Ordinary World – Duran Duran
Here is yet another song from my childhood. Well not exactly, my affection for Duran Duran has arrived later in life. A few years ago I got their greatest hits CD for Christmas and rediscovered some classics. I feel Duran Duran has more to offer the listening public than “Hungry Like a Wolf” or “Girls on Film.” Although they are the songs most familiar listeners, I refuse to put them on a best of list because I feel songs like “Come Undone”, “Save a Prayer” and of course “Ordinary World” are a much greater gift to the music world.
This song is about love lost, and how the world is a different place without that person to share it with. “Ordinary World” was released in 1993 and quickly rose to number 3 in the US after the single was leaked by a Florida radio station. In the UK the song won the prestigious Ivor Novello Award for song writing.
Duran Duran was started in Birmingham, UK in 1978 by John Taylor and Nick Rhodes. The band is named after the villain “Dr. Durand Durand”, in Roger Vadim’s science-fiction film, Barbarella. The band is generally considered part of the New Romantic scene, a short-lived fashion and music movement that occurred primarily in the United Kingdom in the early 1980s; with other bands such as, Depeche Mode and The Culture Club.
*edit* new video – 2/16/10
Woops, I didn’t mean to supercede your post with mine Sarah. I wound up “scheduling” my post to publish at 11:30, which I guess must have just beat yours.
Anywho, a guy I work with gave me a greatest hits collection of Duran Duran, and to me, they are one of those bands that I recognize more of their songs than I actually could name off the top of my head.
“Ordinary World” is one of those. I’ve probably heard hundreds of times, but for most of them, I had no idea who it was by.