Duran Duran - Red Carpet Massacre (Snys)
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Free Music Review: please Please Tell Me Now? RCM is A WINNER
Hit: 5 Stars
This album blows minds! Absolutely there best work in years, tribal beats, thumping bass,Nick is the einstein of synth and SLB never sounded better this is not your Mamas Duran Duan this Duran for the next century.
Highlights
The Valley- "These are days of hit and run" A Stange Pink Floyd esq intro that will blow your minds and take ya to the thump of the dance floor. JT lets loose, cascading bass thumping rythems, NR lurking keyboards thumping paranoia, this is one for the ages. This sets the table for the rock n roll dance pary strip down.
Dirty Great Monster- Ohhh Oh ..A ripping guitar lurks with bass beat down to the shadows of the urban decay. This song hides its betrayal at is core. The Monster is released with smoky silk blues Sax that will tear you to your Knees.."do ya ever Wonder...??? Dirty Great Brillance.
Skin Divers-Ultra funk, WOW this has the beat bass Timba rappin JT slappin urban funk. OXYGEN. Timbaland getting ya swaying WHEN YA COME UP FOR AIR? thats what it feels like? OXYGEN.. When ya get to deep ya might hit reef, when ya come up for you feel brand new when ya come up for air"
Absolute track to get buzy.
Tempted: FIND A LANE! Like its meant to. Get buzy on the floor with this one. Get TEMPTED. This is for the clubs from London to Ibiza. Get back to london commin undone sonic islands breaking silence love how they grooved this one. This is the four to floor urban Pure fun funk oh yea. Like ya know its meant to Oh yea let it go dance floor. IF ya want to know...?
Box full of Honey (love)At the sharp end of the view. "The ghost will shiver trees" a classic. Reminds of the Chauffer and EL Diablo. WOW! a break from the groove for the ballad that will break a heart. SO simple and Beautiful let it flirt with you.
Zoom In: Come RAIN Come Shine. DD meet Kraftwork. The keyboards Knock you out on this one. Snarling guitars Na Na Na zoom in zoomin out. Get ya grooving.
RCM: IGGY? Dolls? Pistols? Duran Duran roots sing through on this one. Duran always has been dancing b/t the clubs and punk. This one cuts the fat. Done and Dusted APPLY YOUR LIPSTICK FOR DYING IN pUBLIC. SEEN IT ALL BEFORE. Love the Jamaican drum entro and fade away.
Last Man Standing: ABSOLUTE PERFECTION!!!!!! guitars groove, simon croons , and the beat bleeds to the light, ending on an enigma, in a world of enigmas. .Brilliant perfection.
LAST MAN STANDING___
Free Music Review: Simon le Bonn is the man!!
Hit: 5 Stars
I must agree with the editorial review made by Tammy La Gorce (Amazon).
This album is very good. I was skeptical when I read online that Timbaland and Timberlake were both writing and singing on the album. I must say, Timbaland actually did a great job producing the deep bass and various linear notes for each song. Duran Duran uses Timbaland just a little in the backround. This actually enhances the bands modern new wave sound. I like the keyboards. As always, Nick Rhodes is innovative and very original. My man Simon le Bonn sounds great. John Taylor is used much more on Red Carpet Masacre than he was on Astronaut, which was a shame because he is a melodic bassist. I remember thinking to myself, wow, I can barely hear any bass on the Astronaut album.
Don't get me wrong, Astronaut was very good. But Red Carpet Masacre has a very unique style due to the heavier bass that Timbaland mixes in his production with Lebon's music.
Also, John Taylor is in charge of the art direction while Nick Rhodes is in charge of the photography of the outside and inside cover. Rhodes always manages to create a "gothic" feel with his photography of beautiful women in abstract photos. I believe abstract photography is an artform (that is well done) for Nick Rhodes.
Roger taylor sounds intense with drums. The entire band are even better today than 20 years ago! The music is great, the band looks good, and the art work for the album is very good.
As with any project that Simon le Bonn participates in, I rate this a 5 star album!
Tammy La Gorce mentioned this album has a "midnight moodiness" and she is correct. Duran Duran began their career as a New Romantic band with exotic videos to compliment their amazing songs.
Don't let other negative reviews fool you. This album is good because it is original and does not attempt to sound like their previous albums. Many bands get too caught up in one sound. So, all of their albums sound similiar to each other. Fear not, Red Carpet Masacre is a very original sounding album that was worth the wait!! This will be another classic for Duran Duran!!
