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...Duran Duran have been ironic and anachronistic. The band’s been branded as a Live-Aid relic, the forgotten child of the first MTV audience. Those mantles may not be deserved, but they’ve certainly stuck. Since the late 1980s, the band, fronted by Simon LeBon, has had trouble finding renewed success. “Red Carpet Massacre,” their latest, will, sadly, only prolong their quest. It would be pointless to dismantle the music of Nick Rhodes and John Taylor as frivolous, synth-heavy fluff, because depth and musicianship were never what Duran...
Astronaut is the first studio album from Simon LeBon and the other four original members of Duran Duran in 21 years...
...kindle the spirit even if means whistling the 1984 Band-Aid song "Do They Know It's Christmas? (Feed the World)." Put your hands to your ears like you're holding studio-quality headphones. Close your eyes. Now sway. Who are you? You're Simon LeBon! And by your side, Euro powerhouses: Paul Young ("Everytime you go away, you take a piece of me with you. . ."), Bono, George Michael, Boy George. It's not for Ethiopia--it's for your cold, rotten Harvard heart. Do it baby...
...movie The Saint, "Out of My Mind." Like the majority of this album, this track is slower that Duran Duran standbys. In fact, as Medazzaland progresses, we are brought deeper and deeper into an uncomprehensible world. The last three numbers on the album are almost depressing, with LeBon sounding more like a narrator in a post-modern after-school special that a jet-fueled pop star. "So Long Suicide," "Michael You've Got a Lot ot Answer For" and the questionably titled "Undergoing Treatment" seem to delve into a musical "mathmos" so reminescent of the movie whence the Durans sprung...
While electronica is not a genre that readily welcomes the performative shennanigans of LeBon and Rhodes, the boys have managed to somehow graft their message of sound over meaning and aesthetics over understanding into the ambient noise of their technologically advanced synthesizers. Because, as has always been the case with Duran Duran, it's not all about the music, but rather all about the attitude. And, although well advanced in years, for pop stars at any rate, Duran Duran has attitude to spare...