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Post by Tin on Apr 24, 2015 9:59:04 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2015 11:37:01 GMT -5
I've learnt very quickly. Every DD album is fantastic..
Bring on 14..fantastic album..!!
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Post by Sir rogerlejohn jr. on Apr 24, 2015 12:21:25 GMT -5
This guy w ill easily put #14 on top of the list!
1. Rio (no doubt whatsoever) (9 great songs) 2. Duran duran (debut) (8 great songs, not To the Shore) 3. Seven and the ragged tiger (9 great songs) 4. So Red The Rose ( if it should be included) (9 great songs) 5. Medazzaland (11 great songs) 6. All You Need Is Now (12 great songs) 7. The Wedding Album (10 great songs) 9. Red Carpet Massacre (9 great songs) 10. Big Thing (7 great songs) 11. Pop Trash (9 great songs) 12. Thank you (7 great songs) 13. Liberty (8 great songs)
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Post by jupiter on Apr 24, 2015 12:22:56 GMT -5
Hopefully we'll get lots of replies to this thread, a great conversation starter. I would not have put Arcadia in there ( I have it and like it, but it's not strictly DD). I'm surprised the debut didn't get higher (top 3...actually I'd swap this with AYNIN putting that back to #6).
Also I'd swap the places around for Rio (4) and Notorious (1).
Your mileage may vary.
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Post by coolbarn on Apr 24, 2015 14:18:00 GMT -5
Everybody is entitled to an opinion. And if you survey 10 different Duran Duran fans you will get 10 different lists. But years of being a Duran Duran fan and experiencing many iterations of their album lists has taught me a thing or two about the band's most popular records and least popular records. And if the majority agree on something about an artist, then you can be pretty sure the rating should be relatively fair and accurate.
Now that my disclaimer is out the way, I think that list is a horrible order. Notorious is Duran's greatest album of all time? Please.
Side one is okay, but side two is very poor bar Proposition. Skin Trade as a single was totally overrated by the band, and got what it deserved in the charts. Too much filler, not enough killer, on Notorious.
Then AYNIN at two? Well at least we're in the right ball-park, as it is a very strong album and the band's finest for years. But with all its ridiculous instrumentals of the title freaking track (one of the lesser songs on the album, why on earth was it the lead single?) plus filler in tracks like Safe and Before The Rain, there is no way it should be ahead of Rio or the debut album.
But then The Wedding Album at three? Ahead of Rio and Duran Duran? There are tribes in the Amazonian Rainforest who have never heard rock music who still know that is a complete farce. There is no doubting the brilliance of Ordinary World and Come Undone, two of Duran's finest. But for every amazing song on The Wedding Album there are two horrible songs. Tracks like Shotgun, Drowning Man, To Whom It May Concern and Love Voodoo would feature prominently on Duran's Stinker Collection CD.
Lastly we know Astronaut was terrible for a Duran Duran comeback album featuring the reunited five. Maybe not too bad for a Maroon 5 comeback album, but for Duran Duran was a total letdown. But at least all five members could be heard on it. To have it behind Red Carpet Massacre, which as the author even mentioned sounded like a Timbaland album with Simon Lebon on vocals, was pretty hard to swallow.
Anyway they're my controversial views. It's been at least five minutes since we've had one of these threads, so it's cool to reminisce about stuff again.
A word of advice to the author; you put Rio and Duran Duran at one and two, with AYNIN also near the top, and then Liberty right at the end with Pop Trash and Red Carpet Massacre not too far in front of it, then you can put the rest of the albums in pretty much any order and you won't get anywhere near as much argument.
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Post by Sir rogerlejohn jr. on Apr 24, 2015 14:53:52 GMT -5
Everybody is entitled to an opinion. And if you survey 10 different Duran Duran fans you will get 10 different lists. But years of being a Duran Duran fan and experiencing many iterations of their album lists has taught me a thing or two about the band's most popular records and least popular records. And if the majority agree on something about an artist, then you can be pretty sure the rating should be relatively fair and accurate. Now that my disclaimer is out the way, I think that list is a horrible order. Notorious is Duran's greatest album of all time? Please. Side one is okay, but side two is very poor bar Proposition. Skin Trade as a single was totally overrated by the band, and got what it deserved in the charts. Too much filler, not enough killer, on Notorious. Then AYNIN at two? Well at least we're in the right ball-park, as it is a very strong album and the band's finest for years. But with all its ridiculous instrumentals of the title freaking track (one of the lesser songs on the album, why on earth was it the lead single?) plus filler in tracks like Safe and Before The Rain, there is no way it should be ahead of Rio or the debut album. But then The Wedding Album at three? Ahead of Rio and Duran Duran? There are tribes in the Amazonian Rainforest who have never heard rock music who still know that is a complete farce. There is no doubting the brilliance of Ordinary World and Come Undone, two of Duran's finest. But for every amazing song on The Wedding Album there are two horrible songs. Tracks like Shotgun, Drowning Man, To Whom It May Concern and Love Voodoo would feature prominently on Duran's Stinker Collection CD. Lastly we know Astronaut was terrible for a Duran Duran comeback album featuring the reunited five. Maybe not too bad for a Maroon 5 comeback album, but for Duran Duran was a total letdown. But at least all five members could be heard on it. To have it behind Red Carpet Massacre, which as the author even mentioned sounded like a Timbaland album with Simon Lebon on vocals, was pretty hard to swallow. Anyway they're my controversial views. It's been at least five minutes since we've had one of these threads, so it's cool to reminisce about stuff again. A word of advice to the author; you put Rio and Duran Duran at one and two, with AYNIN also near the top, and then Liberty right at the end with Pop Trash and Red Carpet Massacre not too far in front of it, then you can put the rest of the albums in pretty much any order and you won't get anywhere near as much argument.[/quote In fewer words.. Pretty much my list :-)
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2015 18:35:51 GMT -5
Ok... I'll play... I've 30 minutes alone in the house.