Free Music Review: Sizzling, smouldering, get your groove on music from DD
Hit: 5 Stars
I hadn't listened to Duran Duran seriously in a long time. I heard all the fuss a couple of years ago about the Fab Five rejoining, and I even gave Astronaut a spin. I liked it, but I didn't put it into heavy rotation, and sort of forgot about it (don't worry, I've since remedied that mistake). But when I heard that JT and Timbaland were working with Duran Duran, I thought that it seemed like a very unlikely but really interesting idea. I had recently started listening to Big Thing again, and was really getting into DD, so when reviews from a lot of trade mags were good, including Rolling Stone, I purchased Red Carpet Massacre sound unheard.
What a great purchase. This feels like "Waiting for the Nightboat" might if it were done by Timbaland. That marvelous Nick Rhodes (genius!) sound is intact, but the beats, the dubs, the samples, the energy all get pushed and shoved through a prism. It doesn't change Duran Duran's basic band sound, but somehow amps the whole thing up. Simon hasn't sounded this great since Rio, and the entire band seems on fire.
I realize that I've just used two songs (Rio and Nightboat) from their classic period, and I don't want to give anyone the impression that they have returned unabashedly to their former New Romantic sound. By no means (although that would have been an interesting choice as well). They sound a lot like Duran Duran does Blackout. Or is done by Blackout. The sensuality, the urgency of the early records is here however, and that is why I use the comparison.
Ultimately, this is an electric album with propulsive rhythms, a genuinely energized band, and some real heat. I don't think that any future Duran Duran albums are going to sound much like this, because I don't think that this is where Duran Duran are ultimately going to go--but I think that it was a brilliant idea to help get them onto a new creative path.
Now if Daniel Lanois wanted to produce them....well, but that would only be a fantasy. Wouldn't it? Guys?
Free Music Review: Duranmagics on the Red Carpet!
Hit: 5 Stars
If you are a Duranie, you must be proud of this band; if you are a music fan, you should love it. Where other million-selling artists eternally remake their own music for the masses, Duran Duran always cast their pure spell, and this time, they shake the room in a knockout of music glory. In RED CARPET MASSACRE, Durans follow the guiding light of their grooving spirit and deliver one of their best albums ever, joined in the control room by the Timba-dollar duo and Grammy-Award producers Nate Hills and Jimmy Douglass. Despite the apparently strange pairings, the result is quite fit -clearly impressive, since the album is not just freshly modern, it's plain brilliant, showcasing some groovy club moments like Nite Runner, Skin Divers or Tempted with the depth and sweetness of songs as Falling Down, Box Full O'Honey and She's Too Much. And there is plenty of more classy sparkles, like the pushing pulses of The Valley, the rocky beats of Zoom In and the title-track, along with the new-wave instrumental Tricked Out, the sax magic of Dirty Great Monster and the soft layers of Last Man Standing. The songs are beautiful, and the whole work sounds strong and cohesive, with great Simon Le Bon vocals and lyrics, Nick Rhodes' good-caring hands all around, John Taylor+Roger Taylor's punching rhyhtm structure, all proving to be great musicians while adapting their skills to today's producing techniques, with happy Dom Brown services on guitars. While there even might be critics here and there, you might think they are too well stuck in the eighties or that they did not even really listen to the album, the sunny truth is that this band is not just great and underrated, but authentically alive and definetely kicking on the dancefloor.Free Music Review: Great album!
Hit: 5 Stars
I sat here and read through several of the reviews listed and am stunned by how people nit and pick and rip apart a good album. I have to admit that initially I was more then a little annoyed at Simon, John, Nick and Roger making the conscious decision to use the 'big names' on the album including Justin Timberlake. Although I can't fault Justin for having talent, I personally cant stand him (I love Nsync, but hate JT as solo). Anyway, I felt they were using JT for his name, that if they got him to produce a couple of songs the sticker on the packaging would bring about another generation of listeners. Anyone expecting music to match Hungry like the Wolf or Rio needs a serious reality check. That music was over twenty years ago. A different style, a totally different generation. The one thing I've always loved about Duran is their ability to adapt. I'm not saying that every album they've put out since Notorious has fit properly with the genre that is popular at the time, but if they were to have done that, then at some point they would have ended up doing a Country album. I think that this album shows that they still can put out great music. I've been a fan for well over 20 years and was more then a little pleased that a girl, ten years younger then me, loved the album as much as I loved it. There is a new generation of fans that they have been able to reach by using Timberlake and Timbaland and I say I'm very proud of the product. This is a very danceable album and more then a few times I wish I could be at a club listening and dancing to this music. Give it a chance and have an open mind. This is not your High School Durannie music.