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Remember the comeback they had back in 1993?  Boy was that a surprise.  And sadly shortlived.  Ordinary World (or is it the Wedding Album?) was great.  

"Come Undone" is a great song, and personally I think it outclasses any of their '80s work.
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Short Lived?
At the time everybody considered it a comeback, but is three years between Albums really a comeback? Three Hits two of which were top 10's is pretty good for an album.  

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Yea,I had to get it on a compilation CD because it's a song that is so hard to find, and the album is too.

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Yea,I had to get it on a compilation CD because it's a song that is so hard to find, and the album is too.
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I had to get the same cd...both Come Undone and Ordinary World have a haunting different sound to them that I really like...

too bad I broke the damn thing 3 weeks ago...I am wanting to hear it after reading this thread....guess its time to download it!!

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I thought the Duran Duran '93 music was really good. "Ordinary World" and "Come Undone" are among their best.
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I totally agree :)

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At the time everybody considered it a comeback, but is three years between Albums really a comeback? Three Hits two of which were top 10's is pretty good for an album.  
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Yes, three years between albums is a long time - but unfortunately, that has been pretty much standard since the early '90s... :-(

And yes, it was definitely a "comeback" for them - not because it had been three years since their last album, but because their last two studio albums had both been disappointments!

When the band released Big Thing in the Fall of '88, here in the U.S. it yielded a couple of big hits + one minor one (not bad), but the album failed to crack the top 20, and stopped at gold (their first to do so). So that was a sign that interest in the group was already beginning to wane...

A hits collection in the Fall of '89, Decade, also performed poorly, and only managed to go gold as well...

Thus, by the time their next album, Liberty, came out in the Summer of '90, they were practically forgotten! It was a total stiff, w/ only one minor hit ("Violence of Summer "), and failing to go gold - in fact, it lasted a paltry 10 weeks in the top 200!

So to re-emerge in the Winter of '93 w/ a top 5 hit ("Ordinary World"), which even went gold, was a comeback in itself - but to follow that up w/ another top 10 hit ("Come Undone") was something they hadn't done since their Seven and the Ragged Tiger album in 1984! And of course, their 1993 Duran Duran album also yielded a moderate third hit in "Too Much Information". As a result, the album cracked the top 10 (their first to do so since Arena in '85!), and went platinum (first since Notorious in '87)! "Pretty good for an album"? You bet - and that's why everyone called it a comeback! :-)

However, was the "comeback" short-lived? I'm afraid I have to agree w/ most of the others here, and say yes...

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Remember the comeback they had back in 1993?  Boy was that a surprise.  And sadly shortlived.  Ordinary World (or is it the Wedding Album?) was great.  

"Come Undone" is a great song, and personally I think it outclasses any of their '80s work.
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I liked their 80's hits better, the tempo was faster and happier. Plus, they had some good video's on MTV when MTV used to actually play music videos. Her Name is Reo, Hungry Like the Wolf, and Notorious were some of my favorites.

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However, was the "comeback" short-lived? I'm afraid I have to agree w/ most of the others here, and say yes...
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The stuff Duran Duran has done after 93 might not have received that much attention, but that doesn't mean it's not good. "White Lines" and "Perfect Day", from their 95 album of cover songs "Thank You", are great tracks. Especially "White Lines", which was way ahead of its time in the way it mixed rock and hip hop.

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With the loss of the Original MTV as we knew it, that kind of video reign could never be realized again.
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Do you remember some of the Duran Duran Video's from the 80's? These music videos were like mini movies. I really enjoyed them. In perticular I remember one where the singer is rowwing this little boat, and another one where he is deep in a jungle (aka the indiana jones feel). They had some great videos.

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Do you remember some of the Duran Duran Video's from the 80's? These music videos were like mini movies. I really enjoyed them. In perticular I remember one where the singer is rowwing this little boat, and another one where he is deep in a jungle (aka the indiana jones feel). They had some great videos.
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Yes! I own them.  :D 8)  On regular rotation were (off the top of my head): "Girls On Film", "Rio", "Hungry Like The Wolf", Save A Prayer, Wild Boys, New Moon On Monday, The Reflex, Union Of The Snake.

