This Fire (song)

"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 Art rock
Length	3:32 (single version)
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)

"This Fire" is the fifth single by Scottish rock band Franz Ferdinand from their eponymous album. It received widespread airplay.

It was released as a download-only single, and reached #17 on the United States Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart and #8 on the UK Download Chart. In Australia, the song was ranked #29 on Triple J's Hottest 100 of 2004.

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.

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.

The song was later sampled for "Burn This City" by Lil Wayne and Twista.^{[citation needed]}

The song was covered by Bedük in his third album, called Go.

The album artwork to "This Fire" is based on El Lissitzky's art work; "Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge"

It was Franz's standard set closer until July 2009, when it was replaced with Lucid Dreams.

Music video

The music video echoes the style of 1920's-era Soviet art and propaganda (Constructivism etc.), including Cyrillic lettering, and shows the members of the band spreading a world-wide "hypnosis epidemic".

Track listings

Lead vocals performed by Alex Kapranos.

• 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)