Duran Duran (studio album) by Duran Duran

Duran Duran by Duran Duran
Year: 1981
Overall rank: 2,472nd   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 195 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1981 (42nd)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (375th)
Award Best albums of all time (2,472nd)
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Duran Duran Duran Duran 12" Vinyl LP 1983 Capitol ST 512158
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Duran Duran bestography

Duran Duran is ranked 2nd best out of 23 albums by Duran Duran on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Duran Duran is Rio which is ranked number 572 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 3,079.

Duran Duran album bestography « Higher ranked (572nd) This album (2,472nd) Lower ranked (5,770th) »
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Duran Duran track list

  Track ratingsTrack ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Rating: 83 (89 votes)Comments: 1
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Rating: 82 (74 votes)Comments: 2
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Rating: 75 (40 votes)Comments: 0
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Rating: 76 (39 votes)Comments: 0
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Duran Duran ratings

Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 195 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 22% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.0/100, a mean average of 72.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.3.

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100/100
From 06/09/2020 02:30
Awesome debut Girls on Film, Planet Earth, Careless Memories are well known. Lesser known gem for me is Friends of Mine. This helped define the New Romantic sound.
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85/100
From 09/14/2019 07:47
Great new romantic album with some hidden gems like 'Night Boat' with its Thomas Dolbyesque very electric build up. 'Girls on Film', 'Careless Memories'and 'Planet Earth' are the standouts. There is more 'rock' than new romantic here really. Difficult to compare to 'Rio' as it is quite a different approach with a harder edge so I like both in equal measure for different reasons.
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65/100
From 03/09/2019 15:58
Best track: "Careless Memories"
Weakest track: "Tel Aviv"
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80/100
From 10/18/2017 12:03


The songs are incredible.....

However the focus on the "new romantic" sound lets it down

you can hear what the songs/album could have sounded like had it been produced differently on the live album Arena - strong and powerful rock rather than robotic/electronica

This would have been a classic 80's album like Rio had the production differed
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75/100
From 10/14/2016 21:29
Precursor to Rio, and not as good. The highlights are the first two tracks, obvious singles. A decent enough debut but the progression from this to Rio was significant.
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55/100
From 10/17/2014 21:19
Take the hits away and there aint much left to shout about best track here 'Planet Earth'
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From 03/27/2014 16:46
i have never understood what it is to be so great about duran duran. ok, in 1981 they were stylish and maybe sexy - but their songs (except exceptions) appear simple and fleeting to me.
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70/100
From 10/05/2012 13:58
My rating reflects the 1983 reissue including "is there something i should know?" (as track #5, pushing "to the shore" to the bottom). This was a cool debut from the mtv-stylish 80s hit machine. "Other" top tracks include "girls on film" and "planet earth".
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Best Albums of 1981
1. Moving Pictures by Rush
2. Computerwelt [Computer World] by Kraftwerk
3. Discipline by King Crimson
4. Juju by Siouxsie And The Banshees
5. My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts by Brian Eno & David Byrne
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