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...years after "Planet Earth" the boys are still at it. But this is not the Duran Duran we all grew up with--somewhere along the line we lost the three Taylors and picked up someone by the name of Warren Cuccurullo, who is apparently American. But in truth, LeBon and Rhodes were always the heart and soul of Duran Duran, bar none. After the feeble successes of their past two albums, one of which was all covers, featuring a rendition of Grandmaster Flash's "White Lines," and the other, their second self-titled record, which included the semi-hits "Come...
...first track, which is the title track, sounds like Art of Noise meets the laughter from Josh Wink's house record "Don't Laugh," meets, well, Duran Duran. It is a slow and "trippy" number, with LeBon's muted voice welcoming the listener to Medazzaland, whatever Medazzaland is. This is not the Duran Duran of our youth; it is, instead, a slowed down electronic journey to an indeterminate place. Although it doesn't get us gyrating in the aisles, it'll keep you listening, if only to question, what caper the boys have gotten themselves involved...
...until the thrid track, the single, "Electric Barbarella" that the one and only LeBon and Rhodes transcend the genre of electronica and revist their roots. "Electric Barbarella," on the Duran Duran scale, is a mixture of "View to a Kill" and "Girls on Film." In this song, the band pays hommage to their eponoymus roots--the '60s cult classic Barbarella which featured a seminude Jane Fonda (Barbarella) trapsing across galaxies in her fur-lined spaceship, trying to save the universe from the clutches of mad scientist Duran Duran. "Electric Barbarella" is the only song on the album in which...
...Lebon or Cinzano...
Hospitality Repaid. In Poland, the Daladier-Soustelle-Lebon party got a warm reception. For them, the Polish press had none but friendly words. Last week a Soviet-made twin-engine Ilyushin-12 set them down again at Paris' Le Bourget field. They were loaded with dirndled dolls, folklore records, candy and brief cases bulging with notes...