Dear Rolling Stone,

could you have Rob Sheffield put out his list of greatest sophomore albums in rock history just so i can find out what the hell the others from the past five years are? (I’m going out on a limb and assume Kanye West’s is on there).

I predict here and now that Franz’s next album will be an absolute masterpiece. Whenever a band follows up an incredible debut with an even better second album the odds are stacked in their favor big time of having huge staying power.

I predict here and now that Franz’s next album will be an absolute masterpiece. Whenever a band follows up an incredible debut with an even better second album the odds are stacked in their favor big time of having huge staying power.

If he said 10 years then yes maybe. But 5 years? I can’t immediately think of anything that falls into that category, except maybe the Arctic Monkeys and LCD Soundsystem. Nonetheless I predict Franz’s next album will be huge. Any band that releases a superior second album to a very, very good first album is pretty much guaranteed to be around for a long time.

Yawn.

Best Second albums ever in past five years? The Last Franz Album was about as good as Creed’s Second Album

“version 2.0″ by garbage is a pretty fantastic sophmore album.

I think Franz’s first album is much better than their 2nd album.

I think the first Franz album is more solid, but the second album overall has better highlights.

their debut was better, it’s perfection but YCHISMB is great too. my fave band forever, love them, they’re the most stylish band around, they don’t take things too seriously and of course, make brill music. wish they’ll release the new material soon.

so i was trying to think about the sophomore albums that rob was thinking about and i could only come up with two

lcd soundsystem-sound of silver

and

arctic monkeys-favorite worst nightmare

what was he thinking of?
this would probably be a better weekend rock list then the stuff you usually come up with lol.

great sophomore albums: arcade fire, lcd soundsystem, hold steady, kanye, franz, joanna newsom, justin timberlake, yeah yeah yeahs, clipse, interpol, arctic monkeys, new porns, devandra, rakes, liars, strokes, daft punk…

I have a question: is alex married??
because some people say that alex’s ring is from eleanor…
(sorry,I’m learning english so..)

Farfonugen is itching to hear The Franz’ next album!

Franz Ferdinand? I don’t know him. (am I on topic?) I knew Renee in college, Hollins class of 1987. I loaned her my XTC albums and she tried to turn me on to the “Meat Puppets”. Didn’t work for me, but I think she recorded my XTC albums. We just had our 20th reunion at Hollins. Renee was our class, but too smart for us and graduated class of 1986.
I have sent you two “snail mail” letters, one to Random House and one to Rolling Stone. I guess you will have to read them.
Anyway, I don’t like my IPOD at all and I much prefer the old listen to the songs track by track even if on an old CD player, which is what I am doing now.

Jane (old friend of Renee’s)

I think Franz’s second album was so much better than the first one. The number one was a bit more popular because it included Take me out and hipsters were crazy for them. But in YCHSMB they sounded more mature and the tunes were more diverse.
New songs sound great, too.

I had no idea that creed still had fans…

franz’s 1st album was like when bruce lee was jumping up and down in that fight scene with chuck norris and then that backround beat came on and the second album was when he started to slowly kick his ass. Now the 3rd album is going to be the last part where he finishes him by twisting his neck and you hear that crack. those new songs they’re playing sound like a mix between the 1st and 2nd album with a new twist…. that may crack our heads open……..like bruce lee.