![]() ![]() When he came out on stage at the 1985 Liberty concert sporting the 'do as well as tight pants, I felt that he was trying to emulate David Lee Roth or somebody. (By the way, my crush ended when Daryl grew out his hair into an overgrown, badly permed mullet by 1985. Suddenly I'm a young teen again, and I'm waving my H&O freak flag proudly. As I binged my way recently through every music video that I remembered (and some I had never seen) I swear I could feel my vibration rise.those feel-good endorphins kicking in. It's now been more than 40 years since I fell in love with Daryl Hall and his "blue eyed soul" voice, face, and musical talent.and John Oates' humorous sidekick camera hamming (and his musical talent as well.) And I think I still love them and their music just as much as ever before. Were they pop artists? Rock? Soul? Easy listening? All of the above, in my opinion. Part of that may have been because their music wasn't so easy to categorize. Needless to say, I believe that Hall and Oates never got the proper respect in some circles that they deserved back in the day. "How did you make the drums (in the "Out of Touch" video) so big?" "Why are you dressing like you're into punk these days?" Every single one sounded like it came directly from one of my nitwit peers back in the day: Recently I stumbled upon a Rolling Stone interview with them at the time Big Bam Boom was released, and the reporter opens the piece by describing the unintentionally amusing questions that viewers called in for them during a MTV program. My classmates teased me, my sisters said that they were gay, and even my friends at the time (who were into Duran Duran and Tears for Fears) thought they were lame by comparison. Except I was 12 years old when my infatuation started, and I went to a junior high where it was all about how "cool" you were by the brand names of clothing that you wore, and the music that you listened to.Īnd for some reason, Daryl Hall and John Oates weren't cool in my peers' eyes.and even by family members, for that matter. Yes, it should have been a piece of cake during their heyday, with so many catchy, easily charting hits such as "Private Eyes", "Kiss On My List", "Say It Isn't So", "Did It In A Minute", "I Can't Go For That", "Maneater", "Out of Touch", and countless others. Gosh, it feels refreshingly easy for me to say that today.īelieve it or not, it wasn't easy being a teen fan of Hall and Oates in the '80s.
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