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“Ulysses” by Franz Ferdinand
From the album Tonight: Franz Ferdinand (2009)
“Ulysses” by Franz Ferdinand appears on 16 radio countdowns from 15 stations between 2008 and 2025. It was first released in 2009 on the album Tonight: Franz Ferdinand. Its best result is #6 on the 102.1 The Edge The Top 102 of 2009. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #70 alternative song of 2009.
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"Ulysses" kicked off the campaign for Tonight: Franz Ferdinand, the Scottish band's third album, out on Domino in 2009: it went up for download in America in December 2008 and hit British shops the following January. The band had been road-testing it since August 2007, when they first played it at the Hey You Get Off My Pavement festival in Glasgow, and it has stayed in every full set since.
All four, Alex Kapranos, Nick McCarthy, Bob Hardy and Paul Thomson, share the writing, and they produced it with Dan Carey, trading the old angular jangle for something murkier, a low, rubbery groove built for the small hours. It reached 20 in the UK and 20 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks, their fifth single on that chart, and Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern shot the video around Los Angeles.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 632 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 21st Century | 909 |
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