History YMMV / DuranDuran

* RefrainFromAssuming: No its not "Dance into the Fire", its "A View to a Kill", just like [[Film/AViewToAKill its Bond movie]].

* FaceOfTheBand: The band's lineup has been... eclectic over the years. Since the band's founding [[OlderThanTheyThink in 1978]], only keyboardist Nick Rhodes has remained for the entire run. Singer Simon [=LeBon=] appears on every album, though.

* TearJerker: "Save a Prayer" and "Out of My Mind" are heart-wrenching songs about bad relationships. "Ordinary World" is about loss in general, while "Come Undone" is a heart-breaking song about a marriage turned sour.

** This was [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic wonderfully]] [[AvertedTrope averted]] with their 13th album, ''All You Need is Now'', which has been largely hailed as their best work since their heyday by both the fanbase and the critics. The 2015 follow-up ''Paper Gods'' got good reviews as well and became their first top 10 album on the Billboard Charts since 1993's ''Music/TheWeddingAlbum''.

* AudienceAlienatingEra:
** ''Notorious'' was when many fans thought they'd overstayed their welcome. Others believe that the album that preceded it, ''Seven and the Ragged Tiger'', was the start of their downfall, due to it being produced by the divisive Nile Rodgers.

** A few hardcore New Wave elitists think everything after their ''debut'' album was this. (Yes, even ''Rio''.)

** ''Notorious'' was when many fans thought they'd overstayed their welcome. Others believe that ''Seven and the Ragged Tiger'' was the start of their downfall, due to it being produced by the divisive Nile Rodgers.
** A few hardcore New Wave elitists think everything after their ''debut'' album was this.

* EvenBetterSequel: While their debut album is well-regarded, ''Rio'' is their most popular and well-known album.

** The next release, ''The Wedding Album'', was a big hit, but ''Pop Trash'', ''Thank You'' and ''Medazzaland'' ranged from SoOkayItsAverage to just plain awful.

** "Notorious" was when many fans thought they'd overstayed their welcome. Others believe that "Seven And The Ragged Tiger" was the start of their downfall, due to it being produced by the divisive Nile Rodgers.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: "Save a Prayer - "You saw me standing by the old corner of main street, and the lights are flashing on your windowsill. All alone ain't much fun so you're looking for the thrill." Anyone else think the song is from the perspective of a hooker?

* FanCommunityNicknames: Duranies.

* AudienceAlienatingEra: "Notorious" was when many fans thought they'd overstayed their welcome. Others believe that "Seven And The Ragged Tiger" was the start of their downfall, due to it being produced by the divisive Nile Rodgers.

* FaceOfTheBand: The band's lineup has been... eccentric over the years. Since the band's founding [[OlderThanTheyThink in 1978]], only keyboardist Nick Rhodes has remained for the entire run. Singer Simon [=LeBon=] appears on every album, though.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeArt: Patrick Nagel's iconic painting on the cover of ''Rio.''
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Lots, but ''Rio'' and their SelfTitledAlbum stand out.
* EvenBetterSequel: ''Rio'' to their first album.

* SongAssociation: "Wild Boys" is well-known as walk-in music for Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic. He used it for most of the fights in his caree, so it's not difficul to find comments under [=YouTube=] videos with this song remembering this fact.

* UncannyValley: The disembodied heads floating above the stage during the ''Diamond in the Mind'' show. Especially once they start singing during "The Reflex."

* SongAssociation: "Wild Boys" is well-known as walk-in music for Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic. He used it for most of the fights in his caree, so it's not difficul to find comments under YouTube videos with this song remembering this fact.

* DorkAge: "Notorious" was when many fans thought they'd overstayed their welcome. Others believe that "Seven And The Ragged Tiger" was the start of their downfall, due to it being produced by the divisive Nile Rodgers.
** A few hardcore New Wave elitists think everything after their ''debut'' album was a dork age.

%%* TearJerker: "Save a Prayer", "Out of My Mind", "Ordinary World", "Come Undone", and others.

** This was [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic wonderfully]] [[AvertedTrope averted]] with their 13th album, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7Er5TsQrGg "All You Need is Now"]], which has been largely hailed as their best work since their heyday by both the fanbase and the critics. The 2015 follow-up ''Paper Gods'' got good reviews as well and became their first top 10 album on the Billboard Charts since 1993's ''Music/{{The Wedding Album}}''.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: In the early 1980s, millions of preteen and teenage girls were greatly moved as they sat by their record players and listened to the band's hit single "Save a Prayer", and when they saw Duran Duran perform said song live they flicked their Bic lighters on and swayed to and fro. All of this raw emotion was for a song singing the joys of one-night stands. It doesn't help that the song sounds like a beautiful melancholy "break up song"-type ballad (even if it does mention 'a one-night stand') and the band's lyrics tend to be varying degrees of "word salady". It sounds like a beautiful, loving, romantic, sensitive ode to a one-night stand....or something.

* DorkAge: "Notorious" was when many fans thought they'd overstayed their welcome. Others believe that "Seven And The Ragged Tiger" was the start of their downfall, due to it being produced by the divisive Nile Rodgers. Quite a few ignore the 90's-and-onwards stuff entirely.

* DorkAge: "Notorious" was when many fans stopped listening to them. Others believe that "Seven And The Ragged Tiger" was the start of their downfall, due to it being produced by the divisive Nile Rodgers. Quite a few ignore the 90's-and-onwards stuff entirely.
** A few hardcore New Wave elitists only like their ''debut'' album.

* EarWorm:
** "Girls on film! (Got your picture!) Girls on film!"
** "Don't save a prayer for me nooooooow...save it to the morning afteeeeeeeeer..."
** "[[Film/AViewToAKill Daaance! Into the fi-yerrr! When all we seeeee...]] [[TitleDrop Is the viewwww to a kiiiiiillll!!]]
** "WHYWHYWHYWHYWHY don't you use iiiitttt?"
---> '''Nick''': [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments I'm saving it for later.]]
** "PLEASE PLEASE TELL ME NOW!"
** "AND I'M HUNGRY LIKE THE WOLF!"
** "Her name is Rio and she dances on the sand..."
** "But I won't cry for yesterday; there's an ordinary world, that somehow IIIII HAVE TO FIIIIIIIIIIND!"