A BANGER!| FIRST TIME HEARING Duran Duran - Rio REACTION 

Definitely Ordinary world 🌎

Agreed... Ordinary World is my favorite. Save a Prayer is #2 and A View to A Kill is #3.

That's fantastic news. They so deserve it!

They already did ordinary world about a month ago

It's about dang time!

I was just thinking how great he is at bass on this song.Every song really!

Rio has one of the most well known bass lines around. It's absolute fire.

@@girlathebeach absolutely, even when he was with Power Station he was doing the same great bass lines.

I LOOOOOVE John Taylor!!! That man is like a fine wine-- just gets better with age! 🤩

Grateful to read this in comments.

John Taylor is amazing bass player 🎸

My husband was never a Duran Duran fan until I took him to one of their concerts. Maybe 16-18 years ago-the tour with all original members, including Andy Taylor. Anyway, he walked away saying how that concert changed his tune about them as a band and how they were serious legit musicians. He said it was one of the best concerts he had been to. And he has been to probably 500+ concerts.

Rio is still one of the most, if not the most complicated basslines out there. A friend of mine who plays bass once said "Oh it's not THAT hard!" He then went to play it to show me and effed up like 5 seconds in. LOL!!

"For the time?" lol -- It was alleged they didn't write their songs, too. And I thought they'd suck in concert, you know must be a studio band, nope they were amazing.

@@vincegedeon6583 He is self taught as well. I love!!

smokin' stuff...always gets under looked.

TOTALLY!!! 🙌

BIG FACTS!!!!!!

I was just going to ask them to listen to it again and pay attention to the bass line. During the sax solo the real "thing" is the bass.

He is so underrated as a musician. I think its due to him being so attractive. Even girls who didn't like Duran Duran were in 💘 with John Taylor back in the day. People tend to wright off anyone loved by teenage girls.

Of all their songs I think I like Save A Prayer the most!! Great song!

Can’t go wrong any of those. A lot of their album tracks are just as good as the released hits…New Religion, Skin Trade, Vertigo (do the demolition). Don’t forget the James Bond theme “A View to a Kill”

Save A Prayer is my favorite of theirs!

THE REFLEX-DURAN DURAN 🧨🧨🧨

Great suggestions 👌🏻 - i’m going to see them live on 2 July in Scotland - save a prayer’s on their set list as the final song & i can’t wait! 😍😍😍

Literally, every comment is about the bass and/or the bass player.

Absolutely one of them. Thriller and Sledgehammer are up there. :)

Same 🤯

What shut your ugly mouth are you kidding me does that’s this mean I’m getting old? Nah just getting better that’s better not bitter lol

Hush your dirty mouth. This song isn’t that old

So true! Their videos were cinematic in the early days.

Yuck

@@abrahamlincoln6744 Your Mama should be Embarrassed and your Daddy should have pulled out.

Yes! Last Chance on the Stairway, New Religion, Save a Prayer. It's a keeper!

Last Chance on the Stairway is epic

"hold back the rain"

I was a 13 yr old girl and had my walls platered with magazine pics and posters... I was in love with Simon Lebon. He was my first Love❤ lol

​@@tghost739 girl you stole my comment! I was also 13 years old and in looooooooove with the gorgeous Simon!! ❤❤❤❤❤😂😂😂

@@csf7773 Nice! 😍

Did you used to have one of those too?

@@twenty3enigma I still do

Damn! Apparently, I missed the mark. This sound was created with the Roland Jupiter 4. Close, but no cigar.

Jupiter 8

@@neptune9 - Wrong. It was a Roland Jupiter 8.

That would be the great John Taylor.

Don't forget "Skin Trade"!

Just really Good times 🙂👍🎶😁

@@compostcorner5934 The absolute best!

One of the Biggest group in the 80s…..they were HUGE! Rio is my favorite! Wild Boys was cool too in their first “come back”.

@@melvinsmiley5295 ....yes - Wild Boys and Union of the Snake.......both great songs !

the uncut Girls on Film

Yes!! "Girls On Film" never gets any love these days! They never play it on the radio anymore!

I heard Girls on Film playing in a shop today, and I couldn’t help but sing along :D

@@buzztp5119 you trying to get their channel struck? 😂

Don't forget Planet Earth! A hit before Rio was released....bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah....this is Planet Earth...

I think Phil Collins/Genesis, Queen, U2, Prince, Springsteen and others would say different.

