Advantages: Excellent price for CD and DVD package Disadvantages: DVD could have lasted a bit longer
As I have been reviewing some of DuranDurans albums on here I thought I should tell all of you about this one.
Astronaut is the bands newest release from last year that have now had a few hits from. You may remember that Reach up for the Sunrise made it to the top ten with a good beat and everybody waving their arms into the sky "Reach up for the sunrise". Some of the other hits include "taste the Summer" which recently a Supermarket chain aquired as it was a catchy tune to list their products to !
This album proves that DuranDuran are still as good today as they were back in the early 80's.
If you do not remember their music that well from the 80's it was roughly the same time that Spandau Ballet were around and in some ways the songs were slightly similar but DuranDuran had a faster pace to them, also Soft Cell started out ...
Advantages: Great uplifting album Disadvantages: bit behind times
In their decadent heyday, the pretty boys of DuranDuran were the crown princes of a fledgling MTV, but drugs, hubris and a few dodgy albums reduced this supergroup to has-beens. Now, twenty-one years since the original Fab Five's last studio album together, the band's classic lineup has returned. The bleach jobs and posturing remain, but the band has thankfully ditched the "Wild Boys" pomp rock that was its undoing. Instead, Astronaut revitalizes Duran's early synth-pop magic. The lush, moody tones of "Point of No Return" and uplifting charm of "Finest Hour" recall the seductive sounds of Rio and remind us that Duran always had a knack for radiant melodies. On "Sunrise," the catchy first single, only Simon LeBon and Co.'s sneering harmonies could turn unabashedly ridiculous lyrics such as "Put your hands into the big sky. . . ./Feel ...
Advantages: A smattering of good songs... nice cover Disadvantages: Doesn't play to the band's strengths, woefully mediocre, extremely middle-of-the-road
Andy and Roger had quit. John followed them out the door a few years later, and for much of the 1990's DuranDuran existed in a partial state, with only Le Bon and Rhodes from the classic line-up and some guy called Warren Cuccurullo on guitar. But he's not important, he's gone now. I wonder if he's a little bit miffed? Who knows? Who cares?
And so to 'Astronaut', DuranDuran's most recent release. The cover suggests an album that will be state-of-the-art, hi-tech, modern, rooted in the future, a fusion of pink and black while the five band members, immaculately groomed look out at you like creatures from an era too trendy, too fashionable for mortal humans. However, the album itself is not so modern. While bands like the Bravery rip off the band wholesale, DuranDuran could have kick-started their career with the quirky but danceable ...
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