BURNING THE GROUND EXCLUSIVE 1985

Re-Election Day!

“Election Day” was the first single released by the Duran Duran off-shoot band, Arcadia. It was released by Parlophone Records in October 1985 and subsequently hit the top ten on both sides of the Atlantic, peaking at #6 in the US and #7 in the UK, but was the most successful in Ireland, peaking at #5 and in Italy, peaking at #1 (also reaching the Top 25 in Germany). Along with the Arcadia members, “Election Day” features Grace Jones on vocals and speech segments.

SIDE A:
Election Day (The Consensus Mix) 8:39

SIDE B:
Election Day (Single Version) 4:30
She’s Moody And Grey, She’s Mean And She’s Restless 4:28

VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint

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RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: Capitol Records – V-15209
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 33 RPM
Country: US
Released: 1985
Genre: Electronic, Rock
Style: New Wave, Synth-pop
Credits: Engineer – Larry Alexander
Mixed By – Francois Kevorkian*, Ron Saint Germain*
Producer – Arcadia (3)
Producer, Mixed By – Alex Sadkin
Written-By – hodes*, Taylor*, Le Bon*

NOTES:
Recorded within Studio De La Grande Armee, Paris.
From the album “SO RED THE ROSE”

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BURNING THE GROUND EXCLUSIVE 1986

“Meet El Presidente” is the 16th single from Duran Duran, and the third single from the Notorious album.

According to a studio report in Star Hits magazine, one of the early drafts of this song was called “One of the Faithful”. A demo version using that name can be found on several bootlegs.

The album version of the song is considerably different from the version used on the single and remixes and on the video. The album version has the same tempo but slightly different drums during the chorus, while the other versions use stronger basslines, a horn section, increased percussion (most notable during the lyric “Hell has no fury like a young girl’s ego”), and female backing vocals (including a recurring “Ooh ooh” hook). In these ways, the non-album version is somewhat more similar to songs recorded for the subsequent Big Thing album than it is to other songs on Notorious. “Meet El Presidente” peaked at #24 (April 25, 1987) in the UK and #70 (May 2, 1987) on the US Billboard Hot 100). In Italy the single reached #10.

SIDE A:
“Meet El Presidente” 7:12
“Meet El Presidente” (Meet El Beat) 5:30
“Meet El Presidente” (Radio) 3:38

SIDE B:
Skintrade (Parisian Mix) 8:10
Edited By, Tracking By [Dubs] – “Chep” Nunez*
Engineer, Remix – Daniel Abraham
Keyboards [Additional] – Kevin Jones (3)

Skintrade (S.O.S. Dub) 7:16
Edited By, Tracking By [Dubs] – “Chep” Nunez*
Engineer, Remix – Daniel Abraham
Keyboards [Additional] – Kevin Jones (3)

VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint

CHARTS:

RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: Capitol Records – SPRO-79008, Capitol Records – SPRO-79009
Format: Vinyl, 12″, Promo, 33 RPM
Country: US
Released: 1986
Genre: Electronic
Style: Synth-pop
Credits: Edited By – Hit Squad, The (2) (tracks: A1 to A3)
Engineer [Mix] – Eric Calvi (tracks: A1 to A3), Mark Berry (tracks: A1 to A3)
Keyboards [Additional] – Ed Terry (tracks: A1 to A3)
Percussion – Bashiri Johnson (tracks: A1 to A3)
Producer – Duran Duran, Nile Rodgers
Producer [Additional], Remix – Mark S. Berry* (tracks: A1 to A3)
Written-By – Taylor*, Rhodes*, Le Bon*

NOTES:
Side-A additionally produced and remixed for MSB Records. Ltd.
Recorded in England.
Original versions can be heard on the LP “NOTORIOUS”

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Tour Buses at Hard Rock Tulsa

DjPaulT Hard Rock tulsa

I had so much fun last night. After more than 30 years touring the world, Duran Duran played Tulsa for the first time Wednesday night. It brought its “All You Need is Now” tour to a capacity crowd at The Joint inside the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tulsa, Oklahoma.

The set built like a thunderhead, starting new with the down-tempo “Before the Rain” then flashed bright as it electrified fans with their earliest single, 1981’s “Planet Earth.” Fans erupted, hands clapping over their heads, screaming and singing along. “Are you feeling lucky tonight?” frontman Simon Le Bon asked. “We feel very honored to be here tonight. In Tulsa! … We have such great fans. I actually see familiar faces in the audience right now.”