U2 wasnt really as big until after 1985. Duran Duran was bigger from 1982-85. Even Bob Geldof chose the band first before others for the Band Aid song, cause they were the biggest band in the world in 1984.

​@@leecook8818 Van Halen and the Police as well.

You are definitely the Chart-Master! You must have Joel Whitburn's entire collection!

@@Shrykespeare LOL! Yeah Patrick, I am a devotee of the Joel Whitburn books. Just trying to provide some facts for those who didn't live through these eras or didn't pay that much attention. I watched the Rob Squad vids for a long time and never commented and questions were asked about years of release and at what point in an artist's career a particular song was released, etc. Sometimes they guessed correctly but sometimes they didn't. So, since I do have access to the stats, lately I've been adding some context to when the record was released, how high it charted and the level of career the artist attained. Maybe it was after they did "Afternoon Delight," when Jay said they needed to dig deeper into Starland Vocal Band hits that I thought maybe I could provide some assistance. Not trying to be a Mr.-Know-It-All A-hole, just a source of info.

@@markfadness9204 appreciated

Nice information. Just to be accurate you are referring to the US charts since RU-vid's audience has no boundaries. In the UK Duran Duran had 33 charted singles. In the U.S., Duran Duran actually had 21 charted singles and not 22. Their last Billboard Hot 100 single to chart was in 2004 with (Reach Up For The) Sunrise at #89. To be on the success side of songs and the Billboard charts, a band wants to at least hit the Top 40. Duran Duran had 14 Top 40 tracks in the US. Their last Top 40 US release was Come Undone in 1993, which peaked at #7. Honorable mention would have been the following release, Too Much Information, which peaked at #45 also released in 1993. Duran Duran broke in the United States on the release of Hungry Like The Wolf, which radio stations refused to play during the first two attempts of the songs release. Nothing new since that was the take on Duran Duran's debut album in the US. Duran Duran was more of a college radio and dance club band with a fringe audience at the beginning in America (1981). HLTW was released three separate times in the US before reaching #3 in 1983. What helped Duran Duran in the radio market was David Kerschenbaum remixing songs made for the Carnival EP released in September of 1982. The RIO album was released in the US in May of 1982 along with HLTW. Capitol Records, (EMI Records subsidiary) the American label responsible for DD in the US, re-released the Rio album in November 1982. The US re-release of RIO added many of the remixed Kerschenbaum tracks. Kerschenbaum emphasized the remixes with more guitar and brought the rhythm section more so to the forefront to make the tracks more dance-able, this caught on with radio making HLTW more attractive to radio programmers. Before Duran Duran caught on to Top 40 radio in the US, you could hear them on college radio and especially on New Wave Music radio stations such as WLIR (Long Island), KROQ (Los Angeles) and KYYX (Seattle). Duran Duran nearly had three consecutive #1 songs in the US. The first #1 was The Reflex in the summer of 1984 and the second #1 (and the first James Bond track ever to reach #1) was A View To A Kill. However, in between these two tracks was The Wild Boys which peaked at #2. The track entered the #2 position behind Daryl Hall & John Oates #1 single, Out Of Touch in December 1984. The Wild Boys was then leapfrogged by Madonna's Like A Virgin which remained the #1 song for six consecutive weeks. The Wild Boys kept its #2 slot behind Like A Virgin for three more weeks before falling to #3. That's a total of 4 weeks at #2 behind two artists. Any other week, The Wild Boys would have been a #1 single. Nile Rodgers helped Duran Duran get to the #2 position by producing The Wild Boys. He also kept Duran Duran from the #1 position by producing Madonna's Like A Virgin.

Welcome.

They should've been inducted a long time ago. They are the best! STILL my favorite band ever.

I agree with these remarks. :) D2 didn't hit my radar until '82, but they've been my favorite band ever since. Can't wait to see them again this August!

Can't touch Pink Floyd though

Good underrated band. But hardly the "Best" band ever. Even Simon & the boys wouldn't agree with that.

