Let’s talk about Duran Duran’s sophomore album, Rio. While the band has produced many great albums over the last 40 years, I believe this is their masterwork. Bouncy and light, dark and mysterious, Rio has a bit of everything. The bass is featured heavily in just about every song, and the band overall displays lyrical and songwriting prowess. This album has so many great songs, I’ll need to make two parts just for this album.
You will be familiar, no doubt, with mega-hits “Rio” and “Hungry Like The Wolf”. Both excellent pieces of pop in their own right, but let’s dive deeper, shall we?
Lonely in Your Nightmare – 1982. There’s something so…sexy about this song. A sense longing for a lost love, an attempt at re-seduction. With haunting harmonies on the chorus, this song makes me want to fall in love with a mysterious stranger.
Because there’s heat beneath your winter, let me in
Last Chance on the Stairway – 1982. To me this song is a bit of a departure. Less in the New Romantic style, it gives me more of a 90’s college radio soft-alt-rock vibe. Simon Le Bon notes that this song is about a night out and coming home with a beautiful companion. Notice the frenetic bass line compared to the smooth lyrics. I really dig the unexpected xylophone interlude.
It could be the atmosphere sinkingOoh, I don’t know what you’re thinkingI don’t even know what you’re drinkingBut it keeps this heaven alive
Next up, a couple more from Rio, including an entry from the Itty Bitty Titty Committee.
Last chance on the stairway
Daughter #2 was almost named “Rio”.
We went with “Zephyr”.
Decided to toughen her up at an early age?
Perhaps he is a fan of failed lefty New York gubernatorial candidates.
Senor Dean, per your comment earlier, The Bullshit: https://walterkirn.substack.com/p/the-bullshit
That was excellent. Thanks for sharing it.
Either way, it was going to be a music reference.
Wrong reference but I couldn’t find the exact one
This is what I came up with.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCfBomTiuEw
This is it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Tn1RvDXJ5M
Nice. You didn’t strike me as a Chili Peppers kinda guy, I was just being a smartass.
Never heard of the band. But I digging this.
Thanks for the link.
The opening track, at least, is awesome.
They are a regional favorite from back in the day. This is a great album (with unfortunate engineering; the bass hammers some times)
Saw them once as the warmup band. Candy was amazing.
I’m trying to find their third album on digital.
I just realized High Flying Bird from that album was being looped before showtime when I saw Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds.
All of their albums are available pretty cheap on used CD on Discogs. I myself am not involved in criminal mischief, but I’ve heard from various rapscallions that they can all be found in 320 MP3 or FLAC on soulseek as well.
LeBon…Simon LeBon
Nice! As a big fan of The Hits but not familiar with the deep cuts, I appreciate these.
frenetic bass line
Good grief… there’s another version of them performing this in 2022 (!). They’re all old and fat – I can’t identify the members other than the singer but they’re old and fat too so maybe they’re the originals – and kind of sad.
I’m not sure how I feel about senior citizens performing 40-year-old songs.
The Stones did it well,
Last show I went to was The Shins in 2017, and I had the same feeling. And James Mercer isn’t even that old. But seeing a, what, 45 year old guy at the time, greying scraggly hipster beard, with the skinny jeans, playing 15 year old songs to an audience of nostalgic former-hipsters, there was just something a little sad about it. The show was great, I enjoyed it, but I felt a little guilty enjoying it, like I should have grown up, and so should every person on stage. At the same time, that seems more like a “me” problem, and if other people are enjoying themselves, and the band is still connecting with their audience, why shouldn’t they get out there and keep at it? I’m a bit torn on the subject. It sucks getting old.
Agreed.
I just find that with rare exceptions – none that I have personally experienced – I don’t enjoy it. The “vitality” for lack of a better word is gone.
My wife got roped into seeing Bryan Adams this summer. She’s not a fan, but doing a favor for a friend. He’ll be 64 years old.
So this will be the summer of 69?
I think this varies widely. About ten years ago ago I saw Missing Persons and The Romantics on the same bill. Missing Persons was embarrassing The Romantics were terrific. I saw Black Sabbath on their final tour. Ozzy’s marbles are loose but he could sing. Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler were out of this world. I’m glad I saw them before they called it quits.
