Live At Hammersmith 1982 (Limited Edition/+DVD) - Duran Duran

Duran Duran Astronaut

Advantages: Excellent price for CD and DVD package
Disadvantages: DVD could have lasted a bit longer

on their career with some of the same beat. Recently you can compare Duran Durans work to the sound of "Blur" as the group have got a slightly different pace to them in the 2000's and more of a guitar background than they used to have. Simon's lyrics have got more into the spirit of talking about feelings and there are a lot of songs on this album that have benefited from that otherwise this would have not been a very good album. This pace is what they needed for the new millennium to move on. This album has twelve songs on which I thought was very good for this album, there are mixed fast, middle, and slow paced songs and this is one of their albums that is most underrated. Also in this package there is a bonus DVD which includes their live tour at Wembley 2004. Tracks on this are : 1. Reach up for the Sunrise This was one ...

IanM73 04.08.2005 (17.08.2006) · Read full review
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Review of Astronaut (+DVD/Limited Edition) - Duran Duran

Dancing On The Valentine

Advantages: Duran duran at their best
Disadvantages: None

. The audience's on those first two occasions had been mostly male, but after the release of Rio in 1982, this changed completely! I went to see them for the fourth time when on tour promoting this album, and it was scary! Screaming girls pushing, shoving and fainting, which spolied the experience for me. The band sounded great, but I never went to see them live again after this. The band :- Simon Le Bon - vocals John Taylor - bass Roger Taylor - drums Andy Taylor - lead guitar Nick Rhodes - keyboards Seven and the Ragged Tiger was released in 1983, the third album form the band, and the last one to feature the original line up with Andy Taylor on lead guitar. Duran Duran carried on over the years that followed , with drummer Roger Taylor also leaving the band. A few years ago the original five members got back together and released an album ...

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Review of Seven And The Ragged Tiger (Limited Edition) [Remastered] - Duran Duran

Duran to the shop for this one?

Advantages: Great uplifting album
Disadvantages: bit behind times

In their decadent heyday, the pretty boys of Duran Duran 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 ...

wmawston 26.10.2004 (06.11.2004) · Read full review
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Review of Astronaut - Duran Duran