#song: hungry like the wolf/rio

[cryscendo]

kurt hummel in every performance

3x15 - Big Brother

Hungry Like the Wolf/Rio - Cooper Anderson and Blaine Anderson

“Oh, no, no, no, no. Please don't make me do that.”

“Oh, no, Blaine, you have to. You're both so handsome and good.”

[gleesongtournament]

Glee Song Tournament Round 1

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Tracklist:

Rio • My Own Way • Lonely in Your Nightmare • Hungry Like the Wolf • Hold Back the Rain • New Religion • Last Chance on the Stairway • Save a Prayer • The Chauffeur

Spotify ♪ YouTube

[snapghoul]

Songs I think Johnny Cage actually listens too.

✰ Note: I love “International Love” being his unofficial theme song, it’s funny. This is just a collection of songs I think represent him and songs he has on his playlists. Some have headcanons for funzies.

✰ Head cannon: Johnny gets his music taste from his mother, It was one of the only ways to bond with him because of her job. Favorite memories are him singing with her in the car. Has old cassettes his mom made for him, refuses to get rid of them.

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Head Over Heels & Everybody Wants To Rule The World - Tears For Fears

Voulez-Vous, Money, Money, Money, Super Trooper & Slipping Through My Fingers - ABBA

✰ His mother played Slipping Through My Fingers on their way home from his high school graduation, and they both ugly cried.

Blue Monday - New Order

Sunglasses At Night - Corey Hart

Bohemian Rapsody, Another One Bites The Dust, We Will Rock You, Killer Queen, Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy - Queen

Paint It Black & Sympathy For The Devil - The Rolling Stones

Girls On Film, Hungry Like The Wolf, Rio & The Wild Boys - Duran Duran

Sabotage, Fight For Your Right, Intergalactic, No Sleep Til Brooklyn - Beastie Boys

✰ Listens to BB while he is training. Something about them make him want to beat the shit outta his punching bag.

Enjoy The Silence & Never Let Me Down Again - Depeche Mode

Devil Went Down To Georgia - The Charlie Daniels Band

Sunburn - Fuel

Love Shack - The B-52’s

✰ His mother's favorite song. Listens to it when he’s feeling nostalgic.

Black Betty - Ram Jam

Enter Sandman, For Whom The Bell Tolls, One, Master Of Puppets & Lux Æterna - Metallica

✰ Johnny is a sleeper Metalhead; one would never know he is until someone walks in on him listening to it. He had his wrist broken in a pit. Will white girl dance to metal and rock music.

Lonely Day, Chop Souy!, Sugar & Violent Pornography - System Of A Down

Welcome To The Jungle, Sweet Child O’ Mine & Paradise City - Guns N’ Roses

The Chain, Go Your Own Way & Dreams - Fleetwood Mac

Super Massive Black Hole, Knights of Cydonia & Starlight - Muse

Punk Tactics - Joey Valence & Brae

✰ “I am the King and You’re just a pawn. Who’s got the high ground now, Obi-wan?”

[rimeswithpurple]

I have a confession to make:

Every time I see your icon when it's scaled down, like on my dash, I think it's the cover of Rio by Duran Duran because of the colors and stark contrast of Baz's hair and skin. That's the album that features "Hungry Like the Wolf". So now whenever that song plays on the radio, I think of Baz.

Anyway, have a nice day!

You're so right! I never even noticed until now and now I can't unsee it. I love it!

You're welcome for having another reason to think of Baz 😁

[piristephes]

"Vem Apolo" / "Here comes Apollo"

Vem a praia, o jovem Deus vestido em túnica Úmida e bela, enlaces de ouro e prata A pele reluzente é bronze e o sol poente conjura Sombras da besta que desliza sobre as areias alvas De Delfos rica em rios, os Deuses de corpo bovino.

Vem Apolo, recém-nascido, usurpador e assassino Bradou a temível serpente, seu corpo erguendo-se da Terra Sua mãe. Pois a tudo ela gera, horrores e deleites. Em minhas presas seu corpo descansará, eterno!

