If you're a fan of '80s music, it's pretty likely you're a fan of Duran Duran. It was now okay to be a fan of The Smiths, The Cure, Joy Division and Duran Duran. While I knew the words to nearly everything that had come out until this time, I was still a closeted Duran Duranie. Yes, because of MTV we were hit with Duran Duran all the time but it was hard to take a band that appeared on Tiger Beat seriously. Maybe that's why it's Duran Duran's highest charting single in Australia?Īnyway, while it was a departure from their new wave dance tracks like "Rio," "Girls On Film," and "The Reflex," it's the song that actually sold me on Duran Duran. The result was a dark, danceable war chant more suited to the ravaged post-apocalyptic world of Mad Max than the clubs of Soho. The song combines a danceable edge - pounding electronic drums and percussive beats - with the hard-rocking guitar riffs of Andy Taylor. Burroughs novel The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead, came to life after Duran Duran video director Russell Mulcahy suggested he wanted to make a film out of the surreal, dystopian novel and wanted Duran Duran to provide the soundtrack, something Queen would later do for The Highlander. "Wild Boys" is the only studio track on the live album (yes, I said was 1984 after all) Arena and was produced by Chic front man and dance music legend Nile Rodgers. We even included a few tracks from Thank You, which was foolishly named the Worst Album Of All Time in a 2006 Q magazine poll: This week, we decided to rank our favorite Duran Duran songs.
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