Any Duran Duran fans?
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In case you guys are interested, i heard from a coworker that Duran Duran are releasing a DVD about their album "rio" on November 4th. They talk about the different techniques they used back when they recorded the album. Here's a link to a little preview, it's very interesting. Check it out
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Okay! I have one of their cassettes. I used to like them way back in junior high!
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Actually, I didn't even buy it, someone made me a copy. So, I must have it somewhere in a shoebox full of Memorix tapes.
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I love Duran Duran.
Thanks for the link. I think I'll buy that dvd. 
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I'm not really a fan, but I like 'Ordinairy world'
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I'm not a fan but I like some of their albums
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I love Duran Duran and was very much into them in the 80s. Thanks for this info though. Looking forward to the DVD.
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gorda: haha cassettes tapes. those were the days lol! and to everybody else: what's your favorite song/album from Duran Duran? I love Rio! It's one of their best imo
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I think my favourite album is the underrated Pop Trash. Some of my favourite songs: Someone else not me, Ordinary world, Who do you think you are, Hungry like the wolf
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Duran Duran was my first crush on a band. That was before I found out about the Beatles. I was completely in love with Simon Le Bon
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This is one of their best songs: WILD BOYS:
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There's a line from a Barenaked Ladies song called "Grade 9" that always gets a chuckle out of me: Went out for the football team to prove that I'm a man Guess I shouldn't tell them that I like Duran Duran
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I remember when Wild Boys came out- I was in high school and I went NUTS for the song! (and for Simon LeBon's new long haircut!)
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I saw these guys in concert not too long ago at Madison Square Garden and they are still amazing. They were my teenage crush(loved Simon Le Bon--and I loved that long Wild Boys haircut too, it looked really good on him--he got me reading poetry and books I might not ever have read so see, teenage crushes can be good for your intellect, nyah!;P)--and had all my walls plastered with magazine pin ups and posters of the band, there wasn't a square inch free.
I saw that Rio thing, if anyone has Netflix, it's available for streaming now. It's worth buying though, it's called "Classic Albums: Rio" http://www.amazon.com/Duran-Classic-Albums-Rio/dp/B001G7EGOM and it's only about $5 US dollars for the DVD. Their most recent album, All You Need is Now, is terrific. Produced by Mark Ronson. It's really worth checking out(with the understanding that they obviously are not making a hard rock album or a folky album, they make often fun funky pop music with a bit of a dark side). Some people find the atonal sythesizer sound on the title track during the verses hard to love even though it's got a really catchy, soaring chorus but I loved it because I don't have a problem with some atonal sounds(oddly because Macca's used some atonal sounds from time to time and helped me to appreciate their usefulness in building up towards a melodic "explosion") and the lyrics to the song are a really upbeat, nice tribute to the relationship between the band and the fans who have gone along for the ride, either for part of or the whole trip. "Girl Panic!" is just plain fun, "Before the Rain" is haunting and dramatic and a perfect album closer(and believe it or not, a great concert opener), "The Man Who Stole a Leopard" is a twisted tale indeed. And, in a move that would make many of us McCartney fans jealous, they play about 5 or 6 NEW album songs in concert and the new songs generally get a good response--not like the old ones of course but that's natural, they are new(but of course just to show that fans are never happy, just like McCartney fans complain about the setlist, you see on message boards fans complaining about the setlist LOL--why don't they play more b-sides, too many hits lol, I think we fans should just admit we're never happy and let it go. I'm just suggesting if anyone in Asia/Australia/Europe has the chance to go see them live on the current/next leg of the tour, go. It's a great show, Simon's still a first class front man and better yet, in great voice and may even sound better than ever(after a huge scare last summer where he inexplicably lost nearly 1/3 of his vocal range, nearly a whole octave, and they had to cancel the British and European tour that was planned for the summer), lots of audience participation sing-a-long potential(there is a reason they play a lot of "the hits" it's because Planet Earth, Notorious, Rio, The Reflex, Wild Boys, Ordinary World, etc gets the whole darn audience singing along.) PS: Did you ever hear about how they met Paul McCartney in the studio when they were recording the Rio album and he was recording, I guess, Pipes of Peace(?)--it was George Martin's Air Studios--apparently Heather McCartney met them first(and asked them not to mention how they knew her, as she'd apparently met them whilst hanging with punk rockers her mom and dad didn't exactly love her hanging around with)--- and one day she was like "Would you like to meet my dad" so Paul came in and said he was sure that one song(Rio) he'd heard them playing had HIT written all over it. -
I bought their first album way back because I liked the single "Girls on Film" I also have a greatest hits package somewhere. wouldn't say I was a fan but liked some of their other songs, Rio & Save a Prayer spring to mind.