A ameaça encontra os belos ouvidos, o ar se enche de Fulgor branco, queimando o vento a cada passo dado Hélio repousa no oceano, mas a luz não cessou Em dardejantes raios empunha-se o jovem deus, desafiador A serpente desce sobre ele, mortífera e faminta como Os leões que vagueiam as encostas em busca de vítimas Ornadas em lã e balindo, indefesas Mas os olhos da criança são os de um lobo, e sua mão é forte Como as palmeiras sempre-verdes de Delos O cabelo dele esvoaça, o bote alcança o nada Altivo, vem Apolo com seu arco atroz de prata Apenas morte a aguarda, declarou o filho de Zeus Um desígnio final, tal como a seta que se dispara Do arco, rompendo o vento em calor e perfurando a carne de Píton, nascida de Gaia.

A água da maré alcança seus calcanhares, a fera caída e um rosto Coroado com um halo de fulgor e certeza Os pássaros de Delfos cantam sua melodia, acompanhando sua voz Apolo ergue seu arco, vitorioso em seus esforços e declara: Eis o filho de Leto, que afasta os males. Povo de Delfos, aqui estou.

Canções entoadas ao vento vieram ao seu encontro Coroas e perfumes, incenso e fumaça Apolo vagueou seu caminho até o fluxo da Castália Até entre-fendas recuar o corpo da temível serpente Lavado, ele contemplou feliz, sua gente.

english:

The young God dressed in tunic, comes to the beach Moist and beautiful, links of gold and silver The gleaming skin is bronze and the setting Sun conjures Shadows of the beast that slides over the white sands From Delphi rich in rivers, the bovine-bodied Gods.

Comes Apollo, newborn, usurper and murderer Cried the fearsome Serpent, their body rising from the Earth Their mother. For everything She generates, horrors and delights. In my fangs his body will rest, eternal! Threat meets the lovely ears, the air fills with White glow, burning wind with every step taken Helios rests in the ocean, but the light has not ceased In darting bolts wields the young God, defiant

The serpent descends upon him, deadly and hungry as The lions that roam the slopes in search of victims Woolen and bleating, helpless But the child's eyes are those of a wolf, and his hand is strong. Like the evergreen palms of Delos

His hair blows, the fangs reach nothing Highly, comes Apollo with his atrocious silver bow Only death awaits thee, declared the son of Zeus A final design, like the arrow that shoots From the bow, breaking the wind into heat and piercing the flesh of Python, Gaea-born.

The tides reach His heels, the fallen beast and a face Crowned with a halo of radiance and certainty The birds of Delphi sing thy melody, accompanying thy voice Apollo raises his bow, victorious in his efforts, and declares: Behold the son of Leto, who wards off evils. People of Delphi, here I am.

Songs in the wind came to meet Him Crowns and perfumes, incense and smoke Apollo wandered his way down to the Castalia stream Till between crevices retreated the body of the fearsome serpent Clean, he contemplated happily, his people.

[spaceorphan18]

@yadivagirl who wanted to know what issues I had with the Duran Druan Mash up and You Make Me Feel So Young

So, I want preface this by saying, I do actually like both of these songs.

Rio/Hungry Like the Wolf: I realized I haven't watched this in a long, long time - there are beats that are really funny. And the dynamic between Cooper and Blaine is hysterical and very telling and ooff, it is tragic that Matt Bomer was only in one episode.

Anyway - my big issue here is a technical one. The sound of this performance is so processed that it's very apparent that they've done stuff to the audio. It kind of destroys the illusion that it's happening live.

Also, oof, people don't kill me - I'm not a huge fan of Blaine's outfits in Season 3. I know the whole bowtie thing was a thing but *scrunches nose* fine.

You Make Me Feel So Young: This one is perhaps a little more complicated to talk about. And maybe indicative of the biggest issue I had/have with the back part of Season 5. They didn't have Kurt and Blaine have many happy moments to offset their struggles.

This performance is just so complex. I will say, unlike Rio, technically, it's great. The boys both sound wonderful on it, and the audio is just perfect. I like the sound of it.

The scenes are, hmmm, it straddles this very vague line of where Kurt is and it's kind of confusing until you get the full view of what is going on in the episode. It's the morning after the bug incident, where Kurt got no sleep, and he's struggling because his partner is attached to his hip and he needs some space and doesn't know how to express that. So there's a little bit of intentional agitation from Kurt throughout the whole song.

And it is purposeful, and it's appropriate for the story, and it's supposed to at odds with Blaine's already living as an 80yo man mentality. (They are young already, why are they even singing this? Oh because Blaine is trying to make his life a 40s musical.) But we get so little domestic Klaine in the show that something that's it's a shame we didn't get to see any of their honeymoon period before the strains of an actual relationship happen.

