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Wretched excess, accent on wretched
Dec 31, 2004, 17:18
Watching Duran Duran's longform "Arena" video right now on VH1 Classic. Subtitled "An absurd notion", actually. It strikes me that the only thing absurd about this was that it was even released in the first place. What a total fucking mess...lackluster concert footage chopped up indiscriminately with bad Sci-Fi nonsense that looks like it was shot in a scrapyard on a budget of $1.98 and random edits of old "Barbarella" footage.

No fucking excuse for something like this even being revived, even. One hellacious 'blackmail project', this...and now having seen it, I can see why they dead-ended for several years after it. Encapsulates everything wrong with DD, as well as a good chunk of the early-mid-80s itself. Would anyone have any illumination as to WHY anyone with the group or their label or their management would've thought this thing was a 'good idea'...?
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