The Cherry Lipstick Poll Winners
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Poll rules: pick 3 or 4 songs. No song allowed to be picked twice (this rule may or may not be followed as time passes).
Worst B-Side:
1. Yo Bad Azizi 2. Faith In This Colour 3. Faster Than Light
Best 90s Album Title Track:
1. Liberty 2. Thank You 3. Medazzaland
Best Long Song
1. The Man Who Stole A Leopard 2. Paper Gods 3. Sin Of The City
Best short-titled song
1. Rio 2. Land 3. Nice
Best version of Hungry Like The Wolf
1. Original 1982. 2. Punk 1995. 3. Acoustic 1993
Best song they've only played once
1. Perfect Day 2. You Kill Me With Silence 3. Venice Drowning
Best song to have sex to
1. My Antarctica 2. To The Shore 3. UMF
Best song to play to close the show instead of Rio
1. Late Bar 2. Sound Of Thunder 3. Of Crime And Passion
Best Lead Single
1. My Own Way 2. I Don't Want Your Love 3. Union of the Snake
Best 3-Syllable Track on Red Carpet Massacre
1. The Valley 2. Skin Divers 3. Falling Down 4. Nite-Runner
Best Ending to a song
1. A View To A Kill 2. Notorious 3. Sunrise
Best Meteorological-Related Song
1. Winter Marches On 2. Before The Rain 3. Violence Of Summer 4. Sunset Garage
Best album track from the first three albums that Duran have yet to play live since the Reunion
1. The Seventh Stranger 2. Of Crime And Passion 3. Cracks In The Pavement
Best Medazzaland album track
1. Midnight Sun 2. Big Bang Generation 3. Who Do You Think You Are? 4. So Long Suicide
Best song with a question:
A 3-way tie!
1= Is There Something I Should Know?
1= What Are The Chances?
1= Do You Believe In Shame?
4. (0 votes) Can You Deal With It?
Best song to remember the summer:
1. Medditeranea 2. Taste The Summer 3. Violence of Summer 4. To The Shore
Best slow song on Big Thing:
1. Do You Believe In Shame? 2. Palomino 3. Land 4. Too Late Marlene
Best song to play at midnight on New Years Eve
1. Planet Earth 2. All You Need Is Now 3. Planet Roaring 4. Ordinary World
Best Getting Ready To Go Out On A Saturday Night song
1. Pressure Off 2. Hold Back The Rain 3. White Lines 4. Electric Barbarella
Best Glass Of Wine Cooking Dinner Choosing a Film On Netflix Saturday Night In song
1. Last Chance On The Stairway 2. American Science 3. Face For Today 4. Too Late Marlne
Best Valentines Song:
1. My Antarctica 2. Only In Dreams 3. Medditeranea 4. Land
The World Cup of Duran Covers:
Group 1/4 (top 2 go through):
1. White Lines 2. Femme Fatale 3. I Wanna Take You Higher 4. Success
Group 2/4
1. Perfect Day 2. Watching the Detectives 3. Crystal Ship 4. Needle and The Damage Done
Group 3/4
1. Make Me Smile 2. Lay Lade Lay 3= Ball of Confusion 3= Diamond Dogs
Group 4/4
1. Fame 2. Thank You 3. Rebel Rebel 4. 911 is A Joke
Semi Final 1/2 (top 2 qualify)
1. White Lines 2. Make Me Smile 3. Watching the Detectives 4. Thank You
Semi Final 2/2
1. Perfect Day 2. Lay Lady Lay 3. Femme Fatale 4. Fame
The World Cup Final
1. Make Me Smile
2. White Lines
3. Perfect Day
4. Lay Lady Lay
The World Cup of Duran Reunion Songs (2004-2015)
Group 1/4 (top 2 qualify)
1.Pressure Off 2. Paper Gods 3. The Valley 4. Leave A Light On
Group 2/4
1. Sunrise 2. All You Need Is Now 3. Box Full O Honey 4. Planet Roaring
Group 3/4
1. The Man Who Stole A Leopard 2. Beautiful Colours
3. Universe Alone 4. Skin Divers
Group 4/4
1= What Happens Tomorrow 1= Before The Rain 3. Face For Today 4. Falling Down
Semi Final 1/2 (top 2 qualify)
1. The Man Who Stole A Leopard 2. All You Need Is Now 3. Pressure off 4. What Happens Tomorrow
Semi Final 2/2
1. Sunrise 2. Beautiful Colours 3. Paper Gods 4. Before The Rain
The World Cup Final of Duran Reunion Songs
1. Sunrise
2. The Man Who Stole A Leopard
3. All You Need Is Now
4. Beautiful Colours
Best 'not Election Day' Arcadia track
1. The Promise 2. The Flame 3. Goodbye Is Forever 4. Missing
The World Cup of Duran Concert Openers
Group 1/4 (top 2 qualify)
1. Too Much Information (1993) 2. Rio (1982) 3. Before The Rain (2011) 4. Silva Halo (1999)
Group 2/4
1. Friends of Mine (1981) 2. Big Thing (1988) 3. Paper Gods (2015) 4. The Valley (2007)
Group 3/4
1. ITSISK (1984) 2. A View To A Kil (1987) 3. Hungry Like The Wolf (2005) 4. Last Day On Earth (2000)
Group 4/4
1. Sunrise (2003) 2. Planet Earth (19988) 3. Anyone Out There (1980) 4. Medazzaland (1997)
Semi Final 1/2 (top 2 qualify)
1. ITSISK 2. Too Much information 3. Sunrise 4. Big Thing
Semi Final 2/2
1. Friends of Mine 2. Planet Earth 3. A View To A Kill 4. Rio
The World Cup Final of Duran Concert Openers
1. Is There Something I Should Know
2. Friends of Mine
3. Planet Earth
4. Too Much information
The World Cup of Duran 90s Album Tracks
Group 1/4 (top 2 qualify)
1. Big Bang Generation 2. Thank You 3. All Along The Water 4. Drowning Man
Group 2
1.Someone Else Not Me 2. Venice Drowning 3. Shelter 4. So Long Suicide
Group 3
1. My Antarctica 2. Fallen Angel 3. Lay Lady Lay 4. P.L. You
Group 4
1. Breath After Breath 2. Love Voodoo 3. Pop Trash Movie 4. Be My Icon
Semi Final 1/2 (top 2 qualify)
1. My Antarctica 2. Big Bang Generation 3. Love Voodoo 4. Venice Drowning
Semi Final 2/2
1. Breath After Breath 2. Fallen Angel 3. someone Else Not Me 4. Tank You
The World Cup Final
1. My Antarctica
2. Fallen Angel
3. Breath After Breath
4. Big Bang Generation
Cherry Lipstick Readers' Poll March 1994
'Best Of' post here
Full issue here
Cherry Lipstick Readers' Poll Feb 2000
to be uploaded to the website 'soon'
(spoiler: Ordinary World was still very popular)