That said, there are moments I genuinely like - like the pillow fight where they both seem to actually be enjoying it, and is an actual youthful thing, and when they come back from shopping - and Kurt is in a much better mood. (and would have been in an even better mood had he been able to have his sexy times...)

So, ha, there ya go! :)

[mintymelty]

YHS: A Serialization [] 7. Hungry Like the Wolf

╰┈➤ ❝ [Hungry Like the Wolf - Duran Duran] ❞

⇗𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙺𝚎𝚢⇖-

💙: Kat “Kathy”

🌻: Evan

🧨: James Ashton

📼: E.V.

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📼: “Nice of you to show up this century.”

🧨: “YEAH. ARE YOU DONE GETTING BULLIED BY THOSE TWO GIRLS??”

🌻: “Hey! I was just showing- Wait what?”

📼: “The pink one and the cerulean one. They were teasing you about something…”

🌻: “Oh… uh yeah they were- well SHE was-“

Evan pointed his stubby little finger at me.

🌻: “She said my spiritual color was WHITE. As in WHITE PICKET FENCES.”

💙: “Hey! It’s not a “spiritual color”, it’s… the color of your vibe… and you said the picket fence part!”

🌻: “Ohh.. diD I dO thAt??”

💙: “YES! OMG why is your SpongeBob impersonation kinda good tho…”

🧨: “AHEM. CONCERT.”

James motions his head over towards the band equipment.

🌻: “Ohhh yeahhh! We’ll be playing Nirvana and, um, there was this other band E.V. suggested-“

📼: “Duran Duran.”

🌻: “Yeah!”

💙: “Cool, it’s like the Revolutionary War all over again! Brits vs. Americans.”

📼: “Except this time the British actually have a fighting chance.”

🌻: “As much as I think Nirvana is underrated, Duran Duran has a song I think you’ll like a lot!”

💙: “Which is…?”

🌻: “Once again, it’s a secret!” It’s more memorable if you don’t know.”

📼: “All will be revealed��� in The Exiled Angels concert. That will happen-“

🧨: “NOW.”

The noise from the sudden crowd outside finally pierced through the garage door. They were awfully talkative for, like, a dozen people.

🌻: “Okay okay! Kat, could you go through my house to get to the front? We’re planning on doing a dramatic reveal with the garage door.”

💙: “Sure! But could I ask James something real quick?”

🌻: “Go ahead. I still need to set up my instruments.”

💙: (Instruments… as in plural? Whatever.)

💙: “James-“

🧨: “WHAT.”

💙: “Ahh… so how’s your family?”

🧨: “FINE. WHY?”

💙: “Well, I head from Liv that your-“

🧨: “He’ll be ok.”

💙: “…I see…”

(James doesn’t look too happy talking about the incident. I should do my own research online, surely some news outlets might have something I’m missing…)

💙: “Well, good luck on the concert! I hope your friend/brother gets well soon!”

🧨: “…”

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Well, THAT was awkward.

I’m not a good detective, am I? If I was in a police procedural, the perps would scare me out of the room… Oh well. I already got the victim’s info, that should be enough for Kim.

…and WHY is she so nosy, anyways? Doesn’t she have, like, homework to worry about?

Whatever. Time to go outside to wait.

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🐏: “WHERE THE HELL ARE THEY??”

💥💥*BANG BANG BANG*💥💥

Jebidiah Smith bangs his hands on the garage.

💙: “Umm… hello?-“

🐼: “Heeyyyy girrlllll! Can you tell your BOYTOY to hurry up? We’re trying to shake some ASS out here!!”

💙: “WOAH! What happened to not wanting a noise complaint?”

🐼: “Girlll who CARES?? We’re teens, lighten up a little!”

The crowd grows restless. I have to do something… oh look! A convenient cooler to stand on!

💙: “EVERYONE! Calm down! Evan and the… Fallen Demons- whatever they’ll be out shortly, my GOSH.”

Wow. They actually listened. Yayyyyy.

🤓: “… who farted?”

💥𝘽𝘼𝙉𝙂!💥

With a strum of an electric guitar, Evan reignited the fire of the crowd.

🌻: “Sorry it took so long, folks! We had some technical issues but now we’re ready to PART-AYYY!!

