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Released | 27 March 1995 | |||
Recorded | 1992–1994 | |||
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Length | 54:26 | |||
Label | Parlophone | |||
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Thank You is the eighth studio album by English rock band Duran Duran. It was released on 27 March 1995 by Parlophone. Consisting of cover versions, the album performed moderately on the charts, reaching number 12 on the UK Albums Chart and number 19 on the US Billboard 200, but received negative reviews from critics.
The title track, ("Thank You", originally by Led Zeppelin) originally appeared in an edited form (5:06) on the soundtrack to the 1994 film With Honors . A still shorter edit (4:32) later appeared on Encomium: A Tribute to Led Zeppelin , a month before the full version was included on this album.
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Source | Rating |
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Entertainment Weekly | C [4] |
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Spin | 2/10 [8] |
The two singles from the album were covers of Grandmaster Melle Mel's "White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)" and Lou Reed's "Perfect Day". "Lay Lady Lay" was a single in Italy and in Spain.
J. D. Considine of Rolling Stone said "some of the ideas at play here are stunningly wrongheaded, like the easy-listening arrangement given Elvis Costello's 'Watching the Detectives' or the version of Zeppelin's 'Thank You' that sounds like the band is covering Chris DeBurgh. But it takes a certain demented genius to recognize Iggy Pop's 'Success' as the Gary Glitter tune it was meant to be or to redo '911 Is a Joke' so it sounds more like Beck than like Public Enemy." [5]
In 2006, the album was declared the worst album of all time by Q magazine. [9]
"Perfect Day" was the first single from Thank You and became a moderate hit, peaking at number 28 on the UK Singles Chart. In the US the song narrowly failed to crack the Billboard Hot 100, only reaching as high as #101 from 24 June to 8 July 1995. The B-side of the single was a version of the Velvet Underground's song "Femme Fatale", previously available in 1993, on Duran Duran's Wedding Album . [10]
Lou Reed said on the electronic press kit that accompanied the album that Duran Duran's version of "Perfect Day" was "the best cover ever completed of one of my own songs". [11]
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Original artist | Length |
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1. | "White Lines" | Melvin Glover; Sylvia Robinson | Melle Mel | 5:31 |
2. | "I Wanna Take You Higher" | Sylvester Stewart | Sly and the Family Stone | 5:06 |
3. | "Perfect Day" | Lou Reed | Lou Reed | 3:51 |
4. | "Watching the Detectives" | Elvis Costello | Elvis Costello | 4:48 |
5. | "Lay Lady Lay" | Bob Dylan | Bob Dylan | 3:53 |
6. | "911 Is a Joke" | William Jonathan Drayton Jr.; Keith Shocklee; Eric Sadler | Public Enemy | 3:59 |
7. | "Success" | David Bowie; Ricky Gardiner | Iggy Pop | 4:05 |
8. | "Crystal Ship" | Jim Morrison | The Doors | 2:52 |
9. | "Ball of Confusion" | Norman Whitfield; Barrett Strong | The Temptations | 3:46 |
10. | "Thank You" | Jimmy Page; Robert Plant | Led Zeppelin | 6:36 |
11. | "Drive By" | Simon Le Bon; Warren Cuccurullo; Nick Rhodes; John Taylor | Duran Duran | 5:34 |
12. | "I Wanna Take You Higher Again" | Sylvester Stewart | Sly and the Family Stone | 4:25 |
Total length: | 54:26 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Original artist | Length |
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13. | "Diamond Dogs" | David Bowie | David Bowie | 6:10 |
14. | "Femme Fatale" | Lou Reed | The Velvet Underground and Nico | 4:22 |
Total length: | 64:58 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Original artist | Length |
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1. | "The Needle and the Damage Done" | Neil Young | Neil Young | 2:06 |
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Chart (1995) | Peak position |
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Australian Albums (ARIA) [12] | 63 |
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [13] | 25 |
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [14] | 34 |
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [15] | 16 |
Canada Top Albums/CDs ( RPM ) [16] | 15 |
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [17] | 34 |
European Albums ( Music & Media ) [18] | 36 |
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [19] | 50 |
Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ) [20] | 30 |
Italian Albums ( Musica e dischi ) [21] | 17 |
Japanese Albums (Oricon) [22] | 27 |
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [23] | 44 |
UK Albums (OCC) [24] | 12 |
US Billboard 200 [25] | 19 |
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Canada (Music Canada) [26] | Gold | 50,000^ |
United States (RIAA) [27] | Gold | 500,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
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