Too Much Information

"Too Much Information"
Single by Duran Duran
from the album Duran Duran (The Wedding Album)
B-side	"Drowning Man" (D:Ream Mix)
Released	23 August 1993 (UK)
Genre	Rock new wave
Length	4:56 (Album Version)
Label	EMI Capitol
Songwriter(s)	Simon Le Bon, John Taylor, James Bates and Warren Cuccurullo
Producer(s)	John Jones and Duran Duran
Duran Duran singles chronology
"Come Undone" (1993) "Too Much Information" (1993) "Perfect Day" (1995)
Music video
"Too Much Information" on YouTube

"Too Much Information" is the third single released from Duran Duran's 1993 album, Duran Duran, popularly known as The Wedding Album.

About the song[]

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The song's lyrics deal mainly with the commercialisation of the music industry and feature the tongue-in-cheek line "Destroyed by MTV / I hate to bite the hand that feeds me / so much information", alluding to the belief that MTV were largely responsible for the band's success in the United States in the early 1980s.

In the UK, "Too Much Information" became the band's third Top 40 single from the album. The song fared poorly on the U.S. Billboard pop and adult contemporary charts^{[citation needed]}, though performed much better on the alternative rock and club charts.

Music video[]

The video for "Too Much Information" was filmed by director Julien Temple in Santa Monica on 27 August and featured the elaborate stage setup designed for the band's 1993 Dilate Your Mind tour.

B-sides, bonus tracks and remixes[]

The cassette and CD singles were released on 23 August 1993, and those who bought the cassette single received a free No Ordinary EP cassette with live tracks ("Hungry Like the Wolf", "Notorious", "Come Undone"), recorded during a performance at Tower Records a few months before. These recordings also appeared as bonus tracks on various global CD releases of the single.

There are twelve official mixes of "Too Much Information". They are often credited with different names on different releases.

• "Too Much Information" (Album Version) 4:54
• "Too Much Information" (Album Version Edit) 3:56
• "Too Much Information" (Trance Mix 12") / (Ben Chapman 12" Mix) 6:16
• "Too Much Information" (Trance Instrumental 12") / (Ben Chapman Dub) / (Ben Chapman 12" Instrumental Dub) / (Ben Chapman Instrumental 12" Mix) 6:14
• "Too Much Information" (Trance Mix 7") / (Techno 7" Remix) 3:29
• "Too Much Information" (Deptford Dub) 6:01
• "Too Much Information" (4:30am Twirl Mix) 4:10
• "Too Much Information" (Club 2 Mix) 4:10
• "Too Much Information" (Unplugged Mix) 4:14
• "Too Much Information" (David Richards 12" Mix) 4:14
• "Too Much Information" (Trance Instrumental) 6:58
• "Too Much Information" (12" Jellybean Mix) / (Jellybean Remix) 6:42

Personnel[]

• Simon Le Bon – vocals
• Nick Rhodes – keyboards
• John Taylor – bass
• Warren Cuccurullo – acoustic and electric guitars

Additional musicians

• John Jones – keyboards
• Steve Ferrone – drums

Charts[]

Other appearances[]

• 1993 – Duran Duran [The Wedding Album]
• 1999 – Strange Behaviour
• 2004 – Singles Box Set 1986-1995

References[]

• DuranDuran.com
• Duran Duran Collection CZ