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Duran duran best songs3/27/2023 How much do we love you, Rio? Let us count the ways. The band’s first ever hit, and the one which kickstarted their whole era of frilly shirts, floppy fringes and lyrics which were – ahem – open to interpretation (‘My head is stuck on something precious, let me know, if you’re coming down to land’). Later won itself a new audience after being featured in 2002 cult hit Donnie Darko.Īka the one that got in trouble for its saucy video (because that kind of thing was frowned upon in 1981), this misses out on the top five not because it’s not brilliant but because the band actually have five songs which are even better. Or at least we might have done if they hadn’t come up with such a cracking comeback track. Released after the band took a very long break (to allow Simon le Bon time to get trapped in a capsized yacht and give everyone apoplexy), which meant many of their fans had either grown up or got bored and moved on. But we still can’t quite forgive it for the ‘you’re about as easy as a nuclear war’ lyric. The excitement of hearing this had gone straight in at number one (a rare occurrence in those days when you had to buy actual records instead of downloading music) will live with people of a certain age for ever. Hang your heads in shame, record buyers.Įarly 90s loveliness from the boys that’s as good as anything they did in their ‘golden age’.Ĩ Is There Something I Should Know? (number one in 1983) Would have been higher in the list if that ‘Bon…Simon le Bon’ bit from the video had actually been on the song itself, mind.īig shouty anthem which bafflingly failed to get to number one. Otherwise known as the time when Duran Duran did a Bond theme and defied their critics by making it quite good. That moment when the band proved they could take on all those young ‘uns and beat them at their own game. But if we had a choice of playing this or listening to Rio for the 2,738th time? No contest…ġ2 (Reach Up For The) Sunrise (number five in 2004) We’d dance to this at a Duran Duran concert. Has anybody worked out what this song is about yet? Thought not…ġ3 I Don’t Want Your Love (number 14 in 1988) Doesn’t recapture their former glories but you’d sing along if it came on the radio (just admit it).ġ4 Union Of The Snake (number two in 1983) Underrated little effort which remains the band’s most recent brush with the top 20 (yes, they really have been out of the charts that long). C’mon, someone must have liked it, enough of you bought it after all…ġ5 What Happens Tomorrow (number 11 in 2005) It might have been one of the band’s two chart-toppers – spending a whole four weeks at number one in 1984 – but a quick canvassing of people who were old enough to remember the 80s rendered it surprisingly unpopular. The Thursday afternoon of Duran Duran songs, not as bleak as Monday morning but not quite the weekend either. We’re still not sure what it is she wants exactly, but we’re saving all our money for the shoeshine boy nonetheless. Still, the boys are looking lovely in the video so it’s not all bad news.Ī relic from the late 80s when the band lost Andy and Roger Taylor and ‘went a bit funny’. But not really a standout single, if we’re being honest, as its ‘lower reaches of the top ten’ placing suggests. OK, so we liked this as an album track on Seven And The Ragged Tiger. Here – based on a mix of personal opinion (which means you will probably all disagree, and that’s OK) and simply asking those who were there at the time – is our ranking of the good, the not so good and the downright great…Ģ1 Violence Of Summer (Love’s Taking Over) (number 20 in 1990)Īnybody else remember this one? Nope, us neither.
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