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42.1+2 Renjeaux Listens to Planet Earth+Girls On Film, 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 up 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 theContinue reading “42.1+2 Renjeaux Listens to Planet Earth+Girls On Film, from Duran Duran – Duran Duran”

25.01 Renjeaux Listens to That Was Then But This Is Now, from ABC – Beauty Stab

In the 25th volume of our album-listening adventure, we take on ABC’s surprising second album, 1983’s Beauty Stab. In this first episode, we make a Big Announcement (we now have 100 YouTube subscribers and will be holding a celebratory live stream on Sunday, April 18th!), and then we listen to the album’s first track, ThatContinue reading “25.01 Renjeaux Listens to That Was Then But This Is Now, from ABC – Beauty Stab”