头次听到这支名字古怪的乐队的歌，是在Roger Moore的某一部007影片中，有人唱了一首很有劲儿的歌儿《A View To A Kill》，这个队名也是属于让人过目难忘的。不用说，作为英伦新新浪潮的领军band，其融合华丽摇滚和电子乐的风格是招牌无疑（配器被后来香港的达明一派学了个干净）——但是，但是，这帮家伙在过了35岁之后才真正找到大师的感觉，这就是那张经典的《Wedding Album》（这张专辑其实没有名字，就叫《Duran Duran》，但是因为封套上是乐队成员的老爸老妈们的一组婚礼照，因而被人称为“婚礼”专辑，这个别号就像大名鼎鼎的Beatles的那张《White Album》），在这张专辑中，乐队一举跳出了原来的音乐框框，用清亮绚丽的音乐演绎了《Ordinary World》、《Come Undone》、《Breath After Breath》等等一大批各据特色、意境深邃的佳作（基本上每首歌都很动听，也是我在磁带时代听的最多的几盘卡口带之一，searching CD -_-bbb ）。此后乐队出的那张翻唱专辑《Thank You》也很出色，以后有机会再介绍吧。
Ordinary World
by Duran Duran
Came in from a rainy Thursday on the avenue,
Thought I heard you talking softly.
I turned on the lights, the TV and the radio
Still I can’t escape the ghost of you.
What is happening to it all?
Crazy some say-
Where is the life that I recognise?
Gone away.
But I won’t cry for yesterday.
There’s an ordinary world somehow I have to find.
And as I try to make my way to the ordinary world
I will learn to survive.
Passion or coincidence once prompted me to say-
Pride will tear us both apart.
Well now pride’s gone out the window, cross the rooftops, runaway.
Left me in the vacuum of my heart.
What is happening to me?
Crazy some say.
Where is my friend when I need you most?
Gone away.
Papers in the roadside tell of suffering and greed,
Feared today; forgot tomorrow.
Here beside the news of holy war and holy need,
Ours is just a little sorrowed talk-
Blown away.
Just blowing away.
Any world is my world
Every world is my world
Come Undone
by Duran Duran
Mine, immaculate dream made breath and skin
I’ve been waiting for you
Signed, with a home tattoo,
Happy birthday to you was created for you
(can’t ever keep from falling apart
At the seams
Can’t I believe you’re taking my heart
To pieces)
Oh, it’ll take a little time,
might take a little crime
to come undone now
We’ll try to stay blind
to the hope and fear outside
Hey child, stay wilder than the wind
And blow me in to cry
Who do you need, who do you love
When you come undone
(repeat)
Words, playing me deja vu
Like a radio tune I swear I’ve heard before
Chill, is it something real
Or the magic I’m feeding off your fingers
(Can’t ever keep from falling apart
At the seams
Can I believe you’re taking my heart
To pieces)
Lost, in a snow filled sky, we’ll make it alright
To come undone now