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Post by davidbrouwer on Oct 6, 2014 4:08:02 GMT -5
Speaking of 80's icons, Simple Minds are releasing their next album Big Music next month. Their last album Graffiti Soul from 2009 charted at no. 10 in the UK, making them bigger contenders than Spandau Ballet or Culture Club. U2 on the other hand are in a league of their own (let the backlash begin.) Interesting that you mention Simple Minds! Recently heard some of their new songs like Honest Town, Blindfolded, Broken Glass Park and Blood Diamonds. Sounded very fresh! They also released these songs on Youtube before the release of the whole album. You think DD will do the same?
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Post by josefk on Oct 6, 2014 6:55:52 GMT -5
Speaking of 80's icons, Simple Minds are releasing their next album Big Music next month. Their last album Graffiti Soul from 2009 charted at no. 10 in the UK, making them bigger contenders than Spandau Ballet or Culture Club. U2 on the other hand are in a league of their own (let the backlash begin.) Interesting that you mention Simple Minds! Recently heard some of their new songs like Honest Town, Blindfolded, Broken Glass Park and Blood Diamonds. Sounded very fresh! They also released these songs on Youtube before the release of the whole album. You think DD will do the same? Not very likely imho – snippets only if we are lucky. The bands have very different approaches. SM have been playing some of their new songs like Broken Glass Park in concert for some time now. DD are very secretive and don’t like to try out new material before the release of an album (at least in recent history.) I find the parallels between the bands quite interesting, and they are two of my favorites. For example, both have 2 core members (Jim & Charlie), they have never disbanded, have had success over more than one decade, are still producing new material, and can still mount world-wide tours. I hope that both of their new albums bring them further success and will solidify their legacies.
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Post by mynick7 on Oct 7, 2014 23:08:29 GMT -5
As for U2...weren't Astronaut and U2's Atomic Bomb released around the same time? So that's also not something they take into consideration. Yes, they were. I saw Duran in concert ( Astronaut) in March and July of 2005 in Chicago and St. Louis respectively and saw U2 (HTDAAB) in St. Louis in December of 2005. I have no respect for U2 any more.
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Post by secondalibi on Oct 11, 2014 14:03:29 GMT -5
Spandau are no threat to DD. Their new single 'This Is The Love' is truly awful. In fact it made me laugh when I first heard it. It just shows that DD are on a different planet to Spandau who just keep throwing out greatest hits albums with the odd new song. They are basically a nostalgia band.
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Post by Wozza on Oct 12, 2014 10:02:43 GMT -5
It's all a bit frustrating when you've got Take That (I am being serious!) who are a big deal in certain parts of the world can write, record, mix an album and with different producers on board and then get it all done and released within 12 months. Duran's best stuff I freel was all done within a small time frame
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Post by derekduran on Oct 12, 2014 16:34:51 GMT -5
It's all a bit frustrating when you've got Take That (I am being serious!) who are a big deal in certain parts of the world can write, record, mix an album and with different producers on board and then get it all done and released within 12 months. Duran's best stuff I freel was all done within a small time frame yeah the longer it takes the more overproduced it tends to be- see Medazzaland as prime example
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Post by shigatsuhana on Oct 17, 2014 5:28:15 GMT -5
I think Duran Duran have lead the way. Spandau Ballet may have been looking around and saw that Duran Duran were very much still in the game and they'd like to be as well. Their new album is in the Top Ten in the UK. Tour of the UK in the spring. I have no idea if they plan to tour the US, as someone else mentioned they are far more popular at home. I agree that Duran Duran do things in their own time. I don't think they really care what everyone else is doing because they've never stopped doing it! Why should they care?
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