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Post by nickslaptop on Dec 10, 2010 11:51:11 GMT -5
Too Much Information for me rates as "Good, but not good enough". It has the energy but I flet Simon's melody line was weak throughout. I'm not much of a musician , but I think the key / chord structures / progressions (which would have been created by Warren) on many songs in that era (90's) didn't make things easy to put a decent commercial vocal line over the top. Too Much Information was one of them.
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Post by gabby on Dec 10, 2010 11:55:11 GMT -5
Too Much Information for me rates as "Good, but not good enough". It has the energy but I flet Simon's melody line was weak throughout. I'm not much of a musician , but I think the key / chord structures / progressions (which would have been created by Warren) on many songs in that era (90's) didn't make things easy to put a decent commercial vocal line over the top. Too Much Information was one of them. Yeah fair point about the key point. I think it did give the songs an edge though. A lot of friends I have hate 80's Duran but have been really enjoyed their 90's work, and have even been like "this is good - who's this? ---- Duran Duran your @!@! kidding!"
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Post by gabby on Dec 10, 2010 11:57:26 GMT -5
the song is brilliant. the video is brilliant. it was supposed to be the first single, EMI wouldn't allow it. it bombed because the label failed it, not because people didn't like it. It was. yeah could be. You'd think EMI would have learnt with the success of OW and CU which didn't even need promotion to become huge sellers.
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Post by oktobercolours on Dec 10, 2010 12:02:23 GMT -5
TMI is a good song, it's got appropriate-for-the-time lyrics, catchy riffs and is overall a standard Duran "fun" song, but I only connected with it a little. It just had a dated vibe to me. I do think the guitar work in it is top notch though.
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Post by rhondar on Dec 10, 2010 12:13:49 GMT -5
It's one of my most favorite DD songs - I love it, and I love playing it loud!
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Post by secondalibi on Dec 10, 2010 12:27:35 GMT -5
Mmmm... 'Too Much Information'?, now there's a song that doesn't come into my thoughts very often.
Not a big fan of the song TBH. I like Warren's guitars, but little else if I am honest. Lyrically a bit of a mess, and when I think of the song, I can't help but think of the lyric that annoyed me on the very first listen and still does now!
"Destroyed by BBC I hate to bite the hand that feeds me So much information The pressure's on the screen To sell you things that you don't need"
Sorry, but the BBC don't advertise and therefore there is no pressure to sell you things that you don't need!! It should have been destroyed by ITV then it would have made sense! Yes, yes its very trivial, but I do suffer with OCD, and little things really do get to me!!
On the whole TWA is a bit of a shambles! The whole things borders on being bonkers! The songs don't follow any particular style or feel, they are all so different. You can listen to songs like 'OW', 'CU' and 'FF' and then have your planet completely turned upside down with songs like 'Love Voodoo', 'Drowning Man' and 'UMF' and wonder what the hell happened!! "Is this the same band?". "Where am I?!" Listening to TWA hurts my poor head...aaaarrrrrggghhhh!!!
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Post by Droid on Dec 10, 2010 12:33:22 GMT -5
Yeah fair point about the key point. I think it did give the songs an edge though. A lot of friends I have hate 80's Duran but have been really enjoyed their 90's work, and have even been like "this is good - who's this? ---- Duran Duran your @!@! kidding!" I had a lot of non-Duranie friends in high school who loved the Wedding Album (which btw durandrum, was never the "offical" title, more like just a nickname - as it was self-titled like their first album), and owned as the sole DD album in their collections. One of these friends heard 'Is There Something I Should Know" on the radio one day, and thought it was the silliest thing she had ever heard, not believing me when I said it was also Duran. Maybe it's a generational thing, maybe it's because of being introduced to their catalogue backwards, but I love the whole album (minus "Shotgun", I'll give ya that), and it has the same sentimental value to me that the early albums have for the old-school fans. TWA somehow spoke to the '90s teen in a way that its contemporaries just couldn't. eta: And I shall defend it to the death. ;D
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Post by slumdogduranie on Dec 10, 2010 12:37:48 GMT -5
the song is brilliant. the video is brilliant. it was supposed to be the first single, EMI wouldn't allow it. it bombed because the label failed it, not because people didn't like it. I never knew that...but I'm glad Ordinary World leaked and stirred up a DD frenzy which had been lost for years. I don't think TMI would have accomplished that on the same level.
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Post by gabby on Dec 10, 2010 12:53:23 GMT -5
Yeah fair point about the key point. I think it did give the songs an edge though. A lot of friends I have hate 80's Duran but have been really enjoyed their 90's work, and have even been like "this is good - who's this? ---- Duran Duran your @!@! kidding!" I had a lot of non-Duranie friends in high school who loved the Wedding Album (which btw durandrum, was never the "offical" title, more like just a nickname - as it was self-titled like their first album), and owned as the sole DD album in their collections. One of these friends heard 'Is There Something I Should Know" on the radio one day, and thought it was the silliest thing she had ever heard, not believing me when I said it was also Duran. Maybe it's a generational thing, maybe it's because of being introduced to their catalogue backwards, but I love the whole album (minus "Shotgun", I'll give ya that), and it has the same sentimental value to me that the early albums have for the old-school fans. TWA somehow spoke to the '90s teen in a way that its contemporaries just couldn't. eta: And I shall defend it to the death. ;D I was introduced to 81-85 era first, followed by Notorious and Liberty. Arena was the first album I bought, as a second hand tape, and I love the music. I then got a tape of TWA around 1998 and was shell shocked. It didn't sound like the same band and I didn't like it except for Ordinary World. Within two weeks I loved it though and it changed my opinion of Duran's music. It's my favourite Duran album and it will always be very special to me. If you get it, then there's something special to be found there. Also I fell in love with the whole package. The artwork is sublime.
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Post by secondalibi on Dec 10, 2010 12:57:53 GMT -5
EMI had a habbit of messing things up when it came to Duran Duran over the years! I can still remember the mess with the 'DYBIS?' and 'Serious' singles!
Anyway, as far as I am aware the band wanted to release 'TMI' but EMI wanted to them to put out 'None Of The Above' or 'Breath After Breath'. Duran got their way, but EMI punished them by doing nothing to promote it. Even the UK 2CD digipak single set was lazy, it only lists the tracks on CD1 and not CD2. Having said that I would have put 'Breath After Breath' out instead!
EMI also made a balls up with 'Thank You'.
'White Lines' was supposed to be the first single in the UK, but somewhere along the line EMI changed this and 'Perfect Day' was first single instead.
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