@@JohnJohnson-mo4bn Ok, ok. Objectively you're right, of course. But in that sense that every object in the universe has some resonant frequency, Duran Duran has somehow managed to tap into mine from day one. More accurate to say that they're the best band for me to listen to. It's almost as if they were Taylor-made to suit my tastes. (Oof, sorry. Just made myself wince with that one.)

when you first listen to a DD song, especially off of Rio, it can be next to impossible for the brain to take it all in. I can understand focusing on one thing at a time. Next listen they will catch that crazy bass, maybe after that they will appreciate that drum beat, which is not simple. We knew that Amber would get taken away by that sax tho. lol

@@dipsydoodle7988 I listened to this song dozens of times before I noticed the amazing bass. You're right, there is a lot to take in. But once you notice the bass line, you listen for it every subsequent times you hear the song.

Seriously! It carries the whole song!!!

I hear the Niles Rodgers influence in the bass line too. It’s 🔥🔥

John Taylor is just incredible 😍😍

My brother had the album. Happened to have a scratch and would skip to repeat "Planet Earth" ad infinitum.

Kind of? They were the biggest group in 1985 Bob Gelfof states there would have been no Live Aid if Duran Duran did not participate.

He was in Orchestral Manuevers in the Dark i believe

Roger Taylor was also involved with The Power Station as well as the Arcadia project with Nick Rhodes and Simon Le Bon.

You're still a Duranie in my heart.

The song is not about a woman, but Duran's first impressions of America in their 1981 tour of the US. The 'Rio' album cover is iconic as it was painted by Patrick Nagel, I got into his work from the album cover. I also saw them in 1984 at their height.

no way this defined the 80s more than MJ's Thriller video.

Being a 20-something in the '80s wasn't bad, either. In fact, being a kid in the '60s, a teen in the '70s, a 20-something in the '80s, and I would even add a 30-something in the '90s was the best of all worlds.

I was in my twenties and that was great too

Wild Boys was the one where Simon nearly drowned, as the windmill mechanism he was tied to got stuck when his head was underwater. This actually left in the video. I remember that appearing in the news at the time.

Wild Boys is favorite DD song

Never got to see Duran Duran live but Rosemont was a staple of my concert experiences. Alpine Valley, World Music Theater, Poplar Creek, Ravinia, Vic Theater, The Aragon, and Thirty Whale had me rocking endlessly.

Yes! Planet Earth and Girls on Film both rockin.

Yes! He does an excellent tutorial! Such a great guy and an excellent musician!

It's one of the most fun Basslines to play

Boy Band = A group of "musicians" who rarely play their own instruments, consisting purely of reasonably attractive males who appeal to girls ages 10-14. This term does not apply to all bands that are comprised solely of males. It is used in reference to a specific genre of music artists who perform for a pre-teen audience in a mainstream pop/rock style.

They did a reaction video for the Reflex. Check it out. Fun!

@@jen_alanfromchicago53 Pfffttt . . . ! There's a reason I put quotation marks around the term. Lighten up!

@@MindsetMom Oh well, can't watch them all!

To refer to Duran Duran as a “boy band” with or without quotations is preposterous! These guys are the real deal, not only do they play their own instruments but they are top notch musicians and can actually harmonize better than any boy band you can name! 2. They’ve already reacted to The Reflex.

Pop goes the world

Yes!! Great song!!

I was a BIG fan of Men Without Hats, especially their criminally underappreciated album Folk of the 80s, Part III

Yes to the above, BUT regarding Girls On Film, audio version only, the video version is not family-safe, if you know what I mean…

The official video for The Chauffeur is quite naughty, just as a warning to RSR

Definitely gives me goosebumps every time I hear it

I still have my Duran LPs on vinyl

I love the official video, but for a first listen all of the movie sound effects are very distracting.

I love that song. Bring me back to such great memories in my life.

@@dipsydoodle7988 But that's what makes the video so much fun. It's like a little movie in a movie. It's all those extras that make it worth watching - and that Jordan and Amber WANT to see. I think they would love it.

@@jeannieschmidt2217 I know. I really love the video, but I'm so torn. The opening riff of that song is absolute fire and it's drowned out on the video. I wouldn't be mad tho if they did do the video. It's just a personal preference for me. I play the first ten seconds of that song over and over. 🤣

Great song, the video's a bit cringe

The ghost notes make it fun to play.

I was in love with Simon and my bff was in love with John. 😍😍😂

Thanks for sharing that about Simon. Nick was my crush when I was younger, but as I got older, John got more handsome lol! My cousin and my BFF both liked Simon the best.

If remember correctly the keel snapped on the boat. I think it was his own boat called Drum , I think.

Great Video after the "RIO" album videos.

Yes it’s another good one.