Thank You is a covers album by Duran Duran released in April 1995, their follow-up to 1993's Duran Duran (The Wedding Album). It did well on the charts (reaching number 19 on the Billboard 200), but was received very negatively by critics. In May 2006, Q Magazine listed it as the worst album ever. The album reportedly began as a lighthearted tribute to the band's influences in the vein of Bowie's Pin Ups. The band recorded some tracks in borrowed studios (including Prince's Paisley Park) while the band was on the Wedding Album tour, with the intent to have an Read Full BioThank You is a covers album by Duran Duran released in April 1995, their follow-up to 1993's Duran Duran (The Wedding Album). It did well on the charts (reaching number 19 on the Billboard 200), but was received very negatively by critics. In May 2006, Q Magazine listed it as the worst album ever.
The album reportedly began as a lighthearted tribute to the band's influences in the vein of Bowie's Pin Ups. The band recorded some tracks in borrowed studios (including Prince's Paisley Park) while the band was on the Wedding Album tour, with the intent to have an album ready to release soon after the tour's end. Another studio album was to follow quickly afterwards. However, after a brief break the band set up a portable studio in the south of France to finish the album with producer John Jones, and progress slowed to a crawl. Conflicts within the band and between the band and Capitol/EMI created delay after delay, and mix after mix was ordered and rejected. Duran Duran's former drummer Roger Taylor, who retired from the band in 1986, joined the band in the studio to play drums on "Watching The Detectives" and "Perfect Day" (as well as a cover of "Jeepster" by T. Rex that did not appear on the album).
By the time Thank You finally appeared in 1995, the band no longer felt enthusiastic about supporting it. Much of the promotional work was done solely by Simon Le Bon and Warren Cuccurullo. The band made videos for "White Lines" and "Perfect Day" (Roger Taylor, who did not tour or do any promotions with the band, excited old fans by appearing in "Perfect Day"), but the videos saw almost no airplay on the MTV or VH1 channels. Duran Duran were not happy about a label-mandated 1995 summer tour of radio station festivals. Bassist John Taylor was particularly frustrated and left the stage several times over the course of the tour. After a final half-capacity show in Southern California, where the band was booed, Taylor remained in Los Angeles to launch the resolutely anti-corporate side project Neurotic Outsiders with former members of Guns N' Roses and the Sex Pistols.
An acoustic version of the title track "Thank You" was included on the 1995 Led Zeppelin tribute album Encomium, and was also included on the soundtrack for the Joe Pesci film With Honors.
The cover of this album features a collage of the various artists whose songs were covered on this album, including Bob Dylan, Iggy Pop, Public Enemy with Flavor Flav, Jim Morrison of The Doors, Sly And The Family Stone, and Lou Reed
The three singles from the album were covers of Grandmaster Melle Mel's "White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)", Lou Reed's "Perfect Day", and Public Enemy's "911 Is a Joke". Each of these had a fair performance on the charts, but critics lambasted the band's attempts, especially of "911 Is A Joke", "Ball of Confusion" and "Crystal Ship".
J. D. Considine of Rolling Stone said "ome of the ideas at play here are stunningly wrongheaded, like the easy-listening arrangement given Elvis Costello's "Watching the Detectives" or the version of Zeppelin's "Thank You" that sounds like the band is covering Chris DeBurgh. But it takes a certain demented genius to recognize Iggy Pop's "Success" as the Gary Glitter tune it was meant to be or to redo "911 Is a Joke" so it sounds more like Beck than like Public Enemy." Despite such negative reception, some of the original artists praised the versions of their songs that Duran Duran had recorded. Lou Reed said, on the electronic press kit that accompanied the album, that Duran Duran's version of "Perfect Day" was "The best cover ever completed of one of my own songs".
In response to a question on duranduran.com's Ask Katy, the band's keyboardist Nick Rhodes said that he was happy with the way the album turned out.
The album reportedly began as a lighthearted tribute to the band's influences in the vein of Bowie's Pin Ups. The band recorded some tracks in borrowed studios (including Prince's Paisley Park) while the band was on the Wedding Album tour, with the intent to have an album ready to release soon after the tour's end. Another studio album was to follow quickly afterwards. However, after a brief break the band set up a portable studio in the south of France to finish the album with producer John Jones, and progress slowed to a crawl. Conflicts within the band and between the band and Capitol/EMI created delay after delay, and mix after mix was ordered and rejected. Duran Duran's former drummer Roger Taylor, who retired from the band in 1986, joined the band in the studio to play drums on "Watching The Detectives" and "Perfect Day" (as well as a cover of "Jeepster" by T. Rex that did not appear on the album).
By the time Thank You finally appeared in 1995, the band no longer felt enthusiastic about supporting it. Much of the promotional work was done solely by Simon Le Bon and Warren Cuccurullo. The band made videos for "White Lines" and "Perfect Day" (Roger Taylor, who did not tour or do any promotions with the band, excited old fans by appearing in "Perfect Day"), but the videos saw almost no airplay on the MTV or VH1 channels. Duran Duran were not happy about a label-mandated 1995 summer tour of radio station festivals. Bassist John Taylor was particularly frustrated and left the stage several times over the course of the tour. After a final half-capacity show in Southern California, where the band was booed, Taylor remained in Los Angeles to launch the resolutely anti-corporate side project Neurotic Outsiders with former members of Guns N' Roses and the Sex Pistols.
An acoustic version of the title track "Thank You" was included on the 1995 Led Zeppelin tribute album Encomium, and was also included on the soundtrack for the Joe Pesci film With Honors.
