Arena es un álbum de Duran Duran, publicado en 1984 por Parlophone. El disco incluye 12 canciones, entre ellas «Is There Something I Should Know», «Hungry Like The Wolf», «New Religion» y «Save A Prayer».
Sobre el álbum
El álbum Arena, de 1984, es el primer disco en directo de la banda, grabado en la cima absoluta de su popularidad mundial. Este trabajo captura la energía y la histeria de la "Duranmania". 'Arena' es más que un simple álbum en vivo; es un documento sonoro de un auténtico fenómeno cultural, el sonido de una banda que dominaba el planeta.
El repertorio es un desfile de los más grandes éxitos de sus tres primeros álbumes, interpretados con una potencia y una energía arrolladoras ante miles de fans. La banda suena increíblemente cohesionada y demuestra ser una formidable máquina de directo.
El gran atractivo del disco fue la inclusión de una nueva canción de estudio, "The Wild Boys". Producida por Nile Rodgers, esta pieza es un tema épico y con una producción espectacular que se convirtió en otro de sus mayores éxitos. Su videoclip fue una de las producciones más ambiciosas de la época.
'Arena' fue un éxito de ventas masivo, un producto perfecto que combinaba la emoción del directo con el gancho de un nuevo hit. Es la fotografía sonora perfecta del momento en que Duran Duran reinaba como la banda de pop más grande del mundo.
Listado de Canciones
- Is There Something I Should Know
Letra
Please please tell me now (4x) I made a break I run out yesterday tried to find my mountain hideaway maybe next year maybe no go I know you're watching me every minute of the day yeah I've seen the signs and the looks and the pictures they give your game away yeah there's a dream that strings the road with broken glass for us to hold and I cut so far before I had to stay Chorus: please please tell me now is there something i should know is there something I should say that would make you come my way do you feel the same 'cos you don't let it show People stare and cross the road from me and jungle drums they all clear the way for me can you read my mind can you see in the snow and fiery demons all dance when you walk through that door don't say you're easy on me you're about as easy as a nuclear war cos the dream that strings the road with broken glass for us to hold and I got so far before I had to say (chorus) please please tell me now is tehre something I should know please please tell me now can you see what makes me blow please please tell me now is there something I should know is there something i should say that would make you come my way - Hungry Like The Wolf4:01
Letra
Darken the city, night is a wire Steam in the subway, earth is a afire (Do do do do do do do dodo dododo dodo) Woman, you want me, give me a sign And catch my breathing even closer behind (Do do do do do do do dodo dododo dodo) In touch with the ground I'm on the hunt, I'm after you Smell like a sound, I'm lost in a crowd And I'm hungry like the wolf Straddle the line in discord and rhyme I'm on the hunt, I'm after you Mouth is alive, and juice's like wine And I'm hungry like the wolf Stalked in the forest, too close to hide I'll be upon you by the moonlight side (Do do do do do do do dodo dododo dodo) High blood drumming on your skin, it's so tight You feel my heat, I'm just a moment behind (Do do do do do do do dodo dododo dodo) In touch with the ground I'm on the hunt I'm after you Scent and a sound, I'm lost and I'm found And I'm hungry like the wolf Strut on a line, it's discord and rhyme I howl and I whine, I'm after you Mouth is alive, all running inside And I'm hungry like the wolf Hungry like the wolf Hungry like the wolf Hungry like the wolf Burning the ground, I break from the crowd I'm on the hunt, I'm after you I smell like a sound, I'm lost and I'm found And I'm hungry like the wolf Strut on a line, it's discord and rhyme I'm on the hunt, I'm after you Mouth is alive, and juice's like wine And I'm hungry like the wolf - New Religion5:37
Letra
I've been now sauntering Out and down the path sometime Come on, it takes me nowhere, which I knew Faces everywhere pulling grins and signs in things Telling me not there, man, it's no go Don't go there boy I need a reason I can't think without one now Too much learning got to show Call it treason Maybe catch her, don't know how Too many things, too much to know Bring my timing in, seagulls gather on the wind Lady screaming, lady leave me out 'Cause sometimes people stare Coming down, electric chair And steaming crowds they gather and they shout Don't know why this evil bothers me Take another chance boy, carry the fight You can take him if you're fast So why is he trying to follow me? Didn't I say if you're holdin' on You'd be laughing at the last How many reasons do they need? I get along fine with them friends of mine But you have to make a choice I might just believe this time You're singing out of tune but the beat's in time And it's us who make the noise I'm talking for free, I can't stop myself It's a new religion I've something to see, I can't help myself It's a new religion Okay, my reasoning might be clouded by the Sun But someone sees the departmental lie You know this peacetime jabbing fist in stabbing knife Only get one look before you die Don't know why this evil bothers me Take another chance boy, carry the fight You can take him if you're fast So why is he trying to follow me? Didn't I say if you're holdin' on You'd be laughing at the last How many reasons do they need? I get along fine with them friends of mine