To me, the key to that clip is when the cat tilts its head back. That's when you know kitty's really feeling the music.
― I wonder who his history bitches are and if they approve (Bimble), Wednesday, 1 July 2009 00:29 (fourteen years ago) link
that is two great tastes that taste great together
― iago g., Wednesday, 1 July 2009 02:12 (fourteen years ago) link
great album tracks on H2O.. "Crime Pays" "Guessing Games" and "Delayed Reaction" especially
I wrote a few years ago that Marshall Crenshaw would have killed for the hooks in "Delayed Reaction."
― My name is Kenny! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 1 July 2009 02:21 (fourteen years ago) link
might as well add "Open All Night" to that list..
"Italian Girls" isn't really my thing, however.
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 1 July 2009 07:27 (fourteen years ago) link
You don't drink vino rosso?
― My name is Kenny! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 1 July 2009 11:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Free show in Brooklyn tonight...
http://www.brooklynconcerts.com/seaside.html
― Thus Sang Freud, Thursday, 6 August 2009 19:32 (fourteen years ago) link
hall and oates? what's the TS thinking?
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Friday, 7 August 2009 00:29 (fourteen years ago) link
I expect the going-on-six-years revival to continue now that (500) Days of Summer turned "You Make My Dreams" into a dance routine.
― Anatomy of a Morbius (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 7 August 2009 00:33 (fourteen years ago) link
keyboard cat is who did it~!
― omar little, Friday, 7 August 2009 00:36 (fourteen years ago) link
They were....ok last night. At first they came across as detached, Hall seated, strumming an acoustic, seemingly irritated with the stage mix. Oates more or less disappeared into the background after two solo turns at the mic. Hall was having trouble with the high notes, and Oates' voice was scratchy. But Hall warmed up to the crowd, his vocals stronger as the set went on. He finished the show at the keyboards, standing, rocking "I Can't Go For That." (An unlikely showstopper.) There's a boxed set in the works.
― Thus Sang Freud, Friday, 7 August 2009 12:31 (fourteen years ago) link
eMusic has the H&O catalog now.
― o. nate, Friday, 7 August 2009 15:44 (fourteen years ago) link
"I Can't Go For That." (An unlikely showstopper.) Not at all unlikely. Song fucking KILLS.
― Trip Maker, Friday, 7 August 2009 15:47 (fourteen years ago) link
When I saw 'em last December, this was the setlist:
Out of TouchEverything Your Heart DesiresWhen the Morning ComesFamily ManHow Does it Feel to be BackSay It Isn't SoLas Vegas TurnaroundShe's GoneOne on OneSara SmileManeater---------------I Can't Go For ThatRich GirlYou Make My Dreams---------------Private Eyes
― Plunge Protection Team, Friday, 7 August 2009 17:00 (fourteen years ago) link
is it just me or are they everywhere lately? a box set coming out, too, to capitalize on the attention.
― amateurist, Tuesday, 1 September 2009 00:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh yeah? is there a track listing?
― post-contrarian meta-challop 2009 (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 1 September 2009 00:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Hall & Oates - Live at Park West Chicago 1983: http://www.sendspace.com/file/80zkel
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 1 September 2009 00:55 (fourteen years ago) link
ooh! is there a track listing?
― post-contrarian meta-challop 2009 (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 1 September 2009 02:20 (fourteen years ago) link
. Intro/Family Man2. Did It In A Minute3. How Does It Feel To Be Back4. Diddy Doo Wop (I Hear the Voices)5. Italian Girls6. Kiss On My List7. Rich Girl8. She's Gone9. Art Of Heartbreak10. One On One11. You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling12. I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)13. Sweet Soul Music14. Papa Oom Mow Mow (Band Intro's)15. Funky Broadway16. Sara Smile17. Wait For Me18. Maneater19. Private Eyes20. Open All Night21. You Make My Dreams22. Room To Breathe23. When Something Is Wrong With My Baby
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 1 September 2009 02:51 (fourteen years ago) link
CNN interviews H&O. Ignore the terrible lede.
― Roman Polanski now sleeps in prison. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 12 October 2009 17:33 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJZoPIJM6gI
― Andrew Kornfan, Monday, 12 October 2009 17:41 (fourteen years ago) link
So who's getting the box set? The AMG Review makes it sound pretty great, with live stuff from all different eras and, smartly, 3 discs of peak vs. 1 of post-peak.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 12 October 2009 19:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Holy shit the way the bass and muted guitar go all spy-thriller starting at about 2:15 into 'Family Man'!
― Comfort Me With Apples (Jon Lewis), Monday, 26 October 2009 19:02 (fourteen years ago) link
I adore that song.
― lihaperäpukamat (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 26 October 2009 19:03 (fourteen years ago) link
they were on NPR last weekend (i think all things considered?) being interviewed and playing a few songs acoustic, which sounded pretty swank
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 26 October 2009 19:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Bcuz of the new box set I guess?
