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Post by toehrishuman on Sept 2, 2015 19:35:55 GMT -5
No.
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Post by secondalibi on Sept 2, 2015 20:17:40 GMT -5
Absolutely love it! It's a grower and took a while, but now I can't stop playing it.
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Post by l0st1t2b0st1k on Sept 2, 2015 20:33:26 GMT -5
Big time, for similar reasons to what others have documented earlier. I also think that once the honeymoon period wears off, this album will be disliked by the fan-base even more than Red Carpet Massacre which feels positively organic compared to this mess. Where is the Box Full O' Honey on Paper Gods? Interesting honeymoon period mention. Anyone that was on the message boards for RCM...well everyone loved it when it came out. Then the ground swell started...'we must hate this, we must hate this'. And everyone started to hate it. RCM has more songs on it that I don't move past when they come on - than AYNIN. I can honestly say I haven't had a honeymoon period with a Duran Duran album since Medazzaland. I was pretty much indifferent to Pop Trash, Astronaut, Red Carpet Massacre, and All You Need Is Now (even though it was both musically and lyrically strong) when each of them was released. Don't get me wrong, I was a faithful Duran fan and bought the deluxe editions for each, but my love and attention had faded dramatically. When I initially heard "Pressure Off," I started to feel the floodgates of indifference opening up again. Then, I heard "Paper Gods" and my interest had been piqued for a change. Soon afterwards, "You Kill Me With Silence" was revealed and I couldn't stop listening to it. The last time I did that for a Duran Duran song was during the Wedding Album. Then I heard the rest of the album and couldn't believe my ears. It's like a sonic smorgasbord. I feel like the honeymoon is in reverse for me on this album. An initial listening isn't enough to appreciate it...and we really do have to stop placing such unattainable expectations on Duran Duran. This album isn't about esoteric telegram forces or prophets justifying reasons, it's about love and loss and maturity and mortality. We're really "straddling the line" between sounding like our parents and their reactions to our music growing up AND being unflinching, curmudgeonly Statler and Waldorf types sitting up in our proverbial balconies, trashing everything the band releases now. Anyways, what I was trying to get at was that I'll take a honeymoon over indifference any day. I've already started bowing to the Paper Gods and plan on doing so for awhile.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2015 20:38:47 GMT -5
How to sum it all up quickly?
This is *not* the album I'd wanna be dancing to when the bomb drops.
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Post by teddybearjedi on Sept 2, 2015 21:14:13 GMT -5
Interesting honeymoon period mention. Anyone that was on the message boards for RCM...well everyone loved it when it came out. Then the ground swell started...'we must hate this, we must hate this'. And everyone started to hate it. RCM has more songs on it that I don't move past when they come on - than AYNIN. I can honestly say I haven't had a honeymoon period with a Duran Duran album since Medazzaland. I was pretty much indifferent to Pop Trash, Astronaut, Red Carpet Massacre, and All You Need Is Now (even though it was both musically and lyrically strong) when each of them was released. Don't get me wrong, I was a faithful Duran fan and bought the deluxe editions for each, but my love and attention had faded dramatically. When I initially heard "Pressure Off," I started to feel the floodgates of indifference opening up again. Then, I heard "Paper Gods" and my interest had been piqued for a change. Soon afterwards, "You Kill Me With Silence" was revealed and I couldn't stop listening to it. The last time I did that for a Duran Duran song was during the Wedding Album. Then I heard the rest of the album and couldn't believe my ears. It's like a sonic smorgasbord. I feel like the honeymoon is in reverse for me on this album. An initial listening isn't enough to appreciate it...and we really do have to stop placing such unattainable expectations on Duran Duran. This album isn't about esoteric telegram forces or prophets justifying reasons, it's about love and loss and maturity and mortality. We're really "straddling the line" between sounding like our parents and their reactions to our music growing up AND being unflinching, curmudgeonly Statler and Waldorf types sitting up in our proverbial balconies, trashing everything the band releases now. Anyways, what I was trying to get at was that I'll take a honeymoon over indifference any day. I've already started bowing to the Paper Gods and plan on doing so for awhile. I Agree 100% All Bow to the Paper Gods, like it's Our Last Night in the City. Let's put on our Face For Today and get over our Dancephobia, so we can Change the Skyline, and Take the Pressure Off in our Sunset Garage and Capture the elusive Butterfly Girl found Only in Dreams before You Kill Me with Silence and we take that final journey, Out into The Universe Alone...
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Post by andre005 on Sept 2, 2015 21:19:38 GMT -5
No! I love it!
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Post by jupiter8 on Sept 2, 2015 22:18:22 GMT -5
I just think they could have done better in 5 years time.
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Post by vmh on Sept 2, 2015 22:21:13 GMT -5
Infinitely better in every way than the sad, calculated, pandering dry heave of AYNIN.
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Post by prototype on Sept 2, 2015 22:59:59 GMT -5
No, I love what I´ve heard. But please, no Durantime for # 15.
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Post by rogojin on Sept 2, 2015 23:12:49 GMT -5
This is not a let down for me. I know people have different tastes in music and we love duran duran no matter what, so this is just another phase we are going through. I believe the album is pretty good, maybe in time it will be considered as one of the band's best efforts. Since duran duran fans have an obsession with the first 3 albums, we somehow can't help comparing new albums to those albums, but with duran duran repetition has never been the issue, they try to come up with better albums and each album is a mystery to us before it is released. I am glad that they are not like Bon Jovi, same sound for 30 years would have been boring.I am glad that Paper Gods is this good, nice, better than most of the albums they have produced.I think it will be in my top 5
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