Hi! I've recently started listening to some Duran Duran, and I've found that while I adore some of their songs, I'm not a big fan of their others.

My favorites so far are Before the Rain, Chauffeur, The Man Who Stole a Leopard, and Sin of the City. Based on those, do any of y'all have any recommendations for me?

Hello everyone. So, I was with my friend, talking about certain verses on Duran Duran songs that could work amazingly for edits, and eventually we got to Pop Trash. And, since it's a thing we do for a time now, we often imagine this part of Pop Trash Movie as the beginning of one.

"Watching slow mo going frame by frame

Might have blurred my vision

Your life went flashing by

When did it all go wrong?"

We were sharing the screenshots and, just for fun, I put this part on Google lens to see if it recognizes the song since the pop trash era is not really remembered. Although it recognized, it...generated a whole other lyrics to it.

What's most bizarre is that, when I put the screenshot with these strange lyrics on Lens (the second image on this post, because it doesn't have any part of the original song), it returns to the correct lyrics of Pop Trash Movie?!? If I try to search any part of it on the regular Google, it doesn't pop anything other than the Duran Duran song. How?!? Is this a song I don't know of?

You listen to a song like Ordinary World, and then one like Big Bang Generation. Obviously both extraordinary songs, and both produced in home studios, but Ordinary World sounds so clean and lush and sharp and deep, while Big Bang Generation sounds kind of muddy as the only way I can describe it. Damn I wish they would remaster Medazzaland.

Hi all,

I wanted to share a piece of music preservation with the group. I recently went through my old physical archives and found some UK television broadcasts of the band that aren't currently available online (well I couldn't find them!). I live in the Midlands so I have stuff off local TV i.e. Birmingham too.

I've just digitised the tapes and am uploading them all to YouTube to ensure they're safely preserved. I'll be releasing more from my archive over the coming weeks, but here is the first drop.

It’s been a labour of love and I have no intention of monetising this. I just thought I would share what I have.

https://youtu.be/74KnLiBYCBU

 P.S. I have a whole backlog of recordings scheduled to drop every week from now until mid-January. I'm uploading the rare ones first. If you want to catch the rest, you can subscribe to the channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@Carolines80sDuranDuranArchive

Have you ever heard any Duran Duran song country-fied?

Have you ever been curious about who the underwater model in the water tank from Duran Duran's "Come Undone" music video is?

I always wanted to know who she was because I always found her very beautiful, but I could never find any clues. However, I recently did some digging and discovered that the model's name is Lauren Heston. She was an underwater model in the 90s, and today she is the founder of one of the most well-known and respected baby swimming schools in the UK, called "Little Dippers." She also released a book called "Water Baby."

Here are the links from my research that led to this conclusion:

1-https://www.songfacts.com/lyrics/duran-duran/come-undone
2-https://www.sussexexpress.co.uk/news/brightons-little-dippers-celebrates-30-years-of-teaching-babies-how-to-love-the-water-4152242
3-https://littledippers.co.uk/lauren

There is also another video of her on the internet called "British Gas Water Babies," where she swims with a baby: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVG6-DCFyn0

I felt this discovery should be shared on the internet to finally give her proper credit for her performance in the music video. Hope you guys find this interesting!

Born in 1986. Dad was a fan and passed on his love for Duran Duran to me at a young age. I remember seeing the guys in 1997 on the Medazzaland tour at Verizon Wireless Theatre in Houston. What an amazing show! They opened with "Medazzaland" playing behind a giant cloth cover that draped the stage. It had holes cut into it and a strobe light blasted out from behind it. When "Medazzaland" finished, the curtain was dropped, and there was the band in all their glory. I think they went straight into Big Bang Generation.

I am sure this has been done before, but what are your top 5 Duran Duran albums? I’m going to include Arcadia because to me it’s pretty much a Duran Duran album, but some may disagree.
1a. Rio
1b. Duran Duran
3. So Red the Rose
4. Seven and the Ragged Tiger
5. All You Need is Now

Seeing as Top 5 albums got so many replies, here it goes in no particular order:
Planet Earth (Night Version)
Girls on Film (Night Mix)
Union of the Snake (Monkey Mix)
New Religion (Carnival Remix)
Hold Back the Rain (Alternate Remix)
Notoriousaurus Rex
She’s Moody and Grey, She’s Mean and She’s Restless
Tel Aviv (Air Studio Version)
Rio (Part 2)

They posted this photo as well as two videos with Dolly. Such a sad day. She was a legend.

Appreciation for "I Take The Dice". An extremely underrated track from them and probably the least talked about from SatRT. I love the fun lyrics and bounciness of the song. AFAIK, this is the only track from the album that's never been performed live.

Could someone give me the cliff notes version about this album and Warren's involvement in it? I'm aware he recorded all his parts remotely and didn't actually record with the band.

Interested in it from a fan perspective, or I would just Google it. I want to know any details about Warren being on the album and what songs he's on, if he is in any videos, and if there are any demos or b-sides he's on.

I’m beginning to think Future Past will be DD’s only album of original material this decade.

All current signals from the band indicate: can’t be arsed.

Simon didn’t even want to do Future Past, but was outvoted.

We’re forever teased with Reportage, but nothing ever seems to happen. I’d have expected it to be released this year as it’s twenty years old, but it doesn’t look like it.

Can anyone else see them knuckling down and recording another album for release by the decade’s end, or will we have to be satisfied with the occasional single or lacklustre cover version of one of their own tracks?

Me da curiosidad saber cuales son las canciones mas oscuras de duran duran. En mi caso pienso que playing with uranium no es la mas oscura pero el trasfondo que hay detrás si es algo denso

Notorious being my favorite album of the band's and the favorite of many others, I can't help but wonder if the singles could've been different. With Notorious, Skin Trade, and Meet El Presidente being the 3 singles, what does everyone think the singles should've been from the album if they think otherwise? I feel Hold Me and Proposition would've been great candidates.

I discovered Duran in 1982, thought Careless Memories was the best song ever written. Met my best friend in 1984 because I was wearing a Duran tshirt. Love this band. We got these in 2024.

Their entire discography is amazing, from debut to Danse Macabre. Only disappointment was they didn't play CM on this last tour.

This is their third studio album. The album's title was devised by Le Bon and taken from the unreleased track of the same name. The "seven" refers to the five band members and their two managers, while the "ragged tiger" is success: "Seven people running after success. It's ambition. That's what it's about.", says LeBon.

This would be the last studio record with the original band until 2004.

Do you think Duran would continue if Nick and/or Simon decided to leave the band?