta, Canada. ... The Calgary Flames are a professional ice hockey team based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and play out of the Pengrowth Saddledome. ...

The single was released in Australia as "This Fffire" [sic] with identical b-sides to the UK release of "Michael". The music video for the song was directed by Stylewar. Michael is a song by Franz Ferdinand and was the fourth single released from their debut self-titled album. ...

The song was later sampled for Burn This City by rapper Lil Wayne & Twista. Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr. ... Carl Terrell Mitchell, (born on November 27, 1973 in Chicago, Illinois) better known by his stage name Twista, is an American rapper that held the title of fastest rapper in the world according to the Guinness World Records in 1992, being able to rap 11. ...

The album artwork to "This Fire" is based on El Lissitzky's art work; "Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge"   (Лазарь Маркович Лисицкий, November 23, 1890 – December 30, 1941), better known as El Lissitzky (Эль Лисицкий), was a Russian artist, designer, photographer, teacher, typographer, and architect. ... Beat the Whites with the Red wedge, a 1919 lithograph by Lissitzky Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge is a Soviet propaganda poster by artist Eliezer Markovich Lissitzky. ...

Track listings

Lead vocals performed by Alex Kapranos. Alex Kapranos (born Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley, March 20, 1972) is an English musician of part Greek descent. ...

• Australia CD

1. "This Fffire" (Rich Costey Re-record) (Alex Kapranos/Nick McCarthy)
2. "Love and Destroy" (Alex Kapranos/Nick McCarthy)
3. "Missing You" (Alex Kapranos)

• UK promo CD

1. "This Fffire" (Rich Costey Re-record) (Alex Kapranos/Nick McCarthy)
2. "Darts of Pleasure" (Alex Kapranos/Nick McCarthy)

• Europe CD

1. "This Fffire" (Rich Costey Re-record) (Alex Kapranos/Nick McCarthy)
2. "This Fire" (Playgroup Remix) (Alex Kapranos/Nick McCarthy)
3. "This Fffire" (video) (Alex Kapranos/Nick McCarthy)

Alex Kapranos (born Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley, March 20, 1972) is an English musician of part Greek descent. ... Nick McCarthy of Franz Ferdinand Nicholas Augustine McCarthy, (Born December 13, 1974) is the lead guitarist and backing singer of the Glaswegian band Franz Ferdinand. ... A promo single (short for promotional single) is a single that is released to club or radio outlets for the purpose of promotion of a song. ...

External links

• This Fire Guitar Tab