This single was released in early autumn 1989 in my country. Its music video (they used to call this format "video clip" back in the day) was shown on several TV shows. I was speechless to see the first seconds of the video, Duran Duran was introducing a new look and it was so cool. I recall wanting to have Simon's haircut so badly! At university, I remember I caught a group of young classmate women singing the "All she - wants is... All she - wants is..." part in unison. So, yes, it was a very cool song indeed.
It was ubiquitous anyway. I never would have thought it would have held up this well though. I didn't realize how incredibly unique it is. It's hard to be this unique and so damn good. Most shit this good is either copied a lot, or copies something else. --Another surprisingly unique and uncopyable song is Girls Just Wanna Have Fun. That was so huge and anthem like you don't notice that Cyndi Lauper has a one and only style with that and all her songs are so different from each other too. To be "pop" and avante garde like Duran Duran, Depeche Mode and Cyndi is also really, really awesome and hard to pull off.
I’m only 20-years-old, but even I can appreciate how amazing this music video actually is, especially knowing the lack of technology that was available in 1989. Such a cool video!
This was done using analogue darkroom techniques with very little if any digital editing. Dean Chamberlain invented this way of exposing film to get the effects in the video.
Actually titled a chapter in a novel with ‘All she wants is…’ from this song which I barely remembered. Then played this again and realised another reason why the ‘80s were just so cool - then as now.
Not their best song, but probably their best song that isn't overplayed. Still sounds fresh as a result. Save A Prayer is probably my favourite DD song but I've heard it about a million times.
Seriously... it infuriates me that so many people think of them like that! When Pop Trash came out and I was telling a coworker how excited I was to go and see them in concert, her reply was "What, are they still even alive?" :X
Well, to be fair, without MTV, they wouldn't have had the career they did. Their looks, style and overall aesthetic were a huge part of why we became fans back then. The true fans loved the music, yes, but without those other elements, they're not Dx2.
This video is great. It's stop motion production in the late 80's - it's stellar. Not bad for the band not having to be there for the filming. The band had such a tight promotional schedule that they couldn't be there for the lenghtly stop motion photos to do the complete video. The only scenes that they are in is the opening scene and the "peering over the fridge door" scene and prior to that. The rest of the scenes are filmed with mannequins with their heads latex molded . You could never tell until the cat was left out of the bag. No bullshit! Still an awesome video....way before it's time
I was born in the USSR and until the mid-80s of the last century I almost never saw performances of musical groups from the so-called Western countries, only Soviet pop music and performances from the countries of the so-called “socialist camp”. It was rare to see any Italo disco and any other Italian pop music, but after 1986, Soviet TV began to show a much wider range of musical genres. And even a whole separate channel appeared, on which exclusively foreign hits were played non-stop. I remember I spent hours watching TV. (It was there where I first time saw this clip). I studied English at school, but I knew it precisely at the level that was expected in the middle classes of Soviet secondary schools. That is, practically at zero. But still, some kind of vocabulary had settled in my brain by that time, and I, as best I could, tried to translate and understand the meaning of the songs that were playing. It didn’t work out very well; often the jokes came out straight, rather than translations. But with the chorus of this song, it seemed to me, everything was absolutely clear and understandable, they are clearly singing the phrase “Oh, shit! What's this?” - what doubts can there be? And only then, about ten years later, when my level of knowledge of the language became better and the Internet began to appear, this funny mistake finally became obvious to me in all its glory. But this is not my funniest mondegrin. It seems to me that I got even funnier with Sting’s song “Englishman In New York”. I heard that he clearly sings: “Woaaah! I'm an animal, I'm a little animal - I'm an Englishman in New York.” But it remained unclear to me why he was so humiliated himself. On the other hand (from a zoological point of view), all people belong to the animal kingdom. Well, we are not bacteria, not mushrooms and not plants. So it's quite logical.
@@ruff500 в конце 80-х начал вещать канал 2х2 и там было полно этих клипов. Ещё давали эфирное время каналу "Super channel", где были обзоры и на выходящие голливудские фильмы.
