Post by josefk on Oct 21, 2019 7:38:27 GMT -5
As many of you know there is an ongoing DD song-by-song rating and discussion happening on the Steve Hoffman forum. Luckily for people like me who love lists and rankings, we don’t have to wait until the end to get the current standings. The last update includes all tracks through the Pop Trash album. Currently, "Hold Back the Rain" is the best rated at 4.78 (out of 5) and bringing up the rear in the 146th spot is "911 Is a Joke" at 1.63. You can see where your favorites fall in between those two on page 130 of that discussion thread near the bottom.
I thought it would be interesting to rearrange the tracks chronologically by album and their proper running order. I have also put the songs with an average rating of 4.0 or better in bold to highlight those with “universal” approval (given that one bad vote can sink the average in this limited sample size.) No surprise that all the songs on Rio have an average rating over 4.0. The current average score for all tracks on each album is:
1st Rio 4.58
2nd Duran Duran 4.18
3rd So Red The Rose 4.05
4th Seven & The Ragged Tiger 3.91
5th Notorious 3.90
6th Big Thing 3.87
7th Medazzaland 3.85
8th The Power Station 3.45
9th Pop Trash 3.36
10th The Wedding Album 3.35
11th Liberty 2.88
12th Thank You 2.68
If we just look at how many highly rated songs (the ones in bold) are on each album it looks like this:
Duran Duran: 5
Rio: 9
Seven & The Ragged Tiger: 5
The Power Station: 1
So Red The Rose: 6
Notorious: 5
Big Thing: 7
Liberty: 2
The Wedding Album: 2
Thank You: 0
Medazzaland: 4
Pop Trash: 2
It might come as a surprise to some that TWA ranks so low here especially when it usually appears in the top third in general surveys of favorite DD albums. It’s also nice to see Big Thing doing so well against earlier albums. Anything about the rankings surprise you?
DURAN DURAN
16th Girls On Film 4.41 16
9th Planet Earth 4.61 14
39th Anyone Out There 4.17 12
73rd To The Shore 3.73 11
11th Careless Memories 4.59 16
54th Night Boat 3.96 12
65th Sound Of Thunder 3.82 14
13th Friends Of Mine 4.46 13
60th Tel Aviv 3.88 12
89th Late Bar 3.44 9
95th Khanada 3.33 9
141st Fame 2.00 10
24th Faster Than Light 4.35 10
RIO
2nd Rio 4.77 15
43rd My Own Way 4.11 18
10th Lonely In Your Nightmare 4.59 17
8th Hungry Like The Wolf 4.67 15
1st Hold Back The Rain 4.78 16
17th New Religion 4.41 16
18th Last Chance On The Stairway 4.40 15
3rd Save A Prayer 4.76 17
6th The Chauffeur 4.72 18
112th Like An Angel 2.86 14
56th Is There Something I Should Know? 3.91 16
SEVEN AND THE RAGGED TIGER
53rd The Reflex 3.97 17
44th New Moon on Monday 4.10 15
93rd (I'm Looking For) Cracks in the Pavement 3.35 17
86th I Take the Dice 3.47 16
51st Of Crime and Passion 4.03 15
34th Union of the Snake 4.19 18
35th Shadows on Your Side 4.19 18
85th Tiger Tiger 3.50 14
19th The Seventh Stranger 4.39 14
119th Faith in This Colour 2.65 13
26th Secret Oktober 4.29 12
98th Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me) (Live) 3.27 11
77th The Wild Boys 3.69 21
28th A View To A Kill 4.25 18
THE POWER STATION
63rd Some Like It Hot 3.83 15
