― james e l, Saturday, 21 April 2001 00:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
― Ally, Saturday, 21 April 2001 00:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
― Geordie Racer, Saturday, 21 April 2001 00:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
― alex in nyc, Saturday, 21 April 2001 00:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
― Nicole, Saturday, 21 April 2001 00:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
― AP, Saturday, 21 April 2001 00:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
"7UP! Between Sixth and...BROADWAY!"
It was all downhill when Andy Taylor released "Take It Easy," granted.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 21 April 2001 00:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
Utter classic band for le Bon's voice alone nevermind the awesome ripoff of Japan's best album (Paul Morley-you iz a twit).
Nick Rhodes - holy idol like Ron Mael.
Andy Taylor - your bar in Whitley Bay iz shit !
― Hungry..., Sunday, 22 April 2001 00:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
Even Biba Kopf (quite) liked Duran Duran.
― mark s, Sunday, 22 April 2001 00:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
― Omar, Monday, 23 April 2001 00:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
In many ways the band that remind me most of Duran now are Radiohead.
The only disappointment is that for a band that began wanting to be Chic they were quite rockist, never producing a genuine disco anthem. Perhaps for that failing not a 100% classic.
― Guy, Monday, 23 April 2001 00:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
― Tom, Monday, 23 April 2001 00:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
For me total dud, especially Le Bon's nasal braying. I can't deny that "Rio" and "Hungry Like.." are good pop, but there's only so much billowy-shirted, fake suntan opulence I can bear. Wham did that so much better - I think because they didn't have (or kept hidden until Georges'solo career) the muso tendencies that puffed-up Duran into such an ugly spectacle.
I do like "Ordinary World" though - great melody.
― Dr. C, Monday, 23 April 2001 00:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
― Nicole, Monday, 23 April 2001 00:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
― Sterling Clover, Monday, 23 April 2001 00:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
Hungry Like the Wolf is the best song ever, and not just because I've always been convinced it's about oral sex. The video is just the most fantastic thing - I mean, wtf is going on in it? Why do they seem angry? Why are they chasing that girl, and then why is she chasing them? What's with the war paint? Why flip over a table? It's amazing, and so much better than the way overrated Rio video. I think all videos should look like Hungry Like the Wolf. I'd kill to watch Radiohead run around like that, flipping over tables and chasing war- painted girls in the jungle.
― Ally, Monday, 23 April 2001 00:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
But all of the early videos were quite brilliant. Wild Boys in particular is so OTT that I would kill to see something near its like today.
― Sean Carruthers, Monday, 23 April 2001 00:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
― Debbie, Tuesday, 24 April 2001 00:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
Both are cute, charming, doomy, arty, angsty, made it big Stateside, owe more to Bowie than they’ll ever admit, surf the wave of current political fads (aspiration & no-logo respectively), make the old feel young.
Why are Radiohead not the new Duran?
Not enough hair products or trips to the make-up counter, no aspiring artist in the band, not enough singles.
― Guy, Tuesday, 24 April 2001 00:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
― Ally, Tuesday, 24 April 2001 00:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
CLASSIC for image, as everyone has already said, but DUD for Simon LeBon's voice, which only Dr. C seems to have noticed. (Gosh, what could be worse than the "Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)" cover?)
What does mark's post mean? I do feel like I'm jumping on a bandwagon by saying CLASSIC for image cos I've spent many years trying to distance myself from my childhood infatuations...
― youn, Tuesday, 24 April 2001 00:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
― Ally, Tuesday, 20 November 2001 01:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
― alex in mainhattan, Wednesday, 21 November 2001 01:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
duran duran = roXoR also
― mark s, Wednesday, 21 November 2001 01:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
― Robin Carmody, Wednesday, 21 November 2001 01:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
― Ally, Wednesday, 21 November 2001 01:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 21 November 2001 01:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
― Arthur, Wednesday, 21 November 2001 01:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
― stevo, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
― di, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
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 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 20 June 2003 04:47 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― geeta (geeta), Friday, 20 June 2003 05:51 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
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 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Friday, 20 June 2003 06:11 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
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 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Friday, 20 June 2003 06:26 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 20 June 2003 07:16 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
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 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
And don't forget to search for Arcadia, another fantastic album.
― Tijn, Friday, 20 June 2003 08:26 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― cameron, Friday, 20 June 2003 09:28 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
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 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― dave q, Friday, 20 June 2003 09:33 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― cameron, Friday, 20 June 2003 09:51 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― kate (kate), Friday, 20 June 2003 09:54 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― cameron, Friday, 20 June 2003 09:55 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
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 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
It really is good. It sounds like a follow-up to Rio without sounding like it's trying to be a follow-up to Rio, and the actual songs are good as well. There's not a duff moment on the whole thing.
The only problem I have with it (if it's even a problem) is that it sounds a bit too '80s. Also, all the television appearances are on housewife shows like Loose Women and The One Show, which shits me a bit. Duran Duran's never been a backward-looking band so I hope it isn't starting now.
― Bentley Rhythm Trayce (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 2 January 2011 12:20 (eight years ago) Permalink
What a crap sentence.