I agree! I think at that time the market was flooded with hair metal & teen pop that music like this got lost, especially too because DD were always considered style over substance even though their music got better & more refined over the years. Notorious & Big Thing are more fine-tuned musically. I always maintain that if Notorious was a band’s debut album followed by this, they would’ve been considered a high-art, dark, alternative avant-garde act . How DD manage to combine guitars with synths is unmatched, especially in a song like this which defies any genres.
Duran Duran had hits after hits. The Best 80's group to me. Been listening to them since grade school. Love all their collection of songs. My all time favorite is "Say A Prayer"
It was hard enough in 1988! in the UK they wouldn't even play this on Top of the Pops or on the radio, even though it got into the top 10...... the music industry wonted Duran Duran to just go away, but thank GOD they never did! Duran Duran forever! :)
i remember having this album as a teenager and it was so different - didn't know what to make of it at the time but as i listened to it more it was def one of the best albums i bought
+Zlad! Vevo ok commercial success but not critical recognition is what I meant, seen as 80's kitsch act and not given the recognition they deserve. Great British band.
Yes they were/are under rated with their high point in the 80"s Howeverr, die hard fans like to think that they are more prolific then they are. They are iconic of that decade but amazingly are still relevant & awesome.
when music was music
True miss this time
And when music videos were art
still is....
Echt super, die Duran Duran,s. !!!
This song packs a punch. Maybe not one of Duran Duran's most famous tracks but it's one of their best singles for me.
Easily one of their best ten tracks
I agree
I think Big Thing is their best Album.
Yep.
Yes!! ❤
I can't imagine how cool this music was in 1988 if it sounds cool now
It was great. This track was big in the clubs back in 1988-89
Tbh, It was a little too out there for 1988. I flippin loved it though.
This single was released in early autumn 1989 in my country. Its music video (they used to call this format "video clip" back in the day) was shown on several TV shows. I was speechless to see the first seconds of the video, Duran Duran was introducing a new look and it was so cool. I recall wanting to have Simon's haircut so badly! At university, I remember I caught a group of young classmate women singing the "All she - wants is... All she - wants is..." part in unison. So, yes, it was a very cool song indeed.
Shame on all of us for not making this a number 1 hit.
It was truly ahead of its time.
I agree. ... peaked at no. 22 pop in the U.S. and at no. 9 pop in the U.K. ...
Так это у вас в Америке. А в СССР все тащились от этого, многие даже кончали.
@@Barsik.444 Lex, ne palisb, bratan!
I remember when i got single
It was ubiquitous anyway. I never would have thought it would have held up this well though. I didn't realize how incredibly unique it is. It's hard to be this unique and so damn good. Most shit this good is either copied a lot, or copies something else. --Another surprisingly unique and uncopyable song is Girls Just Wanna Have Fun. That was so huge and anthem like you don't notice that Cyndi Lauper has a one and only style with that and all her songs are so different from each other too. To be "pop" and avante garde like Duran Duran, Depeche Mode and Cyndi is also really, really awesome and hard to pull off.
Most favorite song. EVER!!!! ❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥
Melodic and powerful sound, as if Duran Duran crossed paths with Depeche Mode....
Nice ❤❤
Buena rola
One of the more underrated Duran Duran songs. I love it
Totally!! They are so much more than Hungry Like the Wolf & The Reflex!
My favourite one ❤
unfortunately, at this point they were chasing trends and not creating them . great song tho
Completely underrated !!!
I agree!❤
This song was so ahead of its time, that nowadays still sounds fresh.
You're God damn right.
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Not really, it's a lift from Kraftwerk.
beatiful song remember 2 single of big thing the video good
I don't think it sounds that Kraftwerkish...
You're right on! It is one of those songs that makes you FEEL ALIVE!
ONE OF THE BEST SONGS OF DURAN DURAN........................
+wagsouza
exactly!
djPrihod PERFECT THE BEST PHASE OF DURAN, THANKS !
The Saas Maker
YES MAN !
wagsouza YEEEEEAAAASSSSS
CARINA RUSSELL YEEEEEESSSSSSS :D !
This is a visual masterpiece that fits the song entirely. They really were so ahead of the wave. I love Duran Duran.
