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Rio: Remastered | 
| Artist: Duran Duran
Label: EMI
Category: Music
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Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 3167
Format: Enhanced, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.7 x 0.5
MPN: 29924
UPC: 724352992409
EAN: 0724352992409
ASIN: B00005BJ9W
Release Date: June 11, 2001
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| Tracks:
| • | Rio | | • | My Own Way | | • | Lonely In Your Nightmare | | • | Hungry Like The Wolf | | • | Hold Back The Rain | | • | New Religion | | • | Last Chance On The Stairway | | • | Save A Prayer | | • | Chauffeur | | • | Rio | | • | Hungry Like The Wolf | | • | Save A Prayer |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
For the most part, Rio is an eerie and sumptuous record. With their raspy, arpeggio synth sounds and Simon Le Bon's uninflected vocals, the misty ballads "Lonely in Your Nightmare" and "Save a Prayer" can still pull heavily on your heartstrings. With the dance-oriented singles "Rio" and "Hungry Like the Wolf", you lighten up a bit, but the songs are far from airy or whimsical. One anomaly in this release, though, is the inappropriate prominence of John Taylor's bass lines. In every song, it sounds as if he is mixed more in expectation of a solo than as an integral part of the rhythm section. Ignore this technical distraction, however, and you'll enjoy rediscovering this gorgeous body of water-coloured synthpop.--Beth Bessmer
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| Customer Reviews: Read 11 more reviews...
The only 80's album you ever need, really. November 6, 2008
By 1982, fresh from the breakthrough success of "Girls On Film" from their self titled debut, Duran Duran unleashed "Rio," an album and song that would propel them to international stardom.
And quite rightly so, "Rio" is a brilliant album, fantastically written and musically perfect.
Songs like "Hungry Like The Wolf" and "Save A Prayer," both hugely sucessful singles and videos, along with "Rio" (I think everyone knows the video for this one)Duran Duran just kept the hits coming.
It's the hidden gems though within this album that make it so special, live favourite "Hold Back The Rain" and the simply sublime "The Chauffeur" make this album easily up there with the very best of the 80's.
It a height that Duran Duran have never scaled since, but this was some effort, Duran Duran could perhaps be forgiven for that.
And when she shines, she really shows you all she can... February 1, 2008
I can but echo many of the comments above -- this is one of THE albums of the 80s. From the moment your CD drawer shuts to the moment it opens again 45 minutes later, there is simply not a single duff moment. Personal favourites are the exhuberant title track, the dark and positively spooky Chauffeur (I am listening to this track on headphones as I write this, and the hairs are all standing up on my arms!), the glorious 6th-form-disco-slow-dance classic Save A Prayer, and -- possibly my favourite Duran track of all time -- the truly brilliant Last Chance On The Stairway.
Oh, and whoever said that the bass is over-prominent obviously needs new ears -- the bass makes this album. Just listen to the bassline on Rio and tell me it ain't so. This album is John Taylor's tour de force.
BEST POP ALBUM EVER November 17, 2007
Ain't Nothing like Rio if You love Pop Music. Every song in this album is a classic... Duran Duran at its top. The Title track is the highlight, but songs like Hungry Like The Wolf and Save A Prayer reached the classic status the day after their release, back in summer 1982. And don't forget gems like The Chauffeur and New Religion.
Giancarlo - Turin, Italy
Classic 80s album July 8, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Rio is Duran Duran's best known album and is a highlight of the early 1980s. Its popularity has been shown in its appearances in several all time greatest album polls, including several conducted by Q magazine and Colin Larkins 1000 All Time Albums. As well as the title track, which its famous video, the album also contains Hungry like the wolf and the band's best song, Save a Prayer. As well as the more catchy pop songs, there is the cold atmospheric track Chauffeur. As a snapshot of the early 1980s, this is worth investing in.
The quintessential 80's album January 23, 2006
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
For those of us who were there, Rio is THE album of the 80's - from it's distinctive album cover to it's ground-breaking videos. Although most of us 'got' the tongue-in-cheekness of the Rio video and that iconic yacht shot, the critics never forgave them for it - and it has unfairly dogged them ever since. But look a bit closer, underneath all of that there is a very original, diverse and ageless body of work that stands the test of time where others from that era do not. Like other albums that were made in the vinyl era there is a distinction between what was 'Side 1' and 'Side 2'. Side 1 is the one to dance to with full-on guitar riffs alongside the creatively used synths. And perhaps that is why this album has aged so well. Synths give the music colour and form and interest - but do not dominate. This is pop music but it's not 'bubble-gum' pop it's big, brash, colourful, at once extrovert and introspective and always individual. Hold Back The Rain should have been a single; Hungry Like The Wolf, one of their most well-known hits, has a menace and energy to it that still comes across. But it is Side B that brings the revelations. One of my favourite ever Duran tracks is 'New Religion'. It blew me away when I first heard it, it's sombre, cathedral-like opening gives way to a clean, soaring guitar, a pumping bass-line and a dual chorus (pick the easy one or the hard one to sing along to) containing some of Le Bon's most interesting and original lyrics. It still gets my toe-tapping after 20 years. But there's more: the lush and beautiful 'Save A Prayer' with the distinctive synth hook and one of my favourite lyrics 'so you wanted to dance, so I asked you to dance but fear is in your soul, some people call it a one night stand but we can call it paradise'. It's just great. The album rounds off with a critical and fan favourite: The Chauffeur. It's spare and slow and again the lyrics are almost incomprehensible, but it has an atmosphere of melancholy and a sexy strangeness that is compelling. This track more than any other is the 'link' between the Duran of 'Rio' and the Duran of their eponymous debut - but also a taste of this band's creative strength which is often overlooked. You should buy this album because it represents an era by being outside of that era: no CD collection should be without it if you want to have the best of the best.
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