If you know me, you know Come Undone is my favorite Duran Duran song, so well written and mixed. That guitar tone in the intro is so mysterious, I can’t tell if it’s a flanger and a talkbox or what but its very distinct.
Fun fact: when I was a little kid I couldn’t stand this song, because of the pre-chorus high-pitched vocals, the "can’t ever keep from falling apart, at the seems /
Can not believe you’re taking my heart, to pieces" lines, those just irritated me.
What made me start loving this song was a piano cover on YouTube I found that really showed in isolation how meloncholic the composition is.
18 responses to “My Favorite Duran Duran Song”
Lol.
Oh why did I say stella xd. I meant selestia, or how it’s spelled IDK
selestia*
stella freaks me the fuck out xd
Okay, I promice to behave. That’s a big promice. Just please don’t send me to the 990001th flore please!
nothing unless you really messed up, and oh god you do not want to make enferno mad, xander already saw that
Lol I guess you have a point on that as well. @Zlunglrg, what woud the dragon do to me now I’m a member of Blazey enterprizes?
lmao, but then again, you’ve been a loyal worker, so she wouldn’t eat you
Yeah I’ll just gladly become Celestia’s dinner rather than become a meteor
yeah, so celestia eating you alive would be better than jumping out the wiundow
I had CheatGPT run the numbers on this, the 99,000th floor would be, assuming a 3-meter ceiling (common for offices) per floor, I’d be falling from a height of 215.3 Miles (346.5 KM)
So yeah I’d probably not survive that.
Okay I also had CheatGPT figure out what would kill me first from a fall of that height.
Altitude and air pressure
99,000 floors × ~3–4 m/floor ≈ 300–400 km high.
That’s way above the Kármán line (~100 km), which is generally considered “space.”
At that height, there’s essentially no breathable atmosphere—pressure is near vacuum. You would lose consciousness within seconds due to hypoxia and ebullism (gases in your blood starting to form bubbles).
Temperature and heat
In low Earth orbit, sunlight is intense, but shadowed areas are extremely cold. You’d likely freeze slowly if left floating, but the immediate danger is not heat—it’s the lack of air and pressure.
Free fall
You wouldn’t “fall through air” the whole way—there’s virtually no air at first, then extremely thin upper atmosphere until ~100 km. Terminal velocity in real air is irrelevant until you hit the thicker layers lower down.
You would accelerate almost unimpeded at first, approaching orbital speeds if the building somehow extends that high. By the time you reach denser air, you’d hit tens of thousands of km/h, which would incinerate you due to atmospheric friction long before hitting the ground—basically like a meteor entering Earth’s atmosphere.
Summary sequence of death
Seconds: hypoxia / unconsciousness
Minutes: ebullism, body swelling from low pressure
Next: re-entry heating if falling through atmosphere at orbital-type speed—this is what would char-broil you
Impact with ground: irrelevant; you’d be long gone
So, in short: even before hitting the ground, the vacuum and hypoxia would knock you out, and then the real killer is atmospheric re-entry heating, not the fall itself. The “dragon on the 99,000th floor” is already giving you a death sentence just by proximity!
Well, guess you have a point. I don’t know how far down you will fall.
Sudden death from impacting the Blazy Enterprizes parking lot is far better than being char broiled alive.
Oh no! But the window is very high.
At that point I’d just jump from the window, death > dragons
Nice. And Xander, this is only a joke but you must give Brandon 1000 tesla, Stealey Dan, and woran Eavens songs or one of us will send you up to flore 99000 of the blazey building where Shmubey is. I still can’t spell it correctly.
Yeah I did lmao
Nice. I remember you had done something with the streets of rage drum track to this song on your blog.