Track Listing
1. Someone Else Not Me
2. Lava Lamp
3. Playing With Uranium
4. Hallucinating Elvis
5. Starting To Remember
6. Pop Trash Movie
7. Fragment
8. Mars Meets Venus
9. Lady Xanax
10. Sun...
11. Kiss Goodbye
12. Last Day On Earth
| Details | | Number of CDs: | 1 | | Producer: | TV Mania | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo |
Album Notes
Duran Duran: Simon LeBon, Warren Cuccurullo, Nick Rhodes.Additional personnel: Guy Farley (piano); John Tonks (drums, electronic percussion); Steve Alexander, Gregg Bissonette (drums); Luis Conte (percussion); Mark Tinley, Blumpy (programming); Sally Boyden (background vocals)."We'll all be famous for 15 minutes," sings Duran Duran in the title song of its first album of the 21st century, and it's entitled to that Warholian perception if anyone is; after all, it doesn't want to have to stage another comeback. The album's title, however, also seems to refer to the its willful eclecticism. There's no over-arching sound here; the point seems to be that the various styles the band employs from song to song here are in its opinion either equally valid or (more likely) equally disposable. That said, this is an extremely likeable album, more genuinely tuneful than anything it's come up with in years. Highpoints include "Someone Else Not Me," a big, pillowy ballad that sounds like the Verve minus the earnestness. "Lava Lamp" is a positively addictive '60s psychedelic pastiche, complete with sitar and what sounds like (but probably isn't) a vocal sample from "A Day in the Life." "Playing with Uranium," has a big, distorted, '90s grunge guitar sound, while "Starting to Remember" could be an outtake from an early John Lennon solo album.
Editorial Reviews
3 stars out of 5 - ...Shows off their jaded hooks and nasty wit; it's for fans only, but those of us who still crumple at the opening hiccups of 'Hungry Like The Wolf' will be glad for another fix...
Rolling Stone (08/17/2000)
3 stars out of 5 - ...Proves to be far from embarrassing, with the single 'Someone Else Not Me' recycling the groove from their 1993 comeback single 'Ordinary World' to nice effect...
Q (08/01/2000)
3 stars out of 5 - ...Shows off their jaded hooks and nasty wit; it's for fans only, but those of us who still crumple at the opening hiccups of 'Hungry Like The Wolf' will be glad for another fix...Q (8/00, p.98) - 3 stars out of 5 - ...Proves to be far from embarrassing, with the single 'Someone Else Not Me' recycling the groove from their 1993 comeback single 'Ordinary World' to nice effect...
Rolling Stone (08/17/2000)
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