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Post by Tin on Jul 28, 2015 22:25:26 GMT -5
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Post by andre005 on Jul 28, 2015 22:31:15 GMT -5
Mark Ronson is to Duran what JJ Abrams is to Star Trek and we hope the new Star Wars!! Lol
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Post by Xxxxxx on Jul 28, 2015 22:39:34 GMT -5
Mark Ronson is to Duran what JJ Abrams is to Star Trek and we hope the new Star Wars!! Lol Should we expect a lot of lens-flare in the videos?
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Post by americanfrog on Jul 28, 2015 23:12:13 GMT -5
Sorry...can't get behind the first part of this quote. I think he does respect older music, but in no conceivable way has he restored the legacy of Duran. Now, I say that not knowing what his recent contributions have yielded. Maybe I'll feel different once I hear the rest of Paper Gods. Fingers crossed.
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Post by coolbarn on Jul 29, 2015 0:35:27 GMT -5
Sorry...can't get behind the first part of this quote. I think he does respect older music, but in no conceivable way has he restored the legacy of Duran. Well it's horribly overstated of course, but that's the media for you. They don't do, or say, things by halves. But I do understand it. For some people Duran Duran lost their way before Mark Ronson hopped on board with AYNIN (yes I am one of those people). Ronson got them to record a classic sounding Duran Duran album, to "reclaim what was theirs" and what they were good at. AYNIN is the band's finest effort in 25 years and for me at least, has restored my faith in the band and it HAS restored their legacy. I will NEVER give up on Duran Duran and they will always be my sentimentally favourite group and the soundtrack to my life. But that doesn't give them a free ride; for me to continue to support them fully I still need to hear great music come from them. You could tell Pop Trash was the end of the ride for Lebon-Rhodes-Cuccurullo. It was a decent album, amazing in parts, not so in others, and pretty average for the majority. Astronaut was also decent, but not the comeback album I was hoping for from Duran Duran. RCM was a disaster, and on both it and Astronaut if Simon wasn't singing you would barely know it was even a Duran Duran record. For me there hadn't been a really solid Duran Duran album since The Wedding Album, and that had three amazing singles, some really good tracks, but also a bucketload of crap. In my opinion Duran's last truly great album had been Big Thing, and that was from 1988. It was a relief to finally get another great Duran Duran album 23 years later. I am so glad to be getting any Duran Duran music at all, I don't want to sound churlish or ungracious. And a bad Duran Duran album is still better than many bands' good albums. But when we got spoiled in the 80s with all of Duran's great records, and then the 90s and 00s came and we were getting albums with a few really good tracks but much of it was just good to average by Duran's standards and not outstanding, then to me AYNIN was like a breath of fresh air. In that regard Ronson DID restore Duran Duran's incredibly legacy in one fell swoop. Pressure Off also sounds like classic Duran Duran. I can't wait to hear all of Paper Gods to see if it really is as strong as the few people who have heard it are saying.
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