Upper Midwesters & Plainsers be safe! ❄️❄️❄️
Winter storm warning here. Gonna goin work early tomorrow morning anyways.
it should miss me, but my momma and brother downstate are expecting 20-24 inches of snow.
Jealous.
We’re getting, uh, slightly below freezing temperatures and no precipitation.
We still have time in NYC for a nice nor’easter but time is running out and it has not snowed at all this year.
Is there a remastered version of Ordinary World? Heard the original on Apple Music today in the car and it is such a shit mix. It was followed by Human by the Human League which sounded incredible in comparison, and was released six years earlier! Sonically, they are similarly structured songs.
David Richards did the mixing on all of the Duran Duran wedding album tracks save 2. I guess Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis know what they’re doing?
Wiki sez:
Holy Shite…
Rio is my fave song and video from Duran Duran. I mean it is not even close.
It’s a true classic.
Is this an open post tangent going off on thread yet? I mean hasn’t the 5 minutes, 3 post rule kicked in yet?
OT: World is going to shit.
You’re welcome.
You just won the internet…
Duran Duran does not have one song about Firsting. Sad!
That’s Band of Horses
It is comical to me that Disney had Marvel as an example for Star Wars, and said fuck it and just winged everything. It was a disaster. They have not known what to do with Star Wars since and have only produced a couple of middling (at best) Disney+ shows. You’d think they’d get a few smart people and give them control to map shit out. Have a plan to exploit your multi-billion dollar IP.
Instead, they’ve gone the opposite direction and said fuck-it. We’ll just make up everything as we go along with Marvel, and they’ve put a bunch of people in charge of projects who don’t take said projects seriously. If you are hiring people to write your comic book shit whose own attitude is that comic book stuff isn’t serious and thus doesn’t have to make sense or that they don’t have to try to make something enjoyable, they’re the wrong people for the job.
Also – you may lose less money if you don’t spend tens of millions of dollars on reshoots for every movie you make. Is it really that hard for the largest media company in the country to hire someone to produce a solid script for a fucking comic book movie and for the people who make it to just stick with a plan?
Or just stopping making fucking comic book movies.
Superheroes = minstrel shows of the modern era. With luck, they’ll be a historic footnote.
Actually that’s an insult to minstrel shows.
They’re not going to stop so they might as well not make complete trash?
Superman: The Movie is about as far as I get with that stuff.
OK, Superman II was good too.
Terrence Stamp, Gene Hackman, and Ned Beatty.
Also Glenn Ford, Harry Andrews, and Major Nelson/JR.
Your words to Gods ears.
I disagree.
I loved Deadpool and Guardians of the Galaxy.
Heath Ledger as Joker was brilliant.
Joaquin Phoenix was brilliant in a different way.
I thoroughly enjoyed the Peacemaker TV show.
It’s not that hard. Write a good story; get some good talent; burn down the CGI houses.
Guardians of the Galaxy is great.
I have not seen the Joaquin version of The Joker yet, I have to watch that one.
How the fuck does one get a name like that anyway? His parents hippies or something?
You have no idea
Without clicking, seriously Portlandia material, right? *clicks… Oh FFS!*
That’s a fairly rosy spin on it, too, compared to some other accounts:
Man, this is my sister. Her kid’s are named Sunshine and Cashina and Star and Sky and … I lost track of them. She’s adopted like 20 kids and 8 or 10 of them her own, I think and it’s like some sort of commune shit and now she’s near Portlandia and Gawd my family is the most dysfunctional mess I’ve ever seen, it’s no wonder I am so fucked up. I think insanity runs in my family. My niece and youngest brother have been involved in some sort of Facebook war for years now where they call the cops on each other and their kids and sue each other every other week. I stay as far away from all of them as I can. There is not distance great enough. When is Musk going to Mars so I can try to stowaway?
Geez, sorry to hear that. I also come from a family of dysfunctional fuckups, although more run of the mill white trash dysfunction. Mercifully, I haven’t had ties with any of them in well over a decade.
River was born in Oregon, yes.
Lots of weirdo cults, some still lingering on, from the 70’s around here.
