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“This Fire” by Franz Ferdinand

From the album Franz Ferdinand (2004)

“This Fire” by Franz Ferdinand appears on 30 radio countdowns from 23 stations between 2004 and 2014. It was first released in 2004 on the album Franz Ferdinand. Its best result is #21 on The End Top 77 Songs of 2004. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #36 alternative song of 2004, #1,861 alternative song of all time and #266 of the '00s.

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"This Fire" is the seventh track on Franz Ferdinand's self-titled 2004 debut. Alex Kapranos and Nick McCarthy wrote it, the group cut it on their own in 2003 at a studio of theirs in Scotland, and Tore Johansson mixed it. It's the album at its most feverish, a wiry post-punk strut that keeps threatening to set the whole room alight.

Later in 2004 Rich Costey reworked it into a single, respelled "This Fffire", with sleeve art modelled on El Lissitzky's Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge. The song has had a long afterlife since: it turned up on the soundtrack of the racing game Burnout 3: Takedown, Lil Wayne and Twista sampled it for "Burn This City", and in 2022 the Costey version became the opening theme of the anime Cyberpunk: Edgerunners.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

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Year-end countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
2004 42 KROQ Los Angeles, CA KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 2004 107
2004 33 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana 91X Top 91 Songs of 2004 91
2004 57 Live 105 San Francisco, CA Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2004 106
2004 36 Q101 Chicago, IL Q101 Top 101 Songs of 2004 101
2004 76 WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 2004 100
2004 78 K-Rock New York, NY K-Rock Top 92.3 Songs of 2004 93
2004 37 WFNX Boston, MA WFNX Top 100 Songs of 2004 100
2004 21 107.7 The End Seattle, WA The End Top 77 Songs of 2004 77
2004 78 89X Detroit, MI / Windsor, ON 89X Top 89 Songs of 2004 89
2004 63 CD101 Columbus, OH CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2004 101
2004 64 Y100 Philadelphia, PA Y100 Top 100 Songs of 2004 99
2004 87 The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2004 99
2004 96 Channel 104.9 San Jose, CA Channel 104.9 Top 104.9 Songs of 2004 105
2004 69 WHTG Monmouth-Ocean, NJ G106.3 Top 106 Songs of 2004 106
2004 58 99X Atlanta, GA 99X Essential 99 of 2004 99
2004 32 WBER Rochester, NY WBER Listener Countdown 2004 227
2004 55 88.3 The Sting Cleveland, OH 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2004 88
2004 22 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) WEQX Top 102.7 of 2004 103
2004 29 Triple J Australia (national) Triple J Hottest 100 of 2004 100
2005 52 CFNY 102.1 The Edge Toronto, ON CFNY Top 102 Songs of 2005 102
2005 97 Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart) Radio & Records Top 100 Songs of 2005 100
2005 39 CRNC 90.1 Niagara / Toronto, ON CRNC Top 90.1 Songs of 2005 91
2005 119 ModernRock.com Online ModernRock.com Top 400 Songs of 2005 400

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
2007 498 CD101 CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007) 2008
2008 647 CD101 CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008) 2009
2009 663 CD101 CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009) 2010
2010 647 CD101 CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010) 2011
2011 574 CD101 CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011) 2011
2013 569 CD101 CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013) 2012
2014 554 CD101 CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014) 2013

Charting alongside it in 2004

Best songs of 2004 →
  1. 1Somebody Told MeThe Killers
  2. 2American IdiotGreen Day
  3. 3Float OnModest Mouse
  4. 4Take Me OutFranz Ferdinand
  5. 5VertigoU2
  6. 6MegalomaniacIncubus

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