Duran Duran - Rio
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Artist: Duran DuranEdition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2001-07-03
Music Label: Capitol
Soundtracks:
- Rio
- My Own Way
- Lonely in Your Nightmare
- Hungry Like the Wolf
- Hold Back the Rain
- New Religion
- Last Chance on the Stairway
- Save a Prayer
- Chauffeur
- Rio [Video Track]
- Hungry Like the Wolf [Video Track]
- Save a Prayer [Video Track]
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Free Music Review: Hungry like the wolf, empty like its stomach
Hit: 2 Stars
Words resurrected from the netherworld and assembled in a manner that could be called abstract, if Slick Rich could sing it like that. Musical arrangements as flat and colourless as a razor blade. Like a razor blade, it seems pleasing and smooth at first. Then one really listens and discovers that, actually, this baby is nasty, sharp, and dangerous. Since it's one of the best examples of the soulless, superficially-divine pop of the Eighties, the album's artifactual; but unless this became a personal favourite as you were growing up in that period, just leave it on the shelf--or better yet, in the closet.
Rio Poster
In the decade of decadence, Duran Duran knew how to live the life. It was reflected in their videos (sailboats, silly white hats, tropical surroundings, grease-painted feral women) and garishly displayed in their public lifestyles. But if you can remove these connotations from the album that started it all, you'll be left with music that is anything but gaudy. For the most part, Rio is an eerie and sumptuous record. With their raspy, arpeggio synth sounds and Simon Le Bon's uninflected vocals, the misty ballads "Lonely in Your Nightmare" and "Save a Prayer" can still tear your heart right out of your chest and abandon it bleeding on a rain-soaked cobblestone street. With the dance-oriented singles "Rio" and "Hungry Like the Wolf," you dry out a bit, but the songs are far from airy or whimsical. One anomaly in this release, though, is the inappropriate prominence of John Taylor's bass lines. In every song, it sounds as if he is mixed more in expectation of a solo than as an integral part of the rhythm section. Ignore this technical distraction, however, and you'll enjoy rediscovering this gorgeous body of water-colored synthpop. --Beth BessmerAlternative Rock Music CDs
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