Which bands' music has aged better -Duran Duran or Spandau Ballet?
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KZNSeagull
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They were both shit and still are.
Post of the week.
Only the true messiah denies his divinity.
Buzzer
Languidly Clinical
- Oct 1, 2006
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Clearly Duran Duran win hands down but I've got to say that there is one Spandau Ballet track that has aged rather well: 'Chant No 1 (I Don't Need This Pressure)'. It's very un-Spandau, it sounds like it should be by someone like Pigbag or the Blockheads. I like this tune a lot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhcmukDKAEo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhcmukDKAEo
Seagull58
In the Algarve
My Spandau Ballet Greatest Hits CD says it's the Spandaus by a distance.
Ernest
Stupid IDIOT
wigman
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If I had to chose between the two it would have to be Duran Duran.
Raleigh Chopper
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They were both shit and still are.
And that would have been my reply until I watched Duran Duran live at The Eden Project I thought they were very good.
By the way Roxy Music are one of the headline bands at the Looe Music Festival (which is great if it doesn't rain, with the stage right on the beach) not sure to get tickets, anybody think it is worth it, are they still any good?
Dorset Seagull
Once Dolphin, Now Seagull
The more recent Spandau acoustic album of their greatest hits is very good. Loved them both back in the 80's and even now it's difficult to pick a winner
Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
Duran Duran, very underrated and it should be noted extremely good musicians
Buzzer
Languidly Clinical
- Oct 1, 2006
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I'm not sure they're under-rated but you're right, they are very good. I last saw them live at a festival in London and thry rocked the place. The spin-off band - Arcadia? - wasn't to shabby either. Oh, and Stephen Tin Tin Duffy too, who was a very early member of the band, I believe.
Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
Arcadia and I think The Power Station included some of them as well as Robert Palmer ?
Pretty pink fairy
Banned
- Jan 30, 2008
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I know.
I mean, I know I know it's True.
I mean True as in the song name, but also that it's True.
Ba ba ba baaaaa....
(The answer is Duran btw - easily)
Not nick rhodes
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- Jul 7, 2016
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You are quite correct. Power station was a project with Robert Palmer. Andy and John Taylor while Arcadia was a project mainly with simon, roger and Nick with guests like grace Jones. Both albums were actually really good. Election day my favourite.
Pavilionaire
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- Jul 7, 2003
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For me Duran Duran are the quintessential 80s pop band.
As for the music, out of the two of them I'm more likely to listen to Spandau Ballets Greatest Hits. Instinction is one of my favourite singles from that era.
As for the music, out of the two of them I'm more likely to listen to Spandau Ballets Greatest Hits. Instinction is one of my favourite singles from that era.
Thankfully I own no albums by either band
Cheeky Monkey
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- Jul 17, 2003
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Ordinary World, from DD's second coming, is about the only one that stands the test of time. As for SB, it's a bit like Visage's Greatest Hits, you chuck it on expecting it to offer so much more than it does.