★★★★★
Daryl Hall and John Oates have come full circle in their career, beginning as soul singers and folk artists in Philadelphia, teaming up to reach the zenith of popular success, and still pumping out first-rate soulful music over 40 years later. While their chart dominance may have peaked over 20 years ago, their influence continues to impact bands young and old, and will no doubt continue to do so as long as groups aspire to leverage vocal harmony as strongly as instrumental prowess...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-01-20
★★★★★
Sometimes, in a world of poorly organized MP3 folders, a man longs for a consistent, well sequenced body of work to ease the lugubrious passage of what one accepts for a day. It is for this reason that I suggest a well executed singles collection from a proven talent might be the answer to our heathen prayers in these dark days. With that mind, let us cast our ears on Hall & Oates: The Singles. It cannot be denied: word to Prince, Daryl and John got hits...
- thequietus.com
2010-11-09
★★★★★
What, exactly, is wrong about Daryl Hall and John Oates? It's not a lack of talent-- they've got a stellar singer (and a pretty good one), and their songs are smart and durable. They're not particularly derivative, aside from their undying love for the Philadelphia soul scene that brought them together, and anyway it's not as if there are many pop artists with a fixation on that particular sound. Hall's a fascinating interview subject...
- pitchfork.com
2010-09-11
★★★★★
Having been thrust back into the public consciousness, and the top ten, by Uniting Nations' sampling of their US chart-topper Out Of Touch, it seems as good a time as any for Daryl Hall and John Oates to unleash this collection of covers and fresh material. The Philadelphia duo were hugely successful in the early to mid-eighties, scoring a string of number ones stateside while also achieving sizeable hits in the UK with I Can't Go For That (No Can Do), Maneater and Family Man...
- www.musicomh.com
2010-08-23
★★★★★
With Reagan-era nostalgia on the rise, Daryl Hall & John Oates picked a good time for a comeback. But they're not the same men they were during the early days of MTV. More acoustic soul than the Motown hand-me-downs they pumped out in the '80s, Do It for Love is the sound of weathered romantics chastened by years of business and personal turmoil...
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
They lost that lovin'
feeling, for hooks and tunes, at the end of the '80s. So it must
have seemed like a good idea for Hall & Oates to ape that
Reagan-era sound on their first album together in seven years, Marigold Sky.
Unfortunately, the period production sounds over-echoed and old,
and their melodic muse hasn't reappeared, leaving the duo with
competent, professional dross. C
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
If Hall& Oates had vanished after cutting "She's Gone," they'd stillhave achieved immortality. The tune bestrides the '70s in thesame way that "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling" (the RighteousBrothers' original, not H&O;'s pallid cover) does the '60s: Eachwas its decade's perfect expression of blue-eyed soul. Ananthem, plus 20 others from H&O;'s four Atlantic LPs on The Atlantic Collection ? how can yougo wrong? A
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
Let's meditate on pop stardom. Daryl Hall & John Oates have had along run of hits, starting in 1976. After a brief hiatus, theyreunited in '88 for Ooh Yeah!, an album not quite as successful asmany from their past. There's no reason to think this new one, Change of Season, won't doat least moderately well ? and yet there's absolutely nothingdistinctive about it. The songs are expertly written and produced; chalk that up tobasic good taste and years of experience...
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
No "Maneater '03" to be found here, but some of this is as cheesily catchy as their Eighties hits, if a little slicker and more jazzy. Your mom will totally love it.
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08
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