Rio

Inoffensive.

nothing special

Meh. Definitely some classics, and I probably wouldn't change the radio station if one of these played, but I would also never seek them out.

I like it better than I did in 1982, but that is damning it with faint praise

Hungry like the wolf slaps but it’s the only thing this album has going for it 2.2/5

I typically love cheesy 80s music but this wasn’t doing it for me.

Artig gjenhør med selve personifiseringen av 80-talls synth-pop. Godt håndtverk musikalsk og artistisk, en jeg var aldri en stor DD-fan, og er det fremdeles ikke. Litt anmassende og ensformig.

L'he començat amb ganes però m'ha acabat cansant. Tot i que és una colecció de cançons pop ben fetes, la producció em satura una mica. Prefereixo mil vegades "The wedding album".

Звучит очень попсово, в нормальном смысле этого слова. Особо ничем не цепляет, хотя звук приятный. От трека к треку переходов как будто нет, все монотонное, выверенное, одинаковое.

Just sounded like big song and whilst I enjoy the full on 80s vibe, his voice started to grate on me after a few songs. Rio and Hold Back the Rain earn a star each

This is definitely not my preferred genre of 80s music and I wasn't a big fan of this album. The singles are decent and one additional track but I would never find myself coming back to this album. I don't like the production and the lyrics are cheesy/melodramatic to me but there are a few catchy tracks. Standout Tracks: Rio, Hungry Like the Wolf, Hold Back the Rain.

My younger brother had this - I was at heart in 1982 a Bunnymen Teardrops New Order camouflage jacket wearing new waver. He, 2 years younger, had the pastel suit, blonde flick and white shirt of the New Romantic. We still have some excellent photos of him around that time. Anyway, the 3 singles were inescapable. The rest of the album is efficient. Now I'm in birmingham and you can buy an art print of the Rum Runner. All mental floss which ends up saying that they peaked with Planet Earth and declined steeply from there. he did go to Milton keynes to see Lets Dance era Bowie, so he got something good out of the whole thing.

80s meh

Not that good besides the hits

Pretty challenging listen, for me. I knew going into this project that I hate the sound of 80's new wave & synth pop, and this is like the archetypical example thereof. It's got nothing to do with song composition, catchiness, whatever... It's just, this specific color of music, this era's timbre. It's nails on a chalkboard to me. The (relative to today) low-fi digital sound to... Well, everything. Drums, bass, guitar, even the vocals, and of course AAAALLLL that gross synth. The way it all sounds like it was run through an old, bad computer just really turns me off. Which is a super shame because these are sharply composed, fun, catchy, upbeat danceable tracks! There's a real energizing sense of experimentation going on here and it's never boring. I wish I could make these statements and ultimately give it a higher score, but I cannot. For all its catchiness, and its anthemic climactic feeling, the ending of Hold Back the rain, for instance, just makes me want to clutch my head and hide under my desk to wait out the assault of sounds I cannot help but find ugly. Last Chance on the Stairway and The Chauffeur break through that barrier for me though. The revulsion is still there but they are good enough aside from that that I still ended up with, at least as many positive feelings as negative. This album is a well crafted meal made by and for a culture to which I am -starkly- not a part. I can recognize how well it is made, and politely decline from a second helping.

Fun at first and then got very boring

interessante, ma noioso dopo un pochetto

catchy singles but much cringe

It's radio funk/electro pop. It's fine, but not something I would seek out.

meh...

Outside of 3 songs I thought it sounded like a dates idea of the future.

Duran Duran is a 80's band but in this album there isn't the his best songs.

Not my thing.

Never liked the new romantics, as a young lefty I thought it was mostly escapist, vacuous, synthetic nonsense. 40 years later and while my toe is tapping to Rio and Hungry like the wolf, I can't say I have warmed much to Duran Duran. Not for me

Not totally bad but damn those 80’s sounds

The music is just okay, it doesn't do anything to excite me or want to listen to it again. Hungry like the wolf is the best song on the album.

Good fun, feels a little too nostalgic to listen comfortably

cheesy but in the not fun way

I know Duran Duran only by reputation and I was expecting much more from this album. In the end, it's just a boring new wave.

Meh. 5/10

Embarrassed Embarrassed. When I have had the original vinyl of an album that has been sent by the App, I have stated this with a sense of pride. I knew it was just a matter of time until I would prefer that nobody knew.

I only knew the 2 hits, which I wasn't too crazy about, something about the yachts and the hairdos in the videos maybe. The rest is pretty bland and commercial 80s synth-pop. They owe a lot to MTV.

