Hall & Oates
November 13, 2008
By: 
rollerkaty
Category: 1982, Hall & Oates, Mustaches, Vinyl Friday
**News Flash**
I was contacted by the folks at Bloomberg (yes - you read that right…they actually sent me a press release) with the news that that John Oates will be interviewed tonight on the show “Night Talk” on Bloomberg TV. Apparently the interview will be available on their web site after the show.
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It’s no secret that I am a fan of mustaches. And there is perhaps no finer mustache than the one adorning the upper lip of John Oates. Ever since discovering John Oates’ mustache on the Herb Urban blog, I have been on the lookout to purchase a Hall & Oates album of my very own.
Well I am happy to report that day has finally come! Just this past weekend, I stumbled across the 1982 record H20 by Daryl Hall and John Oates at Rubato Records.
The first song on the album, “Maneater”, is actually kind of catchy. A little too catchy. I’ve actually caught myself singing it a few too many times over the past few days. “Oh here she comes, watch out boy she’ll chew you up, oh here she comes, she’s a maneater!”
But the album quickly devolves from there. As we listened to the next song, “Crime Pays,” RollerReggie simply shook his head. “I feel like I am in synth hell,” he moaned. “This song embodies everything I hated about eighties music!”
And so it continued. We couldn’t even make it to the B side of the record. RollerReggie and I were overcome with the sheer eighties force of H20. And the saxophone solos.
But, I didn’t really spend $3.99 to actually listen to this record. I bought it because John Oates has the best mustache ever. Therefore, I am one satisfied customer.
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November 14th, 2008 at 6:54 am
Their seventies records are sans synth and not entirely objectionable. Please pass along my apologies to RollerReggie for being subjected to the aural atrocities of H&O in their 80’s big hair heyday. My ears really can’t go for that either. No can do.
I agree with. It has always been all about the stasche.
November 14th, 2008 at 8:38 am
How can you not like an album cover with two sweaty guys in a stare-down?
November 14th, 2008 at 10:48 am
Well, this was one of my favorite records when I was a teen, but I have to say “Family Man” is worth flipping the wax for. It’s more guitar than synth heavy, which should make it bearable for rollerreg.
November 14th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
Hall & Oates is still rockin’ on my playlist! I have one of their remixes on one of my aerobics CDs, a great mix on “Out of Touch”.
I always like Oates better than Daryl. Wonder where he is now?
November 15th, 2008 at 1:01 am
Thinking about Hall & Oats got “Method of Modern Love” stuck in my head. I remember thinking that was a very silly video.
When Hall went out on his own, I actually enjoyed the “Dreamtime” single. I think I may have been the only one, though.
November 15th, 2008 at 5:14 am
They’re cool, but the mustache - those are for cops.
November 15th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
Wow. So you grabbed one of the worst Hall & Oates albums out there, did you?
None of them are exactly great, but that one just sucks.
Glad you enjoyed the mustache…
November 16th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
Hey - Love you blog!
I wrote a post about Hall and Oates recently as well and wanted to invite you over to check it out as well as the rest of Missed My Generation. Hope you like what you wee and might add me to your blog roll. I will add you today!
Thanks!
December 4th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
We were looking at old family photos this past weekend and I turned to my uncle and said “hey, nice John Oates mustache.” Well..of course it wasn’t as iconic. My uncle is recognizable without his mustache, wheareas I am sure people had to do a big double take the first time John Oates shaved his off.
December 4th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
FitnessDiva - I spotted John Oates in the audience of either this past years or the year before’s American Idol finale or one of the lastfew shows of the season. Daryl Hall was having the “middle aged blond guy” look about him (or maybe I just hadn’t seen him in ages, though he looked better on a concert show that was on). Anyway, John Oates looked as John Oate-sy as ever, but his mustache was gone and his hair was a bit more tame. I don’t know what his latest thing was career wise but that was the last time I physically saw him. Well, I wasn’t physically there….I was looking through the magic of tv, of course. And they were sitting next to eachother. Do you think they have remained friends all these years, or do you think they sat that way because seperately you would think “doesn’t that guy look like an older Daryl Hall?” “Doesn’t that guy look….a little like John Oates”. But instead seeing them next to eachother, your mind would know for sure who you were seeing…