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July 28, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 275
Daryl Hall & John Oates, Abandoned Luncheonette (1973) You lot know I’ve been on a massive Hall & Oates kick of late. Well, it started with this album. Which is to say I grew up with the monster 80s pop hits by this duo but it wasn’t until I heard this album in its entirety that I really got […]Archive
July 3, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 283
Hall & Oates, X-Static (1979) I’m revisiting Hall & Oates – not only that I’m learning on the job. This album is a bridge between the end of their soul (and rock) days and the start of their full-onslaught 80s pop. (That’s the stuff I grew up with). Here we have them stopping over at the new wave […]Archive
June 27, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 286
Daryl Hall & John Oates, Beauty On A Back Street (1977) Hall & Oates – big part of my childhood. But really, mostly, the 80s anthems. The pop-band. What about that whole decade before where they were blue-eyed soul and a bit of rock. Philly soul, updated. That’s the sound of this album. And the few before it and maybe one or two […]Archive
May 15, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
John Oates: Arkansas
John Oates Arkansas PS Records One of the strangest things you’ll hear – or hear about – in music this year is John Oates doing a country album. Yes, he of Hall & Oates, the Maneater/She’s Gone co-creator. There’s nothing on this album that sounds like anything he did with Daryl Hall. And there’s no […]Archive
February 14, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 584
Daryl Hall, Three Hearts In The Happy Ending Machine (1986) What was Daryl Hall trying to say when he posed next to a cow for the cover inlay here? That he didn’t need John Oates at all? That he could make music with anyone? That he was, erm, milking it… We may never know. But […]Archive
December 23, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 970
Daryl Hall & John Oates, Hall & Oates Collection (1981) Probably my favourite rediscovery of 2014 was the music of Hall & Oates – and so when I rushed out recently to buy Private Eyes I also returned with this – a handy collection of the duo’s earlier work – including some great songs like […]Archive
December 17, 2014 by Simon Sweetman