Post by trashcanman on Feb 10, 2014 19:57:33 GMT 2
80's time, kiddies. And no, I don't have some new wave or pop reggae or wacky novelty hit for you this week. I've got some full-on adult contemporaryness for you. The 80's may be known as the age of cocaine-fulled insanity, blatant corniness, synthesizers, pop metal, lame production, and too goddamn much hair spray, but underneath all the glitz and glamor were quality remnants and extensions from the best decade of music ever: the 70's. The underground had thrash metal and hardcore punk, and adult contemporary had rock-solid songwriters like Daryl Hall and John Oates.
No, I don't know why Oates looks so pissed off there. Anyways, Hall and Oates had a few great hits in the mid-late 70's and while most of the rest of the 70's old guard moved down to the county fair circuit
during the new decade as is customary, this duo kicked it up a notch or two instead.
I can pretty much guarantee if you were alive in the 80's you've heard a dozen of their hits, give or take, and you probably don't even know it. Hall and Oates' music isn't necessarily attention-grabbing because every song sounds different and they just kind of feel like songs that have been around forever. They are the hits that are so familiar you kind of take them for granted. Their style is so smooth that their covers seem like they are the original versions even when you know they aren't. You just forget. Everything they do is just too damn listenable.
So yeah, Hall and Oates, man. They may not have blinded you with science or been spun round round like a record, baby, but if you want to know what a rock-solid pop career that spans decades without making any headlines while owning the charts, these guys set the standard. This is "You Make My Dreams Come True" from 1981
No, I don't know why Oates looks so pissed off there. Anyways, Hall and Oates had a few great hits in the mid-late 70's and while most of the rest of the 70's old guard moved down to the county fair circuit
during the new decade as is customary, this duo kicked it up a notch or two instead.
I can pretty much guarantee if you were alive in the 80's you've heard a dozen of their hits, give or take, and you probably don't even know it. Hall and Oates' music isn't necessarily attention-grabbing because every song sounds different and they just kind of feel like songs that have been around forever. They are the hits that are so familiar you kind of take them for granted. Their style is so smooth that their covers seem like they are the original versions even when you know they aren't. You just forget. Everything they do is just too damn listenable.
So yeah, Hall and Oates, man. They may not have blinded you with science or been spun round round like a record, baby, but if you want to know what a rock-solid pop career that spans decades without making any headlines while owning the charts, these guys set the standard. This is "You Make My Dreams Come True" from 1981
