Duran Duran - Greatest
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Free Music Review: GREAT indeed, but not enough.
Hit: 5 Stars
This is a great selection of songs but it still misses because of the horribly butchered single versions of 'Save a Prayer' and 'Rio'. And as important is the fact that a single compilation like this leaves out songs that are just as beautiful as the ones on it or surpasses them.
Anybody lucky enough to see Duran's recent concerts will be aware of this when they played many songs from the first two albums that are not on the Greatest album. Here's some of what's missing.
Duran Duran - Careless Memories, To the shore, Sound of Thunder, Friends of mine, Tel Aviv.
Rio - The Chauffeur, Lonely in your Nightmare, New Religion, Hold Back the Rain
Then there's the songs from the other albums that are nothing less than essential.
Seven & the Ragged Tiger - Of Crime and Passion, Shadows On Your Side, The Seventh Stranger
Notorious - Winter Marches On, A Matter of Feeling, Hold Me, American Science
Big Thing - Do you Believe in Shame?, Land, Palomino, Too Late Marlene
Liberty - My Antartica
Wedding Album - Breath after Breath, Sin of the City
Medazzaland - Midnight Sun, Out of My Mind, So Long Suicide, Michael, Buried in the Sand
Pop Trash - Starting to Remember, Someone Else Not Me, Pop Trash Movie, Last Day on Earth
The thing is Duran Duran are simply not a singles band, and with every album having something different to offer, it's worthwhile to listen to everyone of them. Duran Duran (the first album), Rio, Notorious, Medazzaland and Big Thing are all amazing.
Free Music Review: No-no-notorious!
Hit: 5 Stars
Duran Duran were a part of the early 80s New romantic movement, with their flashy image comprising make up and loud hair cuts, clever videos (which won them two Grammys in 1983; best long form and best short form video), very danceable synthesized new wave sound, and Simon Le Bon's big, slightly off kilter voice..
`Greatest' is a good overview of the group's music, showcasing their sound and evolution from `Planet earth' in 1981 to the dizzying razor sharp synths of the excellent `Electric Barbarella in 1997. The songs are not arranged chronologically however, still a fab introduction to new Durannies.
Featured here are most of their biggest hits; the dramatic horn laden Bond theme song `View to a kill' (US #1), the beautiful ballad `Save a prayer' (US #16), `The reflex' (US #1), the camera snap filled `Girls on film', `Rio' (with a great sax break), (US#14) `Union of the snake' (US #3), `New moon on Monday (US #10), the Nile Rogers produced funk/rock of `Notorious' (US #2 and sampled by none other than P Diddy himself, and featuring excellent guitar work and a stuttered No-no-notorious), the drum machine demolishing `Wild boys' (US #2) with its glorious sung/chanted chorus, the funky `I don't want your love (US #4), the tender `Come undone' (US #7), and the ballad `Ordinary world' (US #3) to name a few.
Duran Duran's influence can still be heard today in bands like The Killers, The Bravery, and Franz Ferdinand to name a few.
Crashing drums, pulsing synths, big voices and hair. Aaah, the sound of the 80s..
Free Music Review: This is epic
Hit: 5 Stars
Quite simply, this is the greatest band that has ever created music. The true shame is that there are only five of them and they only have time to create so many songs. Every great song ever written should have been given by this band to perform. Instead of having hacks like Rush perform "Tom Sawyer", you could have had a real drummer like Roger Taylor putting on a show. Instead of New Kids on the Block, or as I call them "Chunky ham in a can", performing Hanging tough, you could've had a real tough band like Duran squared performing the crizzap out of it. How has Duran Duran influenced a life as legendary as mine. Well, put down that can of almonds and I'll tell you.
Back in the mid 80s, I was crafting my image that I now have. The ladies were already watching with great interest the slightest move I would make. No one wore a swatch guard at my elementary school until I wore a swatch guard. No one wore a ten gallon hat and a child's evening fur until I did. Let's just say that I set trends. It was time for the sixth grade talent show and I decided to form a Duran Duran cover band called Mayor Foosball and the angry butt cloud. We became the biggest band on the scene before the talent show, but it was our presence that allowed the school to sell tickets to the talent show for $[...] each. We raised enough money to bulldoze our school and build a brand new one. Our version of "The Reflex" made six girls faint. Yup, such is my life. I just took average out to the backyard and buried it.
Free Music Review: Hungry like Duran Duran
Hit: 5 Stars
I remember Duran Duran from the earlier days of MTV. They were constant musical acts on MTV, on the dance floor, on pop radio -- they were everywhere. They got the "honor" of doing a Bond song long before Madonna, the queen of pop in many ways, and they had an international reputation that made their concerts sell-outs around the world. While their popularity diminished into the 90s, they are still around now and then, and their classic videos (sad to think of them appearing as "classic" videos now, as it means I am getting older) repeat on VH-1 and other outlets to show videos like "Hungry Like the Wolf" to be as polished as many of the things being put out today.This is a great disc to have if you want the one-disc collection of all their greatest hits. However, there are some tracks that are presented here as edited versions -- they aren't always the ones we're used to on the radio or on the videos. Most people probably won't notice, but for the purists, this could be a bit of a frustration.
This is an essential pop collection. From the high-energy dance tracks like "Electric Barbarella" and "Union of the Snake" to the more subdued but still electronic-heavy "Come Undone" and "Save a Prayer," these songs transport those of us who came of age during this time back to a time when videos (and in many ways, the whole world) was a bit flashier and shinier.
Free Music Review: My Favorite Group of The 80's
Hit: 5 Stars
Duran Duran could very well be the most underrated group of the 1980's. With big acts such as Michael Jackson, Madonna, Prince and "The Boss" ruling the charts it's easy to see why Duran Duran could be overlooked. Dubbed "The Fab Five" Duran Duran produced many memorable hits and videos, such as "Girls on Film" , "Hungry Like The Wolf" , "Rio", "The Reflex" and "Wild Boys" to name a few. It was groups like Duran Duran that really brought MTV to the forefront in the early and middle 80's. Unfortuantely the original band dismembered to soon when in 1985 when Andy and John Taylor (no relation) left to form "The Power Station" with Robert Palmer while Simon LeBon, Nick Rhodes and Roger Taylor formed Arcadia. Duran Duran was reduced to a trio in 1986 with Lebon,Rhodes and Roger Taylor.
Anyway, this album has it all from "New Moon on Monday" to "Notorius" to "Is There Something I should Know" "Planet Earth" "Save a Prayer" "Union of the Sanke" "A View to a Kill" and even includes their two top ten hits in the early 90's "Come Undone" and "Ordinary World" plus more. This is an awesome compilation by one of the best groups of the 1980's and my personal favorite. If you are a big fan of "The Fab Five" this is a definite must for your collection!