― Arthur, Wednesday, 21 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― stevo, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― di, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
I dug out the 12" of The Reflex a few days ago and the extended version is called the "Dance Mix". Now it would have to be something like the "Chics For Free mix".
― Mike Ratford, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 20 June 2003 04:47 (twenty years ago) link
― geeta (geeta), Friday, 20 June 2003 05:51 (twenty years ago) link
If not, you are obviously very thick and need to check out some prime swampland real estate I'm about ready to sell to you. Either that or you've just started reading this forum.
― Innocent Dreamer (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 20 June 2003 06:07 (twenty years ago) link
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Friday, 20 June 2003 06:11 (twenty years ago) link
Search & destroy? For me, I'd have to search just about every single Duran song out there, with the possible exceptions of "Shotgun" and "UMF" (off The Wedding Album) and "911 is a Joke" and "I Wanna Take You Higher" (off Thank You). Those four could be destroyed, thank you very much.
― Innocent Dreamer (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 20 June 2003 06:17 (twenty years ago) link
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Friday, 20 June 2003 06:26 (twenty years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 20 June 2003 07:16 (twenty years ago) link
Hungry Like The Wolf is about ORAL SEX?!?!?!? Oh my god, I never knew that. Hey, I mean, I was 12 when it came out, it never dawned on my horny prepubescent brain! That makes it somehow ever better!
I think I've told the story about my Durannie friend and her super-indie boyfriend who sneered at Duran. She said "What would you say to a band who wanted to be a cross between the Sex Pistols, Chic and Brian Eno?" And he went "That would be my NEW FAVOURITE BAND EVAH!!!" and she shoved Rio at him and said "meet your new favourite band evah, suckah."
― kate (kate), Friday, 20 June 2003 07:24 (twenty years ago) link
And don't forget to search for Arcadia, another fantastic album.
― Tijn, Friday, 20 June 2003 08:26 (twenty years ago) link
― cameron, Friday, 20 June 2003 09:28 (twenty years ago) link
Because it was possibly the worst single they ever released! Come on, even at the age of 13 or whatever, I knew that.
New Moon On Monday was actually kinda ace. Yeah. I have the tendency to completely write off Seven and the Ragged Tiger, but it definitely had its moments.
― kate (kate), Friday, 20 June 2003 09:30 (twenty years ago) link
― dave q, Friday, 20 June 2003 09:33 (twenty years ago) link
― cameron, Friday, 20 June 2003 09:51 (twenty years ago) link
― kate (kate), Friday, 20 June 2003 09:54 (twenty years ago) link
― cameron, Friday, 20 June 2003 09:55 (twenty years ago) link
Oh, and DD are ace, simply for having such an incredible body of work dedicated to their fan fiction. Maybe it's just cause I've only read good DD FF, (thanks, UMF/Lovely Blue Planet Of There) but it's of such a blatantly higher calibre that you think they must be doing something right.
(The one time that a band's fans can be held in their favour)
― kate (kate), Friday, 20 June 2003 10:02 (twenty years ago) link
― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Friday, 20 June 2003 10:11 (twenty years ago) link
― kate (kate), Friday, 20 June 2003 10:14 (twenty years ago) link
They spoilt it with mortifying spin off bands (Arcadia were ok - Power Station.... oh dear), their pro-Thatcher stance throughout the 80s and their ludicrous make up and dress sense.
And their mystifying arrogance (I've never encountered an arrogant Brummie in my life, have you?).
But a welcome return....
― russ t, Friday, 20 June 2003 10:21 (twenty years ago) link
Oh, if that isn't part of what made them so classic I don't know what is. Nick Rhodes dyed for our sins!
― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 20 June 2003 14:02 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 20 June 2003 14:15 (twenty years ago) link
― russ t, Friday, 20 June 2003 15:02 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.middlemoon.com/sandra/img/nick_rhodes.gif
uuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhh...
― kate (kate), Friday, 20 June 2003 15:05 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.b3ta.my-webserver.co.uk/colossus.jpg
― kate (kate), Friday, 20 June 2003 15:06 (twenty years ago) link
http://members.tripod.com/rant58/7535eb80.jpg
― kate (kate), Friday, 20 June 2003 15:08 (twenty years ago) link
(Why is it so hard to find a decent picture of Peter on the web?)
― kate (kate), Friday, 20 June 2003 15:15 (twenty years ago) link
This is my favorite picture of Nick Rhodes:
http://www.hanksnet.com/callingplanetearth/nick6/images/nickwht88fash_jpg.jpg
He looks simply gorgeous there.