God almighty, you are gorgeous.. 💯
TBH. Any Sasha Grey video would do this song justice. The song is great, I love it, but all it evokes, for me, is a gangbang.
Memories from the past "... what does your horse say now ..."
I will never stop loving Duran Duran. Ever.
Bridgette Monique Your Sexxy..💞
des robo WHAAATTT
AMEN!
they seemed to rule the 80s, with depeche mode too!
Right on, bridgette!! I have a duran duran tattoo =D , or should i say a tattoo too =D
The effects here are FANTASTIC! The Late 80s has the most unique effect
All I want is to go back to 1988
one of Duran Duran's best songs however very underrated by the popular media
All I want is : Duran Duran back ; I discovered DD when I was 15, now I'm 52 and I still listen to them !
I'm two years younger than you. I heard DD from my cousins. They were die-hard DD fans.
47, fan since hearing Rio & Girls on Film when I was a kid. 🫶✌️
Me too 52 and discovered DD when 13. Was my 1st true love in music.
Such advanced song for 1988...such innovation....awesome Duran Duran
I was 14 when the song came out..and I was memorized by it. The sound was new with a new energy
One of my favorite DD songs!
Killer song even now
I’m only 20-years-old, but even I can appreciate how amazing this music video actually is, especially knowing the lack of technology that was available in 1989. Such a cool video!
and you can see music clips for example on mtv 1 time in week maybe and you addicted) now you can see again and again
The video was probably filmed in 1988.
This was done using analogue darkroom techniques with very little if any digital editing. Dean Chamberlain invented this way of exposing film to get the effects in the video.
@@stevebuckley7788 Interesting, thanks.
@@ajs41 Yea this was filmed in 1988
This video was well ahead of its time…1989 😮
As fresh today as the day it was created. Love you Duran.
Incredible song that is so underrated Love Duran Duran since 1983
In UK we have since 1980/1981!
The perfect link between 80's and 90's
puts 99 percent of contemporary music productions to shame
That minor keyed synth riff is haunting!
+jeffinillinois So GOOD! Always was and still is one of my favourite Duran songs & videos. So underrated.
Notorius
So rapey.
jeffinillinois hypnotizing
Actually titled a chapter in a novel with ‘All she wants is…’ from this song which I barely remembered. Then played this again and realised another reason why the ‘80s were just so cool - then as now.
"Old school is the way to go"
My favorite tune from DD. An immortal gem.
Damn. This looks like a lot of the recent AI music videos. And this was back in 1988!!!!
He/she who is tired of Duran Duran, is tired of life itself.
So Correct Skinger Skanger.
Most underrated track from them bar none.
This has been on my playlist for 20 years now.
Not their best song, but probably their best song that isn't overplayed. Still sounds fresh as a result. Save A Prayer is probably my favourite DD song but I've heard it about a million times.
80s/90s headbanger here. Always liked this Duran Duran song. Very dark and moody.
Who else is watching this in 2024?
Still a banger but their videos didn't age well 🤣
Classic!
I am
30/06/2024 🙋🏻♀️
Me 2024!
Simply B R I L L I A N T ! This song sounds so perfect and the video is pure art. Love it !!!!
One of my favourite Duran songs, even if this album didn’t do as good as the earlier stuff. It has a Depeche Mode feel to it!
Hell, how did I just find out about this song? I love it.
One of my favourites by DD. I knew them through my mother who was a teen in the 80's. This song and video are part of my childhood memories.
You and me should bring back dem days of relaxsation 😃
My daughter is 22 and she actually requested a duranduran tee shirt for her birthday. How could I have refused a request like that?
@@meersbrook5 tell her to use that hotel money and spread the news. That's some good music any decade. Bwell2020
La mujer como es linda desde Chile te escribo
Girl me too! I went to their concert in 2015 when I was 16, I legit cried when the concert ended 😂
Proof if it was ever needed that DD were always more than just some pretty boy teeny pop band.
