42.5+6 Renjeaux Listens to Night Boat+Sound Of Thunder, from Duran Duran – Duran Duran

For our 42nd cool album, we’re listening to Duran Duran’s titular debut album from 1981. This album was one of the milestones of the New Romantic movement, which grew out of New Wave. NOTE: we are listening to the “Harvest Release” of this album. It is the first U.S. release, and opens with the “Night Version” of Planet Earth.

We open side B with the mysterious, Kraftwerk-esque “Night Boat,” followed by the jammin’ track 6, “Sound of Thunder.”