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Post by andre005 on Jul 21, 2020 11:43:35 GMT -5
Well at least Duran got an award from them--still they were negative but they did acknowledge them! Good riddance--lol..they loved U2--every time I saw the magazine U2 was always on the cover! lol
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2020 12:34:42 GMT -5
Well at least Duran got an award from them--still they were negative but they did acknowledge them! Good riddance--lol..they loved U2--every time I saw the magazine U2 was always on the cover! lol There should have been a ‘Q Greatest resilience to the Press’ award. Duran would have won it every year. I found all the Q ‘award ceremonies’ Just bullshit anyway. They were a bunch of hypocrites who would just use any method they could find to reclaim tax relief and put it down to expenses’. If I were DD I’d tell them where to shove their award. I think of every time I defended this band with letter after letter, for the band only to roll over and accept this one is just a sellout. Up your asses Q. I won’t be missing you.
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Post by oakey on Jul 21, 2020 13:39:37 GMT -5
I like paper mags, so sad to see this go. Never read it though but then again I am not in the UK. Q was available in the Netherlands everywhere but way too expensive.
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Post by karenduran on Jul 21, 2020 14:44:35 GMT -5
I remember that Q gave Greatest a good review. I’m not sure if they reviewed any studio albums after Thank You, at least that I remember.
It saddens me when any print publication goes out of business. There are plenty of online music sites that have higher standards than Q, but that’s not the case with news sites. If there comes a days when newspapers cease to exist, there’s going to be a real void.
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Post by Rabbit Dog on Jul 21, 2020 15:10:11 GMT -5
I'm sure Q did continue giving DD album reviews throughout, but often gave them middling appraisals (i.e. three stars) even if what was written seemed to (grudgingly) admit to more than that.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2020 15:46:01 GMT -5
I remember that Q gave Greatest a good review. I’m not sure if they reviewed any studio albums after Thank You, at least that I remember. It saddens me when any print publication goes out of business. There are plenty of online music sites that have higher standards than Q, but that’s not the case with news sites. If there comes a days when newspapers cease to exist, there’s going to be a real void. Which is why I never get excited when ‘trashy’ on line websites give ‘high fives’ in their two paragraph appraisals of Duran albums, fitted around promotional adverts. I admit to subscribing to The Times and Telegraph on line for good journalism. Plus there’s also the extras with music reviews. It’s the way things are heading. I also subscribe to Classic Pop via Print and App.
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Post by More Play Time on Jul 21, 2020 16:42:57 GMT -5
I thought the press snubbing started first with the Enemy, sorry, the NME. They've been in production since the 1950s, so no wonder they prefer black leather jackets and combed backwards hair. Melody Maker has been going since and 1920s, so you have to blow the dust off those old farts. Q Magazine leeched its way on to the scene in 1986, probably after Notorious. The founders were two cloth capped fuddy duddys who were presenters of the BBC television music series Whistle Test. The wiki for Q is quite funny, as it slags off Dire Straights and Phil Collins as 'CD-Quality' bands.
For the record, Rolling Stone magazine was created in the 1960s, and caters for the pipe and slippers crowd. Mojo and Uncut are practically brand new. The only mags to take DD seriously were the teeny bop mags like Look-in and Smash Hits.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2020 17:02:18 GMT -5
I thought the press snubbing started first with the Enemy, sorry, the NME. They've been in production since the 1950s, so no wonder they prefer black leather jackets and combed backwards hair. Melody Maker has been going since and 1920s, so you have to blow the dust off those old farts. Q Magazine leeched its way on to the scene in 1986, probably after Notorious. The founders were two cloth capped fuddy duddys who were presenters of the BBC television music series Whistle Test. The wiki for Q is quite funny, as it slags off Dire Straights and Phil Collins as 'CD-Quality' bands. For the record, Rolling Stone magazine was created in the 1960s, and caters for the pipe and slippers crowd. Mojo and Uncut are practically brand new. The only mags to take DD seriously were the teeny bop mags like Look-in and Smash Hits. So is it any wonder why the band have never been taken seriously since Smash Hits, Look In and Number 1?..except of course Ordinary World.
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Post by andre005 on Jul 21, 2020 18:13:42 GMT -5
I remember that Q gave Greatest a good review. I’m not sure if they reviewed any studio albums after Thank You, at least that I remember. It saddens me when any print publication goes out of business. There are plenty of online music sites that have higher standards than Q, but that’s not the case with news sites. If there comes a days when newspapers cease to exist, there’s going to be a real void. You are right 3 out of 5 stars: Duran Duran Paper Gods FEELING GROOVY Old new romantics back on the dancefloor Being willy old tarts, Duran Duran have long understood their role as 80's pop party boys turned 21st-century survivors. Their last album, 2010's All You Need Is Now, paired them with producer/fan Mark Ronson, who gave his childhood idols a decent makeover. Ronson's back for Paper Gods, alongside Mr Hudson, seasoned Duran collaborator Nile Rodgers and special guests. No one needs the opening seven-minute title track, which begins with Simon Le Bon and co chanting like Gregorian monks - presumably in Armani-design habits. But everything improves when they stop taking themselves so seriously. The single Pressure Off showcase vocalist Janelle Monae and a chorus Rodgers probably wrote for Chic in 1977 and then forgot about. It's lazy but impossible to resist. And it's a trick Duran repeat with earnest club anthem Last Night In The City (with Canadian house singer Kieza) and the perky funk-pop of Only In Dreams and Butterfly Girl. It's not all good. Danceophobia has singer/actor Lindsay Lohan droning. " I am your doctor/ I am going to keep you in for observation..." over a vapid dance beat, and is as alluring as Hattie Jacques chasing Kenneth Williams around a hospital gurney in Carry On Matron. Then again, there's always something fundamentally homely and English about Duran Duran. The closing Universe Alone finds Le Bon serenading "the dying sun' over a crescendo of bleating synths and strings. It's preposterous, but what's new? Despite a few missteps here and there, it's good to have them back. (3 stars out of 5) MARK BLAKE Recommended download: "Pressure Off, Face For Today, Butterfly Girl "
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Post by coolbarn on Jul 21, 2020 19:24:37 GMT -5
Thanks Andre, that's a very good review by Q's standards! And I happen to agree with most of it, which almost never happens when I read Duran album reviews
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