This is my favorite picture of John Taylor:
http://www.hanksnet.com/callingplanetearth/john4/images/jtjap1_jpg.jpg
This is my favorite pic of the two of them together:
http://www.hanksnet.com/callingplanetearth/misc/images/48d53964_jpg.jpg
*licks computer screen*
― Innocent Dreamer (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 20 June 2003 15:20 (twenty years ago) link
PLEASE TELL ME THIS IS A COVER
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 20 June 2003 15:21 (twenty years ago) link
I've got to stop or I'll be hitting UMF in a mo...
― kate (kate), Friday, 20 June 2003 15:23 (twenty years ago) link
― kate (kate), Friday, 20 June 2003 15:27 (twenty years ago) link
Spencer, I love you. If I wasn't an Anime robot, I'd have your children.
Anyway, there's really nothing wrong with "Is There Something I Should Know" (apparently aka "Please Please Tell Me Now"). It's just there's nothing great about it either. Except for the video, which features this bizarre angle shot of Simon singing his brains out with this extrodinarily angry face on, which I mean seems like it'd work with the title of the song but really it makes no sense about the lyrics when it comes down to it.
I changed my mind on "Notorious" but it's still not really that good. It's all about the lyrics to "The Reflex" people, trust me.
Oh, and Sean, that "fuck off" story is still the most amazing thing I've ever heard.
― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 20 June 2003 15:28 (twenty years ago) link
Kate, you mean this?
http://www.hanksnet.com/callingplanetearth/john3/images/jt34_jpg.jpg
― Innocent Dreamer (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 20 June 2003 15:28 (twenty years ago) link
― Innocent Dreamer (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 20 June 2003 15:30 (twenty years ago) link
(OK, I am kissing the screen right now, but that's besides the point...)
― kate (kate), Friday, 20 June 2003 15:31 (twenty years ago) link
― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 20 June 2003 15:32 (twenty years ago) link
But that's still a damn good picture. Yum. And as for Barbarella, the only reason I watched that damn movie was because I wanted to know who this Duran Duran character was supposed to be, and every time I heard his name being spoken I just had to giggle like the little fangirl I am. The ex-fiance did have a point, though. Barbarella does seem to be a touch bit soft core porn-ish, what with all the overt sexuality and all.
*goes back to licking computer screen*
― Innocent Dreamer (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 20 June 2003 15:37 (twenty years ago) link
― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 20 June 2003 15:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Friday, 20 June 2003 15:49 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 20 June 2003 15:53 (twenty years ago) link
― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 20 June 2003 15:53 (twenty years ago) link
Premise: The boys are apparently leading a revolution in a small European town. Their cause is aided by handing out flyers, an old woman using an Apple IIe computer, and Andy & Roger flying a kite. For no obvious reason a guy in face paint starts acting out something on a stage, and that shows up a couple times. By the end people have lit their torches and fireworks while police on horseback do just about nothing. The whole band coems together and begins jumping at the end.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 20 June 2003 15:58 (twenty years ago) link
― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 20 June 2003 15:59 (twenty years ago) link
― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 20 June 2003 16:02 (twenty years ago) link
Based out of the movie "Arena". The video begins showing a post-apocalyptic setting of school desks, with the few students breathing fire. For awhile we see a video screen (like the one in "The Reflex") showing Simon, Andy & John performing in individual shots, with a robotic sculpted head nearby observing the action. When the second verse arrives, the video changes to color, creature-humans appear, and Simon is now strapped to a windmill that churns through a pool. the creatures move around the video set, flying, dancing, crawling, tossing firey ropes and riding elevators. A white funnel moves through the set, while Simon falls off the windmill and is nearly killed by a pirhana-like creature. A photographer walks through a nearly-empty set, then we see Nick in a cage with lots of computers. Andy, strapped up in the air, fights off other creatures with his guitar, and Simon pulls some into the pirhana lake. John is strapped to the top of an upright car, forced to watch images of himself on the video screen. Roger is in an airborne chair, fighting off still more creatures. Simon, now on dry land, nearly takes a mysterious hand before the video ends with the creatures dancing, video clips of old Duran videos, the "Wild Boys" video and other tv clips, and ends with Dr. Duran Duran himself (from the movie "Barbarella") laughing (there are clips from "Barbarella" interspersed throughout the video).
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 20 June 2003 16:10 (twenty years ago) link
"American Science" sounds like a Power Station leftover: the use of horns is what I hate about mid eighties use of horns.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 26 May 2019 03:30 (four years ago) link
I never thought the Reflex was as good as New Moon on Monday.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Sunday, 26 May 2019 04:25 (four years ago) link
Definitely not
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Sunday, 26 May 2019 04:26 (four years ago) link
Nah, it's too poppy to have fit with the Power Station ethos, in spite of the brief Andy Taylor rock guitar riff in the song. Also, re: your remark about the "mid eighties use of horns", you're crazy.