👥: “WOOOOHHOOOOOO!!”

🌻: “This first one’s for you, Kat!”

Evan pointed. The crowd instinctively turn to look at me.

💙: “Me? Did I do something?”

🌻: “Yeah! I’ll admit, I was kinda nervous before the show started, but you made me feel better, so this first cover… “Rio” by Duran Duran is for YOU!!”

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You know, I never really was a huge fan of concerts, surprisingly enough. Like, I usually ADORE high energy situations, but concerts felt.. suffocating.

…But THIS? Duran Duran? Evan playing the bass guitar AND a piano at the same time?

I could get used to this. Even the Nirvana shilling.

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Bang.

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… 𝚁𝚎𝚙𝚘𝚛𝚝𝚜 𝚌𝚕𝚊𝚒𝚖 𝚊 𝚖𝚘𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚌𝚢𝚌𝚕𝚎 𝚌𝚒𝚛𝚌𝚕𝚎𝚍 𝚊𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚛 𝙰𝚟𝚎𝚗𝚞𝚎 𝚊𝚝 𝟿:𝟷𝟹 𝙿.𝙼…

…𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚍𝚛𝚒𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚙𝚙𝚎𝚍 𝚊𝚝 𝙷𝚘𝚞𝚜𝚎 𝙽𝚘. 𝟸𝟶𝟹𝟹 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚝 𝚖𝚞𝚕𝚝𝚒𝚙𝚕𝚎 𝚏𝚕𝚊𝚛𝚎s 𝚊𝚝 𝚊 𝚐𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚙 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚎𝚎𝚗𝚊𝚐𝚎𝚛𝚜…

𝙻𝚞𝚌𝚔𝚒𝚕𝚢, 𝚗𝚘 𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚒𝚗𝚓𝚞𝚛𝚎𝚍, 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚞𝚜𝚙𝚎𝚌𝚝 𝚑𝚊𝚜 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚋𝚎𝚎𝚗 𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚒𝚏𝚒𝚎𝚍 𝚘𝚛 𝚌𝚊𝚙𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚎𝚍 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚒𝚜 𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚘𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚛𝚞𝚗.

𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚙𝚘𝚕𝚒𝚌𝚎 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚏𝚒𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚊𝚏𝚎𝚝𝚢 𝚘𝚏 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚊𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚐𝚊𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚎𝚡𝚌𝚎𝚙𝚝 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚊𝚗 𝟷𝟾 𝚢𝚎𝚊𝚛 𝚘𝚕𝚍 𝚗𝚊𝚖𝚎𝚍 𝙰𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚗 𝙷𝚊𝚕𝚕. 𝚃𝙲𝙿𝙳 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚜𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚑𝚒𝚖 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚞𝚜𝚙𝚎𝚌𝚝.

𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚞𝚜𝚙𝚎𝚌𝚝 𝚖𝚊𝚢 𝚋𝚎 𝚒𝚗𝚟𝚘𝚕𝚟𝚎𝚍 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚗𝚐𝚘𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚒𝚗𝚟𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚐𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚘𝚏 𝚊 𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚐𝚊𝚗𝚐: 𝙴𝚁𝙸𝙽𝚈𝙴𝚂.

𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚢 𝚜𝚊𝚏𝚎, 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚠𝚊𝚝𝚌𝚑 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚌𝚑𝚒𝚕𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚗.

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[rush2112x]

Can you show us your d please

Show you my d? My dwhatnow? You mean...d as in...Duran Duran? Like my favorite Duran Duran song? No problem o. I have a lot though. Planet Earth, Girls on Film, Is There Something I Should Know. All from the 1981 Duran Duran album. Good stuff. The Chauffuer, My Own Way, Rio, and of course Hungry Like The Wolf. From the 1982 Rio album. Those are great. The Reflex, New Moon on Monday and wait a sec I just now realized you weren't asking me about my music preferences you were talking about my HEY NOW!!

[singlesablog]

The Look.

“Is There Something I Should Know?” (1983) Duran Duran EMI - Capitol Records (Written by Simon Le Bon, John Taylor, Roger Taylor, Andy Taylor, Nick Rhodes) Highest U.S. Billboard Chart Position – No. 4

“[It was] completely separate from electronic music or the future…all the fucking Southern New Romantic bollocks. I mean, if we were ever called New Romantics there'd be a fight... 'Am I wearing a kilt? Am I wearing enough eyeliner? Is my shirt frilly enough?' Oh, fuck off!

