Tag: Duran Duran

Arcadia – Goodbye Is Forever (Extended Remix) (Japan 12″)

BURNING THE GROUND EXCLUSIVE 1986

“Goodbye Is Forever” is the second single released by the Duran Duran offshoot band, Arcadia. The song achieved success only in the United States, peaking at number 33 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in March 1986. It also was released by Capitol Records in January 1986 in many regions around the world except the UK.

The B-side of Goodbye Is Forever was the mid-tempo ballad “Missing” which was released only as a promo track in the U.S and Canada.

SIDE A:
Goodbye Is Forever (Extended Version) 6:43
Remix – Francois Kevorkian*, Ron Saint Germai*

Goodbye Is Forever (7inch Remixed Version) 4:11
Remix – Alex Sadkin, Walter Samuel

SIDE B:
Goodbye Is Forever (Dub Version) 5:14
Remix – Francois Kevorkian*, Ron Saint Germai*

Missing 3:40
Mixed By – Larry Alexander
Mixed By [Assistant] – Billy Miranda

VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint
OBI: Near mint

U.S. CHART HISTORY:

Year Single Chart Position
1986 Goodbye Is Forever U.S. Billboard Hot 100 #33

 

RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: EMI ‎– S14-130
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 45 RPM, Single
Country: Japan
Released: 05 Mar 1986
Genre: Electronic, Pop
Style: Synth-pop

CREDITS:
Liner Notes [Lyrics Translation] – 山本安見*
Photography By [Arcadia] – Norman Parkinson
Photography By [Staircase] –Tansy Spinks
Producer – Alex Sadkin, Arcadia (3)
Sleeve – Assorted Images
Written-By – Rhodes*, Taylor* (tracks: A1, A2, B1), Le Bon*

NOTES:
Taken from the album “SO RED THE ROSE”

2-digit numeric code on back cover reads:
40 32 52 52 32 42 28 00 =
M I S S I N G _
00 28 44 44 22 18 12 24 32 52 26 44 50 24 06 24 50 =
_ G O O D B Y E I S F O R E V E R

2-digit numeric code on A-side label reads:
02 30 24 46 50 44 40 32 52 24 =
T H E P R O M I S E

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Duran Duran – Union Of The Snake (Japan 12″)

BURNING THE GROUND EXCLUSIVE 1983

“Union of the Snake” is the ninth single by the English new wave band Duran Duran, released on 17 October 1983.

“Union of the Snake” was the lead single from the band’s third album Seven and the Ragged Tiger (1983), and preceded its release by one month. It was originally titled, “The Union at Stake”, when the band was interviewed on The Oxford Road Show in March 1983 before their first performance of “Is there something I should know?” on U.K. television. It became one of Duran Duran’s most popular singles, hitting number one on the US Cash Box and peaking at number three on both the US Billboard Hot 100 for three consecutive weeks at the end of 1983. Further chart movement was prevented by “Say Say Say” by Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson and “Say It Isn’t So” by Daryl Hall and John Oates. It also reached number three on the UK Singles Chart.

After a songwriting session near Cannes in France, much of the band’s third album was recorded at George Martin’s AIR Studios on the Caribbean island of Montserrat with producer Alex Sadkin, then mixed at 301 Studios in Sydney. Mixing for “Union of the Snake” was done right up to the last minute before the tapes had to be turned over to EMI for pressing.

Lyricist Simon Le Bon (notoriously reticent about explaining his oblique lyrics) hinted in the Duran Duran lyric book The Book of Words that the borderline might be one between the conscious and subconscious minds. In later interviews, he proclaimed that it was a reference to Tantric sex.

Drummer Roger Taylor stated that the beat and drum track was based upon David Bowie’s 1983 single “Let’s Dance”.

The B-side to “Union of the Snake” was the atmospheric piece “Secret Oktober”. Twenty-four hours before the master tapes of the single were to be delivered to EMI for distribution, singer Simon Le Bon and keyboardist Nick Rhodes wrote and mixed the B-side “Secret Oktober” in an all-night recording session.