100th Murderess 3.19 13
103rd Lonely Tonight 3.17 12
22nd Communication 4.36 11
67th Get It On (Bang a Gong) 3.79 14
110th Go to Zero 2.92 12
72nd Harvest for the World 3.73 13
121st Still In Your Heart 2.64 11
140th Someday, Somehow, Someone's Gotta Pay (We Fight For Love) 2.09 11
SO RED THE ROSE
32nd Election Day 4.20 20
37th Keep Me in the Dark 4.18 17
40th Goodbye Is Forever 4.16 16
38th The Flame 4.17 15
42nd Missing 4.13 15
91st Rose Arcana 3.43 15
21st The Promise 4.38 16
55th El Diablo 3.94 18
64th Lady Ice 3.82 17
114th Say The Word (Theme From "Playing For Keeps") 2.83 12
122nd I Do What I Do (Theme For 9 1/2 Weeks) 2.59 11
NOTORIOUS
29th Notorious 4.23 20
23rd American Science 4.35 17
15th Skin Trade 4.41 17
79th A Matter of Feeling 3.59 16
68th Hold Me 3.77 15
61st Vertigo (Do the Demolition) 3.86 14
104th So Misled 3.13 16
83rd Meet El Presidente 3.54 14
52nd Winter Marches On 4.03 15
45th Proposition 4.08 13
101st We Need You 3.19 13
BIG THING
124th Big Thing 2.58 13
20th I Don't Want Your Love 4.38 17
46th All She Wants Is 4.06 16
33rd Too Late Marlene 4.20 15
142nd Drug (It's Just a State of Mind) 1.88 13
48th Do You Believe in Shame? 4.04 14
5th Palomino 4.73 15
14th Land 4.46 12
12th The Edge of America / Lake Shore Driving 4.54 12
31st I Believe/All I Need to Know 4.23 11
127th Burning the Ground 2.50 13
105th Decadance 3.11 9
LIBERTY
115th Violence of Summer (Love's Taking Over) 2.82 17
106th Liberty 3.07 14
144th Hothead 1.79 14
41st Serious 4.14 18
126th All Along the Water (Water Babies) 2.50 15
36th My Antarctica 4.19 16
136th First Impression 2.21 14
133rd Read My Lips 2.29 14
128th Can You Deal with It 2.46 14
109th Venice Drowning 2.93 15
96th Downtown 3.30 15
139th Yo Bad Azizi 2.12 13
DURAN DURAN (THE WEDDING ALBUM)
75th Too Much Information 3.70 20
4th Ordinary World 4.74 21
90th Love Voodoo 3.43 21
125th Drowning Man 2.53 17
7th Come Undone 4.67 18
74th Breath After Breath 3.72 18
123rd UMF 2.58 18
132nd Femme Fatale 2.32 17
92nd None of the Above 3.42 19
99th Shelter 3.25 16
129th To Whom It May Concern 2.44 16
88th Sin of the City 3.44 16
111th Stop Dead 2.90 15
116th Time for Temptation 2.77 15
66th Falling Angel 3.81 16
THANK YOU
94th White Lines 3.34 16
131st I Wanna Take You Higher 2.38 16
78th Perfect Day 3.64 18
107th Watching the Detectives 3.03 15
102nd Lay Lady Lay 3.17 18
146th 911 Is a Joke 1.63 20
137th Success 2.19 16
108th Crystal Ship 2.94 17
135th Ball of Confusion 2.23 13
134th Thank You 2.27 15
130th Drive By 2.43 15
113th I Wanna Take You Higher Again 2.86 14
70th The Needle and the Damage Done 3.75 12
138th Diamond Dogs 2.18 11
MEDAZZALAND
71st Medazzaland 3.73 15
76th Big Bang Generation 3.70 15
58th Electric Barbarella 3.88 17
25th Out Of My Mind 4.32 19
82nd Who Do You Think You Are? 3.57 14
80th Silva Halo 3.57 15
62nd Be My Icon 3.85 13
50th Buried in the Sand 4.04 13
30th Michael You've Got A Lot To Answer For? 4.23 13
27th Midnight Sun 4.29 12
69th So Long Suicide 3.77 13
97th Undergoing Treatment 3.27 13
117th Sinner or Saint 2.77 15
143rd Ball and Chain 1.81 8
POP TRASH
