Hall & Oates - War Babies
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Artist: Hall & OatesEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2008-04-08
Music Label: Wounded Bird Records
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Free Music Review: My favorite H & O album for years
Hit: 5 Stars
I have loved this album for as long as I can remember. I remember liking Hall and Oates in the early 80's. They were all over the radio. I think H2O was the current album with One on One, and Big Bam Boom was about to hit. I lived in a small town with crappy music stores. I went searching for Hall and Oates in the era of cassettes, and I found the tapes with the hits plus a couple with songs I'd never heard of. Well, the majority fit that bill, but this particular cassette had nothing I'd heard of or could make sense of. Beanie G and the Rose Tattoo? Huh? Well. . . . . it almost never left my cassette players whether it be my hand me down stereo that still had an 8 track player (I had a few 8 tracks to listen to) or my Sony walkman (remember those?). It was so different from what I expected. I often, now, say that this album, tape, whatever was my gateway drug into more experimental music such as Einstürzende Neubauten, Sonic Youth and, yes, The Cure. The Cure might not be so experimental per se, but I still think it is shocking how huge they became, for a time. I remember going to my local record shop in college after Disintegration came out. The clerk talked to me mournfully about how crazy it was that people would buy the record/tape, take it home and return it- - lamenting that they were disappointed by it. When asked why, they would say, well, I heard 'Lovesong' on the radio and thought this album would be amazing. What happened? Where are the other pop hits?
Many Hall and Oates fans will probably feel the same way after hearing War Babies. It is not Private Eyes or Kiss on My List, good pop songs as they may be. It is a different world. Much of the '70's was different for Hall and Oates. There is punk, prog, hard rock, soul and experimentation. The lyrics have a different kind of depth to them that seems to emanate from life rather than from the ideals we hold in our heads about love. A great may of Daryl's and John's lyrics, actually lie within reality, ugly as it sometimes can be, but there is still something of the ugliness of humanity here in War Babies that most people would rather not face. Plus, there is the tiniest hint at sci fi, though I think sci fi usually just reflects us back upon ourselves in a particularly painful sort of way. And it rocks. Many of these songs have a primitive rock n roll feel to them that is surprising if you are only used to the slick production of the 80's and early 90's when I really had to bow out.
Frankly, I think all of this makes this album amazing. Everytime I hear it, I feel energized and alive. There is always a surprise here as if Todd Rundgren's production still holds secrets the mind can't process. Buy it, and give it a few chances. It is a grower, like cancer, if cancer was life affirming. Besides, there are claims that cancer has a cure that the FDA will not approve because of their alignment with the drug companies. Either way, embrace life, and embrace War Babies. They won't mind, and they may even thank you when they are old enough.
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