40 years ago today (10 May 1982), Duran Duran released their second studio album “Rio” featuring singles "My Own Way" "Hungry Like the Wolf" "Save a Prayer" and "Rio". Retrospective reviews have been far more positive, and the album is now considered Duran Duran's magnum opus and a new wave classic.
Ned Raggett of Allmusic wrote, "the original Duran Duran's high point, and just as likely the band's as a whole, its fusion of style and substance ensures that even two decades after its release it remains as listenable and danceable as ever."
Reviewing the album's 2009 reissue, PopMatters' John Bergstrom observed that "not even nearly 30 years of cultural change have been able to budge the careful juxtaposition between Andy Taylor’s power riffing and Simon LeBon’s willfully artful lyrics and vocals, or the brilliant interplay between the awesome, seriously funky rhythm section of John Taylor and Roger Taylor, and Nick Rhodes’ atmospheric, arpeggiated synthesizer framework. Together, it all created all kinds of energy and just the right amount of camp."
Tom Ewing of Pitchfork described Rio as "a romp of a record" and remarked that "[it] isn't just front-loaded with some of the era's most bulldozing hits, it's still Duran's best shot at an artistic legacy."
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