Ooh Yeah!
Daryl Hall & John Oates
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Downtown Life | Daryl Hall & John Oates | 4:28 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Everything Your Heart Desires | Daryl Hall & John Oates | 5:00 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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I'm In Pieces | Daryl Hall & John Oates | 4:50 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Missed Opportunity | Daryl Hall & John Oates | 4:47 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Talking All Night | Daryl Hall & John Oates | 4:34 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Rockability | Daryl Hall & John Oates | 4:45 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Rocket to God | Daryl Hall & John Oates | 5:49 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Soul Love | Daryl Hall & John Oates | 4:25 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Realove | Daryl Hall & John Oates | 5:24 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Keep On Pushin' Love | Daryl Hall & John Oates | 5:18 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Album Review
From 1980-1984, the Billboard chart could have been dubbed the Hall & Oates chart for their seemingly never ending assault of number one singles (amazingly, they never had a number one album). However, after Big Bam Boom and their live pre-sabbatical At the Apollo, Hall again embarked on his solo album for six/seven years and the overblown Three Hearts and its happy ending machine were born. When they returned on Arista in 1988, they delivered a very good album in Ooh Yeah. But the legendary Hall & Oates were treated as comeback artists. Pulling the rug from under their feet, critics slammed the album as the worst for a decade. A case of old news. Ooh Yeah is shock horror as good as H2O or Private Eyes, but the stigma of bad apple gave it a bad name. Ironically, Oates enjoyed U.S. Top Ten success at the time thanks to a collaboration with Icehouse on "Electric Blue," and with Hall, the lead single "Everything Your Heart Desires" managed an admirable number three. The album itself is more or less standard but shows a creative touch towards the end with its trilogy: "Soul Love," "reaLove," and "Keep On Pushing Love."
Customer Reviews
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The iTunes review of this album seems a bit hastily cobbled together. The grammatical errors notwithstanding, it seems to be ignorant of an exceptionally positive review of "Ooh Yeah!" in Rolling Stone magazine. Readers with good memories will recall this review praising the album up one side and down the other, paying careful attention to the opener and closer, "Downtown Life" and "Keep On Pushin' Love", respectively. These are just two of the highlights on a consistently excellent album, as catchy and indeed, much more soulful than its predecessor, "Big Bam Boom". One could imagine this album having been made in the pre-"Voices" era, but its polished production reminds us that, yes, this is a modern piece of blue-eyed soul, after all. Nearly four years after their last studio album, Hall and Oates suffered not from bad reviews but from a fickle listening public that had moved on. The singles, "Everything Your Heart Desires" and "Missed Opportunity", still did well and got adequate airplay, but the album's overall sound wasn't quite hip enough for a young crowd, nor did it remind older fans enough of the duo's glory-day records like "H2O" or their masterpiece, "Private Eyes". Nevertheless, the patient listener is eventually rewarded, as ballads like "I'm in Pieces" rank among the best the pair have ever written. Also, the aforementioned "Downtown Life", grossly misinterpreted in the RS review (which accused it of taking a "cheat shot" at Lou Reed - anyone who listens to the lyric carefully will see that this is a ridiculous notion) is one of those songs that, like H&O's best, stay with you all day long, its chorus going through your head again and again. Had this album been released a decade earlier, it would have been hailed as a visionary r&b classic. As it was, it remains a lost gem, and the beginning of Hall & Oates: the low-key years.
Yesterday's favorite, don't you hate it? No.
Missed Opportunity is excellent, emotional and true. All these years later the clean sound is as refreshing as ever. These deeper tracks are what makes Itunes so rewarding, a deeper listen yeilds more than I ever knew existed.
Ooh Yeah!
Ooh Yeah! This is a great album. I disagree with the itunes review. I really like the song writing, production and Daryl Hall's voice. Hard to pick a favorite I love every song. One of their best albums in my opinion :)
Biography
Formed: 1972 in Philadelphia, PA
Genre: Pop
Years Active: '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s, '10s
