Hall & Oates - Ooh Yeah
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Artist: Hall & OatesEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2007-06-26
Music Label: Sbme Special Mkts.
Soundtracks:
- Downtown Life
- Everything Your Heart Desires
- I'm in Pieces
- Missed Opportunity
- Talking All Night
- Rockability
- Rocket to God
- Soul Love
- Realove
- Keep on Pushin' Love
Music reviews of Ooh Yeah
Music Review: No Missed Opportunities Here
Rating: 5 Stars
Hall & Oates kept busy between their previous studio album Big Bam Boom. There was participation in We Are The World,a live album at the Apollo and a Daryl Hall solo album before leaving RCA for Arista. This label debut was the first fruit of this and rather made an interesting point about the band. During the mid to late 80's there seemed to be neverending shifts of passion when it came to the needs of the pop music charts. The same variety of melodic pop/soul that defined the duo and much of pop music earlier in the decade was fast coing to a close but all the same the duo didn't really have much intent on changing their sound and style much at this point. Their own unique self produced style that blended both live instrumentation and a sleek mix is something that sort of gets lost here as all of the music on this album is created from layer after layer of drum machine,synthesizer and heavily echoed vocal harmonies for what ammounts to a very 80's style dance-pop album,not showcasing the "rock n soul" flavor that defined their earlier work in the 80's. All the same the magic of their distinctively melodic songwriting,soulful rhythms and vocal exchanges are still very much intact and working on all thrusters across "Downtown Life","I'm In Pieces","Missed Opportunity" and "Keep On Pushin' Love". The ballad "Everything Your Heart Desires" was singled out as the hit from this album and not only is it somewhat unrepresentative but it's not quite the best song on this album. The most interesting songs here are the stop-and-start midtempo type songs that have a mildly jazzy pop flavor such as "Talking All Night" and "Rocket To God". The only song here that goes into a more rocky flavor is the dance/rock of "Rockability";it's not a certain rhythmic toughness to it even though it's not full on guitar riffing either. "Soul Love" attempts at a retro neuavo style R&B shuffle,as so many did around this time but the strong late 80's production defies the intent and it doesn't speak the volumes it should. This albu functions far better actually when it does revel in it's era and in that respect it doesn't date as much as when it's trying to stay retro. As with any Hall & Oates album it's the thoroughly consistant writing that saves the day,even if the album didn't have the hit making power they never seemed to be in danger of losing before.
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Japanese exclusive 24-bit K2 remastered reissue of 1988 album. Packaged in a limited edition miniature LP sleeve.Blues CDs
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