- Paul McCluskey from Orchestral Manoeuvres in The Dark on The New Romantics

I love the term “across the pond”, which suggests that England, the mother country for the USA, is only a hop and a skip away, when in truth, the spaces between us are enormous.  The innovations transferring from one continent to the other, especially with respect to music and fashion, have always had a strange and years-away delay that has been ongoing since the very beginning, as if the ideas were always awaiting the right winds, funding, and large, cumbersome, three-masted ships from the Colonial period to bring them over to us.  Part of Modernism is to assume the new world will be changed; part of reality is that the change, as delivered, is much more elusive.

In 1982 the Second British Invasion was brought to the United States in color on MTV, and was ushered in by two very important videos: first and foremost with the complete smash “Don’t You Want Me” by The Human League (an electro masterpiece and forever influential) and then by Duran Duran’s “Hungry Like The Wolf”, their first bonafide, giant US hit.  It wasn’t just MTV that had them on heavy rotation, it was nonstop over the airwaves as well: these two songs nearly swallowed up the 1982-83 season for radio.  In truth there was so much happening with British artists over here that year it is dizzying to consider; sound and image were delivered with enormous speed, and very persuasively.  It was a very rapid musical turnover (and considering my previous thoughts, I know this is ironic; however, a backlog is a backlog.)  The only problem for me that year was that I loathed “Hungry Like The Wolf”; this included the song, and the stupid video, in which I believe Simon Le Bon is in animal drag pursuing a female through the jungle, but I can’t be sure: I refuse to look at it again after being forced to 500 times.  I was also only mildly interested at the time in “Don’t You Want Me”, after being worn down by its’ endless radio play in the US.  However, the invasion had begun.

As a teenager, there was a lot to process in 1982/83: music was now television, and MTV was our god.  I wasn’t staying up late to look at the Brits, I was staying up late waiting for Prince to appear in a haze of multi-colored, neon-infused fog spinning around in high-heeled boots to “Little Red Corvette” (an incredible fusion of sound and image).  There was a lot to look over: Men at Work with “Who Can It Be Now”, A Flock of Seagull’s “I Ran (So Far Away)” which was HUGE in the states, and even Bowie, the originator, coming back from the dead with the future-forward “Ashes to Ashes” being re-aired (1980).  The Vee-jays talked and talked, and we absorbed every scene.  

In 1983 Duran issued their 8th single, “Is There Something I Should Know?” straight to MTV in a video directed by Russell Mulcahy, and it was at this moment that I sat up and took notice.  Technically the band had already conquered the UK and the US, but it took forever for these ideas to sail my way.  Capitol Records was looking for another hit and had the band create this track after their best album, Rio, was already a sensation, and they were starting to work on their third, Seven and the Ragged Tiger (a hilariously late-imperial and overblown, if rather beautiful, mess). For me, watching on TV, this video was my first impression of The New Romantics ever.  Even though DD's style had already moved forward into clothes that were more New wave, I could sense the old style running through the images.  Mulcahy, a true innovator in music videos, had directed many of Duran Duran’s previous clips, as well as for many other artists (notably Buggles “Video Killed The Radio Star”, MTVs first-ever video broadcast, and most representatively Duran’s “Planet Earth”, which, shockingly, I had missed).  His work initiated many of the classic techniques in video: spot lighting, jump cuts, platform stages, empty spaces, slo-motion, breaking glass, fog, bifurcated screens, costumes, nonsense—you name it.

Unbeknownst to me at that time, Capitol tacked this single on to Duran Duran’s first, self-titled debut LP (1981) for the 1983 US re-release, to capitalize on the huge success of Rio’s “Hungry Like the Wolf”.  Until this post, I was always confused at the range of style changes and images that we took in from Duran in ’83, and why I assumed this look was from 1981.  We were all taking in so much British fashion then it was impossible to sort any of it out.  The video, however, was sharp, clean, and brilliant, the clothes still holding a bit of the New Romantic flounce and swagger, but cut leaner, and cleaner; the bandmembers, by now seasoned stars, had clothes, hair and makeup all perfected in an exactitude of knowing postures, and the song was one of their best, and hookiest, with old touches of guitar from their previous work, and with synth-work that looked forward to the next record.  But in 1983, I thought that this was vintage Duran.

