[although the lipsynch-performance of "Wild Boys" i once gave with a couple of friends in school (age: 12) is a close runner-up... (i was Nick Rhodes)]
― willem (willem), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 10:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
1. The Chauffeur (natch..)2. The Reflex (single version)3. Ordinary World (how to write a cool power ballad - do it Duran style)4. Girls On Film5. Make Me Smile (Come up and see me)- Live on Reflex 12"6. Skin Trade (DD do Prince and get away with it)7. New Religion8. Planet Earth9. Is There Something I Should Know (underrated I think)10. Rio
― darren (darren), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 10:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
(Also, any list that doesn't include "I Don't Want Your Love" and "Notorious" is wrong.)
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 11:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
Not necessarily (although it is probably my least favourite track on an album that contains exclusively good ones).
I second that though (and I'd like to add the godawful "Skin Trade" and "All She Wants Is" too....)
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 11:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
I will admit that my "Rio" hate stems from being forcibly exposed to that song multiple times at EVERY SINGLE PARTY I WENT TO in college (seriously, it was ridiculous: go to a regular dorm party, someone would play "Rio"; go to a party sponsored by a campus group, the DJ would play "Rio"; go to a university-sponsored party, the DJ would play "Rio"; between that and "Stop" by Erasure and fucking "I Will Survive" by Gloria Gaynor I wanted to murder people).
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 11:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
Rio is crap.
― edward o (edwardo), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 11:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 14:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 14:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
1. "Friends of Mine"2. "Last Chance on the Stairway"3. "The Seventh Stranger"4. "Winter Marches On"5. "Do You Believe in Shame?"6. "Serious"7. "Ordinary World"8. "Watching the Detectives" (I think it's as good as the original)9. "So Long Suicide"10. "Playing with Uranium"
Plus another 10 since I've been a huge fan of theirs for a LONG time:
1. "Sound of Thunder"2. "The Chauffeur"3. "Union of the Snake"4. "Hold Me"5. "Palomino"6. "My Antarctica"7. "Sin of the City"8. "Big Bang Generation"9. "Buried in the Sand"10. "Kiss Goodbye"/"Last Day on Earth" (this is a case where two songs are practically one song -- neither can go without the other)
Plus my top ten b-sides (real b-sides too):
1. "Late Bar"2. "To the Shore"3. "Faster than Light"4. "Faith in this Colour"5. "Secret Oktober"6. "We Need You"7. "I Believe/All I Need to Know"8. "Falling Angel" (or "Fallen Angel")9. "Time for Temptation"10. "Sinner or Saint"
Just a few "I just couldn't leave it at ten songs" lists from someone who's been a huge fan of this band for half her life.
― Dee the Lurker (Dee the Lurker), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 15:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
"Rio" roxx and u r gay. Dan, picture this in yr head: Ramon worked for Greenpeace, aka the annoying wankers who stand on the street corner harassing people to see if they have a minute for Greenpeace. The speech is to say your name, tell them about the rainforest, beg them for a credit card number to charge them inordinant amounts of money. So I decided to help him practice this one day, show him how to be personable, like (since everyone who met him knows that "personable" wasn't in his repertoire). So I stop a guy who apparently does have a minute for Greenpeace, the poor lifeless bastard. With all the seriousness of someone trying to save the earth from capitalist factory fucks, I look the sap in the eyes and state, "Hello, my name is Rio, and I dance upon the sand." Needless to say he was infuriated.
Now tell me that "Rio" is worthless. I dare you.
― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 15:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 15:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
Why is that, hmm?
Honestly, I adore "Planet Earth", but I wanted to name songs that weren't released as singles. Some of the songs on my list are singles songs (c.f. "Union of the Snake" & "Ordinary World", e.g.), but I didn't want to name really hugely popular songs because it would've resulted in me naming practically every song on their catalogue.
Personally, I feel lukewarm toward "A View to a Kill", though. I do think it's a fairly good song for a Bond theme, but I like "Live & Let Die" just as much. I also feel lukewarm toward "Wild Boys", but I do remember when I felt deeply excited over that song way back when I was 12 - 13 and hearing it for the very first time.
I'm a huge fan, though. I have every one of Duran Duran's albums in at least two formats, if not three. I've got numerous paraphernalia, including t-shirts, decals, and books. I can tell you sad-sack information on each band member. I know that the so-called "fab five" are NOT the "original" band lineup and I can name to you who exactly made up the real "original" band lineup. I guess this would be the time when I would say, "So there," but I won't. *grin*
― Dee the Lurker (Dee the Lurker), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 16:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
It was really just a glib statement in response to Dan's post, really, I mean it'd be impossible to make a "bullshit" Duran Duran list. I have no problem listing almost entirely singles because they've got such phenomenol singles that it's impossible to ignore them.
― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 16:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
My original glib statement was largely because I didn't have time to sit down and make a list, but I knew "I Don't Want Your Love" and "Notorious" would be on it. (So would "Come Undone", hence the ultra-sappy post.)
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 16:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 17:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
Yes yes yes, "A View to a Kill" is criminally underrated.
― Nicole (Nicole), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 17:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
He probably rapes sea monkeys or something, the bastard.
