Duran Duran – Greatest [2LP Gatefold Vinyl]

Duran Duran – Greatest [2LP Gatefold Vinyl]

Details

• Format: 2LP Gatefold Vinyl, Compilation
• Catalogue Number: 5021732830470
• Barcode: 5021732830470
• Genre: New Wave / Synth-Pop / Pop Rock
• Label: Parlophone
• Released: 2023
• Pressing: Standard Black Vinyl
• Condition: New & Sealed

Description

Duran Duran were one of the defining groups of the early 1980s — Birmingham's most glamorous export, architects of a sound that synthesised New Wave electronic production with the muscle of funk bass-playing and the visual ambition of fashion photography and MTV-era image-making. Their run of hits between 1981 and 1986 represents one of the most consistently brilliant bodies of pop music in British chart history, and Greatest presents that body of work across two sides of gatefold vinyl in a pressing designed for the listening room rather than the dancefloor.

"Hungry Like the Wolf", "Rio", "Girls on Film", "A View to a Kill", "The Reflex" — these are songs whose production still sounds remarkable forty years on, their combination of synthetic texture and physical groove proving more durable than almost anything produced in the same era. Nick Rhodes's synthesizer work, John Taylor's bass, and Simon Le Bon's idiosyncratic, theatrical vocal delivery remain immediately recognisable and completely undated. This 2LP gatefold compilation is the definitive vinyl survey of one of British pop's most significant acts.

Tracklist

Side A

1. Is There Something I Should Know?
2. Hungry Like the Wolf
3. Union of the Snake
4. New Moon on Monday
5. The Reflex

Side B

1. Wild Boys
2. A View to a Kill
3. Notorious
4. I Don't Want Your Love
5. All She Wants Is

Side C

1. Ordinary World
2. Come Undone
3. Too Much Information
4. Perfume
5. Out of My Mind

Side D

1. Sunrise
2. What Happens Tomorrow
3. Girl Panic!
4. Pressure Off
5. Rio [Single Edit]

Credits

• Simon Le Bon – Vocals
• Nick Rhodes – Keyboards
• John Taylor – Bass
• Roger Taylor – Drums
• Andy Taylor – Guitar
• Various Producers