Track Listing

1. Big Thing
2. I Don't Want Your Love
3. All She Wants Is
4. Too Late Marlene
5. Drug (It's Just A State Of Mind)
6. Do You Believe In Shame?
7. Palomino
8. Interlude One
9. Land
10. Flute Interlude
11. The Edge Of America
12. Lake Shore Driving
13. Drug (It's Just A State Of Mind) (Daniel Abraham Mix)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #55504 in Music
• Released on: 2007-05-21
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Import

Album Details
Japanese Version Re-issued with a Bonus Track. No Additional Information Available at this Time.

Customer Reviews

Awesome ~!!!
It is awesome~!! In fact, it was really difficult to get 'Big Thing' album in Korea so I am happy to find it from amazon.com. Now, I'm listening the songs from the album and recall my first concert with Duran Duran in Korea. Really thanks to amazon.

The Edge Of America
I first have to say that "The Edge Of America" goes into my top ten of best Duran songs ever! The only problem is that it is so short (under 3 minutes), but it does surge into "Lake Shore Driving" to complete the album.

Now, the rest of "Big Thing" is quite good. It's experiemental in a way not all Duran Duran albums often are. "Big Thing" takes many of the lessons learned from "Notorious" and adds in a few current dance trends and pop moves.

Some of the most effective tunes here are the ones that play it straight. "Do You Believe In Love?" is earnest and heartfelt, "Too Late Marlane" is simply sublime pop and ""The Edge Of America" is intellectual, beautiful and poignant.

The album begins with the rock-pop slam of "Big Thing" which is a sly job at the record business circa 1989. The wierd part of it is that it is followed immediately by "I Don't Want Your Love" which is a track so much of its time its hard to imagine it without thinking of the world pre-grunge. So they slam the music biz and then kow-tow to it right off the bat.

Then we get the absolutely wierd yet affecting pop mash of "All She Wants Is" before settling into a groove for the rest of the album.

"Big Thing" goes in several directions and that's what stops it from being an immediate classic (something that could be said of many Duran albums actually). There are enough excellent moments to recommend it highly though even if only for "Edge Of America" and "Do You Believe In Shame?"

Give me the playlist and watch me eat it
Coming off the horn heavy funk of "Notorious," Duran Duran the trio stripped the sound down to some heavy beats for "Big Thing." The first single, "I Don't Want Your Love," sounded like a re-invention. Incorporating the current house and new-jack dance trends at the time, it was a major leap away from the candy-floss of "Rio." "All She Wants Is" carried the same sort of dance-floor urgency, and the title track was an arena ready thumper.

But the trademark lushness wasn't ever too far off. "Too Late Marlene" and "Land" are everything you'd expect from Duran Duran, rich arrangements, Simon's grandiose lyrics and Nick Rhodes' atmospheric keyboards. But perhaps "Big Thing's" best moment is the tribute to the band's late friend Alex Sadkin, "Do You Believe In Shame." Slowing down the swamp groove of "Suzie Q" and laying in an emotional vocal, "Shame" connects on a level that only a few songs in the DD library have ever done before.

Equally as good as "Notorious," and in my opinion, better than the "Wedding Album."