Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. She's Gone
2. Las Vegas Turnaround
3. When The Morning Comes
4. Camellia
5. Sara Smile
6. Do What You Want, Be What You Are
7. Rich Girl
8. Back Together Again
9. It's A Laugh
10. I Don't Wanna Lose You
11. Wait For Me
12. How Does It Feel To Be Back
13. You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling
14. Kiss On My List
15. You Make My Dreams
16. Everytime You Go Away
17. Private Eyes
18. I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)
19. Did It In A Minute
20. Your Imagination

Disc 2:

1. Maneater
2. One On One
3. Family Man
4. Say It Isn't So
5. Adult Education
6. Out Of Touch
7. Method Of Modern Love
8. Some Things Are Better Left Unsaid
9. Possession Obsession
10. Everything Your Heart Desires
11. Missed Opportunity
12. Downtown Life
13. So Close
14. Don't Hold Back Your Love
15. Starting All Over Again
16. Promise Ain't Enough
17. Do It For Love

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #69723 in Music
• Released on: 2004-10-04
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Dimensions: .26 pounds

CD Description
With seven Number 1 singles, 15 Top 20 hits and 26 Top 40 appearances, Daryl Hall and John Oates were America's uncontested kings of '70s/'80s pop. The two-disc, 37-song ULTIMATE DARYL HALL & JOHN OATES ably documents their success. Using their Philly hometown's soul roots as inspiration, the duo displays a debt to the sounds of Gamble & Huff with delectable smashes like "She's Gone", "Sara Smile", and their first chart-topper, "Rich Girl".
Hall & Oates also managed a nod to the Righteous Brothers with a gorgeous hit reading of "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling". By the time the '80s started, H&O were making regular trips to the top of the charts with ultra-catchy pop-soul gems like "Kiss On My List", "Private Eyes", and "I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)". Tucked in amid the handclaps and hooks were undeniable smash ballads like "One on One". This collection is the definitive encapsulation of the duo's mighty, decades-spanning reign as pop kings.

Customer Reviews

Exhilaration!
I can't quite describe what listening to Hall & Oates does to me, but if it does it for you too then you're lucky! I think they allow you (for that private "microphone moment" in the car or shower) to believe that YOU'RE the successful, loved-up, mulleted 80s dude that you always dreamed you'd be from watching Brat Pack films. They are quite the cheesiest, most soulful, chest-wig-type, 80s, sweetly wailing singers - fanTASTic.

This is an excellent album, with some worthy tracks that haven't appeared on earlier "best of" compilations. I was wooed into buying my first H&O album by hearing the wonderfully indulgent "She's Gone" on the radio, later realising I already knew tracks like Maneater and I Can't Go For That. However, it's not always the ones you know which are your eventual favourites.

Since then I must have bought about 4 of their albums, just to snare some of their less well known/more dated tunes, which I recommend you also get (usually very cheap as not mainstream), including tracks Bigger Than Both Of Us, Perkiomen, In Honour Of A Lady, Angelina, Good Night & Good Morning.

This double CD includes some of their better known successes, and great sing-along classics, like Kiss On My List, Rich Girl, One On One and So Close (even the slow ones are good'uns).

At this price, throw away your dignity, embrace the fromage, and be tempted!

A beautiful album!
I wandered lonely as a cloud, when all at once I listened to this great album, and all my woes vanished. It is pure aural perfection. It transported me to a land of candy clouds, snow glazed forests, trees made of cheese, a world of marvelous creatures. It was greatly beautious for it is beautiful. Oh woe is me for I lost it when I was mugged by some large lads, please help me find it for I cannot live without it! Please help me
Love Sigrid xxx

Whoa-hoa! Here they come...
DARYL HALL & JOHN OATES
Ultimate
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I Can't Go For That - Oh Yes You Can! I always thought Hall & Oates would have been great in pantomime. You've got Oates there, a moustache-twirling homunculus whilst in Daryl Hall in all his Don Johnson in Miami Vice mulleted prime, you have a hardy knee-slapping hero. He would have made a great Dick Whittingdon.
Hall & Oates are very, very 80s - their look, the ideas behind the songs and their curiously plasticised production technique verily screams 80s at you. Even in the 70s and 90s H&O were 80s. And because of all that, it's still somewhat hard to take them too seriously.
They took themselves very seriously though, even when they were nicking You Can't Hurry Love's bassline for Maneater and dressing up as Private Eyes.
Or worse yet, when they were getting all overwrought and emotional for the likes of She's Gone or fey on Sara Smile. By the time we reach the frankly, ridiculous Adult Education and Method Of Modern Love, they should have been taking heed of another one of their songs - Out Of Touch.