But you have to make a choice I might just believe this time You're singing out of tune but the beat's in time And it's us who make the noise I'm talking for free, I can't stop myself It's a new religion I've something to see, I can't help myself It's a new religion Gotta take pay the saints 'n sinners In regulation hats 'n scarves 'n things Walking in formation down the lane They carry their cross, make a church bell ring Army majors pull a mean cool truth There lying in a swimming pool Searching for the undeniable truth that A man is just a fool Don't know why this evil follows me Take another chance boy, carry the fight You can take him if you're fast So why is he trying to bother me? Didn't I say if you're holdin' on You'd be laughing at the last How many reasons do they need? I get along fine with them friends of mine But you have to make a choice I might just be right this time You're singing out of tune but the beat's in time And it's us who make the noise I'm talking for free, I can't stop myself It's a new religion I've something to see, I can't help myself It's a new religion (Repeat to fade) - Save A Prayer6:12
Letra
You saw me standing by the wall corner of a main street And the lights are flashing on your window sill All alone ain't much fun so you're looking for the thrill and you know just what it takes and where to go. Chorus: Don't save a prayer for me now. Save it til the morning after No don't say a prayer for me now. Save it til the morning after Feel the breeze deep on the inside look down into the well If you can you'll see the world in all his fire Take a chance (like all dreamers can't find another way.) You don't have to dream it all, just live a day. (chorus) Save it til the morning after. Save it til the morning after Pretty looking road I try to hold the rising floods that fill my skin Don't ask me why I'll keep my promise I'll melt the ice And you wanted to dance so I asked you to dance but fear is in your soul Some people call it a one night stand but we can call it paradise Don't say a prayer for me now. Save it til the morning after No don't say a prayer for me now. Save it til the morning after Save it til the morning after (4x) Save a prayer til the morning after - Wild Boys
Letra
The wild boys are calling on their way back from the fire In august moon's surrender to a dust cloud on the rise Wild boys fallen far from glory Reckless and so hungered on the razor's edge you trail Because there's murder by the roadside in a sore afraid new world They tried to break us, looks like they'll try again Wild boys never lose it Wild boys never chose this way Wild boys never close your eyes Wild boys always shine You go sirens for a welcome, there's bloodstain for your pain And your telephone been ringing while you're dancing in the rain Wild boys wonder where is glory Where is all you angels now the figureheads have fell And lovers' war with arrows over secrets they could tell They tried to tame you, looks like they'll try again Wild boys never lose it Wild boys never chose this way Wild boys never close your eyes Wild boys always shine - The Seventh Stranger5:05
Letra
Those words are all remainders Echoes growing in the heart of twilight They lay back laughing at naivety's star Awaken all those whispers In the dusty shadow of a passing favour I wouldn't say that you were ruthless or right I couldn't see from so far Was I chasing after rainbows? One thing for sure you never answer when I call And I wiped away the water from my face To look through the eyes of a stranger For rumours in the wake of such a lonely crowd Trading in my shelter for danger I'm changing my name just as the sun goes down In the eyes of a stranger Can't tell the real from reflections When all these faces look the same to me In every city such a desolate dream Some days are strange to number Some say the seventh sounds a little bit stranger A year of Sundays seems to have drifted right by I could have sworn in one evening And I'm not seized in desperation No still reproaches on the table from before But I still can feel those splinters of ice I look through the eyes of a stranger For rumours in the wake of such a lonely crowd Trading in my shelter for danger I'm changing my name just as the sun goes down In the eyes of a stranger I must be chasing after rainbows One thing for sure you never answer when I call And I wipe away the water from my face To look through the eyes of a stranger For rumours in the wake of such a lonely crowd Trading in my shelter for danger I'm changing my name just as the sun goes down Walking away like a stranger From rumours in the wake of such a lonely crowd Trading in my shelter for danger I'm changing my name just as the sun goes down In the eyes of a stranger In the eyes of a stranger In the eyes of a stranger - The Chauffeur5:25
Letra
Out on the tar plains, the glides are moving All looking for a new place to drive You sit beside me, so newly charming Sweating dew drops glisten, freshing your side Chorus The sun slips down bedding heavy behind The front of your dress all shadowy lined And the droning engine throbs in time With your beating heart Sing blue silver Way down the lane away, living for another day The aphids swarm up in the drifting haze Swim seagull in the sky Towards that hollow western isle My envied lady holds you fast in her gaze Chorus And watching lovers part, i feel you smiling What glass splinters lie so deep in your mind To tear out from your eyes With a word to stiffen brooding lies But i'll only watch you leave me further behind Chorus (there's more to this kind of camouflage) (more than just color and shape) (who's going now, in this classiomatic?) - Union Of The Snake4:08