New interview at the Quietus with Simon Price:
http://thequietus.com/articles/05889-duran-duran-interview-all-you-need-is-now
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 17 March 2011 15:49 (seven years ago) Permalink
Duran Duran's never been a backward-looking band so I hope it isn't starting now.
I hope so. I mean, after the disastrous "Red Carpet Massacre", which was even worse than "Big Thing" (another disappointing album that would have benefited from being a bit more backward-looking)
― You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Thursday, 17 March 2011 22:21 (seven years ago) Permalink
I thought Astronaut was quite a poor album apart from Nice and Taste the Summer, it seems like they've done a whole album with that kind of sound.
"Nice" and "Taste The Summer" sound more like "Notorious" tracks than "Rio" tracks though.
― You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Thursday, 17 March 2011 22:23 (seven years ago) Permalink
Happy 30th to Rio.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 21:13 (six years ago) Permalink
Watched its Classic Albums" chapter Sunday afternoon!
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 21:14 (six years ago) Permalink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hr3HCNIgv40
― Vini Reilly Invasion (Elvis Telecom), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 02:11 (six years ago) Permalink
I suppose one or two of their songs I *do* have a mild soft spot for... but mostly dud.
Japan, on the other hand...
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Thursday, 10 May 2012 00:47 (six years ago) Permalink
Apologies for the spam but I really think Duran Duran fans (and fans of Japan, post punk, new pop and glam) will find this feature interesting.
Duran Duran Versus Japan - The Substance Of Style
(It's not about who's better by the way...)
― Doran, Sunday, 31 March 2013 15:28 (five years ago) Permalink
Fantastic article for sure.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 31 March 2013 15:31 (five years ago) Permalink
Damn! Impressive.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 31 March 2013 15:33 (five years ago) Permalink
I've been listening to a lot of Duran Duran (81-82) and David Sylvian (83-85) lately so I thought this would be perfect reading right now but I didn't like it very much.
― brotherlovesdub, Sunday, 31 March 2013 15:58 (five years ago) Permalink
love it.
― mr.raffles, Sunday, 31 March 2013 23:22 (five years ago) Permalink
Thanks to Geir (and unregistered) I'm listening to Rio again.
This album is a fucking miracle, right?
― check yr poptimism (imago), Sunday, 6 October 2013 01:14 (five years ago) Permalink
completely and utterly
― obi wankin' obi (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 6 October 2013 01:33 (five years ago) Permalink
check the 'Classic Albums' Rio doc if you haven't seen it. one of the better episodes for sure IMO.
― piscesx, Sunday, 6 October 2013 01:35 (five years ago) Permalink
Ordinary world is classic
― done and dusted (Ross), Friday, 4 May 2018 06:39 (nine months ago) Permalink
Come Undone is better though
― NO REGERTS (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 4 May 2018 09:11 (nine months ago) Permalink
I love this band. I won't dismiss any of their albums - Liberty might arguably be their weakest & the production doesn't do it any favours, but it still has some really great songs on it.
To me, they released their best work to date with their 13th album All You Need Is Now.I'm very fond of Big Thing too.
― Valentijn, Friday, 4 May 2018 09:58 (nine months ago) Permalink
I'm pretty sure I've posted about this before but:
Circa 1981, my best friend's older sister (let's call her Stephanie) had a Journey poster on her bedroom door. In it, Steve Perry is singing a note that appears to emanate from his lower intestine. His eyes are tightly closed; sweat is pouring down his face. His hair looks a bit like Joan Baez's; his jeans scrupulously follow the contours of his testicles.
By 1983, Steve was gone from Stephanie's door. It now held the icy-cool stares of Duran Duran, in Members Only-style jackets against a backdrop of lavender and aqua. Their lipstick perfectly matches the color of their immaculately pleated pants.
All I need to know about the difference between the 70s and 80s I learned from Stephanie's door.
I immediately started saving up to buy a Roland Juno 6.
― NO REGERTS (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 4 May 2018 10:06 (nine months ago) Permalink
Side 2 of Big Thing is fantastic, and the b-sides were pretty good too.
― brotherlovesdub, Friday, 4 May 2018 17:55 (nine months ago) Permalink
https://www.alcoholprofessor.com/blog/2018/06/20/taylor-made-cocktails/
― mick signals, Wednesday, 20 June 2018 21:06 (seven months ago) Permalink
Well...
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, 13 July 2018 19:06 (seven months ago) Permalink
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/duran-durans-simon-le-bon-denies-sexual-misconduct-allegation-698560/
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, 13 July 2018 19:08 (seven months ago) Permalink
It's obviously a sensitive subject, and one person's word against another, but just from that article it doesn't seem to ring true.
― groovypanda, Friday, 13 July 2018 19:26 (seven months ago) Permalink
glad we got that sorted
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, 13 July 2018 19:33 (seven months ago) Permalink
Can someone please explain?.
― You like queer? I like queer. Still like queer. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 12 October 2018 02:03 (four months ago) Permalink
link doesn't work but you can always post a question here it's ilm after all
― niels, Friday, 12 October 2018 08:48 (four months ago) Permalink
Sorry. The reason for this strange behavior.
