This Fire (Franz Ferdinand song)

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"This Fire"
Song by Franz Ferdinand
from the album Franz Ferdinand
Released9 February 2004 (2004-02-09)
Recorded2003 in Scotland [1]
Length4:14
Label Domino
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Franz Ferdinand
"This Fffire"
Franz Ferdinand - This Fffire.jpg
Single by Franz Ferdinand
from the album Franz Ferdinand (bonus disc edition)
B-side
Released4 October 2004 (2004-10-04)
Length3:32
Label Domino
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Rich Costey
Franz Ferdinand singles chronology
"Michael"
(2004)		"This Fffire"
(2004)		"Do You Want To"
(2005)

"This Fire" is a song by Scottish indie rock band Franz Ferdinand, the seventh track on their self-titled debut album. It was written by Alex Kapranos and Nick McCarthy and produced by the band themselves at their studio in Scotland during 2003. A new version of the song, produced by Rich Costey, was released as a single on 4 October 2004, titled "This Fffire". The single artwork is based on El Lissitzky's art work Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge .[ citation needed ]

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Song history

"This Fire" was featured on the soundtrack for the 2004 racing game Burnout 3: Takedown . [2] The song was later sampled for "Burn This City" by Lil Wayne and Twista. [3]

In 2022, the Rich Costey version of the song was selected as the intro song to Cyberpunk: Edgerunners , the Cyberpunk 2077 tie-in anime from Studio Trigger. [4]

Release and reception

In the United States and the United Kingdom, the song was released as a radio and download single, respectively, reaching number 17 on the US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart and number eight on the UK Download Chart. [5] [6] In Australia, the song was released as a CD single and reached number 62 on the ARIA Singles Chart. [7] In the same country, it was ranked number 29 on Triple J's Hottest 100 of 2004. [8]

Music video

The music video, directed by Stylewar, [9] echoes the style of 1920s-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

All tracks were written by Alex Kapranos and Nick McCarthy except "Missing You", written by Kapranos.

  1. "This Fffire" (Rich Costey re-record) – 3:38
  2. "This Fire" (Playgroup remix) – 8:13
  1. "This Fffire"
  2. "This Fire" (Playgroup remix)
  3. "This Fffire" (video)
  1. "This Fffire" (Rich Costey re-record)
  2. "Love and Destroy"
  3. "Missing You"

Charts

Release history

RegionDateFormat(s)Label(s)Ref.
United States4 October 2004 Alternative radio Domino [15]
Australia15 November 2004CD [16]
United Kingdom Digital download [17]

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