Line #54 Music/TheWeddingAlbum


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:''Can't ever keep from falling apart at the seams\
3	Can't I believe you're taking my heart to pieces'']]
4	->''Came in from a rainy Thursday\
5	On the avenue\
6	Thought I heard you talking softly\
7	\
8	I turned on the lights, the TV\
9	And the radio\
10	Still I can't escape the ghost of you\
11	\
12	What has happened to it all?\
13	Crazy, some'd say\
14	Where is the life that I recognize?\
15	Gone away''
16	-->--'''"Ordinary World"'''
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18	''Duran Duran'' is the seventh studio album--their second SelfTitledAlbum--recorded by the British NewWave band [[Music/DuranDuran of the same name]]. It was released through Creator/ParlophoneRecords on 11 February 1993.
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20	It is best known by fans as ''The Wedding Album'', with its cover featuring wedding photos from the parents of the four band members. However, the alternate title actually came from two UK promotional cassettes prior to the official release, one titled ''The Wedding'' and the other ''The Wedding Album''. The wedding-related titles were dropped before release. The album was a major comeback for the band following the relative disappointments ''Big Thing'' (1988) and ''Liberty'' (1990) and spun off the international top 10 hits "Ordinary World" and "Come Undone".
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22	For the album by Music/JohnLennon and Music/YokoOno, see ''Music/WeddingAlbum'' (1969).
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24	!!Tracklist:
25	# "Too Much Information"
26	# "Ordinary World"
27	# "Love Voodoo"
28	# "Drowning Man"
29	# "Shotgun"
30	# "Come Undone"
31	# "Breath After Breath"
32	# "U.M.F."
33	# "Femme Fatale"
34	# "None Of The Above"
35	# "Shelter"
36	# "To Whom It May Concern"
37	# "Sin Of The City"
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39	!!Principal Members:
40	* Nick Rhodes – keyboards
41	* Simon Le Bon – vocals
42	* John Taylor – bass guitar
43	* Warren Cuccurullo – guitar, acoustic guitar in "Ordinary World"
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45	!!"You caught me in your web of tropes":
46	* AlliterativeTitle: By the album being named after the band itself. Also the track "'''F'''emme '''F'''atale" and "'''B'''reath After '''B'''reath".
47	* AmoralAttorney: "To Whom It May Concern" is a song written in response to the manipulation the band had encountered from one of their attorneys. The character that they address is referred to as "Mr. Bones," and the lyrics for the song appear in the liner notes in the form of an official letter that was meant to be sent to the character.
48	* BreakupSong: "Ordinary World".
49	* ChangedForTheVideo: The video for "Ordinary World" uses the shorter radio version of the song instead of the album version, removing the intro and mashing two instrumental bridge sections together.
50	* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Implied from a line from "Sin Of The City": "The city has more a hundred thousand wars, all for one of Forbes' Four Hundred whores."
51	* CoverVersion: "Femme Fatale" from ''Music/TheVelvetUndergroundAndNico'' by Music/VelvetUnderground.
52	* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The album cover is in black-and-white.
53	* DomesticAbuse: "Sin Of The City" begins with such a case, given its real-life setting:
54	-->''Coat check girl up in Happy Land''\
55	''Has a violent row with a Cuba man.''\
56	''Julio leaves in a drunken rage,''\
57	''He comes back with the gasoline.''
58	* FemmeFatale: One of the songs from the album.
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60	* IntercourseWithYou: "U.M.F."
61	* LongestSongGoesLast: "Sin Of The City" clocks in at 7 minutes and 14 seconds. It's also the [[EpicRocking longest song]] in the band's catalogue.
62	* LyricalColdOpen: "None Of The Above".
63	* LyricsVideoMismatch: "Come Undone". The lyrics appear to be about offering to help a person who's coming apart at the seams. The video is about a woman performing an underwater escape from chains and a male transvestite, among other images.
64	* MinisculeRocking: "Shotgun", a very short song (54 seconds long) with a riff that appears later in "Sin Of The City."
65	* NayTheist: The subject of "None Of The Above."
66	* OneManSong: "Drowning Man".
67	* OneWordTitle: "Shotgun" and "Shelter".
68	* [[RealLifeWritesThePlot Real Life Writes The Song]]: "Sin Of The City" refers to the Happy Land fire in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity on March 25, 1990 that killed 87 people (although the song lyrics say 89 were killed).
69	* RecordProducer: John Jones and Duran Duran.
70	* {{Scatting}}: In "Drowning Man": "NA NANA NA NANA NANA NA NA."
71	* SelfTitledAlbum: The second one released by the band.
72	* ShoutOut: "Too Much Information" mentions Creator/{{MTV}} and Creator/TheBBC as the networks that they are "destroyed by", which is ironic in the case of MTV, since it's the network that helped make Duran Duran become very popular in the 1980s.
73	* SpecialGuest: Brazilian singer Milton Nascimento co-wrote "Breath After Breath" and appears on the track singing in Portuguese.
74	* SpokenWordInMusic: A voice that says "Telephone call for Mr. Bones" introduces the song "To Whom It May Concern".
75	* TooMuchInformation: One of the songs from the album. Subverted trope, as it is really about the effect of media bombardment.
76	* WorkInfoTitle
77	* YouAreNotAlone: "Come Undone".

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