I really hate to carry this on for too much longer...But I was
(and suppose still am) a pretty big DD fan, and I can accept this, if I
keep imagining this scenerio in my mind:
Simon and the Taylors drinking too much and listening to Japan,
and saying things like "If David Sylvian was a little more dancefloor and
not so musicly highbrow...This band could control America!"
Thus... A high concept was forged...and it was just a shame I
couldn't discover the innovators before...
"They believed in sex and looking good, with their own brand of
music, they were wondering...Which side of the fence they were on..."
Cameron in AntPaint
On Thu, 23 Mar 1995, Mark Kolmar wrote:
quoted 24 lines On Thu, 23 Mar 1995, Michel Battaglia wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Mar 1995, Michel Battaglia wrote:
>
> > > (1) Duran Duran didn't stand for anything in the eighties. They were a
> > > pop music band. They still are. Their output is fluff. (I happen to like
> > > them, but I like pop-music-fluff sometimes.)
> >
> > I disagree with this - pop fluff, yes, but they were of a group of bands
> > who epitomize eighties excess.
>
> I suppose it depends what you mean by "eighties excess". To me, their
> early work epitomizes the post-Roxy/post-Ultavox "New Romantic" pop
> movement. And the music videos they appeared in were unsurpassed at the
> time, helped define what pop music video is (for better or worse), and
> still stand as excellent examples. What they stood for is pop, art,
> pop-art, art-pop, and fashion. Unfortunately they haven't fulfilled the
> promise that _Rio_ made.
>
> I would not be at all surprised to find out that they were into the
> Sugarhill thing when it first happened. I'll buy the covers album (_Thank
> You_, due in April I believe). Any which way, I'm sure their motivation
> was to give due respect to the various originators. Frankly, they're not
> big enough anymore to be self-important hypocrites, so they must be doing
> it out of the love of the music.
>