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[Music] Duran Duran



Live by the sea

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Oct 21, 2016
4,718
Best album. I’m sure everyone has their own favourite ..Album not band member !

Mine is - seven & the ragged tiger .

Duran Duran this year are celebrating 40 years as a band ! . In the USA they are generally considered a cooler version of the Rolling Stones which is why they tend to tour so much there.
 




DIFFBROOK

Really Up the Junction
Feb 3, 2005
2,266
Yorkshire
Not so sure they are cooler than the Rolling stones in USA. The reason they tour there so much is because of the money.

Having said that, my favourite albums are the first two, then they went into decline from "7 and the ragged tiger" to "Big Thing". "Liberty" was poor. Then they pulled something out of the fire with the "Wedding Album" which provided Come Undone and then inexplicably they did a covers album - which was atrocious. Clearly, they had lost the plot, because the next two albums were exceptionally poor as well - "Meddazzaland" (which wasn't even released in the UK) and "Pop Trash".

Then the reunion. "Astronaut" wasn't great -but did have the hit Reach up for the Sunshine. "Red Carpet Massacre" was terrible. But, surprisingly they released "All you need is now" and lastly "Paper Gods" , both of which were excellent.

I think with Duran, it very much depends on who produces them. Mark Ronson, Nile Rodgers did the last two and they were very strong.

Very good live band.
 








Icy Gull

Back on the rollercoaster
Jul 5, 2003
72,015
It has never crossed my mind to even consider comparing the Stones to Duran Duran. Really?

Maybe I should listen more carefully as I don’t have any Duran Duran albums and always considered them a teeny bopper band :shrug:
 




DIFFBROOK

Really Up the Junction
Feb 3, 2005
2,266
Yorkshire
No comparison on any level with the Rolling Stones - except maybe the cocaine.

Not so sure about teeny label, they did so some very good albums - in my opinion the 1st two and the latest 2. If you want to check them out then Rio and All You Need is Now are the ones to listen to. The rest have either dated 80s production or are just plain terrible.


It has never crossed my mind to even consider comparing the Stones to Duran Duran. Really?

Maybe I should listen more carefully as I don’t have any Duran Duran albums and always considered them a teeny bopper band :shrug:
 




Algernon

Well-known member
Sep 9, 2012
2,931
Newmarket.
Typically early Duran Duran.
Catchy, no substance.
Their cassette tapes were constantly loaded in my Maystar player in my Mk1 escort 1300 xl.
 


SK1NT

Well-known member
Sep 9, 2003
8,728
Thames Ditton
Same, never thought about comparing them at all... I do like Duran Duran... Reflex, Save A Prayer, Rio. Best Album 'Greatest'.
 


Wozza

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Jul 6, 2003
23,584
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Not so sure they are cooler than the Rolling stones in USA. The reason they tour there so much is because of the money.

Having said that, my favourite albums are the first two, then they went into decline from "7 and the ragged tiger" to "Big Thing". "Liberty" was poor. Then they pulled something out of the fire with the "Wedding Album" which provided Come Undone and then inexplicably they did a covers album - which was atrocious. Clearly, they had lost the plot, because the next two albums were exceptionally poor as well - "Meddazzaland" (which wasn't even released in the UK) and "Pop Trash".

Then the reunion. "Astronaut" wasn't great -but did have the hit Reach up for the Sunshine. "Red Carpet Massacre" was terrible. But, surprisingly they released "All you need is now" and lastly "Paper Gods" , both of which were excellent.

I think with Duran, it very much depends on who produces them. Mark Ronson, Nile Rodgers did the last two and they were very strong.

Very good live band.

Liberty is under-rated imo. Serious and My Antarctica, in particular, are both ace.

Rio is obviously their best album. Duran Duran the second imo. And, um, Arcadia' So Red The Rose the third.

Lots of great tracks since though.

Ridiculously writing them off as a teeny bopper band when they've always written (and often produced) their own stuff. Unfortunately they were too good looking for their own good. And it's not cool to like a band which 13yo girls like.

PS This is ace...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNa...n5-ZgV0i-yzroOD5EYuvjtkWxmhJDbYhjxxzWKb3IdO6w
 






DIFFBROOK

Really Up the Junction
Feb 3, 2005
2,266
Yorkshire
Never got into Liberty. But, yes Serious was great (with a young Tess daly in the video)

Liberty is under-rated imo. Serious and My Antarctica, in particular, are both ace.

Rio is obviously their best album. Duran Duran the second imo. And, um, Arcadia' So Red The Rose the third.

Lots of great tracks since though.

Ridiculously writing them off as a teeny bopper band when they've always written (and often produced) their own stuff. Unfortunately they were too good looking for their own good. And it's not cool to like a band which 13yo girls like.
 


Publius Ovidius

Well-known member
Jul 5, 2003
45,919
at home
Typically early Duran Duran.
Catchy, no substance.
Their cassette tapes were constantly loaded in my Maystar player in my Mk1 escort 1300 xl.


Absolutely love that song!
 




ManOfSussex

We wunt be druv
Apr 11, 2016
14,729
Rape of Hastings, Sussex
I've no idea, but this thread now means 'Greatest' will feature as part of my exercise bike workout soundtrack this afternoon. I think I'll even have to put the DVD of their videos on too, rather than the CD as I need the full 'do,do,do,do,do,do' finale of 'Rio' and the image of Simon Le Bon in a lime green suit on a yacht will raise my spirits as well.
 


Beach Hut

Brighton Bhuna Boy
Jul 5, 2003
71,903
Living In a Box
View To A Kill video if extremely humorous at the end:

"Aren't you ?"

"My name is Bon, Simon Le Bon"
 


Wozza

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Jul 6, 2003
23,584
Online
I stood next to Le Bon and John Taylor at a gig last month. They're tall. Good hair.
 


Tokyohands

Well-known member
Jan 5, 2017
940
Tokyo
There's been some great remixes of their stuff too, this is one of my faves. Bit of a noisy opening but has a wicked groove through it.
 




ManOfSussex

We wunt be druv
Apr 11, 2016
14,729
Rape of Hastings, Sussex
View To A Kill video if extremely humorous at the end:

"Aren't you ?"

"My name is Bon, Simon Le Bon"

As he strolls around the top of the Eiffel Tower with a beret on listening to a walkman. :lolol:

Then right at the end the bomb he accidentally sets off from his walkman goes off.............but it's a postcode of the Eiffel Tower in a stand that blows up, not the real thing, so everything's alright.

You also never get to find out the answer to the question the model asks Nick Rhodes he was photographing, as he clutches his ears in agony and collapses of - 'Nick, what's wrong?' - it's always been one of life's great unsolved mysteries that incident and unanswered question.
 


Harry Wilson's tackle

Harry Wilson's Tackle
NSC Patreon
Oct 8, 2003
49,337
Faversham
Surprised nobody has mentioned the tremendous videos they released in the early 80s ??? :whistle:
 



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