Also, the opening music of 'Can't Go Far That' represents some kind of perfect studio fairyland for me-- the calmly clucking muted guitar with quiet synth-pad response, then the little synth arabesque and the tinny-filtered voice-- MAJIKK
― Comfort Me With Apples (Jon Lewis), Monday, 26 October 2009 19:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Great 12" mix:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv1ujZ93l2w
― lihaperäpukamat (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 26 October 2009 19:29 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't have that!
Not too fond of the dance mix of 'Adult Education'-- prefer the radio version.
― Comfort Me With Apples (Jon Lewis), Monday, 26 October 2009 19:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Those reissues from a few years ago = A+
― lihaperäpukamat (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 26 October 2009 19:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Yes those are on eMusic now which is where I have been cherry-picking tracks. Unfortunately ended up with the wrong mix of 'Adult Ed'. So far I've gotten only the familiar tracks.
If I get one album in full should it be Private Eyes or H2O?
― Comfort Me With Apples (Jon Lewis), Monday, 26 October 2009 19:49 (fourteen years ago) link
PRIVATE EYES
NO GET BOTH
― guammls (QE II), Monday, 26 October 2009 20:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Both really, but H20 is some kind of peak of early eighties mainstream pop experimentalism.
― lihaperäpukamat (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 26 October 2009 21:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah I'm leaning H20 at the mo.
― Comfort Me With Apples (Jon Lewis), Monday, 26 October 2009 21:07 (fourteen years ago) link
I'd say there's a case to be made for Voices as well. More of an upbeat rock vibe with a bit of New Wave energy vs. the slightly more R&B direction of the next two - though they always straddled several camps - the music is already as polished and pop-radio friendly as it would get on their more popular albums.
― o. nate, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 21:49 (fourteen years ago) link
I managed to get both H2O and Private Eyes with my remaining eMu credits by skipping the Oates-sung tracks (sorry Oates). "Crime Pays" is awesome!
Will probably get Voices next month. Am on big FM-rock kick at moment.
― Durian Durian (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 22:35 (fourteen years ago) link
The fourth disc of this box set has post-1988 stuff, and, boy, talk about their muse taking flight. The hair isn't even excusable. Plus, their squishy mid seventies white R&B period is too heavily represented. However, I'd never head the Abandoned Luncheonette material. Matos is right: it's got a proto-Belle & Sebastian vibe: sunny, witty folk-pop.
― Hell is other people. In an ILE film forum. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 4 December 2009 15:01 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHYE4D8n3Ts&feature=related
One of my personal faves of H&O.
― The Perfect Weapon 2, Monday, 7 December 2009 02:56 (fourteen years ago) link
best thing on the internet ever:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7TI-AJi2O8
― Stormy Davis, Sunday, 20 December 2009 07:01 (fourteen years ago) link
indefensible? i don't get it. seriously, maybe the best pop/rock song ever:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tJoIaXZ0rw&feature=related
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 28 March 2010 01:35 (fourteen years ago) link
I refuse to watch any more of that movie than I've already seen. But yeah... great song.
― billstevejim, Sunday, 28 March 2010 01:45 (fourteen years ago) link
that film put me off both hall and oates and briefly, living.
― piscesx, Sunday, 28 March 2010 01:47 (fourteen years ago) link
this song achieves an impossible level of happiness
― butt pirates of the caribbean (m bison), Sunday, 28 March 2010 01:51 (fourteen years ago) link
it's weird, i never heard that song a lot in the past or thought of it as one of their signature hits, but in the past two years it's picked up some kind of zeitgeist appearing in so much different stuff (that Days of Summer movie and the keyboard cat clip upthread, Step Brothers, episodes of Glee and The Office, etc.).
The Bird & The Bee's new H&O covers album is nothing special but very listenable, hard to mess up those songs and they don't.
― some dude, Sunday, 28 March 2010 02:00 (fourteen years ago) link
I can't recall hearing any Hall & Oates on the radio at all since the early 90's, aside from the 3 or 4 big 70's hits (Sara Smile, Rich Girl, She's Gone..)
― billstevejim, Sunday, 28 March 2010 02:06 (fourteen years ago) link
re: zeitgeist, everyone watched that Shorewood high school clip linked above Daniel's post right?
― Stormy Davis, Sunday, 28 March 2010 02:10 (fourteen years ago) link
i didn't, sound's off on the computer -- same song?
― some dude, Sunday, 28 March 2010 02:11 (fourteen years ago) link
yep
― Stormy Davis, Sunday, 28 March 2010 02:13 (fourteen years ago) link
ha! why? in total, i've seen that scene and maybe four others from the movie.
i like the lead actor (dancing guy).
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 28 March 2010 02:16 (fourteen years ago) link
oates kinda looks like lionel richie
― going non-native (dyao), Tuesday, 4 May 2010 15:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Abandoned Luncheonette has long been a guilty pleasure of mine.... especially "When the Morning Comes" and "I'm Just a Kid"
― Lee626, Thursday, 6 May 2010 08:04 (fourteen years ago) link
"My face ain't gettin' any younger" is one of my favorite lines
― moderator requiem forum (The Reverend), Thursday, 6 May 2010 09:03 (fourteen years ago) link