14. Thank You - don't hate it. Some gems. Just can't put covers before originals. Plus some real head scratchers. 13. The Wedding Album - three or four great songs. 1 killer b-side. The rest I will probably never listen to again. 12. Liberty - similar to how I feel about the wedding album but it's far more cohesive in sound. 11. Red Carpet Massacre - a lot on here that I love but skin divers and nite runner are real low points for me 10. Medazzaland - crap production. Some brilliant stuff. They took chances and most of them worked 9. Pop Trash - best of the true Warren stuff. 8. Astronaut - some pure pop genius but also some shallow tunes 7. Notorious - hated this in 1986/87 because it was such a change in style but has grown on me over the years 6. Big Thing - great songs. Beautiful haunting tracks. Poor production and someone should be shot for not including I Believe/All I need to know 5. Seven & the Ragged Tiger - first signs of cracks but still killer hits and set the table for Arcadia. Lacks a little depth. 4. All You Need is Now - Wow... This album was the payoff for sticking with them. If I strip down to 9 songs... It could be #1... maybe 3. So Red The Rose - the ultimate art pop. 30 years later it still blows me away... So much depth, charm, and imagination 2. Duran Duran (1981) dark, tight, naive, futuristic, and brilliant. such unique vocals... They somehow seem normal now... But they are not. 1. Rio- no explanation needed
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Post by kirklott on Apr 24, 2015 19:24:04 GMT -5
Generally I feel it's a pretty good, informed list.
Really nice that the writer put All You Need Now number 2. Nice that Notorious is so high, but I'm not sure it's their best.
A couple missteps though: Astronaut should be *much* higher Pop Trash should be lower I'd also put Wedding album, 7ATRT lower
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Post by crimeandpassion on Apr 25, 2015 14:26:14 GMT -5
Hello to all. I am brand new to this site but it's safe to say I am / have been a life long Duranie. This is a great thread to pass the time awaiting at least the new single. To take the topic a bit further, I have always attempted to look at Duran's music from an objective person's (the non-fan's) point of view. From an obsessed fan's point of view (mine) I attempt to "look in from the outside" at each album and/or track I hear... if that makes sense. Hence, I'm going to list what I, as a mega fan, consider to be the worst to best in order of albums. It is worthy of note I am 46 years old and therefore the first 10 years of DD's career took place during my "formative years", i.e., during my middle school, high school, early adulthood years when everything I / we heard on the radio and/or tape cassette was a brand new experience. And before I begin said list allow me to say the song that caused me to become an obsessed fan was a stand-alone track and didn't originally appear on any of these albums. Riding in the family car en route for a weekend at my grandparents' lakeside cabin during the summer of 1983 I turned on the local pop radio station (WZPL) and heard a new track called "Is There Something I Should Know?" That track literally changed my life forever. Yet to this day the song, albeit has been included on two different album releases since, never fit the mold of the albums which preceded or proceeded it. Just my opinion and I could converse on that track for the next hour...back on topic...So here I go, my personal Worst to Best list...
14.Medazzaland (save for Big Bang Generation, this album was way too "alt-rock" for me...& I was reeling from the loss of John) 13.Astronaut ..(we waited what? ..3 years after the reunion announcement for this collection. For me the most disappointing thing about Astronaut was the fact the best tracks recorded for the album were not included on the album; Beautiful Colours, Salt In The Rainbow, & Virus. I have never been able to figure out why the guys didn't see what they had with those songs. 12.Thank You (in my collection this gets spun more often than the previous two) 11.RCM (I enjoyed/still enjoy this album regardless of its producers). Actually the reason I respect it is because it is so eclectic. 10.Pop Trash ..highly underrated set of tracks with fans. I assume because we were down to just Simon & Nick out of the original fab five during that time period. 9.Notorious ..This album came out during my senior year of HS & yet even at the time I had trouble with it. Although the song Notorious was incredibly original & remains among my favorite tracks the remainder of the album was just too much the same, e.g., Nick's synths, et al. 8."The Wedding Album" 7.Seven & The Ragged Tiger (Best album name tho) 6.Big Thing (BT & Liberty helped define the time in my life when I came of age and left home for the first time 5.Liberty 4.AYNIN 3.Duran Duran (or the "Girls On Film" album as I called it back in the day.) 2.So Red The Rose (the best DuranDuran Album that never was as I have always called it)..And yes SRTR counts as a DURAN album.."A rose by any other name.." 1.RIO (the first cassette I ever owned..John's bass, especially on New Religion, redefined my very existence) Alas, I have much more to say about each album..just running short on time for now. In closing, it's been a long 4+ years waiting for "#14"...Stand fast, friends. It's almost here!
Stay Gold! CrimeAndPassion.
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Post by ansgar on Apr 25, 2015 14:57:29 GMT -5
... Stay Gold! CrimeAndPassion. Great 1st post! Welcome to the board! 'Stay Gold!' is a quote from The Outsiders, right?
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