Any Duran Duran fans?
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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)
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Yikes!
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eightiesbaby80:
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
Let me know what you guys think.I love watching footage of artists isolating tracks of classic work. I agree: That one guitar part was verrrrrry David Gilmour'ish.
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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?
Le Bon CAN actually sing. He's 53 years old and sounds almost exactly like he did in the 80's, except maybe better because he has more power and control now. He's not Pavarotti, but he's a pop singer, he doesn't need to be Pavarotti.
, no bum note on "need".His voice may not be everyone's cup of tea but IMO he sounds better live than many rock and pop artists do. That Live Aid bum note was a doozy and couldn't have happened at a worse time(god knows Duranies around the world still cringe at the memory of it
) but it was just a bum note, it can happen to anyone. Here's the MSG 2011 version:
The band is a fantastic live act. For the nervous fellas in the crowd 2011: SXSW 2011: [second]( ]The Chauffeur[/url] (and a [url= in 1995(just Simon and Warren Cuccurullo on acoustic guitar) A rocker: New album vocal focused, MSG 2011: [The Man Who Stole a Leopard]( ]Before The Rain[/url] and [url= Oh and a very rare thing indeed, a Simon Le Bon solo song, only about 4 of them have ever seen the light of day over the past 25 years--but I think this quite a pretty song: , 1998, just Simon and an acoustic guitar.
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Simon LeBon has taken VERY good care of his voice.
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audi:
Yikes!
first time i've heard that to YIKES!! right enough Audi
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Macsback:
audi:
Yikes!
first time i've heard that to YIKES!! right enough Audi
I know it happens to the best of them, but that was about as bad as a bum-note can get. I checked my Live Aid DVD tracklist -- "A View To A Kill" is NOT on it. No wonder I wasn't aware of it.
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audi:
Simon LeBon has taken VERY good care of his voice.
And the MSG and O2 Arena stuff I linked to is AFTER he and the band had a huge scare during the summer where the entire upper 1/3 of his range just disappeared(he lost almost a whole octave). In the end, whatever caused it, was something even most of the specialists hadn't seen or had seen very rarely as it took weeks to get something resembling a proper diagnosis and it took almost 4 months to get it back, including vocal therapy.
I checked my Live Aid DVD tracklist -- "A View To A Kill" is NOT on it. No wonder I wasn't aware of it.
LOL Yeah funny how that worked out, I just assume they begged Bob Geldof(or whomever put the DVD together) to leave it off.
Because, dayum....bum notes really don't come any bigger than that.
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high_wilusa:
audi:
Simon LeBon has taken VERY good care of his voice.
And the MSG and O2 Arena stuff I linked to is AFTER he and the band had a huge scare during the summer where the entire upper 1/3 of his range just disappeared(he lost almost a whole octave). In the end, whatever caused it, was something even most of the specialists hadn't seen or had seen very rarely as it took weeks to get something resembling a proper diagnosis and it took almost 4 months to get it back, including vocal therapy.
I checked my Live Aid DVD tracklist -- "A View To A Kill" is NOT on it. No wonder I wasn't aware of it.
LOL Yeah funny how that worked out, I just assume they begged Bob Geldof(or whomever put the DVD together) to leave it off.
Because, dayum....bum notes really don't come any bigger than that.
im surprised 'le bon' never insisted on coming back the next day to re-do his embarrasing moment.....'mccartney' certainly did!
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lazydynamite88:
im surprised 'le bon' never insisted on coming back the next day to re-do his embarrasing moment.....'mccartney' certainly did!
Well, they weren't Paul McCartney.
He's always an exception. lol Actually I doubt they even thought of it at the time. They were all involved in other projects and running off in different directions afterwards to finish them up. Anyway, did you listen to any of the links I provided, nice mix of old songs and new songs, audience taken videos(except Dream Boys and Crystal Ship), no studio "trickery" involved--so....can he sing?
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high_wilusa:
audi:
Simon LeBon has taken VERY good care of his voice.
And the MSG and O2 Arena stuff I linked to is AFTER he and the band had a huge scare during the summer where the entire upper 1/3 of his range just disappeared(he lost almost a whole octave). In the end, whatever caused it, was something even most of the specialists hadn't seen or had seen very rarely as it took weeks to get something resembling a proper diagnosis and it took almost 4 months to get it back, including vocal therapy.
I checked my Live Aid DVD tracklist -- "A View To A Kill" is NOT on it. No wonder I wasn't aware of it.
LOL Yeah funny how that worked out, I just assume they begged Bob Geldof(or whomever put the DVD together) to leave it off.
Because, dayum....bum notes really don't come any bigger than that.
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I bought two albums, Duran's 'All You Need Is Now' and The Human League's 'Credo' when they came out. Seriously good albums both of them, well worth purchasing. If Ronson is working with Macca then it'll be interesting to see what he can do with Paul's stuff.
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Is Ronson supposed to be working with Macca? I hadn't heard that.
That would be interesting to hear. He's apparently a very good producer, in the sense of guiding but not getting in the way of the artists. He'll tell the truth but he's not mean about it. The members of Duran Duran say he made them feel very good about themselves--yet he obviously didn't kiss their asses in the sense of letting them keep things that weren't very good, he made them do things over if he thought they weren't up to snuff.
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Seen DD twice in concert which was fab, have a few albums like Rio, Astronaut, and Greatest Hits.