― Daniel DiMAGGIO (Daniel DiMAGGIO), Monday, 26 July 2004 06:11 (nineteen years ago) link
Me, I'm fairly indifferent to H&O. "Sara Smile" I remember as pretty great, tho I've not heard it in 20+ years! "Kiss On My List" and "You Make My Dreams" are probably my favourites. I don't think I can ever again stomach "I Can't Go For That", just 'cause I'm sick to fucking death of that goddamn Simply Red song that I'm forced to endure at the office at least twice a week. (I hate it.)(I hate Simply Red!) But I never cared much for it originally anyways - partly because the phrase "No can do" always infuriated me! (Dunno why.)
Two unanswerable questions: 1. How is it that I've never heard "Family Man" despite remembering all their other early '80s hits? And 2. When and why did they add the "Daryl" and "John" to their bandname? Egotism? A silly decision if you ask me: "Hall And Oates" rolls off the tongue so much more easily. (But at least "Daryl Hall And John Oates" is still much better [in every way] than "England Dan and John Ford Coley"!)
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 26 July 2004 06:15 (nineteen years ago) link
My last job at a coffee shop piped in that cable radio stuff, which is hit and miss at best. One day "She's Gone" came on, and I started singing along as I made coffee. So did my co-worker Andre. "You like this?" I asked him. He said, "Lemme tell you a secret. Black people like Hall and Oates." I had no idea.
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Monday, 26 July 2004 06:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Monday, 26 July 2004 06:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 26 July 2004 06:30 (nineteen years ago) link
'Private Eyes' is my favourite H&O song.
― derrick (derrick), Monday, 26 July 2004 07:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― C0L1N B3CK3TT (Colin Beckett), Monday, 26 July 2004 07:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― derrick (derrick), Monday, 26 July 2004 07:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― C0L1N B3CK3TT (Colin Beckett), Monday, 26 July 2004 07:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 26 July 2004 07:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― derrick (derrick), Monday, 26 July 2004 08:48 (nineteen years ago) link
i asked him whether he and john were into drugs during the height of their fame. he replied, "just look at our clothes, at our shoulderpads."
― stevie (stevie), Monday, 26 July 2004 09:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― fizzcaraldo (Justin M), Monday, 26 July 2004 10:20 (nineteen years ago) link
DANCE ON YOUR KNEES!
― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 26 July 2004 12:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Monday, 26 July 2004 13:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Monday, 26 July 2004 20:05 (nineteen years ago) link
I was going to say I never actually bought any Hall & Oates records but still enjoyed and enjoy them enough on the radio, when I realize I think there is one 45 I bought and I do think it might be "Adult Education". Can't remember how it goes, though. Was that the one where they're on a roof in the video?
Yes they were great in their own way, glad to see people cheer them here.
I wonder if we had a shoot-em-out "blue-eyed soul" cowboy duel here on ILM between Todd Rundgren and Hall & Oates who would come out on top? Well perhaps there's been a taking sides thread and I only need search for it...
― Bimble (bimble), Monday, 26 July 2004 20:36 (nineteen years ago) link
I supremely worship Todd but I always feel like I have to explain to people how great his vocals are, whereas Darryl is kind of a more "traditional" sort of vocalist.
― fizzcaraldo (Justin M), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 03:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― fizzcaraldo (Justin M), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 08:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― fizzcaraldo (Justin M), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 08:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― fizzcaraldo (Justin M), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 08:12 (nineteen years ago) link
That is all.
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 13:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 13:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― g--ff (gcannon), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 14:02 (nineteen years ago) link
And, you know, you don't have to take sides between H&O and Rundgren, because War Babies is both of them -- it's produced by Rundgren, and he plays lead guitar on the entire album.
― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Monday, 20 September 2004 17:45 (nineteen years ago) link
I love the weird vocoder/warped guitar sounds of their cover of "family man". also those giant keith leblanc drums on the remix of "out of touch". and the sound production on "i can't go for that" made this the only 80s song that sounded BETTER on AM radio than FM radio.
don't forget g.e. smith! oh, why did you fall so low and become the driving force behind making us all hate the SNL band, G.e... why why why?
― Tofukyo Scramblass, Monday, 20 September 2004 17:57 (nineteen years ago) link
WTF??? "Family Man" was a cover???
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 20 September 2004 19:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― frankE (frankE), Monday, 20 September 2004 20:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 20 September 2004 20:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 00:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 00:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 00:24 (nineteen years ago) link
This song never gets as much love as "I Can Go For That."
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 14 February 2005 02:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 14 February 2005 02:14 (nineteen years ago) link
Which is funny in that he didn't write the song. (It was the dudes who wrote "Like a Virgin" for Madonna a couple of years later.)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 14 February 2005 02:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 14 February 2005 02:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 14 February 2005 02:19 (nineteen years ago) link
Never owned that album but "Dreamtime" was as close as Dave Stewart got (along with "Don't Come Around Here No More" for Tom Petty) for trying to make pop/psych that got on the radio via production. But Prince was doing far better on that front overall.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 14 February 2005 02:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 14 February 2005 02:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― La Camilla Henemark, Monday, 14 February 2005 02:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 14 February 2005 02:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― stockholm cindy's secret childhood (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 14 February 2005 02:35 (nineteen years ago) link
"out of touch" is brilliant ."everytime you go away" is clasic,"everything your heart desires" was the comeback song .
― La Camilla Henemark, Monday, 14 February 2005 02:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 14 February 2005 02:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 21 February 2005 05:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― La Camilla Henemark, Monday, 21 February 2005 07:22 (nineteen years ago) link
Abandoned Luncheonette is one of the most underrated albums ever made. well, actually, the second half does fall apart some (trying waaaay too hard to be "deep" and shit, though "Laughing Boy" does have a nice tune and "Lady Rain" pulls it off), but side one is DYNAMITE. "When the Morning Comes" = some of the coolest, most understated Moog action evah + beyond-perfect "whoo" harmonies + wonderful folk acoustic strum + marvelous bridge, esp. Daryl's high notes. "Had I Know You Better Then" = gorgeous mumbly Oates vocal + that piercing little guitar punctuating the chorus + sudden drama in final chorus-buildup/breakdown, John cool and understated against Hall's urgency and then dissolving back into the rippling harmonies. "Las Vegas Turnaround" = the greatest Belle & Sebastian song ever written (I stole this comparison, though not the rating, from Douglas Wolk), the ricky-tick drums and jazzy guitars/electric keybs are like a more humane early Steely Dan. "She's Gone" = a monument, one of the records I beat myself up about for not including on my top-100-singles-of-the-'70s list, the first 45 seconds are the greatest thing I've ever heard to listen to while stoned out of your gourd, totally widescreen cinematic verse-to-chorus transitions, the breakdown w/the bass solo and guitar stuff and horns and the sudden stop is one of the most honestly dramatic pieces of music I know. I played it obsessively all of 2004 and want to do so again right now. "I'm Just a Kid (Don't Make Me Feel Like a Man)" = tentative and folky and oversensitive but fuck it, after those first four they've earned it. everything else they did was, is, gravy.
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Monday, 21 February 2005 09:06 (nineteen years ago) link
the sudden stop is one of the most honestly dramatic pieces of music I know
Easily.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 21 February 2005 14:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 21 February 2005 14:45 (nineteen years ago) link