Dual disc version with very cool DVD on one side with a lot of studio footage and interviews. If You Could Have It So Much Better was supposed to be a bloated sophomore album focusing on bad airline meals and cold hotel swimming pools, somebody forgot to tell the band as this sophmore album is excellent. It`s a disc packed with thrilling punk-pop treatises like the single "Do You Want To," political rabble-rousers such as opener "The Fallen," and lovely psychedelic ballads that explore the common ground between the Beatles and Bowie, like "Eleanor Put You Boots On" . It`s a stunning, confident piece of work that suggests the band is merely getting started. "5 stars..Turn it up and you can practically hear the drunk girls dancing and making out in the corner, dudes playing air guitar; our little sibling jumping up and down and that smooth operator hitting on your honey
in the kitchen"-Alternative Press. "3 1/2 stars.. Opting not to fix
what broke them, You Could Have it So Much Better serves up more of the stylish, angular sound that worked so well on Franz Ferdinand`s debut. After years of rehearsing in abandoned Glasgow warehouses and playing in relatively obscure groups like the Yummy Fur, it`s perfectly understandable why the band chose not to mess with a good thing -- and why they chose to follow up the breakthrough successs of Franz Ferdinand so quickly. But, after a year and a half of near-instant acclaim and constant touring, Franz Ferdinand return with songs that just aren`t as consistently good as the album that made them so successful in the first place. A lot of You Could Have It So Much Better feels like a super-stylized caricature of the band`s sound, with exaggeratedly spiky guitars, brooding crooning and punky-yet-danceable beats. This isn`t an entirely bad thing: "The Fallen" begins the album with a wicked, gleeful welcome back that embraces the jaunty mischief running through most of Franz Ferdinand`s best moments, while "I`m Your Villain" effortlessly nails the darkly sexy vibe they strived for on Franz Ferdinand.. Not so much a sophomore slump as a rushed follow-up, You Could Have it So Much Better probably would`ve been better if Franz Ferdinand had waited until they had a batch of songs as consistent as their first album, but as it stands, it`s still pretty good."-AMG.
 The Fallen - mp3
Do You Want To - mp3
This Boy - mp3 | 