Fashion is a curiously hard thing to pin down, especially considering the clothes from London and Birmingham in the late 70s and early 80s.  I would submit that a classic, classic New Romantic look would be the Duran Duran of 1981: lots of makeup, lots of flounce and ruffles, lots of teased up hair (even a ponytail, here or there).  The beginning of the look sprang up alongside of punk (which was anarchic and utilitarian); Bowie and Bolan would be among the New Romantic inspirations.  By the time of the 80s things moved quickly, and Malcolm McClaren and Vivienne Westwood’s Sex shop become involved (Westwood’s Pirate collection in 1981—think Adam and the Ants—is a clear expansion of New Romantic fashion); however the Sex shop was also an expression of Punk fashion, and much more avant-garde, so the ideas began to merge and mutate.  By 1983, to be called a New Romantic band became an insult (and to these eyes a downright homophobic assault on foppery and artifice) and many bands distanced themselves from the title, if not outright denied it. Even a band like Spandau Ballet (a true New Romantic sensation from the Blitz club in London) moved away from those associations, and began to wear suits.  With the Duran of 1983 everything was trimmed down but one could see they were unashamed; if their clothes flounced less, they still had the spirit in them.  This was in contrast to the bands that resented the association for whatever reason: ABC, Depeche Mode, The Human League, Soft Cell, Simple Minds, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, and Talk Talk.  The other band closely associated with it, Culture Club, was fronted by Boy George, whose fashion sense ran from Bowie to Punk.  He seemed neither to take offense nor to care what they called him as long as they were looking.

Back in America I was watching all of this late at night on television—too late.  Many of these styles had emerged and were already smoldering in the ashes before we could understand or appropriate them here.  New wave we got, New Romantic we did not.  It did all rather re-flower in the mid to late 80s for us, however.  Looking at the back of the vinyl from the offshoot band Arcadia (with three members of Duran, 1985) I would say their old style had returned.  Around this period there were lots of brooches and asymmetrical haircuts, lots of layers, and lots of unashamed extra everything from nearly every pop artist everywhere. I think the British divisions had finally synthesized into a catch-all aesthetic.  In fact, it was this extra-ness that we now think of in America when we think of 1980s pop music. 

Back cover from Arcadia's So Red The Rose (1985)

But please—don’t call it New Romantic.  It just isn’t cool.

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There were so many styles that emerged in the 80s from the streets, but none better than Bananarama, who were never hard to understand, being appropriated from street culture in England.  Like the Go-Gos, when you saw them, it was pretty clear what they were doing stylistically, and it was never anachronistic. US or UK, you just got it.

Researching this entry, and looking around on the internet, I became interested in the word “naff”, which because it is British has had many permutations, but mostly means awful, ugly, no-good.  I texted my friend British Rachel for the definition:

Me: Define “naff” Her: Deely Boppers and Ra Ra skirts. That was the 80s here.  Nightmare.   Thank god for Bananarama!

On an internet message board from The Guardian, I found a more complete, and complex, definition:

Naff is polari (or palare), the gay urban secret language developed in London to ensure conversational privacy in public when talking about gay sex or insulting straight people. Polari was widespread in London, and particularly in the theatre, from the 1940s-1960s, suffered a decline in the 1970s and 1980s, and has had a revival since the 1990s. It consists of snippets of Italian, Latin, Spanish, Yiddish, Cockney Rhyming Slang, Black-slang and acronyms. Naff is an example of the latter - Normal As Fuck - and means drab, unfashionable, dull. By extension, it is a defining characteristic of straight people, who lack the style and swagger of the urban homosexuals.

- Gerard Forde, London, UK

Well. Excluding Duran Duran, of course.

[nuguabo]

album of the week: rio by duran duran

favorites: the chauffeur, save a prayer, new religion, last chance on the stairway, hungry like the wolf (so like most of the album...)

🚗🙏🐺🏞️

the chauffeur is such a gorgeous song and such a standout track on this album imo. i think it was the first duran duran song i ever listened to so maybe im a little biased

[duranduratulsa]

Duran Duran - Hungry like the Wolf (Official Music Video)

Duran Duran song 🎵 of the day: Hungry Like The Wolf (1982) from Rio #duranduran #hungrylikethewolf #rio #duranduranrio #simonlebon #nickrhodes #johntaylor #andytaylor #rogertaylorduranduran #rogertaylor #80s

[sillyname30]

I just listened to the latest episode of and that's what you really missed on Glee. It seems like Jenna and Kevin really changed their attitude. They are positive. They are not complaining as much. Jenna seems to be really into it. They talked about Darren.

