Medazzaland
by Duran Duran

Medazzaland by Duran Duran
Year: 1997
Overall rank: 61,199th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
64/100 (from 30 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1997 (984th)
Award Top albums of the 1990s (9,191st)
Award Best albums of all time (61,199th)

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Duran Duran bestography

Medazzaland is ranked 16th best out of 23 albums by Duran Duran on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Duran Duran is Rio which is ranked number 580 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 2,913.

Duran Duran album bestography « Higher ranked (50,207th)
Thank You
This album (61,199th)
Medazzaland
Lower ranked (64,521st) »
Red Carpet Massacre

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Overall rank: 61,199th | 1990s rank: 9,191st | 1997 rank: 984th

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From 10/19/2017 08:14 | #199723


Very underrated album

very experimental, very diverse

but did not sit well with their ususal audience and unfortunately did not break into any new ones

love out of my mind, big band and of course Electric Barbarella
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From 06/27/2017 16:33 | #193299
Their self-titled wedding album marked the beginning of a new era for Duran Duran. Their 80s output was geared toward a marketable popularity all fancy, sparkly, fashionably stylish and ready-made for radio. Their self-titled released cooled the jets a bit on style replacing it with a more sincere approach to songwriting. That paid off with haunting numbers like "ordinary world" and "come undone", and after a covers album side-step, Duran Duran continued their more serious musical endeavors geared more towards artful creativity than bombastic popularity on "Medazzaland".

"Medazzaland", LeBon's drug trip, has its own haunting masterpiece "Out Of My Mind" embedded amidst a couple numbers reminiscent of "too much information" and dedications to Michael Hutchence (just before he committed suicide) and Kurt Cobain (after he committed suicide, of course). The entire effort is only tripped up from being another solid album in their canon by the opening, almost-spoken-word track with Nick Rhodes on lead vocals.
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