We’ve chosen to disallow both covers (skilfully circumnavigating the much-maligned Thank You LP) and side-projects to avoid any squabbling, and there’s a lengthy list of cuts that were reluctantly consigned to the ‘bubbling under’ category. From within the grooves of 14 studio albums, containing just short of 40 for the most part magnificent singles, there’s a wide array of nailed-down perennials at our disposal.Īnd while most commentators would suggest the band’s early period – at the vanguard of both New Wave sounds and New Romantic style – as the outright pinnacle, we’d propose that there’s a range of lofty musical peaks dotted throughout their later career (and one later single, in particular, that outdoes them all).įrom shining pop classics that are impossible to ignore to moonlit treasures that are far subtler in their persuasion, there’s plenty here for most tastes in our Top 40 Duran Duran songs.īeyond the album hits, there’s a singular chart-topping satellite single, album tracks revamped with cutting-edge producers (and then put through the Duran mould) and a few B-sides that were plainly as good as any of those carefully-selected album choices. Duran Duran are, after all, amongst the finest singles bands of their day. I n all honesty, this is a list that almost writes itself. This is my Perfect Duran Duran Non-singles.Our (chronological) rundown of the very best Duran Duran songs, from their 40-plus-year recording career… This perfect covers their heydays from 81 to 88 but you will not hear any ‘Rio’ or ‘The Reflex’ on it. Thats why in this perfect I want to show the other side of Duran Duran I love so much: hidden gems, early b-sides and instrumentals. Its the band I first fell in love with and the only band that brings back the most fond memories of my life and summertimes in the UK in the 80’s. That said: Duran Duran to me is not only about the hitsingles that everyone knows, loves or hates. I grew up with the band and I felt proud that this band I ‘discovered’ very early on started to become big in my own country a few years later. The first thing I did when we were back home was buying the album myself. I got Heidi to make me a copy on cassette that I listened to the rest of the vacation. That afternoon I heard their debut album for the first time and I liked what I heard, not only was that track from the radio on it, but it contained even better songs, heavier, melancholic, uplifting, sferic…From that moment on I was hooked. Immediately she started smiling and invited me into her house “You gotta listen to this, It’s a new band from Birmingham and their debut album is great, that song you heard all day is “girls on film” its their latest single and its going to be huge” Suddenly, Heidi asked me what music I liked these days and I told her I heard this great tune on the radio all day long and started humming/singing it to her from what I’ve remembered. My ability to talk English was still very premature but talking and socializing with the local kids helped to improve it every year. She was 3 years older then me and she was really into music and liked to talk about it. I was soon to find out more… as later in the day I found myself talking to the neighbours daughter Heidi. I did not know who sang it, where they were from, I simply liked it a lot. There was one song that was played regularly during that long ride and it got really stuck in my ear. I was only 10 when we visited the UK again in the summer of 1981 and my dad used to like to listen to the local UK radiostations while driving the M1 up North to Chorley, near Manchester. In the late 70’s, early 80s, my parents became really good friends with some families in the UK and therefore our family summervacation usually ended up visiting them and the UK every year on from 1979. I thought that was crap as I was an early adapter to the band. It was mainstream to like Duran Duran and therefore NOT done. I personally loved them and wasn’t afraid to say so amongst my 80’s friends and schoolmates that were heavily into New Wave, PostPunk and Heavy Metal. At least that was how it was in 80’s and probably still so for a lot of people.
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