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i was listening to their greatest hits like 2 days ago. but always love this version of skin trade
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My boyfriend and I watched their live-DVD of their 2005 tour recently. Fun night.
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high_wilusa:
I saw these guys in concert not too long ago at Madison Square Garden and they are still amazing. Their most recent album, All You Need is Now, is terrific. Produced by Mark Ronson..."Girl Panic!" is just plain fun, "Before the Rain" is haunting and dramatic and a perfect album closer(and believe it or not, a great concert opener), "The Man Who Stole a Leopard" is a twisted tale indeed. And, in a move that would make many of us McCartney fans jealous, they play about 5 or 6 NEW album songs in concert and the new songs generally get a good response--not like the old ones of course but that's natural, they are new(but of course just to show that fans are never happy, just like McCartney fans complain about the setlist, you see on message boards fans complaining about the setlist LOL--why don't they play more b-sides, too many hits lol, I think we fans should just admit we're never happy and let it go
. PS: Did you ever hear about how they met Paul McCartney in the studio when they were recording the Rio album and he was recording, I guess, Pipes of Peace(?)--it was George Martin's Air Studios--apparently Heather McCartney met them first(and asked them not to mention how they knew her, as she'd apparently met them whilst hanging with punk rockers her mom and dad didn't exactly love her hanging around with)--- and one day she was like "Would you like to meet my dad" so Paul came in and said he was sure that one song(Rio) he'd heard them playing had HIT written all over it. SO glad that someone else feels the same way! I listened to the live stream of Coachella last year. There wasn't anyone on that I really wanted to see, so I figured that I would just listen to them while I waited for Kanye's performance to start (whcih ended up being just eh). They were AMAZING. I had a friend who was there and, independently, said that she just went to see Duran Duran because there wasn't anyone else she wanted to see and they blew her away. I thought "Girl Panic" was an 80s song of theirs that I had never heard. I really like the instrumentals and "The Man Who Stole a Leopard". I do love their choice of newsreader--apparently, the woman who reads the story is Nina Hossain, their favorite newsreader. I'm not surprised that Mark Ronson produced their newest album. He LOVES them and constantly talks about how important they were to him, musically speaking. The video for it is fun, too:
Their tribute to John Barry at Coachella was fabulous, too. I couldn't believe that Simon Le Bon sounded JUST like the records. I have told some people that I'm getting more into Duran Duran and they give me a look of doubt, but I tell them that they should give them an honest chance. I didn't know that fact about Rio. I also find it funny that Linda felt the same way about the punk rock scene that her father felt about the rock scene. -
they would have been dangerous if 'le bon' could actually sing!. infact the recentish single 'ordinary world' was suprisingly good. still cant get over that 'high note' le bon tried to hit during the american leg of 'live aid'....'duran' were in their prime then aswel,a really bad moment infront of millions in 1985,reminds me,who else had a train wreck infont of millions that day????anyone we know?
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lazydynamite88:
they would have been dangerous if 'le bon' could actually sing!. infact the recentish single 'ordinary world' was suprisingly good. still cant get over that 'high note' le bon tried to hit during the american leg of 'live aid'....'duran' were in their prime then aswel,a really bad moment infront of millions in 1985,reminds me,who else had a train wreck infont of millions that day????anyone we know?
I must've missed that! I have the 5-DVD Live Aid collection, most of which I've watched. What song did LeBon have his embarrassing moment? (side note: "Come Undone" is their best single)
