The Songs
Somebody Else Not Me
This mournful ballad was Pop Trash’s sole single, however wasn’t a terrific calling card for the album. Though Rhodes has known as it Le Bon’s biggest lyrical contribution to the LP (not that he had many!), the keyboardist believes the recorded model is simply too gradual, and it’s a tune that they at all times carry out quicker on stage.
Lava Lamp
With its sitar-featuring psychedelic rock really feel, Lava Lamp might simply be a Kula Shaker tune and sure, we’re conscious we’re not being complimentary saying that. Sadly, that Jap-influenced psychedelia was nicely out of style by 2000.
Taking part in With Uranium
Although Rhodes has claimed that Taking part in With Uranium was merely about “nuclear waste leaks and the potential of rogue factions getting maintain of uranium”, Simon Le Bon advised VH1 Storytellers that the tune was impressed by the true-life story of David Hahn, a US teenager who made the information within the 90s by making a nuclear reactor in his backyard shed. Sure, actually!
Hallucinating Elvis
Hallucinating Elvis was, Rhodes claimed on the DD web site, “primarily based on the premise of Elvis [Presley, that is] travelling on one in all his two planes; neither of which he used fairly often and each of which solely ever noticed home outings – the furthest being Hawaii to Las Vegas throughout later years. It appeared loopy that although I had by no means been an enormous Elvis fan, I knew a lot about his life, he was a part of our material and it was enjoyable to re-sew it for a tune.”
Beginning To Bear in mind
A gorgeously Beatles-y observe that most likely might have been launched as a single, had Hollywood had their proper head on. Impressed by a Picasso quote (“It took me a lifetime to color like a toddler”), it’s, as Rhodes claimed, about “discovering your means once more, kind of like being misplaced in a maze and never realizing which route to show.” As a substitute of being put out as an A-side, it was as a substitute wasted because the flip to the underperforming Somebody Else Not Me.
Pop Trash Film
Warren Cuccurullo’s favorite observe off the album, one which he describes as “fairly epic”. “[It has] an attractive melody, Warren at his best possible,” Rhodes advised the band’s official web site. “I like the way in which Simon sung it, it jogs my memory of old style 60s melodies from songs by Dusty Springfield or Nancy Sinatra. When writing the lyric, I used a really deliberate appropriation of Andy Warhol’s quote ‘Sooner or later everybody might be world-famous for quarter-hour.’ His statement had develop into extra prescient than ever earlier than. Actuality TV reveals had been a global obsession and even probably the most pointless, fleeting fame appeared to be desired by so many.”
Fragment
Lasting simply 49 seconds, Fragment is kinda precisely what it says on the tin, a speck of ambient sound that brings Brian Eno to thoughts.
Mars Meets Venus
It wasn’t simply the title of this uptempo dance quantity that got here from the small adverts at the back of {a magazine}, it was your entire lyrics. “It was a nod to John Lennon’s lyric for Being For The Advantage of Mr. Kite! which was compiled from a Victorian poster for a good,” mirrored Nick.
Girl Xanax
There are shades of Led Zeppelin on this mild blues-influenced ballad, written a couple of good friend of Nick Rhodes, who, as he mirrored, “was dwelling in a dream world, desperately depending on prescribed drugs.”
The Solar Doesn’t Shine Endlessly
This one, which was initially written for Blondie, very almost didn’t get included on the ultimate tracklisting. It was solely when Ken Scott got here in and, after listening to the tune and expressing his admiration of it to the boys, that it was added to the album. “I’m actually glad we received that one completed because it simply might have slipped by means of the cracks,” mirrored Warren Cuccurullo on the Duran Duran web site.
Kiss Goodbye
Like Fragment, this isn’t actually a tune (it’s simply 41 seconds lengthy), and extra a mild prelude to…
Final Day On Earth
Pop Trash’s closing observe began life as a Bond theme, which Warren Cuccurullo and Nick Rhodes initially recorded with vocalist Tessa Niles, for the 1997 movie Tomorrow By no means Dies. The observe wasn’t picked ultimately, so Duran re-waxed it, with new lyrics. A punchy rocker, it lacks the widescreen grandeur of A View To A Kill, and would possibly nicely have suited a Daniel Craig movie greater than the lighter Pierce Brosnan period.
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