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Yes! I own them.  :D 8)  On regular rotation were (off the top of my head): "Girls On Film", "Rio", "Hungry Like The Wolf", Save A Prayer, Wild Boys, New Moon On Monday, The Reflex, Union Of The Snake.
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There should be an 80's chanel on cable. They could have a few hours of music videos from the 80's, replay some great tv shows like knight rider or tour of duty, have some game shows like the one where everyone yelled "more money, no goblin, more money, no goblin" (i forget the name of the little troll like moster that took away all the cash. There was a board with squares around the edge and a light flashed from square to square, you go what it landed on unless a monster ate it all away). If there is a Food Network and Lifetime, then there should be an 80's chanel.

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The stuff Duran Duran has done after 93 might not have received that much attention, but that doesn't mean it's not good. "White Lines" and "Perfect Day", from their 95 album of cover songs "Thank You", are great tracks. Especially "White Lines", which was way ahead of its time in the way it mixed rock and hip hop.


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White Lines did get a lot of dance floor play time, and their cover of "Perfect Day" is considered one of the best Lou Reed covers of all time (I have to agree, I think most of Thank You was pretty bad, and Perfect Day was a big highlight for me on that album).. Meddazaland is my favorite post 1993 album.. sounds a lot like like thier 80s material, without sounding too 80s.. it still ends up in my CD player more often than anything post Notorious... 1993's Wedding album was just way too diverse to be listenable as an album.. their last album was a little too soft for me.. not bad, not great..

let's face it, when the band members got married, and did side projects, it blew their momentum.. I love both Notorious and Big Thing, but the teen age girls had moved onto other heart throbs, and because of all the teenage girls following the band, it helped isolate them from other potential fan bases..

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There should be an 80's chanel on cable. They could have a few hours of music videos from the 80's, replay some great tv shows like knight rider or tour of duty, have some game shows like the one where everyone yelled "more money, no goblin, more money, no goblin" (i forget the name of the little troll like moster that took away all the cash. There was a board with squares around the edge and a light flashed from square to square, you go what it landed on unless a monster ate it all away). If there is a Food Network and Lifetime, then there should be an 80's chanel.
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you're thinking of "Press Your Luck" and it was called a Whammy.. The Game Show network (which I don't get  >:() carries a new version of it..

there already is an almost all 80s channel.. it's called VH-1 Classic.. it's got some earlier stuff on there, but for the most part it's as close to an 80s channel as you'll get.. and they play stuff Mtv would never have played in the 80s..

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you're thinking of "Press Your Luck" and it was called a Whammy.. The Game Show network (which I don't get  >:() carries a new version of it..

there already is an almost all 80s channel.. it's called VH-1 Classic.. it's got some earlier stuff on there, but for the most part it's as close to an 80s channel as you'll get.. and they play stuff Mtv would never have played in the 80s..
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My cable company sucks. I do not get any of those channels. Maybe I should look into a satelite dish. A frined of mine got one and he has 100's of channels. I would really like to see VH-1 Classics.

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Their 80's material will always be the best. IMO.

They were also kings of the video medium during its explosion to the TV screen through the Original MTV.

With the loss of the Original MTV as we knew it, that kind of video reign could never be realized again.

Duran Duran began to loose their momentum when they began to loose their original band members.

Their 90's material was good too, but didn't have the freshness or the merriment displayed earlier in their career.

The Original 5 Members have finally reunited for the first time since the 80's. It's just them. I'd like to translate that into their having the potential to release material which will be innovative, yet reminiscent of their 80's successes in some way.  :)  More power to them.  8)

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I knew you were gonna reply to this topic. When I first listened to a greatest-hits compilation of DD (The only recordings I have ever heard by the group), and noticed the comeback. They could have pulled a Styx and stayed to gether longer, not necesarrily with new mwmbers a la Styx, Journey, etc.

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The stuff Duran Duran has done after 93 might not have received that much attention, but that doesn't mean it's not good. "White Lines" and "Perfect Day", from their 95 album of cover songs "Thank You", are great tracks. Especially "White Lines", which was way ahead of its time in the way it mixed rock and hip hop.


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White lines was a cover???  I recently bought a CD called 1995 Rock On, which has that song, and it's funny how a song I never knew existed in 1995(but I ended up liking) suddenly gets mentioned more than once in the same week.
So... what's it a cover of?

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White lines was a cover???  I recently bought a CD called 1995 Rock On, which has that song, and it's funny how a song I never knew existed in 1995(but I ended up liking) suddenly gets mentioned more than once in the same week.
So... what's it a cover of?
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"White Lines" by Grand Master Flash