Matt Bomer suggested to Ryan Murpy that he should consider Somebody That I Used to Know as a duet on the show. A week later Matt received a text from Ryan asking if he wanted to come at the show and sing it.

Jenna and Kevin talked about the Cooper Anderson's audition tape and wished it was in the episode. The chemistry of Matt and Darren was unreached.

Kevin talked about working with Dianna. Some of the stuff at the steep ramp was ad lib. The hysterically laugh was really. Kevin catching Dianna when she starts to roll backwards was real. Kevin said that when they got to do scenes with people they weren't normally paired with it was so much fun.

Jenna said that Eric Stoltz was the only director that would call somebody in who wasn't written in the scene. She loves Eric Stoltz, but she didn't love that because they were never not in a scene. (I'm not sure what she wanted to say. Maybe that they did have less free time?)

Jenna said fiming at the amusement park was awesome. The whole parking lot was empty. It was just their trailers. She loves roller coasters, but she hurt her back really bad before that and had to sit out most of it.

Jenna said that if you're a really good actor (like Matt Bomer) you have to play against all of your instinct to be that bad.

Kevin said Darren got something to do. They all got into like a rhythm of the character, what their everyday lives and dramas are. And Blaine all of the sudden gets irritated the entire time. And it's so amazing to see somebody who is so likeable like Matt Bomer come in and then have a character that hates him. And Darren was so good at it.

Kevin said it was a showcase of Matt's abilities and range and also for Darren because they all got to do things that were outside the norm for them.

Kevin mentioned Matt's Instagram post of Darren in Little Shop of Horrors. (thanks to the anon who sent it to him.)

cringe moments: I'm Still Standing (in the context)

best dance move: Hungry Like a Wolf/Rio (Kevin), skate park (Jenna)

best song: Somebody Like I Used to Know (Kevin), Fighter (Jenna)

performance mvp: Matt Bomer

[duran-duran-less-official]

Actually, ever since that anonymous mutual (whose identity I still don't know) asked me to recommend them some Duran Duran, I've been mulling over the answer in my head. I think, broadly, there are

Six Tiers of Duran Duran Song Appreciation

and I kind of want to explain my previous answer in this context, because there's a LOT of hidden gems over Duran Duran's career, and some are more hidden than others. If you actually want to go on a deep dive into Duran Duran's music, this is a guide to how deep you're going.

Note: these songs exist on a spectrum of awareness vs. subjective quality, so the tiers are approximate, and the whole thing is iceberg-shaped.

Tier 1: Signature songs.

These are the ones everyone knows. All of these are on the Greatest album released in 1999. This is where you find Hungry Like The Wolf, Rio, Girls on Film, The Reflex, A View To A Kill, Ordinary World, Notorious, basically any song that people are likely to have already heard without knowing it was a Duran Duran song.

Tier 2: Singles that got overshadowed by bigger singles or were on unsuccessful albums.

A lot of these are still on the Greatest album, but aren't quite as familiar to the general public. Again, this all exists on a spectrum, but you'd find things like Careless Memories or Come Undone at the top end of this tier and Electric Barbarella at the bottom end. All singles post-1993 are on this list, and singles post-2000 aren't even on the Greatest album. Ever heard Falling Down ft. Justin Timberlake? Ever heard someone recommend it?

Other standouts in this tier include I Don't Want Your Love, Skin Trade, and inexplicably, White Lines (Don't Do It) featuring Grandmaster Flash, The Furious Five, and Melle Mel.

Tier 3: Songs that Duran Duran fans will always recommend as hidden gems.

This is a large tier, and taste is subjective, so the waters get even muddier here. Most of these don't have their own pages on Wikipedia, so you have to scratch beneath the surface to find them. The Chauffeur is the undisputed king of this tier, being both a universally beloved song in the fandom, and having its own music video, but not being a single. If there's a song on an album that slaps, but was never released as a single, Duran Duran fans will say "You HAVE to listen to this!" right after you've finished listening to Greatest. When I answered the anonymous ask, I was mostly operating in Tiers 1 and 3. Definitive songs, and definitive underappreciated songs.