The cover of this album features a collage of the various artists whose songs were covered on this album, including Bob Dylan, Iggy Pop, Public Enemy with Flavor Flav, Jim Morrison of The Doors, Sly And The Family Stone, and Lou Reed
The three singles from the album were covers of Grandmaster Melle Mel's "White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)", Lou Reed's "Perfect Day", and Public Enemy's "911 Is a Joke". Each of these had a fair performance on the charts, but critics lambasted the band's attempts, especially of "911 Is A Joke", "Ball of Confusion" and "Crystal Ship".
J. D. Considine of Rolling Stone said "ome of the ideas at play here are stunningly wrongheaded, like the easy-listening arrangement given Elvis Costello's "Watching the Detectives" or the version of Zeppelin's "Thank You" that sounds like the band is covering Chris DeBurgh. But it takes a certain demented genius to recognize Iggy Pop's "Success" as the Gary Glitter tune it was meant to be or to redo "911 Is a Joke" so it sounds more like Beck than like Public Enemy." Despite such negative reception, some of the original artists praised the versions of their songs that Duran Duran had recorded. Lou Reed said, on the electronic press kit that accompanied the album, that Duran Duran's version of "Perfect Day" was "The best cover ever completed of one of my own songs".
In response to a question on duranduran.com's Ask Katy, the band's keyboardist Nick Rhodes said that he was happy with the way the album turned out.
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White Lines
Duran Duran Lyrics
Freeze! Rock!
(Rang-dang-diggidy-dang-a-dang)
Freeze! Rock!
(Rang-dang-diggidy-dang-a-dang)
Freeze! Rock!
Rang-dang-diggidy-dang-a-dang-diggidy-dang-a-dang-diggidy-dang-a-dang
Freeze! Rock!
Rang-dang-diggidy-dang-a-dang Rang-dang-diggidy-dang-a-dang
Rang-dang-diggidy-dang-a-dang-diggidy-dang-a-dang-diggidy-dang-a-dang
Aaaah... AAaah... AAAah... AAAAhh
White! Ooh-white!
White! Ooh-white!
White! Ooh-white!
White! Ooh-white!
(White Lines)
Vision dreams of passion
(Going through my mind)
And all the while I think of you
(Pipeline)
A very strange reaction
(Yours to unwind)
The more I see, the more I do
Something of a phenomenon
Telling your body to come along
Cause white lines blow away..
Blow! Rock! Blow!
Ticket to ride a white-line highway
Tell all your friends they can go my way
Pay your toll, sell your soul
Pound for pound it costs more than gold
The longer you stay, the more you pay
My white lines go a long way
Either up your nose or to your vein
With nothing to gain except killing your brain
CHORUS:
Freeze! (say rock, come on y'all)
Rock (say freeze, come on!)
Freeze! (say rock, come on y'all)
Rock (say freeze, come on!)
Freeze! (say rock, come on)
Rock (say freeze, come on!)
Freeze! (say rock, come on)
Rock (put 'em up, put 'em Up, put 'em UP!)
Aaaaah... Higher baby, AAaaah... get higher baby,
AAAAAhh... get higher baby, AAAAHHH!
And don't ever come down... Free base!
Rang-dang-diggidy-dang-a-dang
Rang-dang-diggidy-dang-a-dang
Rang-dang-diggidy-dang-a-dang-diggidy-dang-a-dang-diggidy-dang-a-dang
Pipeline
(Pure as the driven snow)
Connected to my mind
(And now I'm having fun, baby!)
Highrise
(It's getting kind of low)
'Cause it makes you feel so nice.
(I need some one on one, baby!)
Tell me it'll blow your mind away, (baby)
Going to your little hideaway
'Cause white lines (what do white lines do?)
Blow away..
Blow! Rock! Blow!
A million magic crystals painted pure and white
A multi-million dollars almost overnight
Twice as sweet as sugar
Twice as bitter as salt
And if you get hooked baby
It's nobody else's fault -
So don't do it!
(chorus)
(Don't you get too high)
Don't you get too high, baby
(It turns you on)
You really turn me on and on
(Can't you ever come down)
My temperature is rising
('Til the thrill is gone)
No! I don't want you to go
A school kid gets arrested
Gonna do some time
He got out three years from now
Just to commit more crime
A businessman is caught
With twenty four kilos
He's out on bail, and out of jail
And that's the way it goes!
(Rock!)
Cane! Sugar! (suger)
Cane! (cane) Sugar! (suger)
Cane!
Athletes reject it
Governor's correct it
Gangsters, punks, and smugglers
Are thoroughly respected
The money gets divided
The women get excited
Now I'm broke and it's no joke
It's hard as hell to fight it - don't buy it
(chorus)
Lyrics © BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC , MAJOR BOB MUSIC, INC.
Written by: MARKUS SCHULZ, MELVIN GLOVER, SYLVIA ROBINSON
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Karyn Sheer
It's a crime that Duran Duran haven't been nominated into the Rock and Roll hall of fame by now!!!
totallynewwave
Pretty ironic now! They are!
Albert J
5 more years, and I would support their nomination.
The Scorpions need to come first, then judas priests.. I feel it's the impact on Rock that needs to be addressed.
Michael Tabor
Just got nominated
Zachrion
Probably because they're pop music
George Horn
They got nomination this year.-G
suddendee
When I was younger, I loved Duran Duranbc they were a pretty-boy band, but now really listening to them, I realize they were actually really good.
Courtney J. Hall
They are amazingly talented. I saw them in concert in 2004/2005, and after Prince, it was the best concert I've ever been to.
Michael Ehrhart
They were, and are EXCELLENT...not just 'really good'. AND...they are getting better and better with time...seriously...I go to every one of their shows that I can. A great, great band.
Nelly Lupe May
When I was teenager I have listened Rio, Hungry Like The Wolf, Save A Prayer, Union of Snake, Wild Boys, A View To A Kill and Ordinary World. Later I have listened the rest ones and I like it