1/10/2024 0 Comments Duran duran discography![]() Paper Gods – UNQUESTIONABLY, regains the form Astronaut displayed a decade before not a SINGLE weak offering (though the non-proper tracks COULD’VE just as easily replaced others which WERE….)Ĥ. So Red The Rose – Arcadia REALLY, a Duran effort even WITHOUT John unmistakably HINTS at what PINNACLE they were reaching for with Seven And The Ragged Tiger, segueing as it does PERFECTLY from “The Seventh Stranger” – “Election Day”, is as EXQUISITE a composition as ‘Charley’s EVER written (which AGAIN, can be said of entire album) – persistently DISTURBING, remorseful but, more SONICALLY deeper….ĥ. Duran Duran (debut) – and yeah, SOUNDS like one from time to time but, a lot of EXTREMELY engaging tracks, including singles “Planet Earth”, “Careless Memories”, “Girls On Film”, “Is There Something I Should Know” (MIGHT it have made Seven…an even BIGGER smash? POSSIBLY)….yeah, SENTIMENTAL vote DOES make me RELUCTANT to list it this LOW….ĦA. Medazzaland – doesn’t QUITE gets to where it WANTS as a….more ELECTROCLASHING Rio but, SOLID longplayer aforementioned “Big Bang Generation” SHOULD’VE been the follow-up to an INFECTIOUS (come ON now, EMI – #82 peak position?) “Electric Barbarella”, with “Midnight Sun” a possible fourth single release….Ħ. Pop Trash – SAME as preceding but, a BIT more consistently audacious contains a FANTASTIC cover title track (ONLY one for which Simon’s ever allowed, to the best of my knowledge!) what’s EASILY their most PUNISHINGLY-forceful number, “Playing With Uranium” (although we had a HINT they were HEADED in this direction with “Big Bang Generation” not long before) “Someone Else Not Me” (evoking “Ordinary World” without being a complete rip-off of it, VERY much its own GORGEOUS rumination) and a SHOCKING sleeper in “The Sun Won’t Shine Forever” – as thoroughly LUDICROUS as I’m SURE it’ll sound to music purists, one of THE best blues ballads EVER composed, a QUEENSRYCHE-worthy, yet Lennonesque “Last Days On Earth” closing matters….ħ. Seven And The Ragged Tiger – two-thirds of a near-MASTERPIECE even so every selection is GOOD at least (BEST: “The Reflex”, “New Moon On Monday”, “(I’m Looking For) Cracks In The Pavement”, “Union Of The Snake”, “Tiger Tiger” / “The Seventh Stranger” – REALLY should’ve included “Secret Oktober”, though….)Ĩ. Big Thing – HALF a GREAT (“I Don’t Want Your Love”, ALL of ‘Side 2’) album, with some decidedly-LESSER tracks (“Drug” and ESPECIALLY “All She Wants Is…”, they’re SERVICEABLE to the sonic goals, however….)ĩ. Thank You – with TWO exceptions, MOST of their attempts DO work, I feel….boys’ arrangement, succeeds in demonstrating “White Lines” as an unlikely AMALGAM of the Fabs (as IF its opening harmonies WEREN’T enough of a clue) & ZEP….ġ0. Future Past – NOT bad but, SOMEhow seems ROTE – if INFINITELY more sonically interesting than AYNIN, unremarkable….ġ1. Red Carpet Massacre – I tried I really, REALLY….ġ2. Liberty – I tried I really, REALLY tried….ġ3. ![]() All You Need Is Now – I tried l I really, REALLY tried….ġ4. ……definitely NOT the ranking I’D have submitted, Linda – no matter HOW much I try, ALL You Need Is Now falls COMPLETELY flat for me presents as trying just WAY too hard to recapture their introductory vibe but, way, WAY too noisy and dissonant – for THESE ears, anyhow….as to Seven (them, the Berrows) and an-ALREADY (!) ‘ragged tiger’ of success, DD’s third is ALL about Simon’s conflict between it and deeper pursuits (“Union Of The Snake” actually describes his experiences with Eastern disciplines and sensibilities, kundalini yoga CLEARLY depicted in its video – uncoiling ‘SERPENTINE’ energy archetypically portrayed by Hindu deity Shakti, who makes an appearance of SORTS as LeBon emerges into an unspecified desert and fever dream….a reply to my query from his MOTHER 38-39 years ago, further CONFIRMED such realizations….)ġ5.
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