Notorious - Duran Duran

..."No-no-notorious notorious" later sampled by Notorious BIG and Puff Daddy in 1999. The songs then eases into a slinky, faux-funk groove and is really one of the best tracks they've recorded. Typical Duran lyrics are abound with nods to "flakey bandits" and "boys making noise" and a great female "gasp" sample to add a little bit of tension to the tack. God knows what they're on about, but hold on kids, because it's a downhill ride from hereon in. ...
...the rest of the album is the tempo. Apart from a couple of upbeat tracks and a really slow one, the rest seem to find a balance somewhere in between and occupy that mid-tempo kind of groove that Oasis seemed to have settled for on their last two albums. This track, while not particularly bad, just doesn't affect me in the way their earlier stuff did. Remember the macho excitement of Wild Boys or the exoticism of Rio? Well, there's little of that ...

waynehorrigan 22.06.2004 · Read full review
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...and tracks like american science, skin trade and notorious emerged, hold me is awful, but winter marches on would have made a great chritmas song, if it had been released as the double a side that it was supposed to be, this is a good album but not a classic ...

mcpoeman 22.10.2000 · Read full review
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Review of Notorious - Duran Duran

É completamente diferente dos trabalhos anteriores da banda. Muito distinto das produções de Nile Rodgers para "The reflex" e "The wild boys". Canções perfeitas no melhor álbum de 1986. ...

ruipoetaerocker 11.05.2008
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