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Duran Duran - Big Thing (live)

Big Thing is the fifth album by Duran Duran, released worldwide in 1988. It reached #15 in the UK and #24 in the US.

A CD reissue (with one bonus track) was released in 1994. The album was reissued as a three disc boxset on 27 September 2010.

Dedication

For the first time in their career the band members decided to write personal dedication notes on the album sleeve thus thanking Alex Sadkin who had been killed in a car crash in late 1987, Andy Warhol, who had died in early 1987 and David Miles, a childhood friend of Le Bon's who died of an illegal drug cigarette during the album's creation.

My dedication is for a big fan of this song, Cornel Lucian Rusu from Suceava.

Background

In 1988, the musical climate was changing, veering to a more dance-based groove. Duran Duran were known primarily as an early '80s new wave synth-pop act, and the band was sitting at a career crossroads; Big Thing was their stab at maintaining mainstream popularity.

Turning to more synth- and bass-heavy grooves than their previous efforts, Big Thing was seen by many as the band's "house music" album. Tracks like the first single "I Don't Want Your Love", the title track, and the album's second single "All She Wants Is" cemented the band's more aggressive dance angle.

To get the new music played without preconceived 'teeny bopper band' notions of Duran Duran, the band sent an edited three minute version of album tracks "The Edge Of America" and "Lake Shore Driving" to radio stations, known as "Official Bootleg: The LSD Edit". The promo was credited to "The Krush Brothers", which the band also used in a few surprise live dates.

Dance music and stylist respellings aside, Big Thing was an album of contrasts. While the general feel was a response to the burgeoning house music and rave scene, a number of tracks on the album harked back to the band's more lush arrangements. Tracks like "Land", "Palomino" and the single "Do You Believe In Shame?" had more in common with "Save A Prayer" or "The Seventh Stranger" than with Chicago house.

The lyrics:

Get it up get it out get it in time

Hang it up hanging out hanging on a big thing

Move it in move it out move up the line

Bang it up bang it out banging on a big thing

Brothers and sisters let me hear it

Get it up get it on get it in time

Give me the green light and watch me move it

Move it up move it out move up the line

This is temptation power rotation

Give me the friction and watch me make it

Make it up making out making it slide

So glad you came along

This time you won't be wrong

You love to turn it on

And you'renot the only one

Brothers and sisters we can take it

Shake it up shake it out shake it all the time

Give me the suction we can stick it

Lick it up suck it up stick it outside

This is temptation (station)

Power rotation (to station)

Give me the playlist and watch me eat it

Eat it up beat it up beat it in time

So glad you came along

This time you won't be wrong

You love to turn it on

And you'renot the only one

Get it up get it out get it in time

Hang it up hanging out hanging on a big thing

Move it in move it out move up the line

Bang it up bang it out banging on a big thing

Get it up get it out get it in time

Hang it up hanging out hanging on a big thing

Move it in move it out move up the line

Bang it up bang it out banging on a big thing