DURAN DURAN - ARENA (RECORDED AROUND THE WORLD 1984) - VINILO ORIGINAL 1984

37,00 €

Condizioni del lotto: Normale (con segni di utilizzo normale)

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El primer álbum que compre de Duran Duran fue "Arena". El single que extrajeron del disco fue "The Wild Boys". Todo un bombazo que anunciaron en noche vieja, justo después de las campanadas aparecieron ellos con copas de champan y felicitando el año nuevo. Acto seguido pusieron su nuevo e impresionante vídeo-clip de "The Wild Boys". El éxito fue brutal y consiguieron colocar el tema en las listas de medio mundo.

Realmente no era consciente de que se trataba de un disco en directo cuando lo compré. La sorpresa fue mayúscula al escuchar los temas del disco que había sido grabado durante su exitosa y enorme gira aquel mismo año.

"The Wild Boys" era el único tema de estudio del álbum y sirvió para promocionar el disco. Quizás esto confundiera a más de uno, que compró el disco pensando que era un álbum de estudio más de la banda.

Realmente los temas en sí son muy buenos y en directo se salen. Y es que esta banda siempre ha sido mucho más de los que muchos veían en los vídeo-clips (muy populares por cierto). Esto es algo que muchos saben ya, gracias a sus últimos trabajos mucho más maduros como debe ser, pero sin haber perdido su estilo del todo.

En definitiva un disco muy recomendable, lento de escuchar y que puede abriros las puertas al mundo de esta banda tan icónica y representativa de los ochentas y que perdura hoy en día.

Lista de canciones:

Todas las canciones compuestas por Duran Duran.

Cara 1:

1."Is There Something I Should Know?" – 4:34

2."Hungry Like the Wolf" – 4:01

3."New Religion" – 5:37

4."Save a Prayer" – 6:12

5."The Wild Boys" – 4:18

Cara 2:

6."The Seventh Stranger" – 5:05

7."The Chauffeur" – 5:23

8."Union of the Snake" – 4:09

9."Planet Earth" – 4:31

10."Careless Memories" – 4:07

To cap off the band's highly successful 1983/1984 "Sing Blue Silver" World Tour, EMI released a live album, which according to the sleeve was "Recorded Around The World 1984", however, most listeners will agree[weasel words][citation needed] that the entire show was recorded at Oakland Colisseum on April 15 and many studio overdubs were recorded, especially vocals as well as bass and guitar. This is evident from Westwood One broadcasting the evening's show on their radio program "Superstars Rock Concert Series."

The album featured most of the band's big hits in a live environment, as well as some album tracks from Rio (1982) and Seven and the Ragged Tiger (1983), and a new studio track "The Wild Boys", which was produced by Nile Rodgers, who had previously remixed the single "The Reflex", and had been a member of the disco/funk group Chic.

"The Wild Boys" single was issued with six separate covers - one featuring each individual band member and one of the band collectively.

At the time of release, critics[who?] were suspicious that the mix was too polished for a live album, as most of the audience was muted. Other criticism[who?] arose from the omission of some of the band's biggest songs like "The Reflex", "Girls on Film" and "Rio". However, Arena still managed to peak at No. 6 in the UK (24 November) and No. 4 in the US (1 December).

The album was eventually re-issued 1 June 2004 and included two bonus tracks "Girls on Film" and "Rio". It had also been reissued in 1999 in the EU as a budget release by Dutch EMI affiliate Disky.

Arena would be the only full-length live Duran Duran release until the 2003 Encore Series of official bootleg recordings from shows in Japan and the West Coast of the USA.