Rio and Hungry Like The Wolf are both good. Everything else sort of ran together. This was fine.

Not a big fan of new wave.

I liked it

Huge pop album back in the day. The detritus of the disco era. Not my favorite, but ok. I liked the bass on “New Religion”. 2.5 and rounding down.

I knew this one mostly by the cover, so was happy to hear several songs I already knew. That said, they've already largely faded from my mind. Lots of love for the genre, but this album feels like but a necessary step in its history.

Njaaaaaaaäa

Oh Dear, What can I say, My wife of 36 years was a Spandau fan so the Duranies never got a look in in my house! Big Simon and the boys were obviously good at their jobs and the image worked for them in the '80's but in terms of longevity and musical prowess I would always stick with Tony Hadley, The Brothers Kemp et al. Not one in my collection but I suppose that "Rio" & " Hungry Like the Wolf" have some credit. don't think this is one for my top 1000!

I liked New Religion and The Chauffeur. Apart from that, it was nice listening to an album from the New Romantics wave ^^

Obviously the hits are part of popular culture so they stood out. Otherwise quite samey.

dated **** that is no fun anymore, except for an old Bond movie

Generic dance music, repetetive

Качественный поп 80x с заметным влиянием синти-попа, с интересными звуковыми эффектами. Ребята на стиле, снимали крутые клипы для того времени. Больше всего из треков зашел Lonely In Your Nightmare, но в целом музыкально не моё.

80s pop trash. 2 songs i vibed with, though.

Ouff, ca a ne sonrte prope. Beaucoup de drum machine? Pas certain. La deuxième partie de l’album était plus pénible à écouter car un peu repeTitif. 2.75

Not my cup of tea. Too much disco disco.

Конечно мне нравится дух такой музыки, но альбом не понравился, не интересный депешмод какойто

Aside from a few tracks with a groove (Hold Back the Rain), there’s an artifice to the sound of Duran Duran, principally conveyed through the nasty synths and drum sounds

Recognised few of the tracks, seems to have their big ones on. Rio, Hungry Like The Wolf, Save A Prayer. Not really my bag though, I like the songs to the extent that they're classics but I never have been a massive fan other than that. As an album it wasn't anything special. 2/5

Ist mir etwas zu einseitig, muss ich zugeben. Hedonistisch, pumpend, aber irgendwie nicht raffiniert genug. Zu kokainig, ich glaube das könnte ein treffender Ausdruck sein. 2,5

I feel like I should have something to say about this album, but I don't.

Well, I'm not sure quite where to fall on this one. "Rio" is awful. I thought "Hungry Like a Wolf" was better for the first half, but by the end was quite sick of it. There are a few decent tracks though, mostly the ones that put more focus on the guitar and bass. (I'm beginning to think I'm really not a big fan of 80s music!)

I can’t unhear the saxophone now...

Allergic to Duran duran

It was alright

Flimsy, fun but forgettable pop-rock. The new wave sound is here, but basically stripped of most of the coiled energy I find enjoyable in new wave music. "Hungry Like the Wolf" is pretty good, but the title track offsets it by being so annoying. 2.5

Hungry like the wolf? I can’t really hang. Incredible production no doubt.

First word to describe this album, it’s ecstatic. It’s like a new wave wall of synthesized sound. With the first track your thrust into the frenetic tempos and layers of sound. The singing and chorus work to bring it back to earth. Like Dusty Springfield abd the Smith’s before it though, this album feels like a package of good songs surrounding that banger hit in the middle, Hungry Like the Wolves, which shows more balance, a better hook and chorus and harmonies holding it together. I liked this album but felt that it was missing what I love about new wave, the post punk and pre rock minimalism and exploration of ennui. Track 3 starts with the post punk I’m looking for then builds to return to the ecstatic synth wall. I found the digital drums effects and dominating bass annoying, showing the albums age. There is really only two songs not super up tempo. Last song is dope, it goes where I want this album to go and scratches my new wave/post punk itch. Shows where new wave can go. Shows what elements were retained andwhich were cast aside. The annoying and thrumming pervasive baseline is nowhere to be found. I prefer the minimalism here to the maximalism that takes center stage on the rest of the album. It’s proto modern electric indy and I wish there was more. Though I will say, I had a great time listening through it and wished I had leg warmers, hair spray and a brightly colored Walkman to accompany it. PS, big fan of the album art.

Didn't have a chance to write up a full review. Enjoyed listening to this, great energy, might return at some pint.

Meh.

Favorite track:Hungry Like the Wolf, favorite musician: Drummer. I felt at times they could have gone higher or lower to gain more depth. But lots of Duran Duran follows after this album, so who am I to critique an oldie but goodie.

