DURAN DURAN -
THE ESSENTIAL COLLECTION on CD
The CD is new.
Duran Duran personified new wave for much of the mainstream audience. And for good reason, too. Duran Duran's reputation was built through music videos, which accentuated their fashion-model looks and glamorous sense of style. Without music videos, it's likely that the band's pop-funk -- described by the group as the Sex Pistols meets Chic -- would never have made them international pop stars.
While Duran Duran did have sharper pop sensibilities than their new romantic contemporaries like Spandau Ballet and Ultravox, none of their peers exploited MTV and music video like the Birmingham-based quintet. Each video the group made was distinctive, incorporating a number of cinematic styles to showcase the band as either part of the jet-setting elite ("Rio") or as worldly adventurers ("Hungry Like the Wolf"). While early videos like "Girls on Film" and "The Chauffeur" sparked controversy in England over their sexual content, their best-known clips were often based on hit contemporary movies.
The Tracks are...
GIRLS ON FILM
PLANET EARTH
FAME
CARELESS MEMORIES
ANYONE OUT THERE
SOUND OF THUNDER
IS THERE SOMETHING I SHOULD KNOW?
LIKE AN ANGEL
HOLD BACK THE RAIN
SAVE A PRAYER
MY OWN WAY
RIO
NEW RELIGION
THE CHAUFFEUR (BLUE SILVER)
HUNGRY LIKE THE WOLF
LONELY IN YOUR NIGHTMARE
LAST CHANCE ON THE STAIRWAY
MAKE ME SMILE (COME UP AND SEE ME)