Duran Duran - Astronaut (With Bonus DVD)
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Artist: Duran DuranEdition: Music CD
Music CD: Region Code 0
Format: Limited Edition
CD Release Date: 2004-10-12
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- (Reach Up For The) Sunrise
- Want You More!
- What Happens Tomorrow
- Astronaut
- Bedroom Toys
- Nice
- Taste The Summer
- Finest Hour
- Chains
- One Of Those Days
- Point Of No Return
- Still Breathing
Music reviews of Astronaut (With Bonus DVD)
Music Review: ...not an eighties band.
Rating: 5 Stars
Let's get one thing out of the way right now: Duran Duran is not an eighties band. Sure, they were an eighties band, much in the same way that REM, U2 and Depeche Mode were eighties bands...in the eighties. Then, the nineties came along and they became, you guessed it, a nineties band. The Brits, minus a couple of original members, chugged along for another decade, releasing an album every couple of years, and while the hits became fewer and further between, there were some highlights. Liberty was an overlooked masterpiece while Ordinary World & Come Undone, Perfect Day & Watching The Detectives and Electric Barbarella & Out Of My Mind helped to make The Wedding Album, Thank You and Medazzaland at least enjoyable. But with the departure of yet a third original member, bassist John Taylor, the band entered the new millenium with an obvious identity crisis that culminated with the poorly-received Warren Cuccurullo-dominated Pop Trash and a subsequent loss of their record deal. Duran Duran, it appeared, was no more.
But then the unthinkable happened: After nearly 20 years, the original fab five, Simon LeBon, Nick Rhodes, John Taylor, Andy Taylor and Roger Taylor, last heard together on 1985's A View To A Kill, decided that maybe they had a little unfinished business to take care of. Fast forward a couple of years and you have Astronaut, the umpteenth comeback album for a band who never seems to release anything but comeback albums. And while it's a little strange to label an album by a band who released an album four years earlier a comeback album, that's exactly what this is, at least for Duran Duran classic anyway. And at the risk of sounding like an 800-year-old Jedi master, a welcome one it is.
Astronaut opens with the bubbly Reflex-esque (Reach Up For The) Sunrise. And while the lyric may seem a little corny at first, it's no more so than U2's Beautiful Day. Want You More is also reminiscent of Seven & The Ragged Tiger-era Duran, but with a modern new wave edge. And the comparisons go on. Finest Hour is an anthem to rival Is There Something I Should Know while Bedroom Toys sounds like a horny Notorious. Nice and Taste The Summer are this album's Rio and Hungry Like The Wolf. The title track could be a sexy sequel to Planet Earth. And Still Breathing, the somber closing track, is a six-minute opus driven by a haunting guitar riff set against a flowing sythesizer landscape ala Save A Prayer. It's literally as if the blokes picked up right where they left off two decades ago.
But the most amazing thing about Astronaut is that it's clear here that the year is 2004. Nothing on the disc sounds outdated or out of touch. This is no doubt (pardon the pun) thanks, at least in part, to the production of Dallas Austin and Good Charlotte producer Don Gilmore. But it also helps that these guys, unlike a lot of "eighties bands" haven't been sitting on their arses for years. Andy's post-Duran resume includes a solo record, several soundtrack tunes, a second Power Station disc and session work & producing chores for artists like Belinda Carlisle and Rod Stewart. John also stepped into the spotlight for a couple of solo projects, as well as playing in the Neurotic Outsiders alongside former Sex Pistol Steve Jones. Even Roger took time off from retirement to keep the beat on a couple of tunes from 1995's Thank You. And LeBon and Rhodes...well, we've covered them already.
The point is these guys may be a little older, but they haven't lost a single step. The confidence that comes from past accomplishments and years of continuously honing their skills is the x-factor on what could be their strongest outing to date. Whether mainstream pop radio and the sons and daughters of the New Romantic generation will embrace the 21st century Duran Duran is another story. But judging from the early reviews raving of the musicianship of these formerly too-cute-for-their-own-good teen idols and their influence on a whole new era of new wave, they may have finally gained the respect that has eluded them for years. And that just may be a bigger success than a number one album or single.
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