... Pop trash is all the essential elements of classic duran, given a new millenium feel, far from being an eighties revival band, duran show they have more to offer here than just reminiscing. From the ordinary world type ballad, someone else not me, the heady seventies inspired lava lamp to ... Read review
Advantages: Superb album Disadvantages: hard to buy in shops
...they are not at fault. Pop trash is all the essential elements of classic duran, given a new millenium feel, far from being an eighties revival band, duran show they have more to offer here than just reminiscing. From the ordinary world type ballad, someone else not me, the heady seventies inspired lava lamp to the damnright audacious hallucinating elvis, Le bon and the boys do what they do best, and that is make damn fine singalong pop tunes. This ... more
duran duran have an uncanny knack for shooting themselves in the foot, and after the dismal chart failure of meddazaland at first it would appear that they had done it again, but upon closer scrutiny, this time they are not at fault. Pop trash is all the essential elements of classic duran, given a new millenium feel, far from being an eighties revival band, duran show they have more to offer here than just reminiscing. From the ordinary world type ballad, someone else not me, the heady seventies inspired lava lamp to the damnright audacious hallucinating elvis, Le bon and the boys do what they do best, and that is make damn fine singalong pop tunes. This album deserved to be a hit, it wasnt, but thats the unpredictable nature of the record buying public for you. Catch them live, they still know how to rock the crowd. the best thing of all, is that the original five are now back together and going on a 20th anniversary tour yippee!!!
Advantages: great songs Disadvantages: no radio pla, £15.99 in HMV
...modern album full of stomping pop songs "Hallucinating Elvis" & "Playing with Uranium" and some great ballard, including my favourite "Pop Trah Movie", over the top but sensational.
I found an import with a beatle-esque experimental track called "projections" - worth a listen if you can find it.
After 20 years Duran Duran are no overnight sensation ...
petes 10.08.2000
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Advantages: great quality songs Disadvantages: not the duran you remember
...is now a handicap, since pop trash wasn't even stocked by WHSmith and several other stores. It is however an album that sounds fresh & full of potential hit singles, should they get air play.
'Someone else not me' is reminiscent of ,ordinary world, whilst 'last day on earth' is driven by heavy distorted guitar, and 'hallucinating elvis' sounds like nothing they have ever done before. 'Starting to remember' is a simple acoustic arrangement that shows ... ...song.
Pop Trash is DD for the 21 st century, and although the quality of the songs may decline towards the end of the album, one would not guess that this was an album from a group that began in the late seventies!
Certainly one of their best albums to date... if they could just change their name. ...
spiderkemp 23.07.2000
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Advantages: great tunes, good design, excellent value Disadvantages: cant get hold of it cheers record shops u asswipes
Well, the album flopped in the uk and the staes, hardly surpsing considering that hollywood records hardly promoted it, and the uk radio stations are more concerned with trashy boy and girl bands, does that mean that this is a bad album? No way hose! this album shows duran at there best since the wedding album Le bons vocals are unique and despite the loss of John Taylor two albums back, duran show they can still cut the mustard. Skip Lava lamp cos ... ...three duran boys on top form, someone else not me deserved to be a hit, and Hallucinating elvis should have been released as a single, instead the album seems to have dissappeared from shelves and died an untimely death, dont give up duran, you are still capable of wonderful things. ...
mcpoeman 22.10.2000
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Product details
Title
Pop Trash
Performer
Duran Duran
Genre
Rock & Pop
Sub Genre
New Romantic
Release Date
19/06/2000
Original Release Year
2000
Label / Distributor
Hollywood / -
Engineer
Mark Tinley; Ken Scott
Producer
TV Mania
Pieces in Set
1
Studio / Live
Studio
Stereo
Stereo
Format
Performer
EAN
4029758075128
Catalogue Number
107512
Additional notes
Album Notes
Duran Duran: Simon LeBon, Warren Cuccurullo, Nick Rhodes. Additional personnel: Guy Farley (piano); John Tonks (drums, electronic percussion); Steve Alexander, Gregg Bissonette (drums); Luis Conte (percussion); Mark Tinley, Blumpy (programming); Sally Boyden (background vocals). "We'll all be famous for 15 minutes," sings Duran Duran in the title song of its first album of the 21st century, and it's entitled to that Warholian perception if anyone is; after all, it doesn't want to have to stage another comeback. The album's title, however, also seems to refer to the its willful eclecticism. There's no over-arching sound here; the point seems to be that the various styles the band employs from song to song here are in its opinion either equally valid or (more likely) equally disposable. That said, this is an extremely likeable album, more genuinely tuneful than anything it's come up with in years. Highpoints include "Someone Else Not Me," a big, pillowy ballad that sounds like the Verve minus the earnestness. "Lava Lamp" is a positively addictive '60s psychedelic pastiche, complete with sitar and what sounds like (but probably isn't) a vocal sample from "A Day in the Life." "Playing with Uranium," has a big, distorted, '90s grunge guitar sound, while "Starting to Remember" could be an outtake from an early John Lennon solo album.
Album Reviews
Rolling Stone (8/17/00, p.113) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...Shows off their jaded hooks and nasty wit; it's for fans only, but those of us who still crumple at the opening hiccups of 'Hungry Like The Wolf' will be glad for another fix..." Q (8/00, p.98) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...Proves to be far from embarrassing, with the single 'Someone Else Not Me' recycling the groove from their 1993 comeback single 'Ordinary World' to nice effect..."
Titles on disc 1
1.
Someone Else Not Me
2.
Lava Lamp
3.
Playing With Uranium
4.
Hallucinating Elvis
5.
Starting To Remember
6.
Pop Trash Movie
7.
Fragment
8.
Mars Meets Venus
9.
Lady Xanax
10.
Sun...
11.
Kiss Goodbye
12.
Last Day On Earth
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