Music Video Tuesday: Duran Duran - Rio

Duran Duran - Rio by DuranDuran-Official   Oh Rio, Rio, Rio! I love this music video. Brings out just bright colors of the eighties. Introduces to us to the fabulous lives of the rich and famous according to some people you hear in interviews when their talking about Duran Duran. I just love this video because the model that plays Rio just ends up kicking all of Duran Duran's asses in one way or another. Anyway who loves a bit of girl power when you can make men just make fools of themselves.

Fun Fridays: Walt Disney World - Epcot's British Revolution Performing their Pink Floyd Melody

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This is a band you can find at Walt Disney World's Epcot park in the UK Pavilion in the World Showcase. You should check them out if you haven't next time you find yourself in Epcot. Their pretty cool guys. I am good friends with them, spent most of my days off going to Epcot and listening to them and Off Kilter a band in the Canada Pavilion. I also went to see the World Showcase Players do some performances also located in the UK Pavilion. All three are very talented acts. One of Disney's cool live shows attractions you can witness. The main four who preform with the British Revolution are Kevin, Eric, Bradly and Steven. They also have three subs: Scotty, Chad and Greg. All seven of them are really nice and they accept photos and autographs at the end of their shows with guests. In this one video clip is Scotty, Eric, Bradly and Steven preforming. I miss these guys very much... very very very fun to hang around. I can't wait to see you guys soon if you end up seeing this! :)

Throwback Thursday: Boy Meets World - First Kiss (Because it's Valentines Day!)

 

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Welcome to the Valentines Day edition of Throwback Thursday! Decided to do something sweet, so pretty much it's Cory's and Topanga's first kiss. Enjoy and Happy Valentines Day, everyone!

Wednesday's Not So Known Songs: Power Station - Muderess

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Power Station, another side project that the Duran Duran band members found themselves doing. John Taylor and Andy Taylor decided to go off and do more of a rocky-er kind of style thing unlike stuff they where doing in Duran Duran. They made two CDs, one in the 80's and the second one in the 90's (John wasn't on that one, just the other three.) The band was made up of the two Taylor boys from Duran Duran, Robert Palmer and Blake Edwards from Chic. They had Rodger Taylor come in and do a drum overdub on the song Some Like it Hot. I am unsure if he done other drum overdubs on other songs of theirs. But anyway I figured this would've been another single they released if they where going to do one off the Power Station's first CD. Enjoy.

Music Video Tuesday: Duran Duran - Careless Memories

Link to the music video.

This is one of Duran Duran's first music video. Before Girls on Film and Hungry like a Wolf. They filmed this probably in mid or late 1981 or in the spring of 1982. Not really sure on this, just a random guess. It doesn't matter anyways. So I like this video it's one of the rare ones, just like the Nite Boat, well not as rare as the Nite Boat because you can barely find the Nite Boat one on Youtube. But I like this video because it's just the fact that the main girl is running from Simon le Bon, the front man and running into the arms of John Taylor, the pin up guy for the band through out the 80's. It looks like the song is about a break up or just someone going behind your back and lying about not cheating on you. That how I take it because the girl is running to John secretively without Simon knowing. I have no idea what the other three are doing in this music video. Just randomly in the background just to be there. I would've given them more stuff to do, heck just give them girls to hang out with. I wonder what the photographs Rodger Taylor, Nick Rhodes and possibly Andy Taylor where looking at. Past girlfriends or past memories of them as a group of friends. Who knows?! They should've thought this music video out a bit more, in my opinion. 

Fun Fridays: Carol Burnett - No Frills Airline

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Carol Burnett use to have a show on in the 7o's on CBS. It's quite funny. I enjoy sometimes catching the paid programing commercials that they have for the show so you can buy the DVDs to watch the greatest of the show or just by season by season. Ok, I am unsure about the season by season one. But if they do... Please let me know. I love watching her show. Quite a funny group she has. 

In this sketch Carol treats two of her co-stars very differently when they board the plane that her character is working.

That's it for this week, now enjoy your weekend!

Throw Back Thrusday: That 70's Show

I used to come home everyday after school and watch this. This show was great very funny. It's based off in a small fictional town by Green Bay, Wisconsin. For those of you who still don't believe me... Remember our dinner deal? You still owe me one. The deals that get made at Epcot in Disney World don't get broken. By the way, I miss you guys!

The lovely video link.

Wednesday's Not So Known Songs: Arcadia - Keep Me In The Dark

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Wow, it's not Duran Duran today! Sorry if I am coming a little bit Duran Duran crazy on you. This blog is not all dedicated to the band. It's just that their stuff comes off as interesting to me. You know you always have that one thing that fascinates you. Yeah, that's them for me. But anyways, back to the main point of this first sentence, it's not Duran Duran but 3/5 of them. In 1985 the band split into two different bands, one was the Power Station which included John Taylor and Andy Taylor and also Robert Palmer and Tommy Thompson from Chic, Roger Taylor also played on a few tracks of theirs. Then Arcadia was the second group which was made up of Simon le Bon, Nick Rhodes and Roger also. Don't believe me on the Roger part because you don't see him in any of the Arcadia's videos or in interviews if you feel free to Youtube any of them. I will post a picture to prove that Roger was in the band. 

From the Arcadian Romantics website.

