This Complete List Of Hall & Oates Albums And Songs presents the full discography of Hall & Oates studio albums. Hall & Oates was first formed in 1970. Hall & Oates hails from the city of brotherly love known as Philadelphia. This complete Hall & Oates discography also includes every single live album. All these rock, soul, and pop Hall & Oates albums have been presented below in chronological order. We have also included all original release dates with each Hall & Oates album as well as all original album covers. Every Hall & Oates album listed below showcases the entire album tracklisting.
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Although they had several minor hits between 1977 and 1980, the albums Hall & Oates released at the end of the decade were not as successful as their mid-'70s records. Nevertheless, they were more adventurous, incorporating more rock elements into their blue-eyed soul. The combination would finally pay off in late 1980, when the duo released the self-produced Voices, the album that marked the beginning of Hall & Oates' greatest commercial and artistic success. The first single from Voices, a cover of the Righteous Brothers' "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling," reached number 12, yet it was the second single, "Kiss on My List" that confirmed their commercial potential by becoming the duo's second number one single; its follow-up, "You Make My Dreams" hit number five. They quickly released Private Eyes in the summer of 1981; the record featured two number one hits, "Private Eyes" and "I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)," as well as the Top Ten hit "Did It in a Minute." "I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)" also spent a week at the top of the R&B charts -- a rare accomplishment for a white act. H20 followed in 1982 and it proved more successful than their two previous albums, selling over two million copies and launching their biggest hit single, "Maneater," as well as the Top Ten hits "One on One" and "Family Man." The following year, the duo released a greatest-hits compilation, Rock 'N Soul, Pt. 1, that featured two new Top Ten hits -- the number two "Say It Isn't So" and "Adult Education."
The issuing of "greatest-hits" albums reached a fever pitch during the 2000s, with no fewer than 15 different collections seeing the light by 2008. Live records proliferated as well, with the A&E Live by Request release Live in Concert hitting stores in 2003, a reissue of their Ecstasy on the Edge 1979 concert (titled simply In Concert this time around) in 2006, and the Live at the Troubadour two-CD/one-DVD set in 2008. As far as proper studio albums go, the 2000s were lean, with only three releases -- the aforementioned Do It for Love and Our Kind of Soul, topped off by Home for Christmas in 2006. A career-spanning box set appeared in 2009, titled Do What You Want, Be What You Are: The Music of Daryl Hall and John Oates.
Universially hailed as "exponents of blue-eyed soul," Daryl Hall and John Oates began performing as a duo in the late 1960s, but first gained widespread attention with their self-titled 1975 RCA debut album. Many albums and hits followed; but in recent years Hall has been adamant about shedding that moniker, calling it "archaic" and "racist." No matter what label is applied, the rock duo remains the most successful pairing in rock history.
Despite their success, after 1984's Big Bam Boom, which yielded the hits "Out of Touch" and "Method of Modern Love," and the popular Live at the Apollo, the long-time team split to pursue individual projects. Oates helped produce albums for other musical groups, while Hall recorded his second solo effort, Three Hearts in the Happy Ending Machine. Hearts, like Hall's previous solo album, Sacred Songs, drew respectful remarks from critics, but Hall & Oates fans were disappointed; neither disc sold well.
Duo formed c. 1969; released debut album Whole Oates, 1972; Abandoned Luncheonette released, 1973; chart with single "She's Gone" from that same album, 1973; War Babies released, 1974; moved to RCA label for Daryl Hall and John Oates, which generated the hit "Sara, Smile," 1975; tour internationally in support of album; Bigger Than Both of Us released, 1976; number of poorly received releases issued; Voices released, 1980; album spawned hits including "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" and "Kiss on My List"; released Private Eyes, 1981; hit singles "Private Eyes" and "I Can't Go For That" made charts, 1981; H20 released, generated hits "Did It in a Minute," "Maneater," "One on One," and "Family Man," 1982; greatest hits collection, Rock 'n' Soul Part One issued, 1983; Big Bam Boom released, 1984; album generated hits "Out of Touch" and "Method of Modern Love"; decides to concentrate on solo projects; released Ooh Yeah!, 1988; topped the record for number one hits set by the Everly Brothers, late 1980s; Change of Season released, 1990; decided to stop touring and returned to work on solo projects, 1991; returned to recording as a duo with Marigold Sky, released in 1997; released VH1 Behind The Music: The Daryl Hall & John Oates Collection, 2002; released Do It for Love, 2003; released "best-of" collection The Essential Collection, 2003.
