The song’s opening lines waste no time in bringing those very elements to the forefront of our minds with its references to suave ladies and exotic locations. With those heavy drums.Rio is the quintessential Duran Duran song, launching the 1980s as a glamorous decade filled with high fashion, models, and luxurious surroundings. Favourite music video of the band for my taste. Still contemplating doing a lip-sync music video to this song. You don't know Duran Duran music if you don't have 'Is There Something I Should Know' in your DD top10 list Way to low! This song was a chart topper and heavily played on the radio back in the day! There are several songs listed ahead of this one on this list that were not even hits and barely even played on the radio. John's bass is as usual epic, Andy with a killer guitar, Nick always creates the best synths to put in, especially for this! One of Roger's best song especially with the start! And Simon is always on form, and the lyrics he created are fantastic. How can this song be this low! Duran Duran's first number 1! Like everything for this song fit together. Thanks Simon, John, Roger, Nick and Andy and remember guys, you're about as easy as a nuclear war! The guys look real smart and it's highly addictive. It's massively underrated this song I think, and this was their 1st number 1 so one of the biggest hits. All of there songs were classics but this, The Reflex and Hungry Like The Wolf are my top 3. So glad it was included in the 'greatest' album.Ī entrancing intro followed up by an undeniable great and catchy rhythm and lyrics screaming of Duran Duran make this all an all time favorite.

any time that it comes on I want to sing along, though I'm probably one of the worst vocalists in the world. The way that the chorus climbs every time they sing it just makes me want to move myself. This is just one of those songs where I don't know why I love it, but I do. I have no clue why this song isn't more recognized as one of their best. Great memories! Every time I hear the open synth line, I think of that night in my youth when life was one big party and going out to the clubs as natural as going to bed! Love this song! I taped the song and then brought the tape out with me and played the song for my girl friend and best friend and they loved it. It was a Friday and WLIR in Long Island was premiering it at 8:00 PM. Amazing, Duran Duran is so amazing and I can't believe that people don't listen to them or care for them any more and now they listen to rubbish like Ed Sheeran nowadays?

Local radio stations seemed to play it every 5 minutes, to support the team. In 1983, when the Wolfpack won the national title, this hit became there theme song.

When I hear this song, a smile forms on my face. Drummer Roger Taylor has stated it 'kind of defined the drum sound for the Eighties' and it is hard to disagree.Īwesome song, I think this one is my favorite, it was hard to decide between this and Come Undone but at the end I think I prefer Hungry Like the Wolf so far. It was also the band's breakthrough hit in the United States. This became one of the signature songs of the 80's and many would consider it their favourite DD track. So, who else remembers the film 'Big Fat Liar' where Paul Giamatti is dancing to this song before having a swim in the dreaded blue water? For better or worse, that is what usually comes to mind when I think of this song.

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