Could it be simply that you've never listened to NMOM as much as you've listened to "The Reflex"? Also, while the Nile Rodgers dance remix of "The Reflex" is a little on the cheesy side, the original album mix is pure gold. It's definitely better than NMOM, though not as good as "Union of the Snake", the best single from 7&TRT. BTW, I have very fond associations with that album because my late dad actually sat down with me when I was about 13 - 14 and listened to the album to experience his little girl's favorite musical artist, and had nothing but complimentary things to say about the second half of the album.
― The Colour of Spring (deethelurker), Sunday, 26 May 2019 14:10 (four years ago) link
you're crazy
well, sure. What do you mean? I dislike the use of horns as a garish sound effect -- they work quite well, on the other hand, on "Notorious."
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 26 May 2019 14:13 (four years ago) link
I dig the horns throughout the album: title track, "American Science", "Skin Trade". Lot more tasteful than many of their contemporaries, though I kind of dig tacky horns in the right mood too. The production of Notorious comes off less dated than any of their other 80s albums nowadays, I find
― Vinnie, Sunday, 26 May 2019 14:57 (four years ago) link
this is a "dated"-free zone, son.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 26 May 2019 15:14 (four years ago) link
Don't get me wrong, Rio still slays Notorious, even if Rio sounds more of its time. Maybe that's a better phrase to use, I didn't mean "dated" to sound too pejorative
― Vinnie, Monday, 27 May 2019 01:07 (four years ago) link
I've been biting my tongue on this since late 2018, it's surreal + exciting to be able to share with you that I've produced the next @duranduran album, which features the ace @grahamcoxon on guitar.Here is a taster of what we've been up to:'INVISIBLE' https://t.co/1R89ke287e pic.twitter.com/fPCaqKF4Ov— erol alkan (@erolalkan) May 19, 2021
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 19 May 2021 08:42 (two years ago) link
Surprised how much I'm enjoying the new album. I can't remember the last album they did where I didn't really want to skip a single song. The song with Chai keeps getting stuck in my head.
― kitchen person, Saturday, 23 October 2021 02:27 (two years ago) link
Yeah it's quite good, like they balanced out their addiction to guests with creating a pretty solid front to back listen.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 23 October 2021 02:50 (two years ago) link
Haven't listened to the new album yet but have enjoyed all the singles they released from it beforehand
― groovypanda, Saturday, 23 October 2021 06:36 (two years ago) link
I'm loving Future Past. The previous one (Paper Gods) has it's moments but I find it often very in-your-face(-not-in-a-good-way) poppy & like an older band way too desperately trying to sound contemporary. I'm relieved the new one doesn't have that at all. It's very consistent in its high quality. Simon sounds amazing!Graham Coxon is featured on 9 of the 15 tracks (deluxe edition) and shares songwriting credit. Can they please make him a fulltime member of the band, at least for as long as Blur isn't doing anything?
Can't totally agree with kitchen person's comment though, as 2010's All You Need Is Now might actually be my favourite Duran Duran album.
― Valentijn, Sunday, 24 October 2021 14:00 (two years ago) link
DON’T SAVE A PRAYER FOR ME NOWSAVE IT TILL THE MORNING AFTERRRRRRRR
― mardheamac (gyac), Sunday, 2 January 2022 10:50 (two years ago) link
They've gone goth on us
https://duranduran.com/2023/71443/
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 31 August 2023 05:21 (eight months ago) link
Ghost Town, Paint It Black, Spellbound, Psycho Killer... Those who forget the lessons of Thank You are doomed to repeat them
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Thursday, 31 August 2023 05:58 (eight months ago) link
Joking of course. I'll certainly listen to it if the preview singles don't put me off.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Thursday, 31 August 2023 05:59 (eight months ago) link
The spectre of Thank You looms large - one of the worst albums I've ever purchased. Cool to see Andy and Warren contributing again, certainly makes me more intrigued to check it out
― Vinnie, Thursday, 31 August 2023 09:18 (eight months ago) link
I don't hate Thank You. It's partly silly in a way I can still enjoy and I also think there's some good stuff on there. It makes me happy to hear that Andy and Warren both feature on the new one.
― Valentijn, Thursday, 31 August 2023 09:40 (eight months ago) link
they sounded pretty great from outside the Grandstand at the fair last night, now wishing I'd gotten a ticket
― soup of magpies (geoffreyess), Saturday, 2 September 2023 02:06 (eight months ago) link
Alas, this would have been the perfect context for a cover of Japan's "Ghosts".
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 2 September 2023 02:31 (eight months ago) link
chic opened for them in Sacramento, it sounded pretty sweet. Simon still sounds great.
― brimstead, Saturday, 2 September 2023 04:34 (eight months ago) link