Because...I wanted to start a thread that no one will respond to. I've got to roll with Arcadia. It's less pop-py...but less dancy than The Power Station. Palmer is really strong, but the Duran-esque sound from Arcadia is what pulls me more that direction. Honestly, I wish both groups would've put out more music...but understand why the limited catalog. There...now go talk about your Trumps, covids and/or bbq.
Power Station for me although they really lost a lot when Palmer left and they had to go with Michael Des Barres.
When I was like 10 or 12, my sister went to see Power Station and got a concert shirt. I wore it to school, thinking i was going to be totally cool and was mercilessly teased instead, so I have a grudge against Power Station, going way back.
Yes, that was Morgan Freeman at 0:23 I vote for the Power Station. Music was more powerful. Duran Duran is great, but Arcadia just felt kinda bland.
Power Station because of the late great Tony Thompson on drums. One of the funkiest drummers ever, right up there with Clyde Stubblefield.
the drum intro on "some like it hot" is f***ing badass. that whole song is nasty and funky. and that sick-ass guitar solo is the epitome of 80's shreddery. its also for me, one of those songs that conjures memories of astroworld in the mid-to-late 80's. and dont forget this scene from european vacation!
Tony: All these years, people wanted to sample me. Everyone always assumed that there was some kind of special knobs turned when we did that first Power Station record. All it basically was, was a brand-new Yamaha kit (which I still play) in a very live, brick, recording studio in London called Mason Rouge. I hit the drums very hard. That’s it! [laughs] We did “Some Like It Hot,” and everyone had all these stories, saying all kinds of things, about tricks that were going on. Samples weren’t even around back then. So, bottom line, the sound came from a good kit, hit hard, in a nice live room. MD: Was this the same recording process for Robert Palmer’s “Addicted To Love”? Tony: No. Out of all the recordings I’ve ever done, that was the first time anyone ever spent time to get a drum sound like that. We did “Addicted To Love” in a recording studio in the Bahamas called Compass Point. At the time Robert lived across from the studio. So Bernard Edwards, one of my favorite guitarists, Eddie Martinez, keyboardist Jeff Bova, Andy Taylor, who also played guitar on that track and me went down to do Robert’s record and I remember my drums were set up in the room, and there was a door that led to a hallway. The engineer, Jason Casaro, took a tube the size of my bass drum and built this tunnel from my bass drum all the way out into the hall and up the stairs. It was this weird thing he hooked up. And it worked. The groove in the house was so thick, and what am I playing? A simple, Boom-Bop-Tish-Bop-Boom-Bop. It was unbelievable – I locked into that with everyone else swinging, and it brought the walls down. That song was a masterpiece. MD: How about David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance”? Tony: That was recorded the same way as the Power Station album. It’s the way that I play. It’s the power that I have, which I really put an emphasis on growing up. My major influences as a kid were Ginger Baker and John Bonham. https://www.moderndrummer.com/2005/07/tony-thompson/
I have absolutely no recollection of Arcadia existing and The Power Station did "Some Like It Hot", so they win in a landslide. re: Tony Thompson, how cool could this have been? [circa 1986] Page, Plant and Jones then invited Thompson in England for rehearsals for a Led Zeppelin reunion which was canceled by Jimmy Page after Thompson was badly injured in a car crash. -- from wiki
