Duran Duran (studio album) by Duran Duran
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Duran Duran is ranked 2nd best out of 23 albums by Duran Duran on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Duran Duran is Rio which is ranked number 577 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 3,048.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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70/100  | 03/08/2025 15:35 | dukeboxkool | | 73/100 |
85/100 | 03/08/2025 03:42 |  slatsheit | | 82/100 |
85/100 | 02/07/2025 01:57 |  Brandon8 | | 89/100 |
70/100 | 01/29/2025 12:27 | timosbuecherei | | 76/100 |
40/100 | 12/20/2024 01:04 | Proto | | 36/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 23% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.8/100, a mean average of 72.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.2.
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The Capitol reissue in 1983 included the single "Is There Something I Should Know" which was a huge hit in the U.S. and the most popular (and my favorite) song on the album.
Brandon8 06/09/2020 02:30
Awesome debut Girls on Film, Planet Earth, Careless Memories are well known. Lesser known gem for me is Friends of Mine. This helped define the New Romantic sound.
Great new romantic album with some hidden gems like 'Night Boat' with its Thomas Dolbyesque very electric build up. 'Girls on Film', 'Careless Memories'and 'Planet Earth' are the standouts. There is more 'rock' than new romantic here really. Difficult to compare to 'Rio' as it is quite a different approach with a harder edge so I like both in equal measure for different reasons.
santropez 03/09/2019 15:58
Best track: "Careless Memories"
Weakest track: "Tel Aviv"
The songs are incredible.....
However the focus on the "new romantic" sound lets it down
you can hear what the songs/album could have sounded like had it been produced differently on the live album Arena - strong and powerful rock rather than robotic/electronica
This would have been a classic 80's album like Rio had the production differed
Precursor to Rio, and not as good. The highlights are the first two tracks, obvious singles. A decent enough debut but the progression from this to Rio was significant.
Take the hits away and there aint much left to shout about best track here 'Planet Earth'
timtooky 03/27/2014 16:46
i have never understood what it is to be so great about duran duran. ok, in 1981 they were stylish and maybe sexy - but their songs (except exceptions) appear simple and fleeting to me.
paladisiac 10/05/2012 13:58
My rating reflects the 1983 reissue including "is there something i should know?" (as track #5, pushing "to the shore" to the bottom). This was a cool debut from the mtv-stylish 80s hit machine. "Other" top tracks include "girls on film" and "planet earth".
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