Old blended with new, nearly seamless in its texture and sound, timely and timeless. The audience danced through it all. Le Bon, dressed in military-style jacket and white pants, would occasionally shove the mic into his back pocket as he crossed the stage, chest out, egging on the mass of fans wedged at the front of the stage. At one point, Le Bon hopped off the stage and sidled up to a fan in the front row to launch “The Reflex,” coaxing the nervous man into the “Ta-na-na-na” repeat as his girlfriend coaxed him on. Soon, the entire theatre joined him as the band stepped into the tune.

It blasted through a handful of new songs early in the set, including “Girl Panic!,” fresh and tight, as segments from their supermodel-laden music video projected onto multiple screens behind them. They slid into the techno-ballad “Save a Prayer,” the audience waving their cellphone flashlights and lighters in a constellation. “That’s so beautiful,” Le Bon said, and asked that in-house cameras be directed at the audience so fans could share the stage-eye view. This is one of those bands that still creates new music – with its longtime lineup intact. Wednesday night Le Bon, John Taylor (bass), Nick Rhodes (keys) and Roger Taylor (drums) showed why they are still the New Romantic kingpins of dance rock. The relative newbie (and my new favorite), Dom Brown, has been on guitar since 2006.

The crowd rored so loudly that I am sure all of “Planet Earth” could hear as Duran Duran rocked The Joint’s intimate 2,700-seater. A moment I will never forget.

Setlist:
Before the Rain
Planet Earth
A View to a Kill
All You Need Is Now
The Reflex
Come Undone
Safe
Union of the Snake
Girl Panic!
Save A Prayer
Notorious
White Lines (Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel cover)
Ordinary World
Hungry Like The Wolf
(Reach Up for the) Sunrise
Wild Boys / Relax (Frankie Goes to Hollywood cover)

Encore:
Girls on Film

BURNING THE GROUND EXCLUSIVE 1984

Ok so I am super excited because tomorrow night (8-15-2012) I will be going to see Duran Duran live at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino here in my home town of Tulsa, Oklahoma. The band are out promoting their latest studio album “All You Need Is Now” and the newly released live album and blu-ray “A Diamond In The Mind”. If you havn’t picked up a copy of either or both you should. Since I am so excited I couldn’t resist doing a Duran post today. I thought it only fitting to post their most succesful single “The Reflex”. If possible i will try to get some pics from the show. ~ DjPaulT

“The Reflex” is the eleventh single by Duran Duran, released worldwide on 16 April 1984. The song was heavily remixed for single release and was the third and last to be taken from their third album Seven and the Ragged Tiger.

“The Reflex” became the band’s most successful single. It was their second single to top the UK singles chart, after “Is There Something I Should Know?” in 1983, topping the chart on 5 May, and would prove to be their last UK #1. It was also Duran Duran’s first single to hit number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 (for two weeks) on 23 June 1984, and became a huge hit internationally. The band wanted it to be the lead single from Seven and the Ragged Tiger, but their label didn’t like the warbling singing during the “why don’t you use it” segments, thinking this would hinder its success as a stand alone single track.

The remixes for both the 7″ and 12″ singles were done by Nile Rodgers, of Chic fame. It was his first work with the band, and he would later go on to produce “The Wild Boys” single as well as the album Notorious (1986) and several tracks on Astronaut (2004).

Producer Ian Little recalls the sound Nick Rhodes came up with on his Roland Jupiter-8 keyboard: “…whenever I hear that steel-drum part it always brings a smile to my face because it’s so out of tune. Steel drums always are, but it was exactly right in terms of rhythm and tone. So a wood-block sound was mixed in to make it even more percussive and, successfully, it did the job.”

SIDE A:
The Reflex (The Dance Mix) 6:35

SIDE B:
The Reflex (The Dance Mix – Edited) 4:28

VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint

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RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: Capitol Records – V-8587
Format: Vinyl, 12″, Single, 33 RPM
Country: US
Released: 1984
Genre: Electronic, Pop, Rock
Style: New Wave, Synth-pop
Credits: Producer – Alex Sadkin, Duran Duran, Ian Little
Remix – Nile Rodgers
Written-By – Duran Duran

NOTES:
Original version on the album “SEVEN AND THE RAGGED TIGER”

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BURNING THE GROUND EXCLUSIVE 1986

John Taylor (born Nigel John Taylor on June 20,1960 in Birmingham, England) is a British bass guitarist and co-founder of the New Romantic band Duran Duran.

