Too Much Information


"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

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

12": Parlophone. / 12 DD 18 United Kingdom

  1. "Too Much Information" – 6:00
  2. "Drowning Man" – 6:19
  3. "Drowning Man" " – 6:44
  4. "Too Much Information" – 5:43

    CD: Parlophone. / CD DDS 18 United Kingdom

  5. "Too Much Information" – 4:56
  6. "Drowning Man" – 6:29
  7. "Too Much Information" – 6:18
  8. "Too Much Information" – 5:43
  1. "Too Much Information " – 3:59
  2. "Come Undone" – 7:25
  3. "Come Undone " – 7:35
  4. "Notorious " – 5:31
  1. "Too Much Information" – 4:56
  2. "Come Undone " – 7:35
  1. "Too Much Information" - 6:00
  2. "Too Much Information" - 6:58
  3. "Too Much Information" - 6:26
  4. "Too Much Information" - 4:14
  1. "Too Much Information" – 4:57
  2. "Too Much Information" – 3:31
  3. "Drowning Man" – 6:29
  4. "Hungry Like the Wolf" – 7:01
  1. "Too Much Information" – 3:29
  2. "Too Much Information" – 4:21
  3. "Too Much Information" – 4:14
  4. "Too Much Information" – 4:16
  1. "Too Much Information" – 6:12
  2. "Too Much Information" – 6:14
  3. "Too Much Information" – 6:06
  4. "Too Much Information" – 4:15

    CD: Capitol Records. / DPRO-79816 (Promo) United States

  5. "Too Much Information" – 3:56
  6. "Too Much Information" – 4:52

    MC: Capitol Records. / 4KM-44955 United States

  7. "Too Much Information" – 4:56
  8. "First Impression" – 4:57
  9. "Come Undone" – 8:14

    CD: Part of "Singles Box Set 1986-1995">Singles Box Set 1986–1995">Singles Box Set 1986-1995" boxset

  10. "Too Much Information" – 4:56
  11. "Come Undone" – 7:34
  12. "Notorious" – 5:31
  13. "Too Much Information" – 6:19
  14. "Drowning Man" – 6:20
  15. "Drowning Man" – 6:36
  16. "Too Much Information" – 6:00
  17. "Too Much Information" – 5:44
  18. "Too Much Information" - 3:58
  19. "Come Undone" – 7:26

    Chart positions

On 4 September, "Too Much Information" peaked at #35 in the United Kingdom, and at #45 in the United States.