duran duran RIO

I have the 82 US Club edition of the LP, which I think is the 2nd Kershenbaum remix LP tracklist. If anyone has a great breakdown of the Rio LP variations that is not the Wiki page, please share. I'm not sure which version of the LP is the 'best' but I know there are many variations. Any preferences?

This might go some way to explaining what variations are out there.

http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/duran-duran-rio-us-album-version.316647/

Oh, that leads to some deeper nerdery on the subject here.

http://www.ionpool.net/duran/rio.html

Yes, was just going to post that link, which seems to be much better at defining the variations. Thank you!

yeah that's a great link

i like the version of "rio" on the "carnival" ep

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDpYkomy8dM

The Chauffeur is probably in my top ten favourite songs of all time

Voting for Hold Back the Rain with a caveat that I prefer the mix on the CD version of the album to the slightly longer one from the original LP (the instrumental bridge is better I think). I like all these songs though.

what glass splinters lie so deep in your mind?

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sing, blue silver!

poor my own way

the worst song on this record is great

take another green but it's not the same

As much as I love 'The Chauffeur', I can't get on board with the idea of it being the best track on this!

Brad otm

And the two songs with 3 votes are all-time classics

OTM. 'Hold Back the Rain' is one of the best choruses this band ever wrote and I adore the fretless bass on 'Lonely in Your Nightmare' - it's not quite Karn-level playing, but it's still fantastic.

Already on my must-read-immediately-when-published list.

I could not be more thrilled to share that I'm going to be writing a @333books on @duranduran's "Rio," one of my favorite albums in life and an LP I think is brilliant and influential. https://t.co/R4q3W0Opco pic.twitter.com/czcFzwfCpP

— Annie Zaleski (@anniezaleski) March 1, 2019

It's that time where I blast Rio again and marvel once more at how wonderful it is. This, of course, is always followed by the realisation that they were never this good over the course of a full-length ever again. It's something that's always annoyed me about Seven and the Ragged Tiger - they had it in them to do something so much better. They really should never have moved away from working away from Colin Thurston so quickly, too.

Cocaine is a helluva drug

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(Also, y'all are on drugs, "Last Chance on the Stairway", "My Own Way", "Hold Back the Rain", and "Lonely in Your Nightmare" are all far better than "Rio".)

They really should never have moved away from working away from Colin Thurston so quickly, too.

Pretty sure this is the only time this sentiment has been expressed in human history.

Yeah, I'm pretty much the most hardcore Duranie on this board and even I'm, like, "Dude, they needed to move away from Colin Thurston in order to make the albums they made from Seven and the Ragged Tiger onward." Also, had they never worked with Alex Sadkin on 7&TRT they would have never had the inspiration for "Do You Believe in Shame", one of their saddest, most beautiful songs ever. Also, my favorite albums of theirs were either self-produced or produced by Mark Ronson, so.

what even is the 'sand lane'? this is the most freakish album ever made. bunch of twats somehow transcended music

the banned turrican was right if only this once

lj's love for this record makes me so happy

i think there's a lot to be said for early-years programming; i was raised on this and it is me and i am it

that said i can't listen to it and wonder how the hell Rhodes and Taylor worked out their synth and bass parts; it is extremely amazing & advanced pop composition. was it just loads and loads of cocaine tho

*figure out, not wonder. i always wonder

syncopation between synth and bass on this record is unreal yes. the guitars are also all amazing cf. "my own way"

my brain produces dopamine instantly any time i focus on that synth blinking just beneath the surface of "hungry like the wolf"

yeah the guitars are perfect too, but they're like the adornments on top of this monstrously great architecture

yes like northern lights flaring over a complex arrangement of stars

yes!

"it means SO MUCH TO ME like a birthdayyyyy or a pretty view"

has anyone sung total nonsense more convincingly than le bon on this record

tbf I think that line is intended as sarcasm, cf. "you're about as easy as a nuclear war"

not enough meaning being conveyed for me to read intention into them

This is the greatest album in pop history. Y'all can't believe how uncool it was to proclaim it in 1991.

Don't think coke had entered the picture yet btw

yeah seven and the ragged tiger is a coke album if i've ever heard one, rio considerably less so

iirc rio was no. 1 on britney spears' ballot for vh1's 100 greatest albums of all time countdown, and that is absolutely the reason i bought it

Just read John Taylor's memoir. Though it is light on music detail, it's evident that they took their craft seriously and were working toward a particular sound. That sound was partly in the air (from funk and disco) and partly something they invented.

It was a very particular, irreproducible moment, when the technology and the culture and taste came together to produce a work of almost-nonchalant genius. They look like they're all very handsome and they are having a good time while wearing their girlfriends' blouses, sure.

But the music was, and is, made with care. And it is transcendently awesome. Alfred otm.

The journey from the title track to "Last Chance on the Stairway" is like experiencing The Waves.

This is the greatest album in pop history. Y'all can't believe how uncool it was to proclaim it in 1991.

Well, Big Thing and Liberty were consecutive terrible albums so 1991 was a low point. They got their cred back in 1993 with Ordinary World and Come Undone though!

Don't think coke had entered the picture yet btw

― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 17:54 (thirty-nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

this explains a few things

iirc rio was no. 1 on britney spears' ballot for vh1's 100 greatest albums of all time countdown, and that is absolutely the reason i bought it

― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 17:56 (thirty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

so does this

If you put Too Late Marlene on side 2 of Big Thing, that may be my favorite single side of a Duran LP

Liberty I haven't heard apart from "Violence of Summer" and "Serious," the latter of which is good.