“I Do What I Do (Theme For 9½ Weeks)” was a 1986 single performed by Duran Duran bassist John Taylor, giving his first solo singing performance during a hiatus in Duran Duran’s career ans also features Michael Brecker performing saxophone. It was the main single released from the 9½ Weeks Original Soundtrack.

“I Do What I Do” was co-written by Jonathan Elias, Michael Des Barres and John Taylor, after Des Barres was approached about writing a song for the movie’s soundtrack. It was originally intended to be sung by Lisa Dalbello, but she bowed out at the last minute and John decided he could do the song instead.

The video features John Taylor in a tuxedo, singing the words while watching a private screening of the movie 9½ Weeks. It was directed by Taylor himself.

SIDE A:
I Do What I Do (Theme For 9 ½ Weeks) (The Final Cut) 8:04
Remix – Jason Corsaro, John Taylor, Jonathan Elias

SIDE B:
I Do What I Do (Theme For 9 ½ Weeks) (Film Mix) 4:19
Mixed By – Jason Corsaro, John Taylor, Jonathan Elias

I Do What I Do (Theme For 9 ½ Weeks) (The Single Mix) 3:44
Mixed By – Jason Corsaro, John Taylor, Jonathan Elias

VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint

CHARTS:

RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: Capitol Records – V-15223
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 33 RPM
Country: US
Released: 1986
Genre: Electronic
Style: Synth-pop
Credits: Design [Cover] – Frank Olinsky
Engineer – Bruce Darby, Larry Alexander, Michael Montes
Percussion [Electronic] – Jimmy Bralower
Photography – Rebecca Blake
Producer – Jason Corsaro, John Taylor, Jonathan Elias
Saxophone – Michael Brecker
Written By – John Taylor, Jonathan Elias, Michael DesBarres

NOTES:
Theme from the film “9 1/2 Weeks”

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BURNING THE GROUND EXCLUSIVE 1986

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Andy Taylor (born 16 February 1961) is an English guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He was a member of Duran Duran and the Power Station. He has also performed as a solo artist, and served as a record producer for several other artists.

After six years with Duran Duran in the 1980s, Taylor collaborated with ex-Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones on his debut solo album Thunder.

In the mean time he recorded the hit single “Take It Easy” (US #24 Billboard – US #1 MTV), which was recorded as the theme song to the movie American Anthem. Ex-Missing Persons members Terry Bozzio and Patrick O’Hearn lent drums and bass, respectively, to the song and video.

The B-side “Angel Eyes” is an instrumental written by Andy Taylor and Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones specially for the soundtrack of the movie American Anthem during 1986. The instrumental was only available on the movie soundtrack until the 2008 re-release by the Fan Club of Andy Taylor’s first solo album Thunder, which included eight bonus tracks including “Angel Eyes”. The recording was produced by Roy Thomas Baker, who has also worked with artists including Queen and Ozzy Osbourne.

SIDE A:
Take It Easy (Dance Version) 5:45
Guitar – Steve James (5)
Backing Vocals – Andy*, Eddy (5), Flo (13)
Drums – Terry Bozzio

SIDE B:
Take It Easy (Rock Mix) 4:17
Guitar – Steve James (5)
Backing Vocals – Andy*, Eddy (5), Flo (13)
Drums – Terry Bozzio

Angel Eyes 3:25
Sitar – Steve Jones (2)
Keyboards, Drum Programming – Andy Taylor

VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint

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RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: Atlantic – A 9414 T
Format: Vinyl, 12″, Single, 45 RPM
Country: UK
Released: 1986
Genre: Rock
Style: Pop Rock
Credits: Bass – Bryant Simpson
Design – Frank Olinsky
Engineer – Jerry Napier, Roy Thomas Baker
Lead Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Guitar [Electric] – Andy Taylor
Mixed By – Andy Taylor, Roy Thomas Baker
Music By, Lyrics By – Andy Taylor, Steve Jones (2)
Percussion – Paulinho Da Costa
Photography – Mousha Brahka
Producer – Roy Thomas Baker

NOTES:
From original Motion Picture Soundtrack “American Anthem”
available on Atlantic LP 781661-1 and Cassette 781661-4

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