49th Someone Else Not Me 4.04 14
81st Lava Lamp 3.57 15
59th Playing with Uranium 3.88 13
145th Hallucinating Elvis 1.79 12
57th Starting to Remember 3.90 15
87th Pop Trash Movie 3.47 16
118th Mars Meets Venus 2.68 14
84th Lady Xanax 3.54 12
120th The Sun Doesn't Shine Forever 2.65 13
47th Last Day on Earth 4.05 10
I thought it would be interesting to rearrange the tracks chronologically by album and their proper running order. I have also put the songs with an average rating of 4.0 or better in bold to highlight those with “universal” approval (given that one bad vote can sink the average in this limited sample size.) No surprise that all the songs on Rio have an average rating over 4.0. The current average score for all tracks on each album is:
1st Rio 4.58
2nd Duran Duran 4.18
3rd So Red The Rose 4.05
4th Seven & The Ragged Tiger 3.91
5th Notorious 3.90
6th Big Thing 3.87
7th Medazzaland 3.85
8th The Power Station 3.45
9th Pop Trash 3.36
10th The Wedding Album 3.35
11th Liberty 2.88
12th Thank You 2.68
If we just look at how many highly rated songs (the ones in bold) are on each album it looks like this:
Duran Duran: 5
Rio: 9
Seven & The Ragged Tiger: 5
The Power Station: 1
So Red The Rose: 6
Notorious: 5
Big Thing: 7
Liberty: 2
The Wedding Album: 2
Thank You: 0
Medazzaland: 4
Pop Trash: 2
It might come as a surprise to some that TWA ranks so low here especially when it usually appears in the top third in general surveys of favorite DD albums. It’s also nice to see Big Thing doing so well against earlier albums. Anything about the rankings surprise you?
DURAN DURAN
16th Girls On Film 4.41 16
9th Planet Earth 4.61 14
39th Anyone Out There 4.17 12
73rd To The Shore 3.73 11
11th Careless Memories 4.59 16
54th Night Boat 3.96 12
65th Sound Of Thunder 3.82 14
13th Friends Of Mine 4.46 13
60th Tel Aviv 3.88 12
89th Late Bar 3.44 9
95th Khanada 3.33 9
141st Fame 2.00 10
24th Faster Than Light 4.35 10
RIO
2nd Rio 4.77 15
43rd My Own Way 4.11 18
10th Lonely In Your Nightmare 4.59 17
8th Hungry Like The Wolf 4.67 15
1st Hold Back The Rain 4.78 16
17th New Religion 4.41 16
18th Last Chance On The Stairway 4.40 15
3rd Save A Prayer 4.76 17
6th The Chauffeur 4.72 18
112th Like An Angel 2.86 14
56th Is There Something I Should Know? 3.91 16
SEVEN AND THE RAGGED TIGER
53rd The Reflex 3.97 17
44th New Moon on Monday 4.10 15
93rd (I'm Looking For) Cracks in the Pavement 3.35 17
86th I Take the Dice 3.47 16
51st Of Crime and Passion 4.03 15
34th Union of the Snake 4.19 18
35th Shadows on Your Side 4.19 18
85th Tiger Tiger 3.50 14
19th The Seventh Stranger 4.39 14
119th Faith in This Colour 2.65 13
26th Secret Oktober 4.29 12
98th Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me) (Live) 3.27 11
77th The Wild Boys 3.69 21
28th A View To A Kill 4.25 18
THE POWER STATION
63rd Some Like It Hot 3.83 15
100th Murderess 3.19 13
103rd Lonely Tonight 3.17 12
22nd Communication 4.36 11
67th Get It On (Bang a Gong) 3.79 14
110th Go to Zero 2.92 12
72nd Harvest for the World 3.73 13
121st Still In Your Heart 2.64 11
140th Someday, Somehow, Someone's Gotta Pay (We Fight For Love) 2.09 11
