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Strange Behaviour (Remixes)

Duran Duran

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Album Review

The 12" has come a long way from its early incarnation as single version with bits tacked on beginning, middle, and end. This two-disc set spans Duran's club output from Planet Earth, right up to 1993's mega selling Wedding Album with some key omissions, no "Ordinary World" for example. Disc one concentrates on their career from Brummie new romantics who were at best watercolor Japan. They did however stamp their own brand of hip with Malcolm Garrett sleeves and by calling the normally commonplace extended version "Night version," playing right into those romantics also inclined for a bit of dancing. Tracks from Rio, Ragged Tiger, and even the shock horror of Wild Boys are included. Due to the ripple of time and the fact that Duran Duran were always fashionable in the mainstream market, most songs have by now dated, although some sound better than the 1986 trend for stutter vocal treatment on "American Science" and on '88s "I Don't Want Your Love." "Skin Trade" and "Notorious" are pretty faithful to the originals. The set goes a bit AWOL toward the end with five tracks from Wedding; all are awful, except a semi-decent "Drowning Man." Best of the pack are "Violence of Summer," always an underestimated single, with lyrics narrated over pounding beat and repeat motif, complimented by a bridge adding what sounds like a drugged up gospel choir, female whimpering, and samples of the Barbarella flick making it a spellbinding listen; and Mark S Berry's take on "Meet El Presidenté" with manic percussion (the dub would have been a better choice though).

Customer Reviews

Not So Strange Behaviour!

What a great colection of extended versions and remixes. This double album covers most of their singles from 1981 to 1999 when this CD was released. The Full length night mix (the boys name for their early 12" versions) of the seminal Girls On Film, is just as great now as it was back then, only it sounds a lot better than my old vinyl version. Other classics are Rio, Hungry Like The Wolf, Wild Boys and The Reflex. But what's really cool, is to get the extended versions of Union Of The Snake and New Moon On Monday from the underrated album, Seven And The Ragged Tiger. But among the many favourites is the very brilliant and very long Stretch mix of Skin Trade from Notorious, which demonstrates where the experimentation on their side project Arcadia has taken them...a much more polished and mature electronic sound. If you are a big Duran fan, you've probably got most of these...though there are a couple I was missing! But if you think you only know a couple of songs, give it a preview and you'll be suprised at how many you do know. This is now living permanately on my iPod!

Dr Duran

I've died and gone to heaven. This album is a must for all Duran Duran fans.

The memories

Had most of the first 12 of these on 12 inch, but not played in ages. This a god send, and way up on the iPod faves. If your a Duran fan you want these.

Biography

Formed: 1978 in Birmingham, England

Genre: Pop

Years Active: '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s, '10s

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 their 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...
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