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[M3Freak]

My wife picked up the new Duran Duran album (the version with the DVD and stuff). I'm not a Duran Duran fan like she is, but I like several of their songs from the 80's. Anyway, the new album is actually pretty good! I'm surprised I like it as much as I do. My favourite track is #8, Finest Hour.

I've also been ripping all of our CDs and encoding them with FLAC, saving them to my home Linux media/document/backup server. This CD wouldn't rip when I used Grip as the front end, but I was able to pulll all the tracks off with just cdparanoia on the command line.

So, there you have it.

 

[Lucky Forward]

I've also heard good things about this album but I haven't picked it up yet.

A few months ago I got the Duran Duran video collection, mostly out of nostalgia for their 80's stuff (Girls on Film, Rio, Hungry Like the Wolf, etc.) I was surprised by how much I enjoyed the 90's songs on the collection (like Ordinary World, Electric Barbarella) from after they dropped off the radar here in the states.

 

[shoplifter]

Yep, I DLed it, then bought the DVD version last week. I really like it. It almost feels to me like an amalgamation of Medazzaland, Ordinary World and the original DD stuff.

 

[Kai Dracon]

(Reach Up For The) Sunrise and Astronaut are my favs on the album. I wasn't a very big Duran Duran fan save for megahit "Ordinary World", but from a pure musical standpoint, I feel Astronaut is their best single album.

Sunrise in particular is a damn good song and almost an anthem for anyone who's ever tried to do anything. (By "do" something, I mean something signifigant - something personally epic, your mountain to climb,, etc.)

 

[Lucky Forward]

I wasn't a very big Duran Duran fan save for megahit "Ordinary World"

Did that song get airplay in the U.S., or was it just a hit in Britain? I'd never heard it until I got the video collection, but maybe I'd just been out of touch with the pop music scene.

 

[shoplifter]

It got a LOT of play on MTV, along with Come Undone.

 

[Prospero]

I'm lukewarm on this album (I picked up the DVD edition at Target for $13.88).

In retrospect, I think it was a mistake for the band to get rid of Warren Cucurullo--it seemed to me that from Duran Duran (their last "comeback album") to Medazzaland to Pop Trash, the band was getting edgier and more experimental, while still retaining its accessibility (and Pop Trash was my favorite mainstream album of 2000). I have a feeling that Cucurullo contributed to that edginess.

Though this album has the original lineup, which will be good for sales and touring, it sounds like a step backward to me, though it's still better than much other mainstream music that gets radio airplay these days.

The only song that really wowed me was "Bedroom Toys," and even that sounded a little too much like poor man's Prince.

 

[Prospero]

Slightly off-topic, but still on Duran Duran: a trip just now to Amazon to look at reader reviews of Pop Trash revealed that the album is out of print, which is a tragedy. One reviewer said that because of its label (Hollywood Records) it only sold 40,000 copies. If you see that album in a used CD shop somewhere, snap it up--I think it's DD's best album.