The Friday Canon: DURAN DURAN

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

OK during the time between me starting this canon and posting it TWO MORE entries have gone up on this especially busy day. But some things are sacred and the Friday Canon is one of them - sorry friendlists you'll just have to take the weight, as Simon Le Bon said to the elephant.

But I'll leave the picture out. You all know what The Most Fanciable Man In Pop and SLB and the other ones look like anyway, don't you? (Maybe not the other ones). From the Rum Runner to global fame to a surprisingly long after-career, I present....the DURAN DURAN CANON! You get TEN ticks.

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Comments

[umlauts.livejournal.com]

You know, if you ignore the singles and a few really embarrassing album tracks, that last DD album was actually not that bad. "Wnat You More" and "Nice", if singles, would have been ticked by me.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I'm always a bit envious reading, say, the Popular comments box when people talk about their OMGWTF pop moments when small - seeing particular things on TV. I never really had many, I seemed to take it all annoyingly in my stride. BUT the white-shirted "Planet Earth" video clip (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-recskrzunI) was one of them - I thought Duran Duran were unbelievably cool and, yes, futuristic. I still love those choppy rotating syndrum sounds. I was then a bit disappointed when not every song they did was about space but what can you do - they were still huge favourites.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

(Thanks Tom!)

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

There's not actually a great deal to say about Duran Duran, is there?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

What is this White Lines cover all about?

View to a Kill

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

is my third favourite bond theme (after the spy who loved me & live and let die - actually, have we had a Bond canon yet?).

And the video, inserting the band into the film's eiffel tower scene, is hilarious.

WILD BOAR!

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

also freakytigger never replaced my copy of GREATEST..

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

1. "Come Undone" is the best video
2. "Come Undone" is their best song. It's getting screwed here.
3. The double comeback of "Ordinary World"/"Come Undone" (just as good as their peak!), then "Electric Barbarella" is two of the best and most unlikely comebacks ever.
4. It was hard to pare this down to 10 ticks.
5. Their top 5-ish singles will stack up with the top 5-ish singles of almost any other pop band.

[tinskeep.livejournal.com]

"Underwater yacht antics" = Simon in a speedo = made my 13-year-old heart (and pants) swoon.

Fact: Liberty is by furlongs their most underrated album. FACT.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Best vid = the OTHER filthy one, for 'The Chauffeur' (also possibly their best song).