**The “Super Mix” contained on this Japan 12″ single is also titled “Monkey Mix” on other releases.

SIDE A:
Union Of The Snake (Super Mix) 6:23

SIDE B:
Union Of The Snake (Single Version) 4:20
Secret Oktober 2:45

VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint
Obi: Near Mint
Insert: Near Mint

U.S. CHART HISTORY:

Year Single Chart Position
1983 Union Of The Snake U.S. Billboard Hot 100 #6
1983 Union Of The Snake U.S. Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks #2
1983 Union Of The Snake U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play #33

 

RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: EMI ‎– EMS-27008
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 45 RPM
Country: Japan
Released: 1983
Genre: Electronic, Rock, Pop
Style: Pop Rock, Synth-pop

CREDITS:
Liner Notes [対訳] – 山本安見*
Photography By – Jeff Hornbaker
Producer – Alex Sadkin
Producer [In Association With] – Duran Duran, Ian Little
Sleeve – assorted iMaGes*
Written-By, Arranged By – Duran Duran

NOTES:
Track A termed (Super Mix) on the back sleeve, also referred to as (The Monkey Mix) on other releases (116bpm).
Track B1 termed (Single Version) on the back sleeve, (7″ Version) on the label.

With obi and single-sided lyric/info insert.

〄 MADE IN JAPAN

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Duran Duran – Ordinary World (US Cassette Single)

BURNING THE GROUND EXCLUSIVE 1993

“Ordinary World” is the first single from Duran Duran’s self-titled 1993 album, commonly known as The Wedding Album. The single reached number one on the US Billboard Mainstream Top 40, the Canadian RPM Top Singles chart and the Italian Singles Chart. It also peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot 100, number two in Iceland and Sweden and number six on the UK Singles Chart.

The song won an Ivor Novello Award in May 1994. Lead vocalist Simon Le Bon sang the song with Luciano Pavarotti at a benefit concert for War Child.

By the early 1990s, Duran Duran’s popularity had faded. Their album Liberty had proved a commercial failure, its two singles failing to make a significant showing on the British or American charts. It was not until Capitol leaked “Ordinary World” to a radio station in Jacksonville, Florida during the second half of 1992 that it seemed like Duran Duran would find a resurgence in popularity. To their surprise, the single proved so popular that Capitol had to push the US release date up, ultimately releasing it in December.

The keyboards in the song were arranged and performed by Nick Rhodes and John Jones. The drums were played by Steve Ferrone at Maison Rouge. The guitar solo that characterizes this song was arranged and performed by Warren Cuccurullo, a former player with Frank Zappa. His instrumental rock trio version became a staple of his solo shows and was included on one of his solo albums “Roadrage”.

The music video was filmed by director Nick Egan at Huntington Gardens in San Marino, California and the song later featured in the soundtrack to the film Layer Cake in 2005.

Simon LeBon later performed the song with Pavarotti at a WarChild benefit. The performance was released on home video as Pavarotti & Friends: Together for the Children of Bosnia.

The lyric to “Ordinary World” was written by Simon Le Bon as the second of a trilogy of songs for his late friend David Miles; the others being “Do You Believe in Shame?” (1988) and “Out of My Mind” (1997).

“Ordinary World” is one of two Cuccurullo-era songs (“Come Undone” being the other) which were played when Duran Duran did their reunion tour, both Andy Taylor and Roger Taylor insisting on playing it. Cuccurullo was brought in to teach Andy Taylor how to play it. It has remained in the setlist ever since.

The “Acoustic Version” was more correctly the “Acoustic Mix” and was created using the studio guitar & vocal tracks and adding specially arranged string orchestration.

Dolby B NR was used for this transfer.

SIDE A/B:
Ordinary World 5:39
Producer – John Jones
Written-By, Producer – Duran Duran

Ordinary World (Acoustic Version) 5:12
Producer – John Jones
Written-By, Producer – Duran Duran

Save A Prayer (‘Till The Morning After) (Live) 6:16
Engineer [Live Recording] – George Tutko
Mixed By – Jason Corsaro
Producer – Duran Duran
Written By – Duran Duran

CASSETTE GRADE:
Cassette: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint

U.S. CHART HISTORY:

Year Single Chart Position
1993 Ordinary World U.S. Billboard Hot 100 #3
1993 Ordinary World U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary #14
1993 Ordinary World U.S. Billboard Alternative Songs #2
1993 Ordinary World U.S. Billboard Mainstream Top 40 #1

