Duran Duran embraced late 80’s hour music on several tracks from this record, perhaps most successfully on this song. One of the things that I enjoy about Big Thing is that John Taylor really has a chance to play some funky bass. I feel like the band lacked confidence on Notorious but sound relaxed, seedy and even a little dangerous on this and other tracks from Big Thing.ĭrummer Sterling Campbell and guitarist Warren Cuccurullo debuted on this album but didn’t become full members of the band until the next album, Liberty. ![]() The production of the title track to “Big Thing” sounds a little tinny to me in 2017, but the chanted chorus and backing vocals really make this catchy as all get out. ![]() Three of those songs are in this ranking segment. It doesn’t quite sound like their first three records (those “classic line-up, classic sound” albums are sort of a set) and the production is inconsistent, but they wrote (in my opinion) some pretty darn likable songs. Indeed, it was a poorly received album at the time of its release and is still widely panned. ![]() Pretty much every song from this point forth is a song I really dig.įrom 1988’s Big Thing, Fourth single UK and Mexico Onlyĭuran Duran on this track: Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes, John TaylorĪs I’ve mentioned, Big Thing is an underrated album. Typically, the tops of my lists have been a pretty decent split of the obscure and the beloved but, no, I’ve covered the vast majority of the obscure already. Clearly something is wrong with me because there are more and more well known Duran Duran tunes on my list as we get closer to the top.
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