I have the white trash offshoots also. My dad was a musician and wild man. I don’t even know how may brother’s and sisters I have that I haven’t met. I think dad was trying to one up Genghis Khan on the number of offspring he fathered. I have two brothers who are dead now that are half brothers, one from alcohol and the other motorcycle head on crash with a telephone poll. Another sister I just met in Ohio, she doesn’t talk too much, she probably met the rest of my family and it scared the fuck out of her.
My 2 older sister’s are thieves. I mean it’s terrible, like kleptos and scammers. The youngest of them, the hippie flower child would steal anything you didn’t lock up for as long as I can remember she’d steal shit from me. She had this tramp who was in love with her and would go into malls and stuff and steal for her and the girl went to prison for that shit and it made me hate my sister because of it we still do not talk, have not talked in years and I’m not sure her commune is some sort of cult by now, I just don’t want to know.
My niece and her husband went really religious, like really into Jesus like you see on these TV evangelist shows. I’m not criticizing them, but they were close with my youngest brother and then Facebook happened and they suddenly started attacking each other over FB posts and it got really bad. And that’s when I deleted my FB account and never looked back. I don’t even have to make this shit up, it’s a fucked up soap opera.
My mom and dad were good people and they are gone now and the rest of the mess just fell apart. My wife’s family is incredible, I mean I am insanely jealous that she has that and I’ve somehow got them to semi adopt me, lol, so maybe I will be OK, I dunno.
Re: Ledger, Phoenix, etc.
You could go all the way back to Darkman in 1990. Liam Neeson kicking ass and chewing on scenery (which has made him Scrooge McDuck levels of money in the last thirty years).
“Liam Neeson”
Ain’t the Joy’s GF or something?
I heard that, sad for Liam
Man, poor guy, what could he have done so bad as to deserve that?
You must have seen The Critical Drinker or Razorfist tee off on Disney. The level of corporate disfunction has been incredible. The complete surrender to wokeness is a financial problem and partly explains the hostility some writers had for the movies and shows.
Is there anything that is not woke infested? You just have to pretend like it’s not there. Like the wife and I have been watching Carnival Row. The acting is great, I mean Imogen and the Puck, lol. that is some classic stuff. And then we find out that Vignette’s first romance is a black lesbian Fae. Well no one seen that coming!
Latest episode of CB Strike.
Duran Duran’s cover of White Lines was fantastic.
Party like it’s 2023 Nuclear Winter!
Phil X
Dude is one of the most seriously badass guitarists around.
Has he broken loose from Bon Jovi?
Fuck I don’t know. I think he must be a member of that Shrooms Subreddit. That shit makes me seriously LOL, most entertainment ever.
And I still cannot figure out which of you runs The Bee or is the editor or whatever, because whatever get posted here mysteriously winds up on there, I swear it!
Zeppelin AC/DC Fusion
Anyone got any shroomz? I don’t know what else goes good with this. Mescalito?
I’m enjoying this series KK. Not sure if you are aware of this but you might want to pick up the pace so you don’t have to do a eulogy.
https://people.com/health/duran-duran-andy-taylor-on-living-with-stage-4-prostate-cancer-not-giving-up-on-life/
Nothing could go wrong with this plan.
https://dailycaller.com/2023/02/21/air-force-promotions-race-equity-gender/
Nope, nothing at all.
“The U.S. Air Force’s diversity office”
Yeah, Putin and Xi are going to clack these guys heads together like Moe. We are really so seriously fucked. I’m leaving the US and I don’t know when you will see me around here again.
What would I do if I were Putin and Xi? I seriously pondered this and I could only come up with one possible move. And that is a first surprise ballistic strike attack on the USA. No matter how many times I ponder it, that is what I come up with. I think of a long drawn out starvation of a regime so stupid they are destroying themselves from the inside and I just sit and watch. And then Biden opens his stupid mouth. Gawd I want to ***** chip *** wood *** mulching *** devices…
I mean, at least it’s just the Chair Force, right? That kind of thing wouldn’t happen in the boots-on-the-ground, tip-of-the-spear branches… surely.
“Radar fixed airman?”
Uh, no, waiting on our diversity promotion to stop smoldering for touching the high voltage before we go in and fix it.
Yeah, wait until Blinken sends in the Blue Haired Obese Xe brigade, that will put the fear right into Putin. Doesn’t he have cancer and Ebola anyway? Not sure how he’s still alive.
