Daryl Hall & John Oates, Hall & Oates - Our Kind of Soul
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Artist: Daryl Hall & John Oates, Hall & OatesEdition: Music CD
Published: 2004
CD Release Date: 2004-10-26
Music Label: U-Watch Records
Soundtracks:
- Let Love Take Control
- Standing In The Shadows Of Love
- I'll Be Around
- Used To Be My Girl
- Soul Violins
- I Can Dream About You
- Don't Turn Your Back On Me Baby
- Fading Away
- Neither One Of Us
- After The Dance
- Rock Steady
- Love (TKO)
- What You See Is What You Get
- Can't Get Enough Of Your Love
- You Are Everything
- I'm Still In Love With You
- Ooh Child
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Free Music Review: Very VERY watered down versions, and some of their worst work
Hit: 1 Stars
Let me start this review by saying I'm a fairly big Hall and Oates fan. While I haven't liked all of their work, I'm firmly in the camp that just about every track off the greatest hits records are some of the best pop and soul songs ever. I've seen them live and have been impressed by the tight yet fluid band and vocal intrigue Daryl can effortlessly flow. I'm even a fan of the Live recordings on Daryl's website these days...
That said... this album is *terrible*. Here's why. These are classic classic songs. Every one just soaked in true old school soul. So when you strip out the live drummer and replace them with a drum machine (a not a very well programmed one either) and cut vocals that feel a little on the home demo side (i.e. absolutely no live energy to them) the entire album falls flat. It sounds like a middle-age Vegas cover band playing in a cheap hotel lobby forced to play quietly so as to not disturb the dessert course going on in the next room.
There are a few moments that show potential. The Al Green cover for one. But by and large, both me and my girlfriend (another H&O fan) just kept muttering to each other for track after track... oh, man, this is terrible. It's almost embarrassingly bad. Here's to hoping they bring back the live feel and real soul energy on their next outing.
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Our Kind of Soul, the follow-up to 2003's VH1-propelled Do It for Love, is mostly a can't-miss proposition: Daryl Hall's smooth, expressive voice, synonymous with the Philly soul sound, is so well suited to this material that it feels shrink-wrapped overtop. "Can't Get Enough of Your Love," the Barry White classic, is given a breezy makeover (and, maybe more impressively considering that most artists wouldn't touch it, not mangled); Teddy Pendergrass' "Love TKO" is dusted off and tinkered with till it takes on a signature H&O sound; and "After the Dance," one of Marvin Gaye's most cryptic compositions, comes across like a solved mystery--there's a gentleness and a reverie in the reading will prompt thoughtful listeners to return to it more than a few times. That said, a couple of these covers--the O'Jays "Used to Be My Girl" and Aretha Franklin's "Rock Steady"--seem cursory, and the duo can count on a cranky contingent decrying their lack of fresh material. But the strength of three songs introduced here should keep them at bay. First track "Let Love Take Control" gutsily and convincingly glides into Four Tops' "Standing in the Shadows of Love," "Soul Violins" strikes notes at once heartfelt and spontaneous, and "Don't Turn Your Back" has the classic Hall & Oates marks of their-kind-of-soul songs like "Out of Touch." --Tammy La GorceBlues Music CDs
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