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Downtown

This week, we are finishing up the Liberty album with “Downtown”. The song is described as an uptempo rock song. The tune was written by Duran Duran, and also produced by the band, alongside Chris Kimsey. A demo version of “Downtown” is available on the unofficial album titled, “Didn’t Anybody Tell You?” Let’s take a… Continue reading Downtown

Venice Drowning

This week, we’re on to track 10 off of the Liberty album – Venice Drowning. A little trivia we found online about this song – it’s apparently only been played live once! Prior to the album’s release, it was played in 1989 at the Scandeborg Festival in Denmark. If you are reading this and saying,… Continue reading Venice Drowning

Can You Deal With It

This week, let’s listen to Can You Deal With It – another track off of Liberty, also produced by (you guessed it), Chris Kimsey and the band. One interesting bit of trivia about this song is that on the unofficial Liberty Sessions album, there’s a demo version of this song with John Taylor on vocals,… Continue reading Can You Deal With It

Read My Lips

This week, we are going to jump right into “Read My Lips”, another song produced by Chris Kimsey and the band, and of course written by Duran Duran as well. Let’s get to it! Lyrics Read “Read My Lips” by Duran Duran on Genius YouTube Audio Rhonda I have to break this brief review down into… Continue reading Read My Lips

First Impression

The band wrote and produced this track with Chris Kimsey, and it was recorded at Olympic Studios in late 1989. One of the most interesting factoids about the song is that a guitar riff derived from this song eventually became “Come Undone”. Lyrics Read “First Impression” by Duran Duran on Genius Audio Rhonda The track starts… Continue reading First Impression

My Antarctica

As a result of a jamming session in a barn in Sussex, “My Antarctica” was released in 1990 on the Liberty album. Simon is quoted as having said that the band was “rather self-conscious” at the time, given the way things had been going for the band from 1986-onward. Let’s get into it! Audio Lyrics… Continue reading My Antarctica

All Along the Water

So, something interesting happened when Daily Duranie took a look at our upcoming review schedule. We realized that along the way (as opposed to the water…which is something very different, indeed), we forgot to finish reviewing about half of the Liberty album. We suspect it was because once this site had been redone, we weren’t… Continue reading All Along the Water

I Wanna Take You Higher Again

Last but not least, we are finishing up our review of the Thank You album by listening to “I Wanna Take You Higher Again”. This is simply an additional version of the earlier reviewed “I Wanna Take You Higher”, originally written and performed by Sly and the Family Stone and included as a B-side on… Continue reading I Wanna Take You Higher Again

In Review: Drive By

“Drive By” is the only song written by Duran Duran that is included on Thank You, released in 1995. Essentially, “Drive By” is an alternate version of “The Chauffeur”. The music is virtually the same, although in this song, there is spoken word by Simon Le Bon. Other sources describe the song as an introduction… Continue reading In Review: Drive By

In Review: Thank You

For this commercially pushed week of romance, we turn our attention to “Thank You”, the song originally released by Led Zeppelin in 1969. Written by Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, the song was written for Maureen, Robert Plant’s wife (at the time). Duran Duran’s version of “Thank You” was one of the first to be… Continue reading In Review: Thank You