For some reason I am seriously worried that the Diversity Squad are not quite up to a Stalingrad. But c’mon man! I mean Biden just might be able to back up that big stupid mouth of his. But him thinking this is some sort of show or fun when Xi and Putin are dead serious, this worries me a little, not sure why.
the Diversity Squad are not quite up to a Stalingrad
As front line fodder or as commissars to execute the non-koolaid drinkers, failures, and pretty much everyone else?
The AF is talking about going to war with china in 23 months.
No joke. 4 star said it.
3 star said it as a reason to work in office.
an employee of quarter got an award for building something in a far away place for going to war in china.
and this weekend i saw people practicing stuff.
some people are taking it seriously.
That’s…oddly specific. 😳
I just hear toilets flushing in the background.
What we really need are reserve and national guard offshoots of the Space Force. All with a 4 star head to sit at the little childrens table during Joint Staffs meetings.
Stop giving them ideas.
It wasn’t me!
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2023/02/17/creation-of-space-national-guard-gets-renewed-push-lawmakers.html
Isn’t that where the Space Force exists? Like the Marines it isn’t a separate branch.
Yeah but it needs to be a separate branch under another branch!
The present power is walking us into another world war on purpose. Whether it’s deep bribery corruption or whatever we’re going to war and it’s going to be ugly.
They’re going EMP our asses ans laugh as we collapse,
We are so fucked.
For some reason, when there are people saying they’d like to get the population of the earth down to 500 million. Let’s do some math there. That’s 7.5 billion dead people. We’d better take them seriously at this point. I think Putin and Xi have figured it out already. Covid was a dud and they might decide to not go that route again to ‘save the planet’, and China have already decided to not go there again. Instead back Putin into a corner where there is only one choice left. All those unused nukes, what to do?
It took Rome 450 years to collapse, us, more like four.
We aren’t going to make 250.
I moved back to the West coast for the fireworks,
Let it come.
Meh, I am trying to white pill it with the likes of Joran Norberg and Marian Tupy.
It ain’t over yet, kids. Quit listening to the doomsayers.
I quit the whole deal, a bit of work, and ignore the whole thing, I miss my country
Have a Stossel/Tupy white pill!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZmVLpfunzE&t=31s
I wasn’t built for Michigan, I belong here in Southern California, Let It Burn
“There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat;
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures.”
Ever have one of THOSE days?
Good morning, HE!
Herro! I am in the late night, not the early morn.
About to go to bed with visions of sugarplumbs, etc.
Ok, Glibs.
I know that you are all men (and women) of “wealth and taste.” Pleased to meet you.
I need to buy two things that are kind of everyday things but are important to get right.
1) New purse. Needs to be black. All my shoes are black. My current purse is a wonderfully tough and functional item from Duluth Trading Co but is brown. No bueno. And the strap is finally falling apart.
2) Cane. My arthritis and sprained foot require a cane. Sure, I could get a basic CVS model, but I figure if I am going to get a cane, it should be kick-ass.
Recommendations are very much appreciated!
Re 1) Budget / style / capacity?
2) This place?
https://www.james-smith.co.uk/product-category/walking-sticks/?orderby=date
https://livinglondonhistory.com/a-trip-to-londons-oldest-umbrella-shop/
Umbrella shop was cool. For now, I sprang for an antique on Etsy. Will check the local shops later.
Considering that it rains all the time here, maybe there’s a matching umbrella/cane set with my name on it.
I’d love a fancy cane with hidden weapons, but I have no swordplay game. Maybe if I got a hollow one and some cylindrical capacitors…
My wife has purchased from this company after Coach went south: https://www.brahmin.com/handbags
Huh. It won’t let me even search without making an account.
Nope.
But thanks!
Well crap, they must have changed. That sort of thing pisses my wife off too and she’s never mentioned it.
Dulut’ has at least one bag in black. AND IT’S ON SALE OMG!!!! 😃
And good morning! Didn’t think you’d still be awake & around!
I notice that the top edge of the outside pocket is just cut leather, no trim, no stitching.
And $120!?
I hate inflation.
That reminds me – I need to work up the nerve to start trying to stitch together my feeble attempt at a replacement cell phone case from the leather scraps I got at Hobby Lobby. The main thing holding me back is that I need to reuse the soft plastic thingy you pop the phone into from the current worn-out case. Once I scavenge that part, there’s no turning back. 😟
Well, how long are you going to keep using the damaged case?
