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Recorded live on tour in Australia, the United Kingdom, Japan, Canada, and the United States in 1984.
ARENA's high point is its one studio cut, the Nile Rodgers-produced single "The Wild Boys," a minimalist art-funk song that takes its title from William Burroughs, its found sound/cut-up production from Trevor Horn's Art of Noise, and its Spartan funk-pop groove from Prince. A musical Frankenstein creation, it's also an oddly effective single that was perhaps just slightly too weird for the band's teenybopper following; it was a lesser hit than the band's status would have otherwise signified.
It's that high public standing which created this live document, a recording made at various dates on the band's 1983-84 tour in support of its third album, SEVEN AND THE RAGGED TIGER. Drawing material from all three albums and focusing on hit singles such as "Hungry Like the Wolf" and "Rio," ARENA presents the songs in pristine versions that differ only slightly from the studio cuts.
Though '80s nostalgia was an inevitability, the truth is that some of the most influential voices of that era never went away. The members of Duran Duran had their mortgages paid off long before GREATEST was conceived, so their sincerity in releasing a best of album is not to be doubted. One listen is enough to convince the most forgetful fan that every once in a while, the musical taste of teenage girls is right on the mark.
GREATEST follows the teen heartthrobs from their inspiring early days (the quintessential new wave anthem "Planet Earth," the stylish, more-than-suggestive "Girls On Film") straight through to their later work ("Electric Barbarella," a whirring, modern dance cut). In between, the classic "Hungry Like The Wolf" and the mournful "Save A Prayer" give evidence of the band's mastery of the pop form, while the Bond theme "View To A Kill" and "Notorious" trace their development during the decade with which they are inextricably linked.
Live Recording
Personnel includes: Duran Duran; Jonathan Elias (samples).
Producers include: Duran Duran, Nile Rodgers, Bernard Edwards, Chris Kimsey, Daniel Abraham.
Compilation producer: Nigel Reeve.
Audio Mixers: Daniel Abraham; Ian Little; David Richards ; Jason Corsaro; Alex Sadkin; Nile Rodgers; Anthony J. Resta; Shep Pettibone; Steve Peck; Bob Rosa; Bob St. John .
Duran Duran: Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes, Andy Taylor, Roger Taylor, John Taylor.
Additional personnel: Andy Hamilton, Raphael Dejesus, B.J. Nelson, Charmaine Burch.
Duran Duran Greatest Songs Greatest Music Review Average Rating: (4.3 out of 5 stars)   List All Reviews Like the tittle says "greatest"!!!
Este cd me encanta!! I love every single song in this cd and like someone said before.. their are the very same songs that I used to hear growing up.
Submitted by bettybohigian (Victorville, CA, USA) 
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A welcome return from Eighties Icons Duran, Duran. "Reach Up (for the Sunrise)" is a certified smash in Canada and on the Billboard Dance charts. Toronto's CHUM Radio has been heralding the band's triumphant return to North America as their first Toronto Stadium Concert in Decades approaches. (It's also a return of sorts by Lead Man Simon LeBon to the City that he once called home. He resided in Toronto's "High Park" during the height of their Eighties Fame). Another CD that fans of Duran Duran should check out is AMBER - My Kind of World. This CD nicely complements Duran Duran's latest. The first Single, the ALT Rock infused "You Move Me" has already hit #1 Stateside on XM Radio. And the Second Single "Voodoo" is being readied for an early 2005 Commercial release. Fans should also check out the Pat Benatar-esque "Just Like That" and the Whitney Houston Meets Pat Benatar Power Ballad "Sacrificial Lamb". Billboard Magazine in it's glowing review said that Amber deserves a spot in the Mainstream. My advice? Get BOTH Duran, Duran and AMBER - My Kind of World.
Submitted by KDS (TORONTO)
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Pasara mucho tiempo para escuchar buenos
temas como los realizados por Duran Duran...
Submitted by guscrisan (PERU-Lima)
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An outstanding collection, containing many more hits then the one that preceded it. But also, like "Decade," what prevents "Greatest" from earning a full five stars is that insidious disease that afflicts most wanna-be great hits lineups: "songus interruptus." Nothing destroys a greatest hits compilation more than stingily edited versions of the tunes you most want to hear in full flower, like "Skin Trade."
A good addition to your collection if you don't already have "Decade" (I do,) but I'd hold out for a definitive boxed set that contains the FULL versions of EVERY song, even the ones you may not be so crazy about.
Submitted by dcscribe (Arlington, VA)
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All the best from Hungry to Undone and some great post Power Station/Arcadia stuff I had never heard before like All She Wants and I Don't Want. They crammed as much as possible here, it's like a very fulfulling buffet at a respectable restaurant.
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