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Post by gabby on Dec 10, 2010 10:58:48 GMT -5
This songs is very underated in my opinion. Great lyrics and a strong rock melody and instrumentation, with just a enough funk in it to mark it as a Duran Duran track.
It hasn't been played since Warren left, and it doesn't get much attention fan wise I've noticed.
What are your opinions on this single from 1993?
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Post by errbt on Dec 10, 2010 11:09:51 GMT -5
This songs is very underated in my opinion. Great lyrics and a strong rock melody and instrumentation, with just a enough funk in it to mark it as a Duran Duran track. It hasn't been played since Warren left, and it doesn't get much attention fan wise I've noticed. What are your opinions on this single from 1993? From the moment I first heard it open TWA, I was blown away. From a guitar player's perspective, it kicks so much ass it isn't even funny. All I could think was "this needs to be a single...people need to hear this as proof that Duran Duran rock, whether Nick wants to admit it or not!" ;D After the huge success of Ordinary World and Come Undone put Duran back in the spotlight, I was pumped when it was released as the third single. I figured it had top 10 written all over it, especially with the great video. I was stunned - no, pissed off - when it bombed on the charts. It was then that I gave up on lending chart performance any credence when it came to judging a song's worth (of course most Duran fans, and the band themselves, probably did so with the demise of Skin Trade years earlier)! It remains a favorite track of mine to this day, right up there with OW, Breath After Breath, and Sin of the City as the best off of TWA IMO (sorry, acronym overload - LOL). ps I agree the lyrics are great. I always thought of it (especially the video) as Duran's answer to U2's magnificent ZOO TV spectacle, and their newfound lyrical maturity and ability to put a sardonic twist on their views of fleeting fame in the information age was a theme I thought they later carried through to maturity on the underrated Medazzaland and Pop Trash albums.
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Post by Droid on Dec 10, 2010 11:16:04 GMT -5
Ditto to both posts. I'm not sure I can add much that hasn't already been said. I love that song, it truly ROCKS live, even the video has an incredible energy to it. Even my hubby, who is probably the furthest thing from a Duranie, has this song on his iTunes.
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Post by gabby on Dec 10, 2010 11:27:33 GMT -5
yeah! I mirror both of you. It's kick ass, and I have no idea why people did not like the single. Think it made Top 40 in the UK and just missed in the US. I wonder if it would have done any better as the second or first single released?
I have to say the maturity of the music did nosedive after the reunion. I like Duran when they are poppy, but I also liked their serious period from 1992-2001. They went from the maturity of the Pop Trash ballads to the bubblegum of Sunrise - I remember being quite shocked when I first heard Sunrise on the radio. The second half of Astronaut had a much needed intelligence injection that the album needed I think.
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Post by errinella on Dec 10, 2010 11:29:47 GMT -5
Really love the song, but think it was a bad choice as a single.
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Post by durandrum on Dec 10, 2010 11:34:56 GMT -5
This songs is very underated in my opinion. Great lyrics and a strong rock melody and instrumentation, with just a enough funk in it to mark it as a Duran Duran track. It hasn't been played since Warren left, and it doesn't get much attention fan wise I've noticed. What are your opinions on this single from 1993? Excellent single, very underated and one of the highlights along with OW and CU on a poor IMO ''Wedding Album'' I know a lot of people like that album but I think its not one of their best.
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Post by errbt on Dec 10, 2010 11:38:26 GMT -5
I have to say the maturity of the music did nosedive after the reunion. I like Duran when they are poppy, but I also liked their serious period from 1992-2001. They went from the maturity of the Pop Trash ballads to the bubblegum of Sunrise - I remember being quite shocked when I first heard Sunrise on the radio. The second half of Astronaut had a much needed intelligence injection that the album needed I think. Yep! That, as much as anything, is why I will lament forever the fact that Reportage got shelved. By all indications, it was going to be all the things that critics have generally refused to credit Duran with: timely, topical, mature, and serious. There is always a place for fun and frivolity, but some of their most moving work (Ordinary World, Breath After Breath, Sin of the City, Michael..., Buried in the Sand, So Long Suicide, Midnight Sun, Starting to Remember, etc.) has been moving not just because of the amazing music, but because of the introspective and/or socially relevant themes of the lyrics. I still hold out hope that the band will smile on their fans and eventually find a way to release Reportage, possibly as a treat in some sort of career spanning box set, as Simple Minds did with their "hung up in record company red tape" album Our Secrets Are the Same, which eventually surfaced in their great Silver Box set of rarities.
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Post by madoldlu on Dec 10, 2010 11:45:08 GMT -5
I like the song as well--one of the few that I like from the album.
But I have to disagree with everyone that I think the video it TERRIBLE! It's not that I simply don't like it--I think it is truly a bad video. I have no problem with them doing a live performance video. And normally I love Julien Temple. But I think the combination of that industrial, rough look of the stage setting, contrasted with the bright colors the band is wearing and the slick film stock and lighting is a horrible combination. They should have either slicked up the set, have it high gloss and stylish and clean, or made the film stock and lighting more gritty and rough. It feels like half the people wanted to go one way and the other half wanted to go the other, and this was one big compromise.
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Post by gabby on Dec 10, 2010 11:45:09 GMT -5
This songs is very underated in my opinion. Great lyrics and a strong rock melody and instrumentation, with just a enough funk in it to mark it as a Duran Duran track. It hasn't been played since Warren left, and it doesn't get much attention fan wise I've noticed. What are your opinions on this single from 1993? Excellent single, very underated and one of the highlights along with OW and CU on a poor IMO ''Wedding Album'' I know a lot of people like that album but I think its not one of their best. I think the Wedding Album has 4-5 excellent songs on it, 3 being up there with the best. I think Ordinary World is hands down the best song they've written. The rest of the album is weak in comparison but still consistently good songs. If Falling Angel and Matter of Fact would have replaced Drowning Man and Shelter (Shotgun left off), it would have shifted the album up a gear.
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Post by durandrum on Dec 10, 2010 11:48:18 GMT -5
Excellent single, very underated and one of the highlights along with OW and CU on a poor IMO ''Wedding Album'' I know a lot of people like that album but I think its not one of their best. I think the Wedding Album has 4-5 excellent songs on it, 3 being up there with the best. I think Ordinary World is hands down the best song they've written. The rest of the album is weak in comparison but still consistently good songs. If Falling Angel and Matter of Fact would have replaced Drowning Man and Shelter (Shotgun left off), it would have shifted the album up a gear. I would take ''Notorious'' ''Big Thing'' and ''Medazzaland'' ahead of the ''Wedding Album'' every day...I HATE the title wedding album...thats weak...whilst OW is a lovely song, I play it very rarely, its NOT one of my favorites by a long way. I do appreciate it introduced the band to a new audience and brought them back into the limelight for a brief moment during that period.
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