Pop Trash

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namePop Trash
typestudio
artistDuran Duran
coverDuranDuran-PopTrash.jpg
released
recorded1999–2000
length
labelHollywood
prev_titleStrange Behaviour
prev_year1999
next_titleSingles Box Set 1981–1985
next_year2003
misc{{Singles
namePop Trash
typestudio
single1Someone Else Not Me
single1date13 March 2000
single2Playing with Uranium
single2date20 October 2000 (Italy only)
single3Last Day on Earth
single3date7 March 2001 (Japan only)
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| name = Pop Trash | type = studio | artist = Duran Duran | cover = DuranDuran-PopTrash.jpg | released = | recorded = 1999–2000 | studio = | genre =

Release

It was the only album the band released under Hollywood Records. After the album's poor sales, Duran Duran's contract with the label was terminated, and they would not release an album until 2004's Astronaut. The album artwork, created by Andrew Day, features a rhinestone-encrusted car that belonged to Liberace.

From July 2008, the album was made available for sale digitally through the iTunes Store in the United States and Europe, along with Medazzaland. In 2021, the band signed a deal for the album with BMG (along with Medazzaland, Astronaut and Red Carpet Massacre) which saw it being re-issued in the UK on various digital platforms. A CD reissue was released on 17 August 2022.

Critical reception

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Critics were generally unexcited by the album, which received an average score of 52, indicating "mixed or average" based on nine reviews, from Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications. Rob Sheffield of Rolling Stone said:

Stacia Proefrock of AllMusic said:

Chris Willman of Entertainment Weekly said:

A reviewer for Salon called Pop Trash "a mediocre Britpop album", while Q defended the album and said that "Pop Trash proves to be far from embarrassing". Another negative review came from MTV.com who said that "most of the album is, in fact, pop trash".

Ultimately, the album would become the band's lowest-selling album, and their last until 2004's Astronaut.

Singles

The lead single "Someone Else Not Me" peaked only at #53 in the UK, and did not chart at all in United States. However, it made the top 10 in Latvia. Le Bon also recorded versions of this song in Spanish ("Alguien Que No Soy Yo") and French ("Un Autre Que Moi"). The music video for the single was the first to be created entirely in Macromedia Flash digital animation.

The song "Playing with Uranium" was supposed to be released as a single in Italy only, but was available only as a radio promo.

The song "Last Day on Earth" was released in Japan; it was also played during the opening of the Universal Studios Japan theme park in Osaka. Parts of the song were submitted for the James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies soundtrack, but were not chosen.

Track listing

All songs written by Duran Duran

  1. "Someone Else Not Me" – 4:48
  2. "Lava Lamp" – 3:54
  3. "Playing with Uranium" – 3:51
  4. "Hallucinating Elvis" – 5:26
  5. "Starting to Remember" – 2:38
  6. "Pop Trash Movie" – 4:54
  7. "Fragment" – 0:49
  8. "Mars Meets Venus" – 3:07
  9. "Lady Xanax" – 4:53
  10. "The Sun Doesn't Shine Forever" – 4:51
  11. "Kiss Goodbye" – 0:41
  12. "Last Day on Earth" – 4:27 Bonus tracks on various international releases:
  13. "Un Autre Que Moi" (French version of "Someone Else Not Me") – 4:19
  14. "Alguien Que No Soy Yo" (Spanish version of "Someone Else Not Me") – 4:16
  15. "Prototypes" – 6:17

Personnel

Duran Duran

Additional musicians

Artwork and photography

  • Andrew Day

Charts

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References

References

  1. Caulfield, Keith. (2 May 2008). "Ask Billboard".
  2. Grigoriadis, Vanessa. (21 April 2005). "Still Pretty".
  3. (16 July 2008). "Pop Trash and Medazzaland on iTunes!".
  4. Sinclair, Paul. (19 March 2021). "Duran Duran's Medazzaland is officially available in the UK for the very first time".
  5. "Duran Duran – Pop Trash". [[HMV]].
  6. "Pop Trash by Duran Duran".
  7. Proefrock, Stacia. "Pop Trash – Duran Duran".
  8. Larkin, Colin. (2011). "[[The Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]". [[Omnibus Press]].
  9. Willman, Chris. (16 June 2000). "Pop Trash".
  10. Torres, Albert. (28 July 2000). "Duran Duran – Pop Trash".
  11. "MTV Online Review".
  12. Forsberg, Niklas. (June 8, 2000). "Duran Duran: Pop Trash".
  13. Sheffield, Rob. (17 August 2000). "Duran Duran – Pop Trash".
  14. Sheffield, Rob. (2004). "[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]". [[Simon & Schuster]].
  15. "Duran Duran - Playing with Uranium".
  16. "Duran Duran - Last Day on Earth".
  17. (11 May 2023). "The many theme songs of Tomorrow Never Dies".
  18. Sherine, Ariane. (2 October 2014). "Duran Duran's Ordinary World made me dream of meeting them. Then I did". [[The Guardian]].

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