― Nicole (Nicole), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 17:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
Until we dance into the fireThat fatal kiss is all we needDance into the fireTo fatal sounds of broken dreamsDance into the fireThat fatal kiss is all we needDance into the fire
The choice for you is the view to a killBetween the shades assasination standing still
First crystal tears,Fallen of snowflakes on your bodyFirst time in yearsTo drench you skin of lover's rosy stainA chance to find the phoenix for the flameA chance to die
But can we dance into the fireThat fatal kiss is all we needDance into the fireTo fatal sounds of broken dreamsDance into the fireThat fatal kiss is all we needDance into the fire
When all we see is the view to a kill
― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 17:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
1. Careless Memories2. Save a Prayer (perfect prom theme parody)3. New Moon on Monday4. Ordinary World5. Is There Something I Should Know6. Planet Earth7. New Religion8. Make Me Smile (it was decades before I found out it's a cover)9. Come Undone10. Anyone Out There
― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 18:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
I was struck by 'Serious', which I hadn't heard/noticed before, and by how much I like 'Notorious' and 'Skin Trade'. More than anything, I find myself having to reappraise 'A View To A Kill', not heretofore one of my favourite Duran Duran tracks. The intro is absolute genius. Something about those massive orchestra hits *really* presses my buttons.
So...
1. View To A Kill2. The Chauffeur3. Planet Earth4. Notorious5. I Don't Want Your Love6. Careless Memories7. Come Undone8. Save A Prayer9. Last Chance on the Stairway10. Electric Barbarella
And so many more I had to leave out :( But really, it's all about View to a Kill at this moment in time.
DOWDOW-DA-DOWDOW-DA-DOWDOW-DA-DOW-DOW-DOW-DA-DOW-DOW
― Zora (Zora), Thursday, 22 December 2005 11:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― retrogurl, Thursday, 22 December 2005 12:25 (eighteen years ago) link
i love "electric barbarella" and "out of my mind" but is it worth getting "medazzaland" and should i get the japanese import to get "ball and chain"?
― retrogurl, Thursday, 22 December 2005 12:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Zora (Zora), Thursday, 22 December 2005 12:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― Zora (Zora), Thursday, 22 December 2005 13:32 (eighteen years ago) link
rio planet earth ordinary world the reflex hungry like the wolf seious the chauffeur new moon on monday new religion union of the snake (though, what a nauseating track this can be)
― Charlie Howard, Saturday, 16 August 2008 05:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Planet Earth Hungry Like The Wolf Save A Prayer The Reflex New Moon on Monday A View To A Kill Skin Trade All She Wants Is Violence of Summer Serious
― daavid, Saturday, 16 August 2008 19:55 (fifteen years ago) link
I still feel like my list up there is just about right, but I am really getting a thing for "(I'm Looking For) Cracks In The Pavement" too. The "Seven And The Ragged Tiger" album is actually a bit underrated.
― Geir Hongro, Sunday, 17 August 2008 20:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Hear it when you listen!
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 1 May 2017 11:26 (six years ago) link
It's probably sacrilege, but the album cuts on Big Thing are some of my favorite DD things these days. Take out Drug, and from Too Late Marlene to Lake Shore Driving is fantastic. Give me the first LP + b-sides, Arcadia, Notorious, Big Thing and i'm set.
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 1 May 2017 18:52 (six years ago) link
Big Thing was my fave DD album for a long time, I'd only rank it second nowadays to All You Need Is Now... I wrote this as well in that recent thread on 'least acclaimed albums you like'.Drug is the only track on the album I don't exactly love, but I don't hate it either.I saw them in 2008, they played an 'electroset' which included All She Wants Is and I Don't Want Your Love, I thought it worked really well.
Alfred, although I'd personally rank many album tracks, many songs from later albums and certainly Secret Oktober above lots of songs from your list I can't argue with the fact that those 30 tracks are all pretty great indeed. But I can't make heads or tails of that article. Interpol being fun or not relating to Duran Duran... how? Bass lines being a giveway for the singer's demeanour, huh?? US president eras as British artist timeline markers - erm...?
― Valentijn, Monday, 1 May 2017 20:03 (six years ago) link
I’ll pick “Come Undone” as my POO. It’s one of those “decade defining” songs in my life, despite not being a fan of the band.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 28 March 2020 06:00 (four years ago) link
Kinda surprised I never did this before. I do recall defending 7&tRT elsewhere, at least.
Channelling 10-year-old me...
KhanadaCareless Memories The ChauffeurSave a PrayerOf Crime and PassionTiger TigerThe Seventh StrangerHold MeDo You Believe In ShameThe Edge of America/Lake Shore Driving
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Saturday, 28 March 2020 09:47 (four years ago) link
1. too bad you’re so beautiful2. hold back the rain3. rio 4. the chauffeur5. the man who stole a leopard6. electric barbarella7. the reflex8. safe (in the heat of the moment)9. girl panic10. astronaut
― karmic blowback for dissing pip and jane baker (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 28 March 2020 10:01 (four years ago) link
wait10. all you need is now
― karmic blowback for dissing pip and jane baker (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 28 March 2020 10:03 (four years ago) link