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Duran Duran: Greatest

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Label: EMI Records
Released: 2010.12.21
Time:
 78:14
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): Mark Ronson, Duran Duran
Rating: *****..... (5/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.duranduran.com
Appears with:
Purchase date: 2013
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Is There Something I Should Know - 4:10
[2] The Reflex - 4:24
[3] A View To A Kill - 3:34
[4] Ordinary World - 4:42
[5] Save A Prayer - 3:47
[6] Rio - 4:45
[7] Hungry Like The Wolf - 3:25
[8] Girls On Film - 3:27
[9] Planet Earth - 3:57
[10] Union Of The Snake - 4:22,
[11] New Moon On Monday - 4:16
[12] Wild Boys - 4:17
[13] Notorious - 4:00
[14] I Don't Want Your Love - 3:48
[15] All She Wants Is - 4:26
[16] Electric Barbarella - 4:17
[17] Serious - 3:56
[18] Skin Trade - 4:26
[19] Come Undone - 4:15

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Simon Le Bon - Vocals, Producer, Associate Producer
John Taylor - Bass Guitars, Producer
Nick Rhodes - Keyboards, Producer
Roger Taylor - Drums, Producer

Daniel Abraham - Engineer, Mixing, Producer
Jonathan Elias - Digital Sampling, Producer
Shep Pettibone - Mixing, Producer
Ian Little - Mixing, Producer
Alex Sadkin - Mixing, Producer
Bernard Edwards - Producer
Nile Rodgers - Mixing, Producer
Chris Kimsey - Producer
Colin Thurston - Producer
TV Mania - Producer
Jason Corsaro - Engineer, Mixing
Daniel Abraham - Engineer, Mixing
David Richards - Mixing
Bob St. John - Mixing
Steve Peck - Mixing
Anthony J. Resta - Mixing
David Richards - Mixing
Bob Rosa - Mixing
Nigel Reeve - Compilation Producer, Coordination, Mastering
Terry Burch - Mastering
Malcolm Garrett - Package Design
Malcolm Garrett - Design
John Barry - Conductor, Orchestra

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Twenty years since their pop music debut, Duran Duran issued another greatest-hits collection. As if 1989's Decade weren't stellar enough, this select package was much more solid. Greatest showcased the band's early days of glam rock décor and new romanticism to the alluring sophistication Duran Duran exuded throughout the '90s. The typical synth-powered pop hits are included - "Girls on Film," "Rio," "A View to a Kill" - as well as the signature ballads - "Save a Prayer" - but it might also receive criticism due to its chronological disarray. Still, that gives no reason to fret, for other goodies can be found throughout. The much-neglected "New Moon on Monday" is featured, as well as the band's mature eclecticism of such songs from the self-titled Wedding Album - "Ordinary World" and "Come Undone." The band's experimentation with new millennium electronica found on "Electric Barbarella" again refocuses on Simon LeBon as the center of the band. A continuity blatantly obvious on Greatest and the strong commercialism that progressed throughout the band's healthy evolvement is not denied. Those chart-smashing singles from the 1980s made them a force to be reckoned with and an arena favorite. The songs are nearly ageless and they get their due here. It's a cheeky production and a definitive depiction of one of rock's biggest pop bands.

MacKenzie Wilson - AllMusic.com



Greatest is a greatest hits compilation album released in 1998 by the band Duran Duran. Greatest was an update of the 1989 tenth anniversary compilation album, Decade: Greatest Hits. The new release included songs from their eponymous debut album through 1997's Medazzaland. The album includes all 14 songs featured in Decade: Greatest Hits, plus "New Moon on Monday" and four singles from the 90's, however both "Save a Prayer" and "Rio" are presented in their shorter US versions in order to fit on a single CD whereas they appeared in their full versions on the former compilation. The album was released by EMI after parting ways with the band after the disastrous Medazzaland album release in 1997, and marked the first of many releases designed to capitalise on the band's extensive EMI-controlled back catalogue. To coincide with the release of the Greatest album in the United Kingdom, the song "Electric Barbarella" was released as a single. This track was originally released as a single in North America in 1997 to promote the Medazzaland album (which was never released officially in the UK). "Electric Barbarella" was also the basis for a retroactive correction in licencing payments in the band's favour, after Cuccurullo discovered that the song was mistakenly credited as having been licensed by Capitol Records instead of the band itself (rights had reverted to the band). As of 2009, the collection has sold over a million copies in the United States. To date, a full collection of Duran Duran's singles on one album still hasn't been released.

wikipedia.org



Auch wenn die englischen Popkönige Duran Duran seit zwei Jahrzehnten unablässig im Pop-Business aktiv sind, ist es unbestreitbar, daß das unbezähmbare Ensemble während der wechselhaften 80er Jahre auf dem Höhepunkt seiner Karriere war. Die vorliegende Sammlung ihrer Greatest Hits dokumentiert die ehrgeizigen Anfänge der Band als funkige Glam-Rock-Combo und verfolgt ihre langsame Verwandlung in eine high-tech Pop-Band mit hohem kommerziellen Anspruch. Greatest konzentriert sich auf die Hit-Singles, wobei Klassiker wie "Girls on Film", "Rio" und "Planet Earth" genauso vertreten sind wie neuere Stücke wie "Ordinary World". Und obwohl das junge Quintett, das hier "Hungry Like the Wolf" und "A View to a Kill" zum besten gibt, mit dem vornehmen, alternden Trio auf Electric Barbarella von 1997 nicht viel gemeinsam hat, sorgt der Sänger Simon Le Bon fur eine beeindruckende Kontinuität.

Mitch Myers - Amazon.de
 

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