― You like queer? I like queer. Still like queer. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 12 October 2018 11:03 (four months ago) Permalink
Great write-ups Alfred.
― Gavin, Leeds, Friday, 12 October 2018 12:23 (four months ago) Permalink
I wish the rest of their albums were as good as Rio - the leap from the debut to that is incredible, but fucking hell did they hit a wall fast creatively.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, 12 October 2018 12:28 (four months ago) Permalink
― Gavin, Leeds
Thanks!
― You like queer? I like queer. Still like queer. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 12 October 2018 12:36 (four months ago) Permalink
My list would be very similar. I'd put Notorious behind Seven Ragged & The Tiger. I guess I'd probably throw in All You Need Is Now in seventh place as the best of their later albums (not there is much competition).
I listened to Big Thing recently and it was slightly better than I remembered. It still has some issues though.
― kitchen person, Friday, 12 October 2018 15:01 (four months ago) Permalink
Notorious is a great album, I still remember listening to it in my room on Christmas Day 1986 and my dad stopping in the doorway, listening for a sec, and approvingly saying "This is Duran Duran? I thought they were terrible". It was Winter Marches On playing. So from then on I was like "ah, this is their album that adults like" and now, as an adult, I do still quite like it! The first three albums I love in the uncritical way you love stuff from your childhood, but they're also somewhat inaccessible now for that reason. But I can listen to Notorious whenever and dig it.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Friday, 12 October 2018 15:38 (four months ago) Permalink
still don't get why "Hold Me" wasn't the follow-up to "Notorious."
― You like queer? I like queer. Still like queer. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 12 October 2018 15:39 (four months ago) Permalink
Can someone please explain?
Please please tell you now
― Yah Mo B. Hawkins (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 12 October 2018 15:46 (four months ago) Permalink
yeah, Hold Me makes way more sense as a single than Skin Trade! I would have released Meet El Presidente -> Hold Me -> American Science as singles.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Friday, 12 October 2018 15:56 (four months ago) Permalink
I remember reading an interview with Nick a while back where he was talking about Skin Trade. The band and the label thought it was the huge hit on the album. When the title track slightly under-performed, they weren't worried because they knew they had Skin Trade as the secret weapon. They were shocked when it did so badly. Not sure why they thought Meet El Presidente would turn things around when it came to picking a third single.
― kitchen person, Friday, 12 October 2018 17:01 (four months ago) Permalink
They even named the tour after a "Skin Trade" lyric: Strange Behavior.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 12 October 2018 17:44 (four months ago) Permalink
Wait, what? Underperformed in the UK, maybe. In the United States, it was a massive #2 hit.
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― You like queer? I like queer. Still like queer. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 12 October 2018 18:27 (four months ago) Permalink
Nah, "Skin Trade" only reached #39 US.
I bought the 45 back in '87, so I did my part!
But it's funny you say Y-100 in Miami broke "Ordinary World." I lived in South Florida at the time and remember it was Power 96 that played that song to death.
― Josefa, Friday, 12 October 2018 19:09 (four months ago) Permalink
Josefa, I meant "Notorious" in case it wasn't clear.
I remember "Ordinary World" on Y-100, which was inching toward all-A/C in late '92 and early '93, but you might be right.
Wow, after all these years, I didn't know your history! A shout-out!
― You like queer? I like queer. Still like queer. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 12 October 2018 19:15 (four months ago) Permalink
Oh sorry, re Notorious.
Yeah, ancient history at this point, but I cherish the memories and still try to make it down there once in a while
― Josefa, Friday, 12 October 2018 19:18 (four months ago) Permalink
[South Florida content here:] Power 96 of course was the freestyle station back in those days, but occasionally they would latch on to some power ballad they considered meaningful and play it in high rotation. "Winds of Change" by the Scorpions was another one.
― Josefa, Friday, 12 October 2018 19:30 (four months ago) Permalink
Ah no way, Alfred. "So Red The Rose" is excellent even if bloated.
― An Uphill Battle For Legumes (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 12 October 2018 20:38 (four months ago) Permalink
yeah it's second behind Rio based on what I've heard
tt keeps telling me that SATRT is quite good but I'm really scared to hear it. really I'm scared to hear anything that isn't Rio - it's hard to hear a band capable of all-time brilliance cranking out shit
― imago, Friday, 12 October 2018 20:41 (four months ago) Permalink
side two of SATRG is perfect, the non-single tracks on side one are kinda weak
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Friday, 12 October 2018 20:58 (four months ago) Permalink
"Strange CO-inci-DENCE each time you. look. my way."
― You like queer? I like queer. Still like queer. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 12 October 2018 21:03 (four months ago) Permalink
Never been entirely sure what's so bad about 7&TRT, tbh, but the "uncritical way you love stuff from your childhood" complicates things for me too. (Everything up to Notorious really.) I'm totally digging "Of Crime & Passion" this instant. Can't face "The Reflex" though, admittedly.
Related: is there an obvious reason why "A Matter of Feeling" is seemingly Spotify's favourite Notorious track by a wide margin?
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Friday, 12 October 2018 22:06 (four months ago) Permalink