Paper Gods
by Duran Duran

Paper Gods by Duran Duran
Year: 2015
Release date: 2015-09-11
Overall rank: 33,700th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
65/100 (from 26 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2015 (814th)
Award Top albums of the 2010s (8,082nd)
Award Best albums of all time (33,700th)

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Duran Duran bestography

Paper Gods is ranked 13th best out of 23 albums by Duran Duran on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Duran Duran is Rio which is ranked number 579 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 2,915.

Duran Duran album bestography « Higher ranked (31,280th)
All You Need Is Now
This album (33,700th)
Paper Gods
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Paper Gods

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Paper Gods track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 74 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Overall rank: 33,700th | 2010s rank: 8,082nd | 2015 rank: 814th

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65/100 (from 26 votes)
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08/18/2025 16:16 NYAndreas  Ratings distribution  1,43344/100
 
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From 10/19/2017 08:58 | #199726


there are some classic DD on the Paper Gods album.......
you kill me in silence
pressure off
face for today
what are the chances
butterfly girl
the universe alone
..... all are great DD songs - brilliant

however the rest of the album for me falls in to the trap of trying to be too current

where as the previous album and the brilliant Mr Ronson looked to the past to create the wonderful and consistant "All you need is now"

Paper Gods suffers from trying too hard to "fit in"

thowing current "stars" like Kiesza & Jonas Bjerre on the record to make it sound current makes it sound very confused rather than current or diverse

songs like change the skyline and last night in the city do not sit well with the classic sounding DD songs that i mentioned above

i dont know what "dancephopia is all about ????

however the title tack is clever and combines old DD with new beats etc and it does work on this occassion.

so Paper Gods is not all bad... there are 6 really brilliant song and a few ok ones ,
BUT, with the inclusion of the poor out of place ones, it all sound very messy and confused rather than diverse and new .......which is what i think they were aiming for.
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