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Apr 15, 2015 - 9:04 AM
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Jim Phelps
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I had the LP years ago, but it's been a long time since I've heard any of it. If I remember, 'Skin Trade' was my favourite track, and I also liked 'Meet El Presidente' (if in fact, I'm remembering the right album!). I concede I'm not that big a fan. Actually, did Nile Rodgers not work on the album?
You are correct in all counts, Thomasino.
Until I listened to Notorious recently, for years I had been under the impression that it was a late 1985 release, such was my association with AVTAK (and its Barry sound) but since DD had been on a side project sabbatical in '85, it only makes sense that it would be a 1986 release. My goodness how my once-great memory has gone to seed.
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Ooh, I had that cassette!
Thanks for resurrecting this thread. The video is worth watching from time to time, and I don't know DD well enough to have known about Notorious.
I was immune to their charms at the time of their ascent (except for AVTAK, still one of the Bond albums I listen to most frequently), probably because they were part of the early MTV "video whore" scene that appalled my feminist sensibilities (I am not kidding, though I am grinning sheepishly). In retrospect there is an artful and clever/amusing quality to their sexy videos that is unique and not fairly lumped together with the trashier vids of the time.
I bought their Greatest Hits years ago and just couldn't stop listening to it. And I've been returning to some of the other 80s folks I paid scant attention to at the time - Robert Palmer, The Cars. So glad of the reminder to get my Duran Duran on.
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Apr 16, 2015 - 2:34 PM
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Jim Phelps
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Ooh, I had that cassette!
Thanks for resurrecting this thread. The video is worth watching from time to time, and I don't know DD well enough to have known about Notorious.
I was immune to their charms at the time of their ascent (except for AVTAK, still one of the Bond albums I listen to most frequently), probably because they were part of the early MTV "video whore" scene that appalled my feminist sensibilities (I am not kidding, though I am grinning sheepishly). In retrospect there is an artful and clever/amusing quality to their sexy videos that is unique and not fairly lumped together with the trashier vids of the time.
I bought their Greatest Hits years ago and just couldn't stop listening to it. And I've been returning to some of the other 80s folks I paid scant attention to at the time - Robert Palmer, The Cars. So glad of the reminder to get my Duran Duran on.
I was 11 when DD were at their peak of popularity and while much of their fanbase were the pre-teen and teen girls, the group's catchy songs and video presence were appealing to my friends and I, especially the not-so-vague Indiana Jones vibe of the "Hungry Like the Wolf" and "Save a Prayer" videos. The "Rio" video was pretty snazzy, too (all the more since I had that very issue of "Fightin' Army" John Taylor(?) is shown reading in the video).
I've always enjoyed AVTAK--song and film--it was the "last hurrah" for my childhood friends and I before moving, girls, and high school broke up that old gang o'mine. 
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Apr 17, 2015 - 5:36 AM
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hyperdanny
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fantastic ..the Duran's genuine love for JB shines through the whole thing.
As a "native " DD fan from those years, I always thought (before knowing for sure) that it must have been an appreciation reciprocated, because JB gave them one of his gorgeous melodies to buid the song on........I had goosebumps all the way.
At the slower tempo is even better.
..and yes, we know very well the Simon, as a singer, is and always was, technically mediocre at best, but what he had, and still has, is something much more important for a pop singer: a unique delivery and truckloads of charisma.
I kept pretty much all my cd's from those times, but theirs are the almost the only ones that stood the test of time: now and them, I still play them and enjoy them as "good music"per se , not necessarily for their nostalgia value.
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Apr 17, 2015 - 7:40 AM
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Jim Phelps
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..and yes, we know very well the Simon, as a singer, is and always was, technically mediocre at best, but what he had, and still has, is something much more important for a pop singer: a unique delivery and truckloads of charisma.
I wholeheartedly agree. I'm reminded of a quote from jazz composer Ornette Coleman: "Have you ever heard someone who couldn't sing, but did something to you emotionally?"
There are so many not-technically great singers who I prefer over the pitch-perfect, multi-octave range types because they convey what singing and music is supposed to do: express feeling and when one considers the abstract nature of DD's songs, for Simon to be able to do that is quite an amazing thing (his detractors will naturally disagree, of course).
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