Too much noise

Muy experimental

No le pude poner mucha atención 2.5

Most of these songs sound the same. Hungy Like the Wolf is still good though

Oh the sounds of the 80s.

Really not a fan. This is my least favorite album so far.

pues están buenos los singles no? pensé que iba a estar un poco mejor por que conozco gente de 45-48 que le gusta muy cabrón y sigue siendo su banda preferida. Le doy el 2 cerrado solo por que Elin estuvo bailando y haciendo los instrumentos del sinte.

Qué aburrido es el New Wave ochentero. Mucha exageración en su instrumentación y efectos, letras aburridas, etc. Este no es la excepción, de hecho es quizá el epítome. Me llama también la atención lo feo de la portada y cómo esa estética se hizo lo más común.

I mean it’s 80s synth pop

I confess that if I hear a Duran Duran song in a well constructed 80's nostalgia movie scene, than I'm all up for it. I could not enjoy it this way.

Fav Song: Hungry Like a Wolf

Very 80s I'll hear the hits everyonce and a while.

Nah. Best track: The Chauffeur

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear, the singles were unlistenable at the time and have if anything somehow become more inexorably excruciating today. The album though was new to me and although dreadful, not uniformly so, ‘The Chauffeur’ being odd enough to be interesting for example. One star, but a higher one star than I expected on pressing play. Tom.

Not their best effort.

Die einzig interessante Melodie tatsächlich für die Single verwendet, auch wenn das DuDuDuDuDuddudududuuuuuuu massiv nervt. Ich bin auch "Hungry like the wolf" auf irgendwas spannendes, das hier passiert. Die 80er sind im Bereich Pop einfach ein schlechtes Albenjahrzehnt q.e.d.

Bäh... Popmusic 0 stars from me

Man this is so not my vibe. I had to DNF this one

i guess you had to be there...

I admire the ambition but it doesn't quite land for me. You can hear that they are trying to do something quite epic. There are some bold choices in instrumentation and playing. There are also some elements that feel like they pander to mainstream appeal - the vocals often feel very cool and fashionable and sort of self conscious. I think it's those self conscious popular elements that really stop me from enjoying that dense soundscape and flare playing.

This is where the gains of Punk, New Wave and Post Punk are swept away and Corporate MTV Rock rushes in. This is where the vacuous, pretentious 80's begin. Music is OK but on later albums Duran are practically prog as they reach for Stadium Rock's cash cow. The singing and the lyrics though are dreadful. Horrible Thatcherite conspicuous consumption badly hidden behind 6th Form Poetry.

FIlimsy vacuum pack shopping mall pop sometimes with good melodies. Vocals are uninteresting, lyrics are unengaging and borderline meaningless. Completely lacking in humour, without Roxy musics melancholy elegance or Japan`s strangeness.

At first I liked the first song, but then the more I listened to album, the more I realised how annoying the sound was for me and how much I wanted to turn it off.

Not my style

Well, I made it through. It was okay, but not my thing. Don't need to listen to any more of this.

I’m sure living in the 80s was fun, but man this music does not stand the test of time.

Everything I hate about new wave in a 42-minute album. The good news is, it's only the 7th new wave album I've pulled in the last seven days, and only the 29th new wave album I've pulled in the last month. 1/5

I did not like it. I'm not even sure how anyone took most of the tracks seriously. The vocals suck overall. The last song, The Chauffeur, was the best song. Hungry like a Wolf was an okay hit but these days it's just been played one too many.

Trash.

I like a couple of songs on this one and maybe one more of theirs from an earlier LP, the song Girls on Film. I never really understood the appeal from a musical stand point. Culturally they did have a pretty big impact on the ‘80s as did Culture Club so I guess I can see why you might want to listen to this one, to get a feel of what was going on in the 1980s. But this is an underwhelming LP overall.

Hate it

"Nog 1 versie dan"

Oh dear

God this album is annoying. It's not that I don't like the sound of the album, it's a kind if poppy new wave I can normally get behind, but these songs are not good enough to be interesting. The lyrics aren't interesting enough to be looked into, and the hooks just keep going on and on. Whenever I started to like a song, like the title track, the song went on for so on that eventually I started to get annoyed by the repetition of the hook and began to dislike the song. Seriously, if this album was shorter in almost every aspect I would maybe like it, but because of it's length the album just annoyed me. That's how I would describe this album by and large: annoying. The only song worth listening to again on repeat is Hungry Like the Wolf, and even that I can only listen to so much. Maybe Hold Back the Rain if I'm in a particular mood. But otherwise, just grating snd eye-rolling. We don't like in the MTV music video era anymore, and that's painfully obvious listening to this album.