Seriously... it infuriates me that so many people think of them like that! When Pop Trash came out and I was telling a coworker how excited I was to go and see them in concert, her reply was "What, are they still even alive?" :X
Well, to be fair, without MTV, they wouldn't have had the career they did. Their looks, style and overall aesthetic were a huge part of why we became fans back then. The true fans loved the music, yes, but without those other elements, they're not Dx2.
@@catherineshaw1122 Exposed a lot on the radio, The Tube, Tops of the Pops and much touring sealed their popularity. I was there as I was a fan.
@@mop714 yep, I went to concerts as well. They were almost over saturated back in the 80s but have continued to put out solid albums for so long.
@@catherineshaw1122 Is that your profile photo of yourself. If so, you are looking good.
It's insane how modern this song sounds now like if recoded last year
The best Duran Duran track that not many people would know about. I love this.
This video is great. It's stop motion production in the late 80's - it's stellar. Not bad for the band not having to be there for the filming. The band had such a tight promotional schedule that they couldn't be there for the lenghtly stop motion photos to do the complete video. The only scenes that they are in is the opening scene and the "peering over the fridge door" scene and prior to that. The rest of the scenes are filmed with mannequins with their heads latex molded . You could never tell until the cat was left out of the bag. No bullshit! Still an awesome video....way before it's time
Very creative and so ahead of its time. The mannequins are a bit creepy (are mannequins ever NOT a bit creepy??) but the video is amazing.
@@styx53ocean 2X2
Времена, когда музыкальные клипы были произведениями искусства. Одно из самых запоминающихся видео в моей жизни.
Almost 30 years later, sounds so current!
Listening during pandemia 2020.
This is a masterpiece. Both song and video.
Desde aquí 2024 desde chile octubre viernes 5 de octubre disfrutando la música de duran duran mejores bandas
Duran Duran is one of the most populars and "ahead of their time" bands during all these years, in sound and image!
This song is like the 80s cold, unforgiving but great to have been there even as a teen.
This is the best song on Big Thing. Why is this so forgotten?
One of duran duran best songs
I was born in the USSR and until the mid-80s of the last century I almost never saw performances of musical groups from the so-called Western countries, only Soviet pop music and performances from the countries of the so-called “socialist camp”. It was rare to see any Italo disco and any other Italian pop music, but after 1986, Soviet TV began to show a much wider range of musical genres. And even a whole separate channel appeared, on which exclusively foreign hits were played non-stop. I remember I spent hours watching TV. (It was there where I first time saw this clip). I studied English at school, but I knew it precisely at the level that was expected in the middle classes of Soviet secondary schools. That is, practically at zero. But still, some kind of vocabulary had settled in my brain by that time, and I, as best I could, tried to translate and understand the meaning of the songs that were playing. It didn’t work out very well; often the jokes came out straight, rather than translations. But with the chorus of this song, it seemed to me, everything was absolutely clear and understandable, they are clearly singing the phrase “Oh, shit! What's this?” - what doubts can there be? And only then, about ten years later, when my level of knowledge of the language became better and the Internet began to appear, this funny mistake finally became obvious to me in all its glory.
But this is not my funniest mondegrin. It seems to me that I got even funnier with Sting’s song “Englishman In New York”. I heard that he clearly sings: “Woaaah! I'm an animal, I'm a little animal - I'm an Englishman in New York.” But it remained unclear to me why he was so humiliated himself. On the other hand (from a zoological point of view), all people belong to the animal kingdom. Well, we are not bacteria, not mushrooms and not plants. So it's quite logical.
На каком канале показывали зарубежные муз клипы в конце 80-х что то не припоминаю?
@@ruff500 в конце 80-х начал вещать канал 2х2 и там было полно этих клипов. Ещё давали эфирное время каналу "Super channel", где были обзоры и на выходящие голливудские фильмы.
I love this! Never until now, would it have occurred to me that it sounds like, "oh shit...what's this?" Now, however, that's all I hear. Awesome!
@@ruff500 Канал 2х2. Там врубали во второй половине дня трансляцию канала с немудрёным названием Super channel.
@@trixter88 Это уже было начало 90-х
I just love that buzzy bass and guitar wash that vibrates all over this track.
И это 1988 год, сейчас даже супер качество!
