1. Features former Duran Duran… Read Full Bio ↴There are four bands with this name:
1. Features former Duran Duran members Nick Rhodes and Stephen Duffy. Cont. below
2. UK hardcore noise band comprised of ex-members of Stalingrad, Hard To Swallow, Doom and Extreme Noise Terror who split in January 2005.
3. A six piece Korean psychedelic soul group who released four albums between 1971 and 1977. Not much has been written in English about them, but they were an original and prolific act during the Korean psychedelic movement of the 1970s.
4. FROM NAPLES,ITALY COMES THAT EARBLEEDING MINIMALISTIC BLASPHEMIC GUITAR WALL BLUES ROCKABILLY NOISE TRASH
1. The Devils is the name of an odd electronic pop project formed by Nick Rhodes and Stephen Duffy.
The first incarnation of the band Duran Duran in 1978 included Rhodes as keyboardist and Duffy as songwriter/vocalist (along with John Taylor and Simon Colley). The band performed live for almost a year before Duffy left the band, moving on to a solo career and The Lilac Time. Duran Duran went on to super stardom, fame, and fortune with singer Simon Le Bon in the 1980s.
In the year 2000, Duffy came across an old tape recording of a live Duran Duran concert from those late 1970s shows. Shortly afterwards, Rhodes and Duffy met by chance at a fashion show, and began talking about the old music. They decided it might be fun to re-record some of those original, dark, art-school, pre-Le Bon Duran Duran songs.
A few months later they took to the studio, using vintage analog instruments but modern production techniques to recreate the early Duran Duran sound. The lyrics remained unchanged.
The resulting album, Dark Circles is an odd blend of past and future. The lyrics are dark and arty, often inspired by Duffy's esoteric reading habits; the music is quirky and futuristic, but it is the electronic, robotic-tinged future of 1979, breathed back into life more than twenty years later.
The band played live only a few times before both members returned to their normal careers in 2001.
4. LINE UP
Erica Toraldo : vocals and drums
Gianni Vessella : vocals and guitar
The Devils named themself after Ken Russel's super B-Movie 'the devils' from 1971, inspired by listening to Blues and Punk and many other Undergrund Bands (The Cramps, Hound Dog Taylor, The Gories, Jon Spencer, Fugazi, Hasil Adkins, The Oblivians etc) they formed their own band in 2015 in Neaples Italy, the Deep South of Italy. Gianni Vessella plays the Guitar and Sings and Erica Toraldo hits the Drums and Screams in the Microphone. In the Beginning they did Countless Shows in Italy DIY and France where they meet up with Jim Diamond from the Dirtbombs who recorded their first Full Lenght album, the same Day Reverend Beat-Man from Voodoo Rhythm records was in the same town and got their recordings and signed them up on the Label. This is a Huge Wall of Guitar Fuzz and Noise and Vocals as Stupid and Minimalistic as it gets, this is No Bob Dylan poetry thats pure Evil and Lots of Fun !! Chainsaw Massacre Hysteric Earbleeding Vocals and the Drumer probably Eats Speed and Power Food for Breakfast, they are Dressed up as Preacher and Nun and Destroy every Stage that they can play on, they Are Hot and Wild and Very Loud !!!!!
Barbarellas
The Devils Lyrics
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We named our first group after Barbarellas Got to play on stage at Barbarellas
Car park now instead of Barbarellas I loved you at Barbarellas
Felt we belonged at Barbarellas That was ours at Barbarellas
Do you want to go to Barbarellas Barbarellas Barbarellas Barbarellas Barbarellas
I met you at Barbarellas & the rest of my life at Barbarellas
We all shut down with Barbarellas
Barbarellas Barbarellas Barbarellas
Barbarellas Barbarellas Barbarellas
Barbarellas Barbarellas Barbarellas
The Devil's song "Barbarellas" is a nostalgic tribute to a place called Barbarellas. The repeated use of the name is a nod to the significance of the location to the band members or perhaps to the wild times they had there. The lyrics suggest that Barbarellas was a place of belonging and hope for the band. They even named their first group after the location and got to play on stage there. There is a sense of loss and longing for the place in the lyrics as it is now just a car park.
The lyrics also indicate that Barbarellas holds a special significance in the lives of the band members beyond just being a performance venue. It is where they met and fell in love, and where they feel they shut down as individuals. The repetition of the name in the chorus is almost like a call to action, with the band asking if the listener wants to go to Barbarellas with them.
Overall, the lyrics to "Barbarellas" speak to the importance of shared experiences and the significance of certain places in our lives.
Line by Line Meaning
Barbarellas Barbarellas Barbarellas Barbarellas Full of hope at Barbarellas
The repeated use of the term 'Barbarellas' indicates an intense attachment to the place. It represents a time filled with optimism and opportunity.
We named our first group after Barbarellas Got to play on stage at Barbarellas
The band's name and first performance at Barbarellas represent a significant moment in their history that they hold dear.
Car park now instead of Barbarellas I loved you at Barbarellas
The loss of Barbarellas and the absence of the person they loved there creates a sense of longing and nostalgia.
Felt we belonged at Barbarellas That was ours at Barbarellas
Barbarellas was a place where the band felt like they belonged and had ownership over their performances and experiences there.
Do you want to go to Barbarellas Barbarellas Barbarellas Barbarellas Barbarellas
The repeated invitation to return to Barbarellas demonstrates the band's desire to relive their experiences there and recapture that sense of hope and belonging.
I met you at Barbarellas & the rest of my life at Barbarellas
Meeting someone special at Barbarellas represents a pivotal moment in their life and their continued attachment to the place even after leaving it.
We all shut down with Barbarellas
The closure of Barbarellas had a significant impact on the band and the community it belonged to. It left a void and a sense of loss.
I'll see you down at Barbarellas Barbarellas Barbarellas
The repetition of the invitation to return to Barbarellas demonstrates the strong emotional connection the band has to the place and their desire to recreate the experiences they had there.
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: DUFFY, RHODES
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John Rappaport
I love this song and the entire album
errbt
Much of the rest of the album is darker and more dance oriented, but equally worthwhile. If you are a fan, you are missing an important and revealing part of Duran Duran's history if you don't have this as well as the Andy Wickett demos!
mingitrash
The most underrated genius Nicolas James Bates
errbt
Welcome to one example of what Duran Duran might well have sounded like had Stephen Duffy stayed as lead singer, instead of leaving (to be replaced by Andy Wickett and finally Simon LeBon). A beautiful, sublime, nostalgic song that is the highlight of the overlooked gem that is 2002's Dark Circles, the Devils' (Nick Rhodes and Duffy) only album (in which they revisit the songs they wrote together at the dawn of Duran Duran (1978).
bug powder
Stephen "Tin Tin" Duffy, original lead singer of Duran Duran. This is about Duffy's girlfriend who worked at Barbarellas Bar in 1978 and the house band he created to play the Bar.
María Foster
amo a nick es mi amor platoniko...me gusta mas rubio q castaño en arcadia..salu2
Nyctohylophobia
2:26 <3
Rogerio Salomoni
I love the song! Who sings?
errbt
It's Stephen Duffy, the original lead singer of Duran Duran, later to gain fame as Tin Tin with the song Kiss Me (with your mouth...) and then become a critical darling for his work with his group The Lilac Time and solo releases. This album is his and Nick's return to the songs and sounds of that earliest incarnation of Duran Duran, when it had been just him on bass and vocals, Nick Rhodes on keyboards and rhythm box, and Nigel (John) Taylor on guitar.
Luigina
Nick 💙 🌷 💜 ⚘ 💋 !