Franz Ferdinand won an Ivor Novello Award in 2004
NME named Franz Ferdinand the best album of 2004
A two-CD retrospective compilation entitled The Way of Curve summarized the group’s output in 2004. The first disc included the band’s singles. The second disc contained a selection of B-sides, rarities and remixes.
A new remix compilation album, Remixes 81–04 , was released in 2004, featuring new and unreleased promo mixes of the band’s singles from 1981 to 2004. A new version of “Enjoy the Silence”, remixed by Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park , ” Enjoy the Silence 04 “, was released as…
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The band’s website, maintained by Garcia, has at various times since 2004 posted updates on projects by Halliday and Garcia. It has also stated that there is unlikely to be future new Curve music.
Muse’s third album, Absolution , produced by Rich Costey , Paul Reeve and John Cornfield was released on 15 September 2003. It debuted at number one in the UK and produced Muse’s first top-ten hit, ” Time Is Running Out “, and three top-twenty hits: ” Hysteria “, ” Sing…
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In May 2003 the band signed to Laurence Bell’s independent record label , Domino Recording Company .
Looking for a harder-hitting rock sound than that of All That You Can’t Leave Behind , U2 began recording their eleventh studio album, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb , in February 2003 with producer Chris Thomas . After nine months of work, the band had an album’s worth of…
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The single ” Zangai ” was released on January 8, 2003, and those who purchased it were able to apply for tickets to a secret live that Buck-Tick held at Shibuya-AX on January 24. The title of February 2003’s Mona Lisa Overdrive is mistakenly thought to have been inspired by…
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Howard Bilerman joined the band on drums in the summer of 2003, and they began to play shows together, and record the album that would end up becoming Funeral . The promise shown by the new band in their early live shows allowed them to land a record contract with…
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