Decade: Greatest Hits

For other albums titled Decade, see Decade (disambiguation).

Decade – Greatest Hits
Greatest hits album by Duran Duran
Released	November 15, 1989
Recorded	1980–1989
Genre	Rock, New Wave Music
Length	56:05
Label	Capitol (US/Canada) EMI Records
Producer	Duran Duran, Daniel Abraham, Jason Corsaro, Bernard Edwards, Jonathan Elias, Ian Little, Shep Pettibone, Nile Rodgers, Alex Sadkin, Colin Thurston
Duran Duran chronology
Big Thing (1988) Decade – Greatest Hits (1989) Liberty (1990)
Singles from Decade: Greatest Hits
"Burning The Ground" Released: December 1989

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Robert Christgau	(B-)[2]

Decade – Greatest Hits is a greatest hits album by Duran Duran, released on November 15, 1989 (see 1989 in music).

The remix single "Burning the Ground" was released to radio to promote this album; it was created by producer John Jones mixing snippets of the band's biggest hits from the previous decade into a new piece of music. However, the remix was not included on the Decade album.

On a whole, the Decade album acted more as a mix tape of Duran hits, as opposed to an essential album. It cherry picked hits from all the albums and presented them in mixes that were popular and mainstream among the public. Hence, it includes the Nile Rodgers edit of "The Reflex" and the radio edits of "Notorious" and "Skin Trade".

The album was rendered obsolete in 1998 with the release of Greatest, which included all 14 songs from this album, plus "New Moon on Monday" and four singles from the 90's.

Track listing

1. "Planet Earth" – 3:58
2. "Girls on Film" – 3:30
3. "Hungry Like the Wolf" (130 B.P.M. single version) – 3:25
4. "Rio" – 5:33
5. "Save a Prayer" (Single version) – 5:25
6. "Is There Something I Should Know?" – 4:05
7. "Union of the Snake" – 4:20
8. "The Reflex" (7" Remix) – 4:25
9. "The Wild Boys" – 4:16
10. "A View to a Kill" – 3:35
11. "Notorious" (45 mix) – 3:58
12. "Skin Trade" (Radio Cut) – 4:25
13. "I Don't Want Your Love" (Shep Pettibone 7" Remix) – 3:47
14. "All She Wants Is" (45 Mix) – 4:36

In Brazil, "All She Wants Is" was replaced by "A Matter of Feeling", which is one of the biggest hits of Duran Duran in the country, despite not being a single worldwide.

Personnel

• Daniel Abraham – producer, engineer, mixing
• Hans Arnold – illustrations
• John Barry – arranger, conductor
• Jason Corsaro – producer, engineer, mixing
• Duran Duran – producer
• Bernard Edwards – producer
• Jonathan Elias – producer
• Laura Levine – photography
• Ian Little – Producer, mixing
• Denis O'Regan – photography
• Steve Peck – mixing
• Shep Pettibone – producer, mixing
• Nile Rodgers – producer, mixing
• Bob Rosa – mixing
• Alex Sadkin – producer, mixing
• Stephen Sprouse – illustrations
• Colin Thurston – producer, engineer

Charts

Album – Billboard (North America)

Year	Chart	Position
1989	The Billboard 200	67

References

1. ^ "Decade: Greatest Hits - Duran Duran". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r6392/review. 
2. ^ "Album: Duran Duran: Decade". Robert Christgau. http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_album.php?id=4695.