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Duran Duran were amongst the earliest bands to work on their own remixes. Before the days of digital synthesizers and easy audio sampling, they created multilayered arrangements of their singles, sometimes recording entirely different extended performances of the songs in the studio. These "night versions" were generally available only on vinyl, as b-sides to 45 rpm singles or on 12-inch club singles, until the release of the compilation Night Versions: The Essential Duran Duran in 1998.
Although they began their career as "a group of art school, experimental, post punk rockers", the band's quick rise to stardom, [[Bishonen|polished good looks]], and embrace of the [[Fan Girl|teen]] press, almost guaranteed disfavour from music critics. During the 1980s, Duran Duran were considered the quintessential manufactured, throw-away pop group. However, according to the Sunday Herald, "To describe them, as some have, as the first [[Boy Band]], misrepresents their appeal. Their weapons were never just their looks, but self-penned songs." As Moby said of the band in his website diary in 2003: "... they were cursed by what we can call the '[[Bee Gees]]' curse, which is: 'write amazing songs, sell tons of records, and consequently incur the [[Dead Horse Music Genre|wrath or disinterest]] of the rock obsessed critical establishment'."
Several of the band's contemporaries, including [[The Bangles]], [[Elton John]], [[Kylie Minogue]] and Paul Young, have named themselves fans of the band's stylish, uplifting pop. Simon LeBon described the group as "the band to dance to when the bomb drops". Successors like [[Barenaked Ladies]], Beck, Jonathan Davis of [[Korn]], The Bravery, Gwen Stefani and Pink have all cited Duran Duran as a key band in their formative years. The newest crop of performers to name Duran Duran as influences include Dido, Franz Ferdinand, Panic! at the Disco, Lostprophets (who took their name from the title of a Duran Duran bootleg tape), Goldfrapp and [[The Killers]], and [[Scissor Sisters]], who first came to wide notice while touring as DD's opening act.
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