No pase del primer tema

Una cosa ochentera sin interés hoy.

Rio is a kind of a banger but this was a beating

I happened to play this on regular youtube while sitting at my desk. There were multiple 3+ minute ads that I let play all the way through because I found the background music more pleasant than the actual album. Not ideal. (I did go ahead and skip the ad about the "terrifying biblical prophecy", it didn't have music). Everything here sounds so damn cheesy. It makes me scrunch my face up. we're really starting to get to the bottom of what kind of 80's music I can't stand. Soft-Cell, Sade, Duran Duran, all in the past couple days. Looking through the list I see a bunch of great 80's albums, bad luck so far. I kind of thought this would sneak out a begrudging 2 stars because "Rio" is a bit catchy even if I don't love it, but I hated the rest of the album. 1 star and not looking back.

Didnt really grab me. New religion was a good song though

Wanted to enjoy this. Did not enjoy it. “New Religion” was a highlight. I have a headache.

I wasn't my thing

not for me

Klebrige 80er Dekadenz. Ist durch die Zeit noch ranziger geworden.

No émotion, no interest

1982, and the yuppification of English popular culture is in full swing. Enter the opening bars of 'Rio' and the Roland Jupiter 4 sounds just like what the flickering boards at the London Stock Exchange look like. Buy low, sell high! Simon Le Bon is as braggadocious as they come, as he croons over the shimmer and gleam of the latest production techniques. Cocksure and unsentimental, this is an album to get rich quick to, no matter the cost. Tracks about predatory sexual conquests ('Hungry Like a Wolf'), which unashamedly objectify their targets ('Rio'), and celebrate transactional one-night-stands ('Save a Prayer') are the biggest pop hits. Doesn't their hair look great in the videos! 'Rio' is selling an old boys club elitism to the masses which were suffering in its wake. No wonder Duran Duran became the poster boys of Thatcher's Britain.

Not my cup of tea. Every song sounded similar to me. I couldn’t connect to it in any way.

They were the Take That of my school life, their name scribbled on most of the girl’s school bags in my year, they loved Le Bon and the boys - I couldn’t stand them, and that remains the same today.

Not my thing

Ill admit i have a lot of assumptions about this music and the people who listen to it, but I'll give it a chance. After listen: boring and safe, not into it.

No, just no. Culture Club yesterday and Duran Duran today. How is this in the top 1001 albums? Lightweight 80s pop. There are better New Romantic/synth albums out there.

almost all songs were mid, nothing stood out to me or caught my attention.

Not my cup of tea at all.

1980’s yacht rock two singles and a lot of filler!

This encapsulates a lot of what I don't like about 80s pop. It would be nice if the music gave some kind of feel, but this doesn't offer anything at all. Empty, cheap pop

Last week, I accidentally ended up listening to some Duran Duran, and I thought it was actually pretty decent. But to be honest, this album doesn’t really rock.

Fuck these guys.

Not for me. Not aged well. I tried to like a few songs at moments but no.

I really tried. I thought I'd come to it with fresh ears and none of the baggage with which I first dismissed it, but alas.... I think my major problem is that they are obviously quite accomplished musicians but they just don't groove. Take the bass playing on Rio - it's sort of flashy, but it's also shit! I find his voice over processed and whiney, some of the lyrics are sort of funny, but overall the songwriting is so pedestrian. 'Save a prayer' is a particular bugbear. A horrible dirge. Add to the mix some of the most horrible sax playing from an era of horrible sax playing and you end up with something iconic only for being an emblem of shallowness of its era! If you want good 80's pop that really has survived the test of time listen to Human League.....

Dreadful. Everything wrong with the 80s

Bad

Poor, old pop rock All songs are the same

i can't stand new wave, i'm sorry.

pretty boring

80er Vibe ist nice aber ansonsten empfand ich es eher als Background Musik

не мое

One dimensional

Truly detestable. Annoying synth patterns permeate at least half the songs here, ruining them. The vocalist is obnoxious on every song, the guitars sound thin, and the choruses tend to be more irritating than catchy. The second half is at least a step up from the first half, with the most tolerable songs being New Religion and Save a Prayer, but they're not enough to save this from a one star. I found this so bad that I may go back and bump Dexys Midnight Runners up a star because in comparison that was incredible

80s new wave pop shite. Sorry.

Mostly different versions of eponymous song that I particularly dislike

Nope!

