All I know is, The Reflex is a lonely child who's waiting in the dark. To this day, I have no idea what the song is about. Why she'd bought that album instead of the way awesomer Let's Dance by David Bowie (cuz he never used guyliner and hair products?) was beyond me.Īnd yet I ended up borrowing her record and making a tape of it, mainly because of "The Reflex." My next door neighbor, one year younger than me, was ecstatic when she told me she'd bought the new record.
(One girl I had a crush on in 8th grade rejected me on the grounds that she had every intention of running away from home, going to England, and having Roger's baby. By the time "The Reflex" hit the radio the following summer, no junior high girl's locker was left un-Duranified. Singles from Seven And The Ragged Tiger starting rolling out in late 1983. I know a lot of the band's other songs are more memorable, but this one will always be my personal favorite. I'm slowly using my USB turntable to digitize my record collection, but it's slow going.) Plus, it has the distinction of being the one and only Duran Duran tune on my iPod, hence the only one I hear on a regular basis these days.
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Which is what brings me back to "A View To A Kill." It's not the best James Bond title song (and the movie certainly doesn't come close to being the best James Bond movie), but it's definitely a catchy tune that evokes one of the best movie series of all time. Listening to Cinemagic on a daily basis has resulted in a steady growth of my soundtrack library. One of the main selling points when I decided to buy XM Radio was the fact that they have a channel that's dedicated to movie soundtracks, Cinemagic, XM 76. I've got well over a hundred movie soundtracks in my collection.
But that's not why I like this song.Įveryone has their favorite genre of music, and mine is an obscure one: movie soundtracks. And I am (got all the albums on vinyl-the only way to go for '80s music). If you're a fan of '80s music, it's pretty likely you're a fan of Duran Duran. It was now okay to be a fan of The Smiths, The Cure, Joy Division and Duran Duran. While I knew the words to nearly everything that had come out until this time, I was still a closeted Duran Duranie.
Yes, because of MTV we were hit with Duran Duran all the time but it was hard to take a band that appeared on Tiger Beat seriously. Maybe that's why it's Duran Duran's highest charting single in Australia?Īnyway, while it was a departure from their new wave dance tracks like "Rio," "Girls On Film," and "The Reflex," it's the song that actually sold me on Duran Duran. The result was a dark, danceable war chant more suited to the ravaged post-apocalyptic world of Mad Max than the clubs of Soho. The song combines a danceable edge - pounding electronic drums and percussive beats - with the hard-rocking guitar riffs of Andy Taylor. Burroughs novel The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead, came to life after Duran Duran video director Russell Mulcahy suggested he wanted to make a film out of the surreal, dystopian novel and wanted Duran Duran to provide the soundtrack, something Queen would later do for The Highlander. "Wild Boys" is the only studio track on the live album (yes, I said was 1984 after all) Arena and was produced by Chic front man and dance music legend Nile Rodgers. We even included a few tracks from Thank You, which was foolishly named the Worst Album Of All Time in a 2006 Q magazine poll: This week, we decided to rank our favorite Duran Duran songs.
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