Nonetheless, as Hall predicted in a 1986 interview with Steve Dougherty in People, the duo did re-team to record again and again. In 1988 they released Ooh Yeah! on Arista and had the satisfaction of watching two singles, "Everything Your Heart Desires" and "Missed Opportunity," become popular with Top Forty audiences. Not only fans, but critics too welcomed Hall & Oates's reunion effort; Hank Bordowitz in High Fidelity, for instance, proclaimed gleefully that "Ooh Yeah! attacks the brain and breeds there, causing you to hum incessantly." Hall & Oates's follow-up album, 1990's Change of Season also produced a hit with "So Close," co-produced by Jon Bon Jovi and Danny Kortchmar.
Do It for Love was on shelves in February of 2003. Part of the success of this release was attributed to nostalgia, fueled by a Hall & Oates episode of the VH1 program, Behind the Music. Erlewine called it "their best album in 20 years," adding that it "hearkens [sic] back to the sensibility of both Abandoned Luncheonette and 1975's eponymous debut for RCA. ... [N]othing here will erase memories of their biggest hits, yet nearly all of these 14 songs hold their own against many of the album tracks and lesser-known hits from their golden period while also having a unified sense of sound and purpose, adding up to a thoroughly satisfying record, the kind that will please the faithful while winning back those listeners who haven't really listened to the duo since the '80s. A really fine, surprising comeback effort."
The original soundtrack album to a sex-laded Joan Collins B-movie, The Stud collected some rather glorious Eurodisco for its titillating adaptation of the Jackie Collins novel. You get Spanish duo Baccara's kooky disco tune "Sorry I'm A Lady" and French electro-pioneers Space delivering "Deliverance." There were also some smash hits from K.C. & The Sunshine Band, Rose Royce and Rod Stewart.
Hall & Oates came onto the music scene with their debut album Whole Oates in 1972, Abandoned Luncheonette in 1973, and War Babies in 1974. They established themselves in the pop-rock genre. They then moved to New York in 1974 and signed with RCA records in 1975. After releasing their album Bigger Than the Both of Us in 1976, they made their first number one hit in 1977 with "Rich Girl." Their success faded from 1977 to 1980, but they came back strong with the release of their self-produced album Voices. This album contained their second number one hit, "Kiss on My List." Their next album, Private Eyes, was released in 1981 and featured two more number one hits, "Private Eyes" and "I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)." Their most successful album, H20, was released in 1982, and it featured their biggest number one hit "Maneater" and went double-platinum.
Pat Benatar: ''Tropico.'' (Chrysalis FV 41471) - A fine new album for Pat Benatar. An album that shows a maturing for her band from the rockers where love was a battlefield - songs that were, admittedly, quite powerful. Instead, we have the still-poignant sound of a cut like ''A Crazy World Like This,'' where the sentiments are an appreciation for the faithfulness of a lover, and the music less guttural but still gutsy. Of course, Pat Benatar's voice - a remarkable rock instrument that's at once sweet and tart, tart with toughness telling of struggle - is supported and promoted by the fine songwriting of her band here. It knows, for instance, how to get all the mileage it can out of the good hook in ''Love in the Ice Age,'' where the song builds up the tension to the big release when Benatar belts out the core theme. The first single from the LP, ''We Belong,'' is a moderately good tune that's commendably more mellow, thoughtful, than many of her past hits.
D. H. S. Chuck Mangione: ''Disguise.'' (Columbia FC 39479.) - ''Feels So Good'' - the title of Mangione's very popular LP from a few years ago - might also describe ''Disguise.'' There's nary a harsh note in this album of smoothness and compatibility. Relax, spread out on a deck chair, put on some sunglasses. . . . Yet, there are disappointments here. Mangione lets his producer for this LP, Eumir Deodato, push him dangerously close to disco-jazz. Most cuts incorporate Deodato digital drum programs, which often serve to trivialize Mangione's mellow flugelhorn. Too, Mangione seems to have grown overly comfortable with arrangements that give his songs a very similar texture. The best cut - ''She's Not Mine to Love (No More)'' - is a soft, tender song on which Mangione fortunately lets Deodato put away his drum programs. There's also a curious little cut topping the flip side - ''Shirley MacLaine.'' On a busy, rhythmic background, MacLaine delivers a raspy, rambling ''rap,'' mostly directed at Mangione. Here's one for the exercise classes. Nonetheless, taken as a whole, the LP is classy and melodic. A completely charming - but not challenging - Mangione. 2ff7e9595c
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