Did not like

If I can’t remember it ehhh

GOAT cover, drab synthy 80s BS, not listening to this or any of the songs on this again.

Why Why Why?

Aaaaaaagh! Make it stop!

Buah, those eighties! And there are eighties and eighties...

You've heard of backpack rap? I present to you fannypack pop!

Before this album I'd say youd never find me listening to Duran Duran. And Same now. I did an intro scan. its all I could manage.

Never liked ‘em. One star. (Which should be added to my Sinead O’Connor score, because I pressed 4 stars for her & only got 3). Thereby giving this a zero.

Ni de lejos es el mejor disco de 1982: Thriller, 1999, Avalon, Pornogaphy, Nebraska, los debuts de Felt, Coucteau Twins, Laurie Anderson o Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. Otros como New gold dream, Glassworks, The days of wine and roses, Too Rye Ay... Hasta The lexicon of love de ABC es más representativo y elegante. 6 sencillos y 6 éxitos, como su disco, todo un clásico de principios de los 80, sobre todo por el empuje de la MTV: "My Own Way" "Hungry Like the Wolf" "The Chauffeur" "New Religion" "Save a Prayer" "Rio" Sin embargo en mi opinión son mejores el siguiente y sobre todo Notorius. Este ha quedado tan desfasado como su estilo de entonces. Han publicado discos y videoclips mucho mejores (Skin trade, A view to a Kill, Wild Boys...)

80’s. Too 80’s for me.

Ez du putzik balio

Definitely early 80s

Pop ochentero sin ningun interés para mi. No es mi estilo y no soy capaz de pillarle el rollo. Incapaz de escuchar 3 canciones. Prejuicios, o no?

Not good.

The intersection of cocaine and flash in the pan recording technology.

didn’t like

Just terrible terrible tosh

Ass

I just can't.

dogshit 80s music. "Oh wow synths were just invented let's fucking forget musical composition and make bullshit fucking trash and call it music because we put a simpleton's interpretation of an electronic beat on it." Actual trash I can't believe these hack frauds became famous for this horseshit. Also it sounds like the singer wants to rape people and I hope he gets what he wished on others.

FUCK YOU DURAN DURAN!!

I ALREADY RATED THIS YOU IDIOTS

Not for me

I never want to hear the hits again they’ve been so overplayed, and nothing else caught my ear.

Too much bad 80's for me

1/5. I mean, this is doesn’t feel new age or disco, just a bad mix of both. Even the single is hard to swallow. Just feels empty.

cringed

no. not at all.

No

It’s not you it’s me

absolutely not

Hated Duran Duran in the 1980s. Hate Duran Duran now.

Totalt ointressant för mina öron

Garbage

Не понравился вообще

What a load of shit

Couldn't lower myself to listen the crap that this band haemorrhaged.

Not great. Rio has this weird mixture of sultry somewhat aggressively creepy verses followed by the up-beat chorus, made me feel just... uncomfortable. After that, Hungry Like a Wolf is good but nothing else stood out. Most songs sounded extremely similar bar the last 2-3

1.5 | No todo el pop de los 80s era así de malo, en esta lista ya hemos tenido a Pet Shop Boys que sin ser maravillosos eran mejor que esto; sin contar que más en el estilo que usa DD están bandas con música mucho mucho mejor como Japan o Roxy Music. Quizá se oye exagerado el primer enunciado, si hay un par de cosas rescatables, los dos sencillos que sonaron tanto y siguen sonando como clásicos ahora en la radio son buenos, canciones pegajosas, con música bien hecha y cumplen muy bien su función. El problema es que son las dos canciones rescatables de todo el disco. El resto de las canciones son totalmente indistintas (al grado que no se da uno cuenta si cambió la canción o incluso si ya acabó el disco) e iguales a cientos y cientos de canciones de bandas de la época. Musicalmente no es malo pero simplemente se siente como la versión para las masas de otras bandas que hacían música mucho más interesante con sintetizadores. Lástima de verdad que no escribieran buenas canciones. La razón # 1 para escuchar este álbum fuera de que a alguien le gusten los sencillos sería el sonido del bajo, y no hay razón 2... eso sería todo. Incluso "Rio", hoy ya como un clásico del pop, contiene la frase realmente idiota "it means so much to me, like a birthday or a pretty view". Es un disco que rara vez se eleva por encima del promedio, a pesar del atisbo instrumental desaprovechado que se muestran. 0.5 Extra por el potencial musical y dos canciones decentes.

Nah. Don't like it. 80s soft rock sucks.

Nooo

Overproduced synthpop with no discernable difference among tracks. Rubbish

Rubbish.

not behd