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Lädt ... Duran Duran's Rio (33 1/3, 156) (2021. Auflage)von Annie Zaleski (Autor)
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"In the '80s, the Birmingham, England, band Duran Duran became closely associated with new wave, an idiosyncratic genre that dominated the decade's music and culture. No album represented this rip-it-up-and-start-again movement better than the act's breakthrough 1982 LP, Rio. A cohesive album with a retro-futuristic sound-influences include danceable disco, tangy funk, swaggering glam, and Roxy Music's art-rock-the full-length sold millions and spawned smashes such as "Hungry Like the Wolf" and the title track. However, Rio wasn't a success everywhere at first; in fact, the LP had to be buffed-up with remixes and reissued before it found an audience in America. The album was further buoyed by colorful music videos, which established Duran Duran as leaders of an MTV-driven second British Invasion, and the group's cutting-edge visual aesthetic. Via extensive new interviews with band members and other figures who helped Rio succeed, this book explores how and why Rio became a landmark pop-rock album, and examines how the LP was both a musical inspiration-and a reflection of a musical, cultural, and technology zeitgeist"-- Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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One cool thing about the book is that I heard about R.E.M.'s CHRONIC TOWN for the first time, so I bought it off of Amazon. Looking forward to listening to it.
Anyway, Zaleski is very good writer. Some of her turn of phrases that sing on the printed page:
". . . Roxy Music's rakish art-pop drama, Bowie's glammy decadence, Chic's throbbing grooves, the lacquered glamour of post-punks Japan, the electronic innovations of both Kraftwerk and early Human League . . ."
"Accordingly, the album possesses colourful bookends: the rainbow-hued bacchanalia of 'Rio' beckons listeners into the album, and the enigmatic, dusky-hymn 'The Chauffeur' eases them out."
"With the clinking sound effects, majestic percussion and Voltaire reference, 'Last Chance on the Stairway' puts listeners in the shoes of someone out of their element in a fancy club; 'New Religion' is a pause for inward reflection; the buoyant 'My Own Way' exemplifies a giddy night out full of possibility; 'Hungry Like the Wolf' captures the pulse-pounding feeling of magnetic attraction."
However, later in the book I took offense over the jibe "the moody rockers the Fixx". I'm a fan of that band, and I think their BEAUTIFUL FRICTION is a million times better than anything Duran has issued post-NOTORIOUS.
Nonetheless, props to Zaleski for mentioning that the RIO videos reek of colonialism:
"It's clear that everyone involved in the Duran Duran Sri Lanka shoot approached the filming with good intentions and deep respect. That said, in current times, certain aspects of the trip and the resulting music videos wouldn't necessarily be perceived the way they were back in 1982. Contemporary pop culture especially has a more evolved understanding of colonialism and exoticism. Today, artists who choose to film music videos in faraway relative to Europe and the United States, especially white artists who are an ethnic minority in these countries, are often criticized. Even back then, in fact, the 'Hungry Like the Wolf' clip received both praise and critique: although THE TAMPA TRIBUNE in 1982 described the video as 'lushly produced,' a 1983 AUSTIN-AMERICAN STATESMAN column deemed it 'racist and sexist.'"
This book was a nice stroll down memory lane. Reminded me how much great company Duran's records were as I grew up in the '80s.
DURAN DURAN'S RIO was the first book I read in the 33⅓ series. I wishlisted the one on Jawbreaker's 24-HOUR REVENGE THERAPY. Weird how they don't have one on a Cure album . . . then again, Robert Smith helmed several masterpieces, not just one pivotal album. ( )