 

RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: Capitol Records ‎– 4KM 0777 7 44908 4 9
Format: Cassette, Single Dolby HX Pro, B NR
Country: US
Released: 1993
Genre: Electronic, Rock, Pop
Style: Synth-pop

CREDITS:
Art Direction – Duran Duran
Art Direction, Design – Nick Egan
Design – Eric Rionestad*
Management – Left Bank Management
Photography By – Dean Chamberlain (2)

NOTES:
Same Program Repeats On Both Sides
Track 1 from the compact disc and cassette “Duran Duran”
Track 3 from the compact disc and cassette and LP “Arena”

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Duran Duran – Burning The Ground (US 12″)

BURNING THE GROUND EXCLUSIVE 1989

Originally posted November 5, 2014

“Burning The Ground” is the 20th single by Duran Duran, released in December 1989. It was created as a stand-alone single to promote the compilation album Decade: Greatest Hits but didn’t appear on the album itself. However, its music video was included on the band’s audiovisual compilation Greatest, released in 1999 (VHS) and 2003 (DVD). The song is essentially a megamix of Duran Duran’s history, featuring tidbits of all of the band’s hits of the previous ten years.

Instrumental elements of “Save A Prayer”, “Hungry Like the Wolf”, “Rio”, “The Reflex” and “The Wild Boys”, including the camera flash sound from “Girls on Film”, form the core of the first part of the song, while the “chorus” is built up of alternating chants of “Girls!” (from “Girls on Film”) and “Boys!” (from “The Wild Boys”). The nonsense syllables from several songs, such as the “noh-noh” bits from “Notorious”, the “bop bop bop” from “Skin Trade” and the “tana nana” and the “fle fle fle fle flex” from “The Reflex”, were also incorporated. Elements from “A View To A Kill”, “Notorious”, “I Don’t Want Your Love” and later singles are gradually woven into the mix. Segments of the song are marked by signature phrases taken from other songs: first, “Can you hear me now?” (“Planet Earth”); later, “I tell you, somebody’s fooling around” (“The Reflex”) and “The rhythm is the power” (“I Don’t Want Your Love”). The title derives from a “Hungry Like the Wolf” lyric.

The song also used several sound samples from the film Barbarella, from which the band took their name: “Barbarella?” “Mr. President!” “Your Mission, find Durand Durand!” “Just a minute, I’ll slip something on!”

The remix was created by producer John Jones, with assistance from Dee Long and engineer Chris Potter, in an upstairs room at Olympic Studios in Barnes while Duran Duran was downstairs recording new material for the album Liberty, to be released the following year.

The b-side was another megamix, this one more instrumental in nature, called “Decadance”. The song uses the “why” bits of “The Reflex”, the “no, no” from “Notorious”, “wild” from “The Wild Boys”, the chorus from “All She Wants Is”, the solo from “Save a Prayer” mixed with “Rio”, and a little bit of “Skin Trade”, as well as some of the suggestive screams from “Hungry Like the Wolf”.

The single debuted on the U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart on February 10, 1990. After spending six weeks on the survey “Burning The Ground” peaked at #23. The single also charted in the U.K. #31 and Italy #17.

SIDE A:
Burning The Ground 4:00
Mixed By – Christopher Marc Potter
Other [Created By] – Duran Duran
Producer – John Jones , John Taylor , Nick Rhodes , Simon Le Bon , Sterling Campell*
Samples – Dee Long

SIDE B:
Decadance (Extended Mix) 7:56
Producer, Mixed By – Ben Chapman , Raine Shine

Decadance 3:30
Producer, Mixed By – Ben Chapman , Raine Shine

VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint

U.S. CHART HISTORY:

Year Single Chart Position
1990 Burning The Ground U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play #23

 

RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: Capitol Records – V-15546
Format: Vinyl, 12″, Single, 33 ⅓ RPM
Country: US
Released: 1989
Genre: Electronic, Pop, Rock
Style: New Wave, Synth-pop

CREDITS:
Artwork By [Sleeve Design] – Abrahams Pants

NOTES:
All tracks sampled from the album “DECADE”
B-side produced and mixed at Pacific & Ezee Studios.

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