Hall & Oates POX

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And I can't say I liked any of their BIG 80'S HITS all that much, even back then. That makes me a funhater, but better a funhater than a maneater.

She's Gone
Las Vegas Turnaround
Private Eyes
I Can't Go for That
Wait for Me
One On One
Sara Smile
Rich Girl
Kiss On My List
When the Morning Comes

(Probably too much GE Smith-era here.)

Fuck it, who am I kidding, they're all great. God he has a good voice.

and then this snippet from the AMG review ... "Most bonkers of all is "Babs and Babs," a straight-ahead Daryl Hall track until a Fripp soundscape kicks in from nowhere! Fripp's own "Urban Landscape" shows him having withdrawal symptoms from Bowie's infamous Heroes sessions."

sean, you must buy this thing and record it and send it to us post haste!

Anyway, here's mine:

You Make My Dreams
Kiss On My List
I Can't Go For That
Private Eyes
One on One
She's Gone
Rich Girl
Man Eater
Adult Education
Method of Modern Love

Man, "You Make My Dreams" was one of the first songs I ever fell in love with. I still LOVE THAT CODA - "I'm down on my daaaaaay-dream, but that sleepwalk should be over by now, YOU KNOW!" It still gives me chills when I hear it.

I love the way "Kiss on My List" kicks in with that rolling piano line; nice stuff, good arrangement.

These guys were totally fantastic, anyone who disses them is plain wrong.

Aw man. But I like them! If (as I hope) my energy level from random talk about music is returning then you'll see more of it.

United State.

Make an amendment to the constitution
To preserve the state of our union
I stop believing what you say to me
There`s a tragic gap in credibility

"I Don't Want To Lose You" [Rundgren prod.]
"Some Things Are Better Left Unsaid" [Arthur Baker prod.]
"Crime Pays" [pre Electro-clash]
"Looking For A Good Sign" [H&O soul]
"When The Morning Comes" [Arif Mardin prod.]
"Wait For Me" [Disco!]
"I Hear The Voices" [Rumor has it "Voices" was inspired by Son Of Sam]
"Everytime You Go Away" [The Original]
"Possession Obsession" [album version sans Sax-o-phone]

and I have to say:

"One on One" [12" Version]

my favorite end-of-set DJ jam.

Other good ones: "Family Man," what with the infidelity and all. "Adult Education" is dripping with sticky underage sex -- I remember being vaguely aware of that fact even as a kid. It's kinda edgy stuff, really.

Not the world's greatest artists, but they did a solid job every time. B+.

Been listening to "When the Morning Comes" over and over and over.
I'm gonna make a tape of uplifting musical moments for my car and this will start and end it.

I've been playing the last three songs from "Bigger Than Both of Us" over and over. That's the album that has Rich Girl, which is just fine, but it turns into like hard rock Steely Dan or something right near the end. Can't find a video for my favorite song, but Spotify has it:

http://open.spotify.com/track/3sZ1w4sDazOyMVwrvB4D0k

The song before that, "Room To Breath" is on youtube in this pretty amazing live version, along with a great War Babies track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6MVlSeaWEE

H&O have said this is the album they dislike most for some reason.

They are so insanely wrong.

Hall's hair is a marvel of blowdried freshness.

'room to breathe' is like early Pere Ubu!

Man this really has an awesome B-side! Thanks for the tip. I love H&O but would never thought to check this album.

This period of their career defines "uneven" but there's stuff like this.

I'm a huge H&O fan, but is it odd my all-time favourite song of theirs is "Out of Touch?"

Yeah Abandoned Luncheonette only has like 3 songs I need. Listening to the self-titled (with glammo cover photo) right now though and it's pretty solid. I rly should venture out of the safety zone of their perfect self-produced phase.

xpost 'Out of Touch' is awesome! Love the gravity of the chords under the chorus.

Urm, just heard 'Soldering' for the first time. What the fuckin' fuck?

http://abcnews.go.com/US/arrest-made-oates-bites-halls-face/story?id=17947753#.UMuqOrt0S9E

Wacky

Ahhh, but not that Hall & Oates

xposting a bit. So the album that H&O hated wasn't "Bigger Than Both of Us." It was "Beauty on a Back Street." They're wrong about that as well. There are a bunch of tracks from it that are great, but this is the one that's just killing me lately. Comparisons? God, it's a 6 minute long mix of hard 70's rock and maybe Sparks on the chorus, and then this freaked out "I'm the doctor! I'm the doctor!" chant at the end. I've gone through back catalogs of an awful lot of 80s/90s bands, and can't think of one that has more interesting stuff lurking than H&O.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8H2TPWmGvs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l56Hdjx0ckg