I've been listening to a couple of grooves in these threads, and I remember silverchild posting a mid tempo that I liked couple of months ago, so yep, consider me officially SOLD

Where should I start?

Abandoned Luncheonette

I think it's out of print, but you can start with their debut Whole Oats. Or the so-called Silver Foil Album (self-titled).

Harlepolis said:

I've been listening to a couple of grooves in these threads, and I remember silverchild posting a mid tempo that I liked couple of months ago, so yep, consider me officially SOLD

Where should I start?

Honestly, I'd start with any random greatest hits disc. I had the VH1 one and it had all their best work on it.

It seems the Whole Oats songs are blocked by WMG. But here is a live radio performance of a couple songs from the album in 1973.

Abandoned Luncheonette is a fantastic album! i also love Private Eyes[but that of course is there more 80's stuff... but i love it ]

Harlepolis said:

I've been listening to a couple of grooves in these threads, and I remember silverchild posting a mid tempo that I liked couple of months ago, so yep, consider me officially SOLD

Where should I start?

[img:$uid]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/26/Hall_Oates_Private_Eyes.jpg[/img:$uid]

[img:$uid]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8a/Hall_%26_Oates_H2O_vinyl_album_cover.jpg[/img:$uid]

PippiL suggested one way of going at it.
That way you can find tunes you like and backtrack to the album.

I have this one...

[img:$uid]http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drg800/g880/g88062tjqej.jpg[/img:$uid]

...The Essential DARYL HALL & JOHN OATES (2 CD set)


Some favorites (that are available on the ever increasingly frustrating YouTube) from their pre-80s era.
I'm leaving out some obvious tunes that you may have heard before.



...Good Night & Good Morning (Whole Oats) & Las Vegas Turnaround (Abandoned Luncheonette)



...You're Much Too Soon & Beanie G. And the Rose Tatoo (both from War Babies produced by Todd Rundgren)



...Do What You Want, Be What You Are & Falling (both from Bigger Than Both of Us)



...Bigger Than Both Of Us & Winged Bull (both from Beauty on a Back Street)




...It's A Laugh & August Day (from Along The Red Ledge)



...All You Want Is Heaven & Time's Up (Alone Tonight) (from X-Static)




Music for adventurous listeners

tA

Tribal Records

Mdizzles said:

Abandoned Luncheonette

I second that! Probably their best album from the Atlantic years. Voices and H2O are also great ones, but I like their Atlantic stuff the best. So, pick up Abandoned Luncheonette and also invest in their box set, which covers their entire career and then some...great stuff.

^^^^YESSS Thats what I'm talking about.

On a side note, I didn't know Todd Rundgren produced them? I've always had this impression that they were self-produced, I don't know why.

Thanks a million, people I'm really savoring their stuff these days and I was looking for a starting point, given that I'm a fan of boxets, "Do What You Want" seems like the natural thing to pick up along with the other albums, I'm def interested in Abandoned Luncheonette.

theAudience said:

PippiL suggested one way of going at it.
That way you can find tunes you like and backtrack to the album.

I have this one...

[img:$uid]http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drg800/g880/g88062tjqej.jpg[/img:$uid]

...The Essential DARYL HALL & JOHN OATES (2 CD set)

That's the same one I'd recommend. 2 discs, so you get more than just the hits, but not as much to absorb at once as the box set.

Start at the very begining....

In my eyes and ears Hall & Oats had two parts to their careers. To be frank the second part (starting with their album "Voices") bored me to death. I like Hall and Oats from 1972 -1979, after that....

TD3 said:

Start at the very begining....

In my eyes and ears Hall & Oats had two parts to their careers. To be frank the second part (starting with their album "Voices") bored me to death. I like Hall and Oats from 1972 -1979, after that....

I totally get preferring their 70s music, but you were bored to death by some of the best pop music of the 80s? "Private Eyes"? "Maneater"? "I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)"? "Method of Modern Love"? etc. I can see not liking them (OK, I can't even see that for some songs ), but bored? Man. Different strokes indeed...

AlexdeParis said:

TD3 said:Start at the very begining....

In my eyes and ears Hall & Oats had two parts to their careers. To be frank the second part (starting with their album "Voices") bored me to death. I like Hall and Oats from 1972 -1979, after that....

I totally get preferring their 70s music, but you were bored to death by some of the best pop music of the 80s? "Private Eyes"? "Maneater"? "I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)"? "Method of Modern Love"? etc. I can see not liking them (OK, I can't even see that for some songs ), but bored? Man. Different strokes indeed...

Alex I swear the stuff they recorded after '79 sounded like pop plastic to me... bland unimaginative, just blah. I was kinda surprised Hall & Oats took that U-turn and when they did I turned off.

yeah, I hear ya on the different strokes...

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TonyVanDam said:

Harlepolis said:

I've been listening to a couple of grooves in these threads, and I remember silverchild posting a mid tempo that I liked couple of months ago, so yep, consider me officially SOLD

Where should I start?

[img:$uid]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/26/Hall_Oates_Private_Eyes.jpg[/img:$uid]

[img:$uid]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8a/Hall_%26_Oates_H2O_vinyl_album_cover.jpg[/img:$uid]

Besides a greatest hits compilation, those are the two full albums that I have.

And don't forget to check out www.livefromdarylshouse.com

Free streaming of all the episodes, hope you enjoy!