Circa 2007
By FuMaku!
…older material, but in a different way. This adds spice to the listening experience. Let’s face it, the same old, same old gets old! These are some of my favorite moments at a concert; when a band plays a song differently, the crowd stands mute and stupefied because they didn’t hear that “version” on the radio, and then they leap into ORGASMIC euphoria as soon as the band plays a “radio hit!” It’s like puppets on a string! In Duran’s case, they kept it edgy until… in 2000 they announced that the original five members were getting back together. Uh oh, nostalgia time! And so it was. But I announce now, with great aplomb, that Duran is back!
This new album (Editor’s note: Red Carpet Massacre) returns Duran to it’s hungry,…
Fragment 2: Song Notes
1) Funks it up a little bit – Anthemic
2) Rocks a bit
3) Funk But not Funk: Industro Funk
4) Radio Hit – Defined as… Lapses into Anthemic Sentimentality
5) Mid-Tempo Acoustic Melancholy
6) Hip Hoppy Bouncy Danses: Reminds me at moments of Liberty (Editor’s note: Duran’s 1990 Album) – certain Lyrical points
7) Upbeat toe tapping hands waving ass shaking dance electro house
8) New Wavish Rock, Punk, Techno – Numanesque Instro
9) Driving and weird, Mildly Ominous – Artsy + Avant – Nice Ending Fade
10) Upbeat and Melancholic – Something DD perfected – Dancing
11) Bowieish – The Return of the Sax Solo – More, More, More!
12) …
