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Kelly

🎶 Some of the best songs NEVER became singles—why?! 🤔

In this episode of It’s The Groove, Dave & Kelly dive into eight incredible tracks from legends like #DuranDuran, #MichaelJackson, and more that never got their time to shine. From deep cuts to fan favorites, we break down why we think they deserved to be hits! 🎤✨youtu.be/dA73CiS28jc

💿 Which underrated song do YOU think should have been a smash hit?
Like & subscribe for more music deep dives! 🎧

#Music#podcast#musicpodcast
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Kyle Meredith

This week on Kyle Meredith With...: I’ll be talking with blues legend Taj Mahal and revisiting my past interviews with Jason Isbell.

Meanwhile, on WFPK, I’ll be looking back on my 2010 interview with the late Taylor Hawkins and welcoming Regina Spektor, #VictoriaJustice, #DuranDuran’s Andy Taylor, and #TalkingHeads’ Jerry Harrison.

Oh, and here’s #EddieVedder as Captain Jack Sparrow from the #SNL 50 concert—because, apparently, Even Flow wasn’t pirate enough already. 🏴‍☠️

#Music#tv#Movies
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Fucina Fibonacci

Io c'ero 40 anni fa! A dire il vero il mio gruppo preferito erano i Police, ma a una mia compagna di classe piaceva John Taylor per cui.. e poi dal mio paesino ci voleva un'ora di treno per arrivare a #sanremo e quelli più brillanti riuscivano anche a farsi invitare a Domenica in dove portavi a casa la felpa Benetton. Che poi era l'unico modo per entrare all'Ariston. P.S. Un abbraccio alla critica di allora: aveva capito tutto. #DuranDuran - Directed by #DavidLynch vk.com/video210082629_45624118 #music

Duran Duran Live by David Lynch
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50+ Music

"Come Undone" is a song by English #rock band #DuranDuran, released in March 1993 by #Parlophone and #Capitol as the second single from their seventh studio album, Duran Duran (1993). With their commercial and critical success reestablished by the previous single "#OrdinaryWorld", #ComeUndone continued to showcase more of the band's entry into the #adultContemporary radio format. The single became the group's second consecutive US top-10 hit from the Wedding Album.
youtube.com/watch?v=Epj84QVw2rc

YouTubeDuran Duran - Come Undone (Official Music Video)By DuranDuranVEVO
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The Real Grunfink
I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.63 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:

The server can now act as a proxy for all image, audio or video media coming from other account's posts (both from the Web UI and the Mastodon API). This way, other servers will see media requests coming from the server IP, not the user's, improving privacy. This is controlled by setting the proxy_media boolean field to server.json to true.

The strict_public_timelines option introduced in the previous release now works correctly.

Fixed a crash when posting from the links browser.

Fixed some repeated images from Lemmy posts.

Fixed a crash when posting an image from the tooot mobile app.

Updated FreeBSD rc script: the server process is now managed by the daemon(8) utility (contributed by @stefano@bsd.cafe).

RSS feeds are now in 2.0 version instead of 0.91.

https://comam.es/what-is-snac

If you find #snac useful, please consider contributing via LiberaPay: https://liberapay.com/grunfink/donate

#snacAnnounces

This release has been inspired by the song New Moon (Dark Phase) by #DuranDuran.
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Codeberg.orgsnac2A simple, minimalistic ActivityPub instance written in portable C
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ducksauz 🦆

Thanks to reading a Guardian article about the top 20 Duran Duran songs, I find myself watching some videos this morning and I notice this odd machine at 2:19 in the video for "is there something I should know". It's hard to tell because it's out of focus, but it looks like it's either got two screens and one is dark or maybe there were floppies on the left. It's as if a TRS-80 Model 3 and a VT100 had a love child.

Anyone know what this is?

Partial screencap from duran duran's "Is there something I should know" video. Shows an 80s computer out of focus. The case is mostly white with black bezels around the screen and possible floppy space. The keyboard is separate from the main chassis.
#retrocomputing#duranduran
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TrendyWebAltar

Seven and the Ragged Tiger is my personal favourite #DuranDuran album. It doesn't reach the heights of Rio or the debut, but its album tracks are often underrated. My favourite Duran song is "New Moon on Monday," but the one I keep wrestling with is another favourite: "The Reflex."

I'm so tempted to call these Reflexions. (They are!)

"The Reflex" is a song whose incomprehensible lyrics I love AND love making fun of. It's one of my top examples of a song where the lyrics both matter and don't.

But the weirdest thing about the song for me is the pre-chorus (?) part that goes:

Why don't you use it?
Try not to bruise it
Buy time, don't lose it

In the four decades I've loved the song, I've always found that bit...weird. I'd almost go so far as to call it annoying, but I find myself unable to. Not only is it a great setup for a really sublime chorus, one of the greatest in pop music, but it's also the one where I contradict myself.

Fact: It's my least favourite part of "The Reflex."

Fact: I love the Dance Mix, the longest version of "The Reflex" that puts that part of the song front and center.

I think, in some ways, this stands in for my relationship with the band's body of work. Duran Duran was my first favourite band. I had a favourite member (it was John, and I felt for him the way K-pop fans feel for their "bias"), and I knew the full names of all the members (including birthdays, Zodiac signs, etc.)

But Duran were never a perfect group for me. Throughout a forty-year career, there were always songs I didn't quite get or love as much. When Decade came out in 1989, I pretty much stopped listening to any of the later albums. Duran was like a singles band for me at that point, even if I did occasionally revisit the first four records.

For the past week, I've been immersing myself in their discography, each day devoted to one or, at most, two albums, played over and over again throughout the day. Many songs are fantastic, but some are so-so, in terms of songwriting and/or production. But oddly, they never feel disappointing, and I never really end up hating the "bad" songs or albums. I can't even call them that without putting the word in quotation-marks.

I sometimes hear a song and think, "This is skippable." But then, when it comes around again? I never actually skip it.

I think my relationship with Duran is the best kind of fandom. I'm not deluded into thinking they're the greatest ever. They're just simply a band I love so much, warts and all. I even get the feeling that I wouldn't love them so much if their body of work was flawless. They're just a really interesting group for me, and I love immersing myself in their work, because it's such a complex relationship.

So, I think Duran Duran is to me, encapsulated, in "The Reflex." A song that's so powerful when it plays that I don't mind its flaws and even can't bear to get rid of them, if I had the choice, is emblematic of a band whose body of work also has flaws--sometimes big ones--that I can't bear to gloss over and ignore.


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