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Sorry I just couldn't resist....


Japan who are way cooler with David Sylvain, Mick Karn and the rest of the gang or those other Disco Muffy wannabeees Duran Duran.

Don't get me wrong I like Duran Duran and it sounds like I a little hard on them but damn it! Japan better win this one.

Oops, error detected...[;)] I don't think they are comparable. Japan wanted to be an "intellectual" band and DD "just wanted to have fun". Japan were risky, DD were commercial oriented. Japan' songs needs some listenings to dig into them, DD song's wanted

OMG, there is just noooooo comparison! Japan is one of the greatest bands that ever was. Mick Karn is one of the best bassists that ever lived.

I love all their albums, and how they grew from a glam band of sorts, into new wave, into progressive music

I'm gonna go with Duran Duran.
Nick Rhodes makeup kit must have been as large as some of the equipment trunks on tour.[:X] Now that's glam!
Gotta love the Wild Boys.

[quote]Originally posted by Blitz Boy
[br]I don't think they are comparable. Japan wanted to be an "intellectual" band and DD "just

My vote is for Duran Duran and this is based solely on that footage from "Sing Blue Silver" which shows Nick Rhodes on stage tinkering around with all sorts of impressive looking pieces of Hi-Fi equipment which in reality don't actually DO anything except

Musically, I prefer Duran Duran, but I have more respect for Japan as musicians.

I think these bands took decidedly different paths and I personally have a hard time comparing them, since really they were not trying to achieve the same sound at all. If you want a darker, more elusive dissonant synth sound, Japan wrote songs to think a

I prefer Japan, but I guess that's like saying I prefer apples over oranges?

Would be a much closer match with Spandau Ballet vs. Duran Duran probably..

You Duranieees are so myopic.....Its making me sick nothing can be more simpler than the truth.......Japan it by far musically, instrumentally and influentially way way way more superior!!!![:(!][:(!][:(!]


Duran Duran is fun music don't get me wrong

>>but Japan they are a legendary band I put them on the same level as >>The Police, U2, The Jam, or The Clash... maybe even over them.

ooops... if you put Japan in the same pack than Police and U2, I think it's me who did not understand anything...[;)]

OK let’s talk about the Gutter Glam Albums from Japan.

Suburban Love, Adolescent Sex, Communist China, Transmission, The Unconventional were all great Gutar/Moog oriented songs all great tracks from the Adolescent Sex LP lets not for Get Television. I

Are you comparing them "Now" or "then". Japan was always evolving while DD just made suddle variations to look but not substance. If you were to compare there careers at the momenr collectively Japan is still all over the playing field with music types an

And another thing.

Japan put out albums, every song was amazing and most of their songs give me chills.

Duran Duran had so many hits and misses right from the get go. "Planet Earth" and "Friends of Mine" were epic, but then on the same album you had

Lets put it this way....

Duran Duran is like ordering a quarter Pounder with fries and a coke on a tuesday afternoon very very ordenary....[8)]

But Japan on the other hand is like haveing a T-Bone 0r Rib Eye or NY with a Silver Oak Cabernet at Morta