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albummaster
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Location: Spain
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- #1
- Posted: 04/15/2015 20:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#1598): Rio by Duran Duran
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Today's album of the day
Rio by Duran Duran (View album | Buy this album)
Year: 1982.
Country: 
Overall rank: 693
Average rating: 75/100 (from 220 votes).
Tracks:
1. Rio
2. My Own Way
3. Lonely In Your Nightmare
4. Hungry Like The Wolf
5. Hold Back The Rain
6. New Religion
7. Last Chance On The Stairway
8. Save A Prayer
9. The Chauffeur
About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.
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Infinity183
Gender: Female
- #2
- Posted: 04/16/2015 08:31
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I've listened to this album a couple of times, and it's really another case in which the singles are the best songs by far. Hungry Like the Wolf and the title track are undeniable early 80s anthems, and Save a Prayer is also worth mentioning, but most of the other songs have pretty laggy melodic progressions or just overshoot their own ambitions. This album might grow on me with time, but right now I personally think there is much better music from this genre and period.
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Listmeister
Gender: Male
Location: Ohio 
- #3
- Posted: 04/17/2015 18:43
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The song, Rio, always puts an image in my head (which has nothing to do with the video). A blonde girl, bikini top, grass skirt, flowers around her wrists and ankles. She dancing on the sandy bank of a river. No vegetation anywhere, just her, and the river, and the sand, and the purple twilight sky. This image has been with me since the 80's. I have no idea where I got it from.
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- Posted: 04/17/2015 18:47
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| Infinity183 wrote: | | I've listened to this album a couple of times, and it's really another case in which the singles are the best songs by far. Hungry Like the Wolf and the title track are undeniable early 80s anthems, and Save a Prayer is also worth mentioning, but most of the other songs have pretty laggy melodic progressions or just overshoot their own ambitions. This album might grow on me with time, but right now I personally think there is much better music from this genre and period. |
One of the most consistent mainstream pop albums from that period actually. I think you in particular will really dig it with repeat spins. "The Chauffeur" was my jam. And that bass line in "New Religion" alone made babies in my junior high.
Last edited by RepoMan on 04/17/2015 18:50; edited 1 time in total
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Norman Bates
Gender: Male
Age: 52
Location: Paris, France 
- #5
- Posted: 04/17/2015 18:48
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| Listmeister wrote: | | A blonde girl, bikini top, grass skirt, flowers around her wrists and ankles. She dancing on the sandy bank of a river. No vegetation anywhere, just her, and the river, and the sand, and the purple twilight sky. |
Funny. When I think of "Rio" the song, I always see a white guy in an all-white suit sipping on a cocktail straw, in a nice comfy colonial setting.
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