For me, Simon makes the band. The singer is always my favorite member.
This is why I can't listen to (new) INXS songs without Michael Hutchence.......... or Journey without Steve Perry or Foreigner without Lou Gramm.............see where I'm going with this? lol. | |
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I fell in love on first listen! It's a great road trip album. There isn't a track I don't dig. The comparisons to the first 2 albums are apt (especially "Girl Panic"). Considering how much I love Red Carpet Massacre as well, I can honestly say that this is my favorite 2-album stretch since the '80s. How cool would it be if they went the Rio route and shot a video for almost all of the songs?
(Speaking of Rio: datdude, how many times do I have to tell you this? "My Own Way" was the lead single from Rio, released before the album then remixed to fit the others.) [Edited 12/24/10 6:02am] "Whitney was purely and simply one of a kind." ~ Clive Davis | |
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^ I guess you haven't heard! Nick Rhodes said there will be a video for every song! | |
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He wasn't the original lead singer, Gregg Rolie was. You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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Yeah, but the world didn't know them until Steve came in. Same with Duran Duran. Simon was not their first vocalist. [Edited 12/24/10 10:32am] | |
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That's not the same. Journey released several official albums before Steve. The Duran singer is more like Pete Best & Stuart Sutcliffe with The Beatles. The Beatles didn't release anything with them. Pete & Stu were in the group before they got a deal. Journey is more like Genesis. When Peter Gabriel was the lead, they were a cult band. When he left and Phil Collins took over the vocals, they later became really popular. A lot of the 1980's Genesis fans aren't aware that Peter (& Steve Hackett) were in the group. You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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Duly noted. | |
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Nick715 said: ^ I guess you haven't heard! Nick Rhodes said there will be a video for every song! Now that you mention it, I do remember reading that. Awesome! "Whitney was purely and simply one of a kind." ~ Clive Davis | |
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Great album. It's amazing how much the album sounds likes the the first 3. Musically and in style and character. I'm wondering how the bonus tracks will be implemented on the physical CD. Also, is there gonna be a bonus DVD as well? [Edited 12/24/10 13:44pm] Fantasy is reality in the world today. But I'll keep hangin in there, that is the only way. | |
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Then there is Van Halen, who were successful with both David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar (but not Gary Cherone ) , although many of the fans of the Roth era don't like "Van Hagar". The early Fleetwood Mac was a blues based band, and had nothing in common musically with the pop songs of the Lindsey/Stevie era. Just like Jefferson Airplane had not much to do with the later Starship. You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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this is also a great record to tour with and play live, i could see each track transfering well to the stage, and hopefully that is how it will be constructed, some hits, and most of the new record "We went where our music was appreciated, and that was everywhere but the USA, we knew we had fans, but there is only so much of the world you can play at once" Magne F | |
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Most people I know Hate Van Halen with Sammy Hagar, but I love their songs with Roth and Hagar. What can I say? VH is probably the only exception to that vocalist rule because I was never a die hard fan. (I never saw a concert with Roth but I have with Hagar). | |
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to me it depends on the band and how instrumental the members are, with Van Halen i think the loss of Michael Anthony hurt more, because he was the high harmonies that made the sound. As for DD i dont think they could do anything without LeBon especially this far along, the same would go for a-ha, i mean if 2 wanted to reform and 1 didnt, that band is a trio with each having an important role. With INXS as a fan from day one i didnt want any part of Switch, i didnt like the way the went out for a new singer, but then i read their book about the years after Michael when they did nothing, the guilt for not being able to help him etc...and then thought of how so much of this band is about the "sound" which they still had, dont get me wrong there is never replacing a member and i think they know that, but with JD they have a good singer to front that version of INXS. "We went where our music was appreciated, and that was everywhere but the USA, we knew we had fans, but there is only so much of the world you can play at once" Magne F | |
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found this bit from John Taylor's blog talking about the song "The Man Who Stole A Leopard"... on duranduran.com
"....Getting carried away, we considered a string arrangement. Mark introduced us to Owen Pallett. Owen is an amazing musician who had been in Arcade Fire at the time of their first album release, but is now an artist in his own right. Owen wrote a fantastic score for the song, and then went on to write two short instrumental pieces based on ‘All You Need is Now’. You will need the full-length street release album to hear those...."
