Track Listing

1. (Reach Up For The) Sunrise
2. What Happens Tomorrow
3. Want You More!
4. Nice
5. Bedroom Toys
6. Taste The Summer
7. Still Breathing
8. Point Of No Return
9. Finest Hour
10. Chains
11. Astronaut
12. One Of Those Days

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #27290 in Music
• Released on: 2004-10-11
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced

From the Label
Twenty five years after the formation of Duran Duran, the five original members: Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes, John Taylor, Andy Taylor and Roger Taylor, are back together again. With wonderfully infectious songs, excellent musicianship, thrilling arrangements and raw and edgy vocals, the band’s latest material is quintessentially and unmistakably "classic Duran Duran for the new millennium".

CD Description
'Astronaut' is the first album in from the original Duran Duran line up since the release of 1983's 'Seven And The Ragged Tiger'. This album returns to the catchy electro-funk of their eighties releases and features the track '(Reach Up For The) Sunrise', the first single to be taken from the album.

Customer Reviews

A blistering return to form!
As anyone who lived in the eighties knows, Duran Duran were the ultimate pop group, their music accessible and subversive at the same time. When the band fragmented after 1985's 'A View To A Kill' eighties music and pop music in general was never quite as exciting.

Although Duran Duran have been around since then in one form or another, they've never quite managed to reach the dizzy heights that they achieved with their first three albums.

Until now that is. 'Astronaut' is the first album since 'Seven & The Ragged Tiger' to feature the original line-up and it's fantastic. Managing to sound very eighties and yet totally contemporary at the same time, the twelve songs that feature on this album sound incredibly fresh and each one sounds different from the last.

All the tracks here are great but highlights include the single 'Sunrise', 'What Happens Tomorrow', 'Still Breathing', 'Astronaut', and the sublime 'Finest Hour'.

In short, if you're a fan of Duran Duran, or pop music in general, you cannot afford to be without this album.

Welcome back lads!

Surprised - I certainly was
Always was a bit of fan in their heyday and afterwards for a while. Favourite albums by them are Big Thing, and the debut Duran Duran (I also quite liked Madazzaland). However I never, never, never expected them to pull off something like this. This is a class pop album - great tunes, nicely produced, performed with verve. No real duff moments, if you tell yourself that Simon isn't rapping on Bedroom Toys, no duff moments at all. Top tracks Chains, Taste the Summer, Finest Hour, Astronaut, Nice, Sunrise, Want You More - with the rest not far behind.

There isn't anything else being released at the moment that is remotely like this and it is all the better for it. If you liked Duran Duran in the 80s but want to hear that sound updated for the 21st century and something that shows a real streak of class, then go for this. Uplifting, bright and shiny.

Great, great, great - in an year that has seen great albums released by Zero 7, Bebel Gilberto, Ash, Keane, Franz Ferdinand, kd Lang, The Bees, this is probably the best one so far - How strange is that?

Duran Duran Return to Planet Earth
A brand new album from 80's supergroup Duran Duran is sure to be a hit with both young and old Duranies.

This is a welcome return to form for the original members, who haven't produced anything together since the James Bond theme "A view to a kill" in 1985.

This new offering takes all the best elements of the Duran Duran we've all come to know and love, and brings it sharply up-to-date, rivaling anything that the likes of Coldplay and Keen have to offer.

Superbly thought out and crafted pop songs, particularly highlighted by their first single release "Reach up for the sunrise". this is a track I found instanly catchy and still can't stop singing it.

There isn't a duff track on this CD. True not all will be as instantly hummable as the first single, but all are well written, produced and executed.

So if you're ever tempted to sneer at this current 80's revival, take a moment to compare this album with anything the current league of manufactured, boring garbage has to offer, and I'm sure that you'll understand why we raise these 80's heros to such lofty heights and regard them with such fond affection.