Pop Trash by Duran Duran

Pop Trash, Duran Duran's tenth studio album, came out on Hollywood Records on 19 June 2000, and the title carries a knowing smirk from a band a long way removed from the New Romantic glory days. It was their first record after leaving EMI, their label since 1981, and with John Taylor gone since 1997 the group had narrowed to a trio: Simon Le Bon singing, Nick Rhodes on keyboards and Warren Cuccurullo on guitar, folding synth-pop and new wave sheen into something with harder edges.

It turned out to be the last album those three made together. Within a year the classic five-piece had reunited, all three Taylors included, and the CD went out of print in 2001, leaving Pop Trash as one of the stranger lost chapters in the Duran Duran story.

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