Hungry Like the Wolf the door in America for the New Romantic/synth rock crossover." Stewart Mason, also from Allmusic, called "Hungry Like the Wolf" a "spectacular pop single", and "the finest song Duran Duran ever wrote", adding that it was a "much more kinetic and exciting song than earlier flop singles like 'Planet Earth'." In 1982, music video director Russell Mulcahy, who had directed the band's first video "Planet Earth," was brought back to make the music video for "Hungry Like the Wolf" and two other songs for the band's 1983 video album. The band had a vision of jungles and exotic women, and
When You're Ugly Like Us (You Just Naturally Got to Be Cool) a deranged, booze and drug-fueled blowout, with the singers hooting and yelping at each other as if unaware they are being recorded. Profiling the song in the July 2013 issue of "Uncut", Andrew Mueller asserted, "It is easy to believe that the slurred, stuttering vocals were no theatrical contrivance." The single bombed, peaking at #31 on the Billboard country singles chart. When You're Ugly Like Us (You Just Naturally Got to Be Cool) "When You're Ugly Like Us (You Just Naturally Got to Be Cool)" is song composed by Don Goodman and Rick Schulman and recorded as a duet by