Decade: Greatest Hits

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Decade – Greatest Hits
Greatest hits by Duran Duran
Released	November 15, 1989
Recorded	1980 – 1989
Genre	Rock
Length	56:05
Label	Capitol Records
Producer	Duran Duran, Daniel Abraham, Jason Corsaro, Bernard Edwards, Jonathan Elias, Ian Little, Shep Pettibone, Nile Rodgers, Alex Sadkin, Colin Thurston
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
Duran Duran chronology
Big Thing (1988) Decade – Greatest Hits (1989) Liberty (1990)
Singles from Decade – Greatest Hits
"Burning The Ground" Released: December 1989

Decade – Greatest Hits is a greatest hits album by Duran Duran, released on November 15, 1989 (see 1989 in music).

The remix single Burning The Ground was released to radio to promote this album; it was created by producer John Jones mixing snippets of the band's biggest hits from the previous decade into a new piece of music. However, the remix was not included on the Decade album.

On a whole, the Decade album acted more as a mixed tape of Duran hits, as opposed to an essential album. It cherry picked hits from all the albums and presented them in mixes that were popular and mainstream among the public. Hence, you get the Nile Rodgers edit of "The Reflex" and the radio edits of "Notorious" and "Skin Trade".

Curiously, the album (probably due to time constraints) left off one single from each album: "Careless Memories", "My Own Way", "New Moon On Monday", "Meet El Presidente" and "Do You Believe In Shame?". Again, these were probably left off of because Decade was used to drum up mainstream interest in the band, being a "greatest hits" compilation.

The album was rendered obsolete in 1998 with the release of Greatest, which included all 14 songs from this album, plus "New Moon on Monday" and four singles from the 90's.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Planet Earth" – 3:58
2. "Girls on Film" – 3:30
3. "Hungry Like the Wolf" (130 B.P.M. single version) – 3:25
4. "Rio" – 5:33
5. "Save a Prayer" (Single version) – 5:25
6. "Is There Something I Should Know?" – 4:05
7. "Union of the Snake" – 4:20
8. "The Reflex" (7" Remix) – 4:25
9. "Wild Boys" – 4:16
10. "A View to a Kill" – 3:35
11. "Notorious" (45 mix) – 3:58
12. "Skin Trade" (Radio Cut) – 4:25
13. "I Don't Want Your Love" (Shep Pettibone 7" Remix) – 3:47
14. "All She Wants Is" (45 Mix) – 4:36

[edit] Personnel

• Daniel Abraham – producer, engineer, mixing
• Hans Arnold – illustrations
• John Barry – arranger, conductor
• Jason Corsaro – producer, engineer, mixing
• Duran Duran – producer
• Bernard Edwards – producer
• Jonathan Elias – producer
• Laura Levine – photography
• Ian Little – Producer, mixing
• Denis O'Regan – photography
• Steve Peck – mixing
• Shep Pettibone – producer, mixing
• Nile Rodgers – producer, mixing
• Bob Rosa – mixing
• Alex Sadkin – producer, mixing
• Stephen Sprouse – illustrations
• Colin Thurston – producer, engineer

[edit] Charts

Album – Billboard (North America)