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Post by Guapito on Apr 4, 2020 18:05:44 GMT -5
I loved Thank You at the time and I had it on constant rotation throughout the hot summer of 1995 (the UK at least). The only song I was familiar with was Led Zep’s Thank You, the others were all new to me and therefore I had no preconceived thoughts about them. 911 was a mistake but I do think they could do a Beck and make a rap song with a redneck twist. Watching The Detectives is amazing and Perfect Day is beautiful but they should have left out 911, Success and Drive By and made it an EP. It was meant to be a taster of what the new album would sound like but again was overworked and ended up coming out nearly a year too late. I still listen to it. It’s not a bad album. Simple Minds album of covers was far worse.
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Post by heskethbang on Apr 4, 2020 18:19:38 GMT -5
Thank You is a totally bizarre set of covers to choose. They covered almost none of the artists they claim to have influenced them. No Roxy music, Bowie, Japan, ultravox, sex pistols, Marc Bolan, Chic or Kraftwerk.
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Post by redmumba on Apr 4, 2020 18:54:29 GMT -5
Thank You is a totally bizarre set of covers to choose. They covered almost none of the artists they claim to have influenced them. No Roxy music, Bowie, Japan, ultravox, sex pistols, Marc Bolan, Chic or Kraftwerk. They did cover Bowie's Diamond Dogs which appeared on the Japanese release of Thank You as well as the 2xCD from Europe.
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Post by andre005 on Apr 5, 2020 1:16:38 GMT -5
Ty is a good album..was it great no! It's covers what did critics or fans expect? But it went gold in the Us selling over 500k..
Highlights for me were TY, White lines, Crystal Ship , lay lady lay, and PD..that song rocks..but this was Duran's cover classic with fab 5! Sounds so much better than original!!!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2020 7:08:29 GMT -5
Thank You is a totally bizarre set of covers to choose. They covered almost none of the artists they claim to have influenced them. No Roxy music, Bowie, Japan, ultravox, sex pistols, Marc Bolan, Chic or Kraftwerk. Thankyou wasn't about covering favourite songs of the band’s hero’s. “The album is not about our favourites but more about songs that were landmarks in history.” - Simon Le Bon So we need to lose this misconceived idea that the collection of songs on the Thankyou album were odes to the bands hero’s. https://
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2020 7:43:03 GMT -5
Thank you for the video 👆. Listen to Simon’s voice when he’s speaking. His voice is even better when he speaks...I don’t know if you know what I mean... It’s so soothing
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Post by oakey on Apr 5, 2020 11:43:44 GMT -5
I agree with some of the comments here but mostly with Paul’s analysis on SDE. It’s not a good album, especially because of the selection of songs, making this whole thing a WC vanity project, but as a collection of songs TY is IMO a much more enjoyable listen than both Medezzaland and Pop Trash.
Until know I never realised that Tony Thompson and Terry Bozo played drums on it, but I always wondered about the story with Roger being back for one song and even ending up in the video. I guess it was a ‘let’s ask all drummers we worked with in the past’ thing? But did they ever comment on it at the time? There was a lot of publicity at the time but I cannot recall any comments how great it was to have Roger back or why they contacted him in the first place.
Good cover albums are a rarity. Even Bowie’s got trashed at the time. Only Bryan Ferry gets away with it and maybe Marc Almond. Duran may not have gone for the biggest of hits, the songs weren’t obscure either. Covering unknown songs is usually a wiser thing to do, making people even forget the original or not even knowing it is a cover at all (eg Tina Turner’s The best).
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Post by josefk on Apr 5, 2020 15:10:42 GMT -5
The follow-up to TWA should have been the release of the full 11 song MTV unplugged performance with a bonus disc/LP of the covers. Any criticism of these songs could have been deflected by arguing that the band was giving fans extra content for free. To promote the album they could have released a double A-side single of “Serious” (live) and “Perfect Day”. Maybe then we might have had those songs as regulars on their set lists instead of "White Lines".
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Post by oakey on Apr 5, 2020 15:15:12 GMT -5
The follow-up to TWA should have been the release of the full 11 song MTV unplugged performance with a bonus disc/LP of the covers. Any criticism of these songs could have been deflected by arguing that the band was giving fans extra content for free. To promote the album they could have released a double A-side single of “Serious” (live) and “Perfect Day”. Maybe then we might have had those songs as regulars on their set lists instead of "White Lines". I never got that either. Sure, they jumped on the MTV Unplugged bandwagon a bit late, but everybody was releasing MTV Unplugged albums at the time. A Duran MTV Unplugged album would have benefited their soft rock credibility AND revitalised interest in their backcatalogue. It would have sold better than TY, making them more money through royalties as they did not get any from TY (well there was Drive By of course). Remember this was at a time when Greatest was not available yet and the height of the physical CD era... ‘Old’ fans would have bought it and new fans would have liked it too. ‘Serious’ (live at MTV) as the lead single could have worked very well indeed.
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Post by Guapito on Apr 5, 2020 18:53:19 GMT -5
I agree with some of the comments here but mostly with Paul’s analysis on SDE. It’s not a good album, especially because of the selection of songs, making this whole thing a WC vanity project, but as a collection of songs TY is IMO a much more enjoyable listen than both Medezzaland and Pop Trash. Until know I never realised that Tony Thompson and Terry Bozo played drums on it, but I always wondered about the story with Roger being back for one song and even ending up in the video. I guess it was a ‘let’s ask all drummers we worked with in the past’ thing? But did they ever comment on it at the time? There was a lot of publicity at the time but I cannot recall any comments how great it was to have Roger back or why they contacted him in the first place. Good cover albums are a rarity. Even Bowie’s got trashed at the time. Only Bryan Ferry gets away with it and maybe Marc Almond. Duran may not have gone for the biggest of hits, the songs weren’t obscure either. Covering unknown songs is usually a wiser thing to do, making people even forget the original or not even knowing it is a cover at all (eg Tina Turner’s The best). Roger also played on Watching The Detectives. You’ve just reminded me of Bryan Ferry’s Taxi. A great album which I have but have not listened too in years a great latenight album.
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