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Duran Duran’s 1995 damp squib ‘Thank You’ has topped a poll as the worst album of all time.

The covers album featured versions of Lou Reeds’ ‘Perfect Day’, Public Enemy’s ‘911 Is A Joke’, The Doors’ ‘Crystal Ship’ and Elvis Costello’s ‘Watching The Detectives.’

The album was voted ahead of the likes of Billy Idol’s ‘Cyberpunk’ and Mick Jagger’s solo effort ‘Primitive Cool’ in the poll by Q Magazine.

Slamming Duran Duran’s effort, Q’s deputy editor Gareth Grundy told the Independent: "The list is a mixture of the unspeakable and those ridiculous acts of hubris, although we tried not to pick on the obvious soft targets.

"Duran Duran was the one that united everyone in agreement. We put it on in the office to remind ourselves how bad it was.

“Sometimes these things are redeemed by some sort of kitsch or novelty value, but it didn't even have that. It's not funny for even a split second and not even the sort of thing that you would put on for a laugh if you were drunk.

"It is abysmal on every level, as befits an album where you have Simon Le Bon trying to cover Public Enemy."
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  • I always considered the Thank You album an odd choice for getting crammed by the critics.Claiming that its so bad that theres absolutely nothing good on that album is just a straightout lie,as is Cyberpunk or Primitive Cool.If any Duran album would deserve that tag,it would be Pop Trash from´99.Mind you that Thank You was actually hailed by the original composers!So if Lou Reed and Robert Plant were praising it,than how come I can easily come up with 100´s of worse albums by lo

    ~ by Sven from Spain 7/4/2008

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