Duran Duran - Pop Trash
Duran Duran
Pop Trash
Personnel:
Simon LeBon - vocals
Nick Rhodes - synths
Warren Cuccurullo - guitars, guitar synths
Duran Duran is a rather odd bit of pop trash, both as a band, and in terms of this self-titled album. The album clearly has a sound about it that could be really stated as trashy sounding pop, but sometimes its trashy in that gaudy, obnoxious, glam way all fans of the double D have come to love, but some of it is trash in the please-put-this-out-with-the-rest-of-the leftovers. In the former category, you have the requisite references to chemicals, dead icons and encounters of questionable repute; Hallucinating Elvis, Lady Xanax and Mars Meets Venus fit here. In the latter category, you have utterly nondescript balladry and insincere bluesy fluff, which in this case rsults in The Sun Doesn't Shine Forever, Pop Trash Movie, and the insult-to-the-Beatles stinker Starting to Remember. There are also a pair of odd cuts that are both admirable, if only for being a bit different, and oddly enough, they bookend this rather pedestrian release: Someone Else Not Me and Last Day on Earth.
LeBon sounds like he is trying to sound growling and gritty, and it just does not suit him. Rhodes seems to be idling in much of the softer tracks to inane effect, and the only person who seems comfortable in this inconsistrent mess is Cuccurullo, who has generally been underutilized (not that it matters, because he is no longer with D2). About the onoy real true to form aspect of this release that is absolute archtype Duran is the packaging which features the trio looking as gaudy, coiffed, coutured, and scrubbed into glammomatic fabulous proportions as they were in their heyday. That being said, they still lack the class of Roxy Music, Japan and David Bowie, who they have pilfered since their earliest days.
If you can find it in the bargain bin or pick up tracks selectively on iTunes go for it. Otherwise, this is right around the same level as Thank You (did you actually listen to their cover of 911 Is A Joke by Public Enemy?) and Liberty.
Pop Trash
Personnel:
Simon LeBon - vocals
Nick Rhodes - synths
Warren Cuccurullo - guitars, guitar synths
Duran Duran is a rather odd bit of pop trash, both as a band, and in terms of this self-titled album. The album clearly has a sound about it that could be really stated as trashy sounding pop, but sometimes its trashy in that gaudy, obnoxious, glam way all fans of the double D have come to love, but some of it is trash in the please-put-this-out-with-the-rest-of-the leftovers. In the former category, you have the requisite references to chemicals, dead icons and encounters of questionable repute; Hallucinating Elvis, Lady Xanax and Mars Meets Venus fit here. In the latter category, you have utterly nondescript balladry and insincere bluesy fluff, which in this case rsults in The Sun Doesn't Shine Forever, Pop Trash Movie, and the insult-to-the-Beatles stinker Starting to Remember. There are also a pair of odd cuts that are both admirable, if only for being a bit different, and oddly enough, they bookend this rather pedestrian release: Someone Else Not Me and Last Day on Earth.
LeBon sounds like he is trying to sound growling and gritty, and it just does not suit him. Rhodes seems to be idling in much of the softer tracks to inane effect, and the only person who seems comfortable in this inconsistrent mess is Cuccurullo, who has generally been underutilized (not that it matters, because he is no longer with D2). About the onoy real true to form aspect of this release that is absolute archtype Duran is the packaging which features the trio looking as gaudy, coiffed, coutured, and scrubbed into glammomatic fabulous proportions as they were in their heyday. That being said, they still lack the class of Roxy Music, Japan and David Bowie, who they have pilfered since their earliest days.
If you can find it in the bargain bin or pick up tracks selectively on iTunes go for it. Otherwise, this is right around the same level as Thank You (did you actually listen to their cover of 911 Is A Joke by Public Enemy?) and Liberty.
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