I still find it rather shocking that the industry wasn't very big on Big Thing....My favorite album of Duran Duran.
I agree! I think at that time the market was flooded with hair metal & teen pop that music like this got lost, especially too because DD were always considered style over substance even though their music got better & more refined over the years. Notorious & Big Thing are more fine-tuned musically. I always maintain that if Notorious was a band’s debut album followed by this, they would’ve been considered a high-art, dark, alternative avant-garde act . How DD manage to combine guitars with synths is unmatched, especially in a song like this which defies any genres.
Duran Duran had a glorious career in the 80’s I was just a small kid when I listened to this song.
From new wave, pop, funk and electronica...Duran Duran are simply amazing !
I like this song by Duran. It's so old, but timeless, that even today it's like new to me.
This is one of the great video's of the era
Is THE video of XX century.!
Duran Duran had hits after hits. The Best 80's group to me. Been listening to them since grade school. Love all their collection of songs. My all time favorite is "Say A Prayer"
ШИКАРНО !! 🔥🔥🔥🔥
I really remember this wonderful psychedelic clip from my childhood.
Definitely one of the most interesting videos of the time.
This is such the JAM!!!! Straight up Party Song while maintaining that Dark Wave image...Strong Gary Numan influences...
sin duda una de las mejores rolas de Duran Duran
this is pure art why can't the 2010s be like this smh
It was hard enough in 1988! in the UK they wouldn't even play this on Top of the Pops or on the radio, even though it got into the top 10...... the music industry wonted Duran Duran to just go away, but thank GOD they never did! Duran Duran forever! :)
What the shit? Why do I hear this for the first time? It's so good.
OMG I had forgotten how AWSOME this song and video were.... truly VANGUARD for back in the day's standards
This reached No. 9 in 1988 and I can remember dancing to it. New Wave at its best.
CONGRATS TONIGHT TO DURAN DURAN AND PAT BENATAR FOR THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME ❣
Their best song!!!
80s were the best..Long live the 80s...!
i remember having this album as a teenager and it was so different - didn't know what to make of it at the time but as i listened to it more it was def one of the best albums i bought
Timeless....this song somehow, is a genre in itself .... and ,as said before still sounds fresh....
Great message
Lyrics
Mind blowing 💫✨💫
Being ahead of time in every department is so no big deal for DD
Greatest band of the '80.
Masterpiece
From one of their best albums.
This video is terrifying and cool at the same time.
Wonder what the deeper story is behind the video? I get that the ladies a little bit erm feisty and wants something though.
My fav all-time band...no further discussion.
I've had this album for nearly 30 years and this is the first time I've seen this video!!! Silk smooth!
Such an underrated track
Underrated Legendary MTV song
I totally love love love Duran Duran back in the day and I still love their music!
This is one of the best videos ever made. The song is a masterpiece. And it was not number one????????????
My favorite song from this band.
me encanta esta cancion y el video lo encuentro genial. Creativo 100%
I used to race cars on the Highway with this song on. It was the hit back then :)
They have made endless amount of great tracks, one of the most under appreciated bands ever, they make good music
“Divine intervention, couldn’t keep the word from leaking out...” I EFFING LOVE THIS LYRIC.
Revisiting THEE band of my youth during the corona virus lockdown. I’d totally forgotten about this song and how awesome it is.
as a rock guitarist, all of their stuff is very well written and recorded, great songs,
You've just gotta love Duran Duran. So many amazing, creative songs and videos'. ❤❤❤
Underrated great British Band
+arsemonkeys147 underrated?they have sold over 100M records?if you call that underrated well...
+Zlad! Vevo ok commercial success but not critical recognition is what I meant, seen as 80's kitsch act and not given the recognition they deserve. Great British band.
+arsemonkeys147 Under-rated??? In what respect?
+arsemonkeys147 Better check out DD's "Sing Blue Silver" video... and then tell us DD fans again if DD is an "underrated" band.
Yes they were/are under rated with their high point in the 80"s Howeverr, die hard fans like to think that they are more prolific then they are. They are iconic of that decade but amazingly are still relevant & awesome.
Underrated album
My favourite Duran song ..