Letra
Telegram force and ready I knew this was a big mistake There's a fine line drawing My senses together And I think it's about to break If I listen close I can hear them singers, oh Voices in your body coming through on the radio The union of the snake is on the climb Moving up it's gonna race it's gonna break Through the borderline Nightshades on a warning Give me strength at least give me a light Give me anything even sympathy There's a chance you could be right If I listen close I can hear them singers, oh Voices in your body coming through on the radio The union of the snake is on the climb Moving up it's gonna race it's gonna break Through the borderline The union of the snake is on the climb Moving up it's gonna race it's gonna break Through the borderline If I listen close I can hear them singers, oh Voices in your body coming through on the radio The union of the snake is on the climb Moving up it's gonna race it's gonna break Through the borderline The union of the snake is on the climb It's gonna race, it's gonna break, it's gonna move up Through the borderline The union of the snake is on the climb Moving up it's gonna race it's gonna break Through the borderline The union of the snake is on the climb It's gonna race, it's gonna break, it's gonna move up To the borderline - Planet Earth4:31
Letra
Only came outside to watch the nightfall with the rain I heard you making patterns rhyme like some new romantic looking for the TV sound you'll see I'm right some other time Look now, look all around, there's no sign of life voices, another sound, can you hear me now? this is planet earth, you're looking at planet earth bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop, this is planet earth My head is stuck on something precious let me know if you're coming down to land is there anybody out there trying to get through my eyes are cloudy, I can't see you Bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop, this is planet earth Bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop, calling planet earth Bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop, looking at planet earth Bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop, this is planet earth - Careless Memories4:07
Letra
So soon, just after you've gone my senses sharpen But it always takes so damned long before I feel how much my eyes have darkened Chorus: Fear hangs a plane of gunsmoke drifting in our room so easy to disturb with a thought with a whisper... with a careless memory On the table signs of love lie scattered... and the walls break with a crashing within It's not as though-- as though you really mattered But being close, how could I let you go without some feeling some precious sympathy following (chorus) I walk out into the sun I try to find a new day but the whole place it just screams in my eyes where are you now? cuz I don't want to meet you I think I'd die-- I think I'd laugh at you-- I think I'd cry-- What am I supposed to do, follow you? Outside the thoughts come flooding back now... I just try to forget you... So easy to disturb with a thought... with a whisper... with a careless memory... - Girls On Film
Letra
See them walking hand in hand across the bridge at midnight heads turning as the lights flashing out are so bright then walk right out to the fourline track there's camera rolling on her back, on her back and I sense the rhythms humming in a frenzy all the way down her spine Girls on film Lipstick cherry all over the lens as she's falling in miles of sharp blue water coming in where she lies the diving man's coming up for air cause the crowd all love pulling dolly by the hair, by the hair and she wonders how she ever got here as she goes under again Girls on film (two minutes later) Girls on film Girls on film (got your picture) Girls on film Wider baby smiling, you've just made a million fuses pumping live heat twisting out on a wire take one last glimpse into the night I'm touching close, I'm holding bright, holding tight give me shudders with a whisper, take me high till I'm shooting a star Girls on film (she's more than a lady) Girls on film Girls on film (see you together) Girls on film Girls on film (see you later) - Rio
Letra
Composição: Duran Duran Wow! Moving on the floor now babe, You're a bird of paradise Cherry ice cream smile, I suppose it's very nice With a step to your left and a flick to the right You catch that mirror way out west You know you're something special And you look like you're the best CHORUS Her name is Rio and she dances on the sand Just like that river twisting through a dusty land And when she shines she really shows you all she can Oh Rio, Rio dance across the Rio Grande I've seen you on the beach and I've seen you on TV Two, of a billion stars, it means so much to me Like a birthday or a pretty view But then I'm sure that you know it's just for you CHORUS Hey now (wow), look at that, Did he nearly run you down? At the end of the drive, the lawmen arrive, You make me feel Alive, alive, alive I'll take my chance, 'cause luck is on my side I tell you something, I know what you're thinking I tell you something, I know what you're thinking CHORUS Her name is Rio, she don't need to understand I might find her if I'm looking like I can Oh Rio, Rio hear them shout across the land From mountains in the north down to the Rio Grande