Whole Oats

Hall & Oates | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 12, 2008)
• Original Release Date: 1972
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: American Beat
• ASIN: B0011FDV7W
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #247,691 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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8 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good...but the best is yet to come, September 11, 2000

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David Hugaert (Honolulu, HI United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Whole Oats (Audio CD)

"Whole Oats" is Daryl Hall & John Oates' first album. With this album, Hall & Oates were experimenting with various musical styles-from folk music standards on songs like "All Our Love", "They Needed Each Other", "Southeast City Window" and "Thank You For...", to rhythm & blues standards on "Fall In Philadelphia". It is this kind of experimentation that makes this CD wonderful to listen to. "Lazyman" features the theme line "is your a** getting sore?" and "Goodnight And Goodmorning" was later covered by Cecilio And Kapono. The CD's cover featuring an opened oatmeal box isn't bad, either. Better buy this CD before Atlantic decides to shelve it.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars good debut, January 5, 2008

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James S. Horne "Sammy Horne" (Eupora, MS) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Whole Oats (MP3 Download)

This is the album that kicked off a great career. It may not be the greastest album they made but it's not bad either. It's obvious that they were looking for there sound. I would reccomend this for die hard fans like me.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Obviously Not Their Best {But Still Good}, November 23, 2005

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Shayne M. Whitehead "Shayne Michael" (Long Beach) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Whole Oats (Audio CD)

Whole Oats will be much more appreciated by those who really like Hall & Oate's music. The best tracks are I'm Sorry, All Our Love, and Fall in Philadelphia. All of which were released prior to Whole