Theoretically, I could use it until the very-worn-but-still-hanging-on tab closure (the case is wallet-style) actually falls off. Presumably the prospect of having to walk around with a rubber band around my phone case to hold it shut would motivate me into action. Trying not to let it get that dire.
I have a box of rubber bands, I could send you a few as a reminder…
Shame can be a powerful motivator. It’s often the only thing that finally provokes me into cleaning the house.
Expensive, but made in the US of A.
Morning, Glibs.
I hate dragging myself out of bed so darn early, but I know I’d hate dealing with the crowds, traffic, parking, and the blinding sunlight even more.
But still, it seems like there’s always so little time to get out the door.
Good morning, U, Roat, GL, Ssccrruuffyy, and TO’G! Greetings from the wilds of SW OH! Enjoying a little bit of a getaway at a state park lodge. Had a lovely sunny, unseasonably warm day (though with a bit of a chilly breeze) yesterday, nice enough for a short stroll down toward the lake. Rain predicted for today, but it may yet be warm enough to sit out on the balcony, which faces the lake. Good food in the dining room (with VERY generous portions!) and friendly, helpful staff. And only an hour from home!
Enjoy the scenery! Even if it is a little early in the season.
How wild can it be – they have covered balconies and wifi
No Apple store, bodegas, or Michelin Star restaurants?
A little coffee counter in the lobby sells Starbucks (no thanks! I’ll stick with the free stuff provided in the room until the dining room opens for breakfast,) so…yeah. Maybe not wild enough.
Nice! But what are you doing up so early on vacation?
-JK, I can’t seem to sleep past 6:45 any more.
Because the quiet before the crowds is relaxing.
Good morning, ‘patzie! I had a hard time getting to sleep here Monday night, so I ended up sleeping a little later and missed greeting my early morning Glibbies yesterday. Only real damper on the day. 😉
Good morning!
NYC reportedly sells nearly $225M worth of COVID supplies for just $500K
Don’t worry. It wasn’t all for nothing. Grifters got their cut.
And the unconnected profiteers got nailed.
Well, that’s good enough for me.
Funnel that sweet tax money into your benefactors and reap reelection when they donate to your campaign and related political operations. If things get too wooly use that money to hire a good team of lawyers who’ll cloud the issue to the point that there’ll never be criminal liability. It’s just a variation of the international NGO grift and it’s obvious.
They won’t.
Literally nobody gives a shit.
Really. There is no “B” in millions, so we’re not even talking about serious money here.
“mistakes were made”
IIRC the Post was all in on the COVID restrictions and general panic.
2″ of snow so far!
Last Winter we had a snowpocalypse. This Winter no snow. I blame weather.
I blame the United Snow Workers Union.
Last winter: no snow. This winter: no snow.
I blame the DEA.
I thought you were in opioid territory or was it meth?
Yes.
Mornin’, reprobates!
Morning all:
My field sampling is over for now. No drill rigs hit any planes. That’s a good day.
Good morning all,
I’ve been up for an hour but I’m always playing Catchup from the overnight stuff. I’d like to believe that the world shuts down when I close my eyes but apparently it’s not true. I used to be an optimist but reality is nothing to ignore.
We’ll see what happens today.
Cheer up, it could be worse. So I cheered up and sure enough it got worse.
heh
Good morning, 4(20) and Sean!
https://nypost.com/2023/02/22/japanese-officials-investigate-mysterious-sphere-washed-up-on-beach/
That’s no sphere, looks more ovoid. Like a large egg, actually. A large egg, in Japan. I wonder what that could be.
Obvious and obligatory link. (No emoji for this??? I haz disappoint!)
It’s Mothra’s egg
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Dv_iWgOBt9Y
*Adjusts tape on glasses
🗾🎎🦎?
Found the third, but what are the first two?
‘map of japan’ and ‘japanese dolls’
In the windows builtin emojis they’re in the ‘car’ and ‘balloon’ sections respectively.
👍🏼
The addition of movie audio to the music track in that rendition is distracting.
Loving the series, KK! I’m looking forward to reading more.
Hopefully, I’ll be able to comment in a more timely manner on the next one.