"If you're still a virgin at 61,"

[Texsox]

 

Even faster, I took it from the pile of old Tiger Beats I keep in my sock drawer.

 

I actually really like the earliest Hall and Oates stuff – the 1972-1974 "blue-eyed soul" stuff that KG thinks is a myth. The Rundgren-produced War Babies album is quite excellent.

 

Seriously? If I spend some time finding that stuff and it's Private Thighs stuff I'll get even. Is this like the Bee Gees, great stuff and poor, crap and rich?

[FlaSoxxJim]

Seriously? If I spend some time finding that stuff and it's Private Thighs stuff I'll get even. Is this like the Bee Gees, great stuff and poor, crap and rich?

 

It's actually as much a Rundgren album as it is a Hall and Oates album so I'm obviously biased toward it, but it's pretty darn good. For H&O it was the follow-up to the very soulful Abandoned Luncheonette album, the album She's Gone originally appeared on though it wasn't a chart-topper until it was re-released as a single a couple years later. War Babies is not nearly as accessible for the average listener, owing to the quirky arrangements, time signatures, and song cycle of a psychedelic "A Wizard, A True Star"-era Rundgren production. It also features Todd on lead guitar chores (a vast upgrade from Oates) and a good many members of a couple of Utopia incarnations on there as well. Although the complexity of the Rundgren production makes it less soul and more art-rock than the previous album, there is absolutely a Philly vibe to the album that H&O and Todd contribute equally to.

 

I have it on vinyl and I have read that the CD remaster is weak, but if CD is all you can find I'd still love for you to check it out and tell me what you think.

 

Edit: Here's a page of mp3 teasers for the album, so you can see if it's up your alley or not. The teasers don't do the song cycles or tracking justice, but it's a taste at least.

 

Todd makes Hall and Oates sound good!

Edited December 7, 2007 by FlaSoxxJim

[Gregory Pratt]

"This isn't When Harry Met Sally. This is 'Greg, The Delusional Sick Man on the Phone'".

 

(I'm ill at the moment.)

Edited December 8, 2007 by Gregory Pratt

[DBAHO]

I'm still trying to work out how anybody gets involved in a conversation in which the subject is whether you would bang Hall from Hall and Oates. . .

 

And for the record, I would not. I can't go for that. No can do.

I thought Lois Griffin had a thing for Oates?