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The Definitive Hall and Oates Greatest-Hits Compilation: Rock n Soul Part I Loaded With Nine Top 10 Singles, Including Kiss On My List and Private Eyes . Mastered From the Original Master Tapes and Pressed on 180g LP at RTI: Mobile Fidelity Vinyl Reissue Dazzles With Lifelike Tones, Smooth Vocals, and Incredible Detail. Blue-Eyed Soul and New-Wave Pop Duo Dominated the Charts: All the Signature Songs From the 1970s and 80s Are Here, From Sara Smile and She s Gone to Maneater . Other compilations have longer track lists and go farther back into their career, but no Hall and Oates greatest-hits collection surpasses Rock n Soul Part I. Originally released at the height of the duo s career in fall 1983, the 12-song set functions as a time machine back into an era when Daryl Hall and John Oates dominated the charts with songs that have long since become standards. While a majority of the anthology draws from the group s trio of mammoth RCA albums spanning 1980 through 1982, it also includes the pair s only three Top 10 smashes from the 1970s: Sara Smile, She s Gone, and the chart-topping Rich Girl. One-stop shopping for the absolute best of Hall and Oates doesn t come any easier. Mastered from the original master tapes and pressed on 180g LP at RTI, Mobile Fidelity s analog reissue presents nine Top 10 Hall and Oates singles with awe-inspiring detail and palpable realism. Lifelike tones grace the array of guitars, pianos, basses, and voices placed against synthesized backdrops. Each member s singing claims enhanced intimacy and balance. The collective harmonies sound sharper, the dynamics richer, and the soundstages wider and deeper. While the tandem s peers often relied on robotic mechanisms and now-dated keyboard devices, Hall and Oates wisely merge the period s savvy styles with tried-and-true soulful instrumentation. Indeed, with one listen to this definitive-sounding version of Rock n Soul Part I, and you ll understand why the duo s music not only ruled radio and record stores in the Reagan era but also continues to be referenced by influential artists today. You already likely know every song – or nearly every one of them – here by heart. Arriving upon a near-flawless fusion of dance grooves, soft rock rhythms, smooth vocals, romantic sentiments, catchy beats, and spotless hooks with #1 singles such as Kiss On My List and Private Eyes, the collaborators simultaneously crossed over into multiple markets and eradicated boundaries. All the trademarks – swinging verse structures, call-and-response choruses, stick-in-your-head bridges, sleek keyboard layers, doo-wop fills, and, in some places, reggae-nodding accents or cool saxophone lines to stir up the mood and atmosphere – that make the duo s music irresistible pulse throughout Rock n Soul Part I. Eight of the singles included here cracked the Top 5. They remain prototype intersections of blue-eyed soul, edge new wave, and dance, blueprints for pop mastery that catapulted Hall and Oates to becoming the most successful duo in rock history.
Tracks
1 Say It Ain t So
2 Sara Smile
3 She s Gone
4 Rich Girl
5 Kiss on My List
6 You Make My Dreams
7 Private Eyes
8 Adult Education
9 I Can t Go for That (No Can Do)
10 Maneater
11 One on One
12 Wait for Me

• Format: Vinyl
• Released: 08 26 2016
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