Track Listing 1. Girls on Film 2. Planet Earth 3. Anyone Out There 4. Careless Memories 5. Is There Something I Should Know? 6. Night Boat 7. Sound of Thunder 8. Friends of Mine 9. Tel Aviv
| Details | | Producer: | Colin Thurston | | Distributor: | EMI Music Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes Duran Duran: Simon LeBon, Nick Rhodes, John Taylor, Roger Taylor, Andy Taylor. Along with Spandau Ballet, Visage, and others, Duran Duran led the early-'80s charge of the New Romantics, a movement heavily inspired by the fashion-conscious, synth-colored art-school antics of Bowie and Roxy Music. Duran Duran and their peers updated that sound for a new decade, adopting punk's DIY attitude and helping to give birth to dance-rock along the way by adding a disco-ish beat. Subsequent releases would find the band moving more toward straight pop, becoming simultaneously less dance-oriented and less arty. The 1981 debut, however, is full of thumping, club-friendly beats and long, atmospheric tunes full of extended synthesizer-centered interludes. The fact that the boys were pop-savvy enough to add irresistible choruses to "Girls on Film," "Careless Memories," and "Planet Earth" doesn't hurt matters.
Editorial Reviews 3 stars out of 5 - ...Naturally, it's all terribly glamorous... Q (10/01/2003)
3 stars out of 5 - ...Simultaneously atmospheric and dance-floor-directed...a synth-rock blueprint... Rolling Stone (09/04/2003)
Ranked #19 in CMJ's Top 20 Most-Played Albums of 1981 CMJ (01/05/2004)
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