1. Someone Else Not Me
2. Lava Lamp
3. Playing With Uranium
4. Hallucinating Elvis
5. Starting To Remember
6. Pop Trash Movie
7. Fragment
8. Mars Meets Venus
9. Lady Xanax
10. The Sun Doesn't Shine Forever
11. Kiss Goodbye
12. Last Day On Earth
Editorial Reviews
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Imagine how startling it must be for Simon LeBon and Nick Rhodes to realize that
the older sector of once devoted, poster-kissing Duranies have aged enough to
be soccer moms. The last two remaining members of the '80s superband hit and often
missed throughout the '90s, but with Pop Trash, grown-up fans will find
a reinvigorating pop album that strikes a nearly perfect balance between hip factor
and maturity. The band backpedals from the overtaxing techno of the 1997 sleeper
release Medazzaland,
but retains a few well-chosen synth overlays and combines them successfully with
the oceanic balladry from 1993's The
Wedding Album. "Someone Else Not Me" and "Pop Trash Movie" reclaim the
beautiful soundscapes of The Wedding Album's "Ordinary World," while the
heavier tracks work diet industrial ("Mars Meets Venus") and heavy-metal riffs
with weird time signatures ("Last Day on Earth") into proper Duran Duran bombast.
There are moments when the band overruns the age-appropriate mark: "Lady Xanax,"
an ode to the prescription antidepressant, symbolizes a tempering of their fast
and furious lifestyle, but then again, who has time for street drugs when you
have to get the kids home in time for dinner? --Beth Massa
