As a bonus, it gives you the option to purchase the song if it really strikes your fancy. Shazam can track down the song you’re looking for in seconds, giving you the answer to your question faster than some of the other find-that-song apps out there. It even has a televised namesake gameshow in America, called “Beat Shazam”! And this app is technologically crafted to do its job and do it well. It was FANTASTIC!!! Serioulsy, every 12 year old girl’s dream.Shazam might be the most well-known of all song-identifier apps – and there are a LOT of them out there. I remember being at the Hollywood Sportatorium (remember that place?) and screaming to the point of complete laryngitis for about 2 days after. The SOTD is a classic and I think if you were breathing in the 80s you knew/know this song.ĭuran Duran’s “Seven and the Ragged Tiger” tour was my second concert (it would have been the first, but we saw Big Country the week before at the FAU Auditorium) and the tickets were a gift from my sister for my confirmation. “Rio,” of course, produced a bunch of hits as well as some lesser known but great songs. Their eponymous debut album was very good and I think “Anyone Out There” is my favorite from that album. I don’t know why my interest waned, but their early 80s stuff is still among my favorite music. I did enjoy the album “Seven and the Ragged Tiger” (which immediately followed “Rio”), but I especially didn’t care for “Notorious.” In fact, the song “Wild Boys” which was on the next album, “Arena” was probably the last Duran Duran song I really liked and I don’t know a thing about their stuff that came out in the late 80s or beyond. I actually agree with Dana that their later albums were not as good and I, too, lost interest in them at some point. Now, I know that this will shock you, but there is no smackdown on the way. Yes, that was a sigh you heard from the general direction of Denver, but not one of relief, rather one of great appreciation. And I, for one, am glad they are because it means that, by Clay’s definition, this band never really made it out of the 80’s. As Le Bon became more pretentious with the band’s popularity, much like Bono and U2, I just had no use for them in my music listening world.īut should they be on this list? Absolutely. I think perhaps that Le Bon’s voice may have been the first to start my general dislike of that Euro sound and Euro voices. I also didn’t like The Reflex, View to a Kill, or Notorious. ![]() Girls on Film and Is There Something I Should Know annoyed me. Now, I did really like Rio (great bass line–slappin’ the bass □ ) and thought Save a Prayer was okay, but I never cared much for this SOTD and I didn’t really like much else that they put out on or after this album. So, here’s my confession, at the risk of causing outrage in the Rockies-I never really liked Duran Duran. Somewhere in Denver, a sigh of relief may be heard….Rest easy, Kerrie, Duran Duran makes the list! All is well with the 80’s world (except for poor Huey Lewis, who remains stunned and confused by his omission). I’m lost and I’m foundīurning the ground I break from the crowd You feel my heat I’m just a moment behind High blood Drumming on your skin it’s so tight Maybe it’s not such a mystery why I never got into Duran Duran.Īnd catch my breathing even closer behind Amy, believing this sound to be a cry for help by my mother on the other side of the house, leaps from the chair and lands on Lego Main Street. At the end of the song (the 3:32 mark, to be exact), a woman howls. The 45 of ‘Hungry Like the Wolf’ is playing on my turntable. I am sitting on the floor, working on a Lego Main Street set. Amy is standing on a chair hanging something on the wall. Speaking of my sister, ‘Hungry Like the Wolf’ is perhaps the one song on this list for which I have a crystal clear specific listening memory. It is another example of my ‘three great songs make a great album’ rule, with the songs in question being the title track, today’s SOTD and the elegant ballad ‘Save a Prayer.’ I’m working up quite a little wish list through this exercise, and Rio is high on it. Rio, in particular, is an album I feel I should own, lo these 27 years later. ![]() I suppose I can blame that on my sister, Amy, through whom I was exposed to most music back then (funny how it works the other way now). I find myself really enjoying their songs now when I happen upon them and I wonder how it is they slipped past my radar back in the early to mid-80s. Duran Duran is one of the most successful and best-loved bands on this list, and one of the artists I wish I’d been more into at the time.
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