There's a fair few songs that occupy this tier, depending on taste, and some of the standout ones include My Antarctica, Beautiful Colours, Finest Hour, Night Boat, and Paper Gods.

Tier 4: Regular rotation songs.

These are the songs you need to dig fairly deep to listen to, like in most contexts you're listening to a whole album and stumbling on these in between the songs you know. You aren't, like, avoiding them or anything, they come around every so often, but one time you sit up and say "damn, this is good actually, how did I sleep on this one for so long?" This is where I'd put songs like Friends of Mine, Vertigo, I Take The Dice, and anything major that Duran Duran side-projects Arcadia and Power Station made back in the mid-80s.

Tier 5: Songs you have to dig deep for.

Duran Duran have been around for 40 years now, and it's understandable that you skip over songs from time to time, or just forget they exist. Discovering those is like discovering all-new material, but you've got to turn over every leaf to find them. This is where I'd put Cry Baby Cry (Red Carpet Massacre Japanese Bonus Track, 2007), and anything else from Arcadia/Power Station.

Tier 6: Songs even Duran Duran fans don't like.

Hey.

Do you like the song Bedroom Toys (Astronaut, 2004)? ... Yeah, okay, I kind of like it too.

Do you like the song Dirty Great Monster (Red Carpet Massacre, 2007)? I ... can't help you there.

Do you like Duran Duran's cover of 911 Is A Joke by Public Enemy (Thank You, 1995)? You are lying.

[gleesongtournament]

Glee Song Tournament Round One Part 3

Mash Ups (1/2)

Mr Roboto/Counting Stars vs I Love New York/New York New York

Rumor Has It/Someone Like You vs Bye Bye Bye/I Want It That Way

You Learn/You’ve Got A Friend vs Homeward Bound/Home

Hungry Like The Wolf/Rio vs Hit Me With Your Best Shot/One Way Or Another

Singin In The Rain/Umbrella vs Start Me Up/Livin On A Prayer

Moves Like Jagger/Jumpin Jack Flash vs One Less Bell To Answer/A House Is Not A Home

Nasty/Rhythm Nation vs Anyway You Want It/Lovin Touchin Squeezin

Centerfold/Hot In Herre vs Americano/Dance Again

Don’t Stand So Close To Me/Young Girl vs Diamonds Are A Girl’s Best Friend/Material Girl

Happy Days Are Here Again/Get Happy vs Crazy/U Drive Me Crazy

[chickrawker]

Duran Duran at WFC Philly 9/7/23

I don't think teenager me would ever have guessed that 50 year old me would be at a Duran Duran concert but teenager me was wrong about pretty much everything. The last time I saw DD was in the mid 90s and I had a fantastic time so I was pretty happy to get a show here.

Duran Duran

Wells Fargo Center

Philadelphia PA

9/7/23

Night Boat

The Wild Boys

Hungry Like the Wolf

A View to a Kill

Notorious

GIVE IT ALL UP

Lonely in Your Nightmare / Super Freak

Is There Something I Should Know?

ANNIVERSARY

Friends of Mine

Careless Memories

Ordinary World

Come Undone

Planet Earth

White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)

The Reflex

Girls on Film / Acceptable in the 80's

Encore:

Save a Prayer

Rio

Not like I would have doubted it but DD brought a show! Screens, light show etc etc. Simon Le Bon was VERY talkative and hot (for an old guy) with his silver pants. He definitely gave Philly a lot of love, noting all the places they have played here previously. Notably saving Spectrum Center and Live Aid for last (where he said that they first played AVTAK at that performance.) I loved that he introduced Planet Earth with "this one's for the new romantics". I also really enjoyed seeing his dynamic with the also still hot John Taylor. They did a lot of singing practically cheek to cheek and that was absolutely fantastic.

Let's talk about visuals next. Lots of cool sequences but Simon specifically called out the creepy baby for Lonely in Your Nightmare (one of my favorite DD songs.) I was also happy to get Careless Memories which was punctuated by the lyrics flashing on the screens. The two covers (Super Freak and White Lines) were great - I knew that they do White Lines live but Super Freak was unexpectedly awesome.

And the encore. Simon played guitar during Save A Prayer! He encouraged a sing-a-long! The visuals were great! Ending on Rio was a huge high, I mean who doesn't love Rio.

Lots of video on my insta!