Singles 1981-1985, The (Singles Set) - Duran Duran

Singles

Advantages: perfect little gem of a film
Disadvantages: none

repeated, circular symbols, from broken plates to garage door openers to saying ?bless you? when someone sneezes. ?I was just, er, nowhere near your neighbourhood.? The final piece to the Singles puzzle has to be the music. The film is a hymn to grunge era Seattle and it doesn?t spare the cameos: Eddie Vedder, Soundgarden?s Chris Cornell, Alice In Chains performing sets in the club. Crowe doesn?t overuse the inclusion of his great love, but he doesn?t waste an opportunity to slip in the perfect song, topping and tailing the film with songs by Paul Westerberg, dropping in a whole range of tunes in between: Jane?s Addiction, Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumpkins, Soundgarden? (but also Hendrix and Muddy Waters). One of the dating agency men stands before a Sub Pop label poster, with ?Mudhoney? (who perform Citizen Dick?s trademark tune, ?Touch Me ...

ruth_cole 29.12.2003 · Read full review
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Duran Duran Astronaut

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

As I have been reviewing some of Duran Durans 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 Duran Duran 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 Duran Duran had a faster pace to them, also Soft Cell started out ...

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