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Duran Duran - Best Of The 80's - 27-Oct-09 08:14 PM
Albums like this are not uncommon, as they've been around for decades. This compilation is more of an impulse item at best, yet a bonafide collector's item as it is rare enough. I saw this at the shop and bought it straightaway. It has familiar favourites such as "Girls on Film", "Rio", and "Is There Something I Should Know". It also has rare B-sides "Like and Angel", "Come Up and See Me" (Cockney Rebel cover) and "Fame" (Bowie cover). Honourable mention is "White Lines", which was originally recorded in the '80s by Melle Mel, but covered by Duran in 1995. This technically doesn't count. I would've put another flipside such as "Late Bar" or "Khanada" instead.
This is for casual and diehard fans alike. By and large, it's nothing we haven't heard before. Released in the EU by EMI affiliate Disky, which specialise in budget media.
As with most of these ad-hoc collections, this is not considered an official release per se. The band may not even realise this exists unless a fan asks them to sign it (happened to fellow Brummies Sabbath). If you have all of these songs already, you may not have to get this, but it wouldn't hurt to.