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Liberal Veteran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 03:00 PM
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I still like Duran Duran.
So sue me!
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Phillycat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 03:00 PM
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1. Who doesn't?
What kind of asshole doesn't like Duran Duran? :)
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Feathered Fish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 03:02 PM
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4. That's not cool,
I don't like them - am I an asshole?
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Phillycat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 03:03 PM
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6. Yes.
:)
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Feathered Fish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 03:04 PM
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7. Ah, well
Too bad for you.
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Phillycat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 03:06 PM
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8. It's a joke.
Hence the :)
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Feathered Fish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 03:07 PM
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10. I get it.
I'm not trying to be a bitch. No worries.
Here's my smilie...

:)
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Zing Zing Zingbah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 03:01 PM
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2. I still like them too.
Are we not supposed to like them?
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 03:01 PM
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3. Me Too!!!
:bounce:
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fleabert Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 03:02 PM
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5. my love for them will never die!
durannie till the end!
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djeseru Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 03:07 PM
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9. Okay! I confess!
I still even have all my Durannie posters and books...
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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 03:09 PM
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11. Oh Thank Goodness!! I'm Not The Only One...
I still like ABC and Wang Chung. Also Aha and MisterMister. Did I mention Madness and Thomas Dolby? I like them too.
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 03:10 PM
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12. ......and The Thompson Twins....and WHAM! Ack!!!
It's all out now. ;)
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Liberal Veteran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 03:20 PM
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16. The Thompson Twins are the best...
They really had some great music.
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Liberal Veteran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 03:19 PM
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15. Dude! Sounds like my music collection!
I really like A-ha (except for Take On Me for some reason).
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billyskank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 03:24 PM
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19. I think the 80s were a good decade for British pop music
unlike today. Pah!
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Liberal Veteran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 03:27 PM
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20. What? You don't like...uh....um....uh...er....
:shrug:
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billyskank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 03:29 PM
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21. You're right I don't! Any of them! Whoever they are.
BTW, I love your cat Mischief. :loveya:
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Liberal Veteran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 03:32 PM
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24. Mischief thanks you and sends this pic of him...
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djeseru Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 03:12 PM
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13. What about Scritti Politti? n/t
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Cyndee_Lou_Who Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 03:15 PM
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14. OMG! A Perfect Way! NO ONE I know remembers that!!!
cool.
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djeseru Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 03:21 PM
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17. Still have all the albums
I painstakingly collected before the CD era, including all the imports and B-sides...along with INXS, OMD, The Smiths, Siouxsie, and, yes absolutely, Thomas Dolby and Madness.
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Phillycat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 03:21 PM
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18. I've got a perfect way to make a...something...
I loved that song!
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ProfessorGAC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 03:30 PM
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22. You've Been Served!
Actually, i still like them too! I always thought that they "made" it for two reasons:

1) Obviously some REALLY good looking guys and good early videos.
2) They remembered what many early 80's New Romantic bands did not. Rock music is about GUITARS. They had layers of keyboards, yes, but it was always the icing, not the cake. The cake was drums, bass, and hard edged guitars.

Their contemporaries like Cabaret Voltaire, Soft Cell, The The, etc. didn't learn that lesson. That's why folks like you and i are still talking about Duran Duran.
The Professor
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Touchdown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 03:51 PM
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27. Umm. The The is still around.
...and they have harder guitars than DD did. Mind Bomb is one of the best 80s albums made.



Hey! Anybody get DD's newest? Astronaut? It's pretty good. All the original Taylors are back. First time since Arena.
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ProfessorGAC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 04:02 PM
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29. Not On The Early Stuff
They were more strongly synth. Look i liked those guys a lot, but my speculation is to why DD broke so much larger than everyone else. The edgier sound due to Andy's guitars gave the sound a broader audience.

The The's early stuff was heavily layered synth like most of the other new romantic stuff. Cabaret Voltaire had guitars too, but they were down in the mix. Duran Duran's guitars were up front.

That's my theory and i'm stickin' to it.
The Professor
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Touchdown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 05:43 PM
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30. How early? Soul Mining early?
or before that? I got into them with Infected, and got Soul Mining later, so I must have come into them late. The The is harldy what I'd call "new romantic", in the Aztec Camera, Fun Boy 3, Spandau Ballet vein of New Wave. I always considered them modern rock, more akin to Oingo Boingo and The Smiths.
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Nevernose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 03:31 PM
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23. I only STARTED liking them a few years ago
In the eighties I was still in junior high/high school, and there was no way I was going to listen to a band for chicks. No way, no how.

And then I grew up and realized just how good they were and are. "Thank You" is one of my all time favorite albums. I hear they've got a new one coming out with the original lineup, too.

(of course, that album was stolen, but I'm not bitter or anything ;) )
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Amaya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 03:34 PM
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25. I'll admit it....
No :)
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gollygee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 03:36 PM
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26. Me too!
I still love them :)
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Touchdown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 04:01 PM
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28. Reviews of their newest one "Astronaut".
http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/duranduran/astronaut/

Some glowing, some trashing...but what DD fan ever listened to rock critics?:evilgrin:
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