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* [[Fan Community Nicknames]]: Duranies.
* [[Narm]]: "Ordinary World" is a beautiful, introspective ballad, and arguably one of the best songs of their career. The issue is not the song itself, but the music video -- it depicts the band singing the song to a woman wearing the most ''ridiculous'' bridal ensemble in the free world. One of the guitarists even plays with it at one point.
* [[Seasonal Rot]]: Since their mid-eighties hiatus they've demonstrated an uncanny ability to follow up their most successful albums with a string of disappointing ones. The first post-hiatus release, ''Notorious'', did fairly well, but ''Big Thing'' and ''Liberty'' were mediocre at best. The next release, ''The Wedding Album'', was a big hit, but ''Pop Trash'', ''Thank You'' and ''Medazzaland'' ranged from [[So Okay
** It seems like this has been [[Crowning Music of Awesome|wonderfully]] [[Averted Trope|averted]] with their 13th album, [http://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.
* [[Tear Jerker]]: ''Save a Prayer'', ''Out of My Mind'' and others.
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