Duran Duran

Duran Duran used to say their early goal was to merge the sounds of Chic with The Sex Pistols. While their debut isn\'t particularly punky, it does yoke a post-punk/new wave edge to dance grooves, with a dash of the artier end of glam rock. The results were tagged \"New Romantic\" by the press, and in the early \'80s this style was all the rage. The atmospheric synths and thumb-slapping basslines of \"Girls on Film\" and the Eurodisco grooves plus rock guitar on \"Planet Earth\" became \'80s archetypes. The pure pop glory of \"Is There Something I Should Know?\" (a post-album single added to the tracklist after the initial pressing) points toward the band\'s impending pop-idol status.

Duran Duran came back out of nowhere in early 1993 with a new album and a huge hit, "Ordinary World."