So it looks like there will be at least a couple instrumentals on deluxe edition. Being a fan of instrumentals and orchestration, I think this is cool news.
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Very cool find, im loving this album probably more than almost any other they have done, im hoping tour-wise they play the album alot on stage, its a great live sounding record. I do hope with the full length though its packaged as a bonus disc, and keep the album on a seperate disc. "We went where our music was appreciated, and that was everywhere but the USA, we knew we had fans, but there is only so much of the world you can play at once" Magne F | |
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I saw DD live back when the album Astronaut was fairly new. Back then they played most of that album and a lot of their hits. I don't think any DD fan would be disappointed at their concert! | |
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Duran Duran's New Business Model January 14, 2011
Three decades ago, Duran Duran positioned itself at the cutting edge of pop music with a manifesto that was as much about the look and the lifestyle as the music itself. And while the band has undergone much morphing over the intervening years -- hitting the mainstream, receding into the shadows and then re-emerging as one of the biggest draws on the Gen X nostalgia circuit -- its members haven't given up breaking new ground.
That fact came into focus late in 2010 with the announcement of the band's 13th studio album, "All You Need Is Now" -- a collection that emerged surprisingly quietly, strictly in digital form, and positioned them once again at the forefront, not so much in a sonic sense as in the form of a business model. While there's nothing particularly unusual about a digital release at this stage of the game, Duran Duran's decision to offer up an iTunes exclusive sans label, and with an album only partially completed, was certainly atypical of an act of its magnitude.
"We definitely found ourselves on the front end of a wave and got a learning experience on a logistical level," says Wendy Laister, founder of Magus Entertainment, the band's longtime manager. But iTunes offered us some really good real estate at a fortuitous time of year and we thought that made it attractive to go forward."
The digital, nine-song version of "All You Need Is Now" sold 14,000 copies in the U.S. in its first week of release during Christmas week, garnering a goodly bit of alternative radio play for its title track in the process. At the time, the band didn't consider the set to be complete. But that didn't deter them from offering what Laister calls "an appetizer" before a planned physical release.
"It's certainly new for us, but this is the way a lot of people consume music now, one song at a time," says founding member and keyboardist Nick Rhodes. "We've always looked for ways to use technology to our best advantage. When the Internet started to happen years ago, we saw amazing opportunities to connect to people around the world."
While Laister acted as a de facto label during the initial push, she began negotiating with more established entities last fall, securing licensing and distribution deals for major territories. In North America, a deal was struck with the Universal-distributed S-Curve imprint, which will issue a 14-song set on CD in late March, with an April tour and a deluxe vinyl edition to follow.
"Now that music has been reduced to its most basic component, a sound signal, you might as well offer people the most romantic, beautiful thing," says singer Simon LeBon.
Laister says that she and S-Curve are working to offer specialist packages to individual retailers, with "a tremendous amount" of bonus content in the pipeline. "Obviously, the business end is becoming more and more fragmented," she says.
"But that's advantageous. Rather than have one way to reach a fanbase, you have a practically infinite number, and when a band has as dedicated a base as (Duran Duran), you can have a traditional campaign and augment it with all sorts of other things. It's quite exciting."
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i just wanted to say that this album is soooooooooo good. it makes for a quick 45 minute drive!!
"damn im here already!!! i've got one track left" | |
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According to some tweets from band members, it looks they are still working on b-sides/extra tracks for the physical release. Which now is not slated for release until march 21st. Got pushed back from February. Oh well. Is this means more tracks or whatever, so be it. And also rumours of "night versions" of some of the new material. That's pretty cool. [Edited 1/21/11 16:10pm] Fantasy is reality in the world today. But I'll keep hangin in there, that is the only way. | |
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