SO RED THE ROSE
32nd Election Day 4.20 20
37th Keep Me in the Dark 4.18 17
40th Goodbye Is Forever 4.16 16
38th The Flame 4.17 15
42nd Missing 4.13 15
91st Rose Arcana 3.43 15
21st The Promise 4.38 16
55th El Diablo 3.94 18
64th Lady Ice 3.82 17
114th Say The Word (Theme From "Playing For Keeps") 2.83 12
122nd I Do What I Do (Theme For 9 1/2 Weeks) 2.59 11
NOTORIOUS
29th Notorious 4.23 20
23rd American Science 4.35 17
15th Skin Trade 4.41 17
79th A Matter of Feeling 3.59 16
68th Hold Me 3.77 15
61st Vertigo (Do the Demolition) 3.86 14
104th So Misled 3.13 16
83rd Meet El Presidente 3.54 14
52nd Winter Marches On 4.03 15
45th Proposition 4.08 13
101st We Need You 3.19 13
BIG THING
124th Big Thing 2.58 13
20th I Don't Want Your Love 4.38 17
46th All She Wants Is 4.06 16
33rd Too Late Marlene 4.20 15
142nd Drug (It's Just a State of Mind) 1.88 13
48th Do You Believe in Shame? 4.04 14
5th Palomino 4.73 15
14th Land 4.46 12
12th The Edge of America / Lake Shore Driving 4.54 12
31st I Believe/All I Need to Know 4.23 11
127th Burning the Ground 2.50 13
105th Decadance 3.11 9
LIBERTY
115th Violence of Summer (Love's Taking Over) 2.82 17
106th Liberty 3.07 14
144th Hothead 1.79 14
41st Serious 4.14 18
126th All Along the Water (Water Babies) 2.50 15
36th My Antarctica 4.19 16
136th First Impression 2.21 14
133rd Read My Lips 2.29 14
128th Can You Deal with It 2.46 14
109th Venice Drowning 2.93 15
96th Downtown 3.30 15
139th Yo Bad Azizi 2.12 13
DURAN DURAN (THE WEDDING ALBUM)
75th Too Much Information 3.70 20
4th Ordinary World 4.74 21
90th Love Voodoo 3.43 21
125th Drowning Man 2.53 17
7th Come Undone 4.67 18
74th Breath After Breath 3.72 18
123rd UMF 2.58 18
132nd Femme Fatale 2.32 17
92nd None of the Above 3.42 19
99th Shelter 3.25 16
129th To Whom It May Concern 2.44 16
88th Sin of the City 3.44 16
111th Stop Dead 2.90 15
116th Time for Temptation 2.77 15
66th Falling Angel 3.81 16
THANK YOU
94th White Lines 3.34 16
131st I Wanna Take You Higher 2.38 16
78th Perfect Day 3.64 18
107th Watching the Detectives 3.03 15
102nd Lay Lady Lay 3.17 18
146th 911 Is a Joke 1.63 20
137th Success 2.19 16
108th Crystal Ship 2.94 17
135th Ball of Confusion 2.23 13
134th Thank You 2.27 15
130th Drive By 2.43 15
113th I Wanna Take You Higher Again 2.86 14
70th The Needle and the Damage Done 3.75 12
138th Diamond Dogs 2.18 11
MEDAZZALAND
71st Medazzaland 3.73 15
76th Big Bang Generation 3.70 15
58th Electric Barbarella 3.88 17
25th Out Of My Mind 4.32 19
82nd Who Do You Think You Are? 3.57 14
80th Silva Halo 3.57 15
62nd Be My Icon 3.85 13
50th Buried in the Sand 4.04 13
30th Michael You've Got A Lot To Answer For? 4.23 13
27th Midnight Sun 4.29 12
69th So Long Suicide 3.77 13
97th Undergoing Treatment 3.27 13
117th Sinner or Saint 2.77 15
143rd Ball and Chain 1.81 8
POP TRASH
49th Someone Else Not Me 4.04 14
81st Lava Lamp 3.57 15
59th Playing with Uranium 3.88 13
145th Hallucinating Elvis 1.79 12
57th Starting to Remember 3.90 15
87th Pop Trash Movie 3.47 16
118th Mars Meets Venus 2.68 14
84th Lady Xanax 3.54 12
120th The Sun Doesn't Shine Forever 2.65 13
47th Last Day on Earth 4.05 10