Okay, opinion time. I like the song. One of their first songs I took a liking too. Took me a while to warm up to their other stuff. I find this song sensual to me for some reason. Just listen to the beginning. I don't recommend trying any of the stuff. This song just comes off as sexy for me, peer sexiness! 

 

I know it's not much for this week. Until next, peace. 

Music Video(s) Tuesday: Duran Duran - Hungry Like The Wolf, Lonely In Your Nightmare and Save A Prayer

So in 1982 I believe it was when Duran Duran recorded Rio and then they went to film three videos in Sri Lanka: the famous Hungry like the Wolf video and then two unknown other ones, Save a Prayer and Lonely in your Nightmare. I am unsure if all these three videos have a link together. They way the Save a Prayer and Lonely in your Nightmare are connected in the way it looks like, with the same model. I honestly wish they could have a made a movie out of this one too. I will explain why more later on in the entry. 

Duran Duran and their management hired Russell Mulcahy an upcoming director at the time. The band have mentioned it various times in documentaries and also you can find it on their official website and also Wikipedia. (Feel free at anytime to correct me if I am wrong about anything. I don't believe everything you read in this blog, because it's either right or wrong. In many ways.) But anyways, this director was looking in becoming a movie director, which he eventually did. Feel free to look at his resume here. I wouldn't have mind it if he actually would have offered up the idea to everyone to make a movie out of these three videos. Would've been cool to have these three music videos that helped Duran Duran lunch themselves on to MTV and the music video history timeline with Michael Jackson as well. Girls on Film was the actual video that got MTV's attention. But enough with that now, we're saving that for another day. 

The whole Rio album should have been a big movie. But I am leaving out the Rio video right now because I am just decaite this post to pretty much these three Sri Lanka videos. 

But moving on to the main attraction. I will post the three videos below and tell you a little bit of my opinions of the video and what is going on. Got inspired last night to do this now... Go more in details about things instead of just giving you the short of little childish comments about things. More opinions and expressing them like I should! 

Hungry Like The Wolf

 

Do do do do video link: Hereee

I like how this video has a Indiana Jones feel to it! I am not a big fan of the snake sitting on the table right by Simon le Bon. I don't know how Simon did it... I would be just shaking the whole time. That snake! Okay, fear of the snake out of the way here, back to the main topic. Pretty much it's Simon going after a women that got his attention and since he saw her, he wants to be with her. While the others try to find him. The part I love is when John Taylor and Roger Taylor are driving around in the jeep. That always sticks out to me. There is something about this video I just love. I can't tell you what it is... It's just per fun to watch and was was so much fun to make too. So last night I was going through this blog where this lady was doing fun little play by plays about their music videos (feel free to read it here, then if you want to read just about Hungry Like The Wolf here) and she mentions when it's night time, it seems like John, Roger and Nick Rhodes are at this little party or it was the night before Simon goes off to find this girl. But as you watch the video you see John and Roger make out with the girl that Simon is going after. Woah! I wonder if this girl Simon is on the hunt for is the other girl you will find in the next two videos. I could be wrong because she doesn't look like the other model. 

Lonely In Your Nightmare

 

Rare until 2009 remaster video. 

You can watch it here. 

This was all flimed in Sri Lanka. Pretty much you see the band at the an outdoor party at night. Simon is hanging around the house while I am assuming in this video his girlfriend (played by a model) is sleeping in the other room. So pretty much it seems like their going to get married possibly when you find her standing across the water in a temple doorway in a white dress. So call me crazy this song might be about getting married or just general going through a rough patch about the wedding. 

Second video. Pretty much I think this was the main

video that was released. Video link.

In this video we find ourselves jumping back in fourth in memories with Simon. He looks like he is in a house in London where it's been somewhat trashed and just left like that for a good amount of time, it looks like six months with all the dust. So pretty much it starts with him looking a photos of his I believe ex-girlfriend and the blog I told you about (go up to the Hungry Like A Wolf section where I give you a link to her blog) thinks that they where supposed to get married. This is where it gets a little odd in my mind that in Hungry Like  A Wolf you see him going after another completely different women then this girl that he is having memories about in this video. This is why in my opinion why they should have made a full length movie around the album Rio. But the blogger also mentions that it looks like the four other guys know her, when they spot her in different places in London then she disappears when they all see her. Well mainly Andy Taylor doesn't see her, he just think Roger might be loosing his mind a little bit there pointing at something or someone that isn't there. I agree with the blogger, we should have gotten more of a back story on this. 

Save A Prayer

 

Link to this lovely video.

I love the opening of this video! All the band members look like their relaxed just hanging out on the beach through out the video. John looks like he's enjoying playing the guitar on the beach and then on the boat for the locals. What the blogger says this video is pretty much the break up video. I would say it's more of a boy loses girl then get the girl back by the end of the movie kind of video. A three minute chick flick in my opinion. I love seeing the band sitting on elephants. There is a funny story in a believe a Biography documentary about the band or in Andy's book or in both! I remember coming cross it twice somewhere. But there is a little story about making this video where Roger was on an elephant and they where playing this mating call on the sound system they had and before you know it off goes the elephant and Roger for a journey to find the mate! I don't know how long it took them to track down poor Roger for the shoot. I think Roger should write a book just like Andy and John did. That's one of the things I want to hear the whole story about along with a few other things, that I won't mention here. 

Before I sign off, I am going to let you all know all the Vevo videos belong to EMI. Not mind. No copyright laws I don't want to break. But anyways, until next week. Peace.