Our Kind Of Soul Music Cd

Daryl Hall & John Oates - Our Kind Of Soul

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Our Kind of Soul      Artist(s) : Daryl Hall & John Oates, Hall & Oates      List Price : $18.98 USD        Your Price : $14.99 USD      ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 2004-10-26      Studio : U-Watch Records      Label : U-Watch Records      Avg. Customer Rating : (79 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Our Kind Of Soul      Very VERY watered down versions, and some of their worst work      Rating:      Let me start this review by saying I'm a fairly big Hall and Oates fan. While I haven't liked all of their work, I'm firmly in the camp that just about every track off the greatest hits records are some of the best pop and soul songs ever. I've seen them live and have been impressed by the tight yet fluid band and vocal intrigue Daryl can effortlessly flow. I'm even a fan of the Live recordings on Daryl's website these days... That said... this album is *terrible*. Here's why. These are classic classic songs. Every one just soaked in true old school soul. So when you strip out the live drummer and replace them with a drum machine (a not a very well programmed one either) and cut vocals that feel a little on the home demo side (i.e. absolutely no live energy to them) the entire album falls flat. It sounds like a middle-age Vegas cover band playing in a cheap hotel lobby forced to play quietly so as to not disturb the dessert course going on in the next room. There are a few moments that show potential. The Al Green cover for one. But by and large, both me and my girlfriend (another H&O fan) just kept muttering to each other for track after track... oh, man, this is terrible. It's almost embarrassingly bad. Here's to hoping they bring back the live feel and real soul energy on their next outing.     Customer Reviews for Our Kind Of Soul Cd      Great album!      Rating:      I just recently saw Hall and Oates in concert for the first time. I have been listening since I was a teenager. I was amazed by their talent...so much more than the popular songs on the radio let on. What I love about them is their ability to make a well known, loved song their own and it is still fanatastic to listen to. So many groups when they redo an "oldie but goodie" try to sound just like the original group that did it. Hall and Oates remain true to themselves and true to their style and are able to incorporate that into the oldies. I have a new found respect for their abilities and this album truly demonstrates that. If you have the chance to see them in concert....DO IT! Editorial Reviews for Our Kind Of Soul Audio Cd      Amazon.com      Our Kind of Soul, the follow-up to 2003's VH1-propelled Do It for Love, is mostly a can't-miss proposition: Daryl Hall's smooth, expressive voice, synonymous with the Philly soul sound, is so well suited to this material that it feels shrink-wrapped overtop. "Can't Get Enough of Your Love," the Barry White classic, is given a breezy makeover (and, maybe more impressively considering that most artists wouldn't touch it, not mangled); Teddy Pendergrass' "Love TKO" is dusted off and tinkered with till it takes on a signature H&O sound; and "After the Dance," one of Marvin Gaye's most cryptic compositions, comes across like a solved mystery--there's a gentleness and a reverie in the reading will prompt thoughtful listeners to return to it more than a few times. That said, a couple of these covers--the O'Jays "Used to Be My Girl" and Aretha Franklin's "Rock Steady"--seem cursory, and the duo can count on a cranky contingent decrying their lack of fresh material. But the strength of three songs introduced here should keep them at bay. First track "Let Love Take Control" gutsily and convincingly glides into Four Tops' "Standing in the Shadows of Love," "Soul Violins" strikes notes at once heartfelt and spontaneous, and "Don't Turn Your Back" has the classic Hall & Oates marks of their-kind-of-soul songs like "Out of Touch." --Tammy La Gorce