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Format: CD
Aug 1989
Record Label: Arista Records (USA)
Recording Type: Studio
UPC: 078221853927 |
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Track Listing
1. Downtown Life
2. Everything Your Heart Desires
3. I'm in Pieces
4. Missed Opportunity
5. Talking All Night
6. Rockability
7. Rocket to God
8. Soul Love
9. Realove
10. Keep on Pushin' Love
Album Notes
Hall & Oates: Darryl Hall (vocals, guitar, keyboards, vibraphone); John Oates (vocals, guitar, synthesizers, programming).
Additional personnel includes: Tom "T-Bone" Wolk (various instruments); Pat Buchanan (guitar); Mark Rivera, Lenny Pickett, Danny Wolensky (saxophone); Phillippe Saisse (keyboards); Tony Beard (drums); Sammy Figueroa (percussion); Joanna Allen (background vocals).
Hall and Oates' early '80s albums, from VOICES to BIG BAM BOOM, represented a fusion of their soul and R&B roots with the energy of contemporary post-punk New Wave rock. OOH YEAH!, their last studio effort of the decade after a four-year layoff, leaned far more toward the R&B side of the equation, with only the occasional track rocking out, and then usually not for long.
For example, the opening "Downtown Life" begins as disco-ish dance/funk before sliding in and out of a big, anthemic rock bridge. Meanwhile "Keep on Pushin' Love" begins with a deadpan Lou Reed rap before climaxing with a big, wave-your-lighter inspirational chorus. Elsewhere, the album sounds like variations on the white-boy funk of David Bowie in his LET'S DANCE period, particularly on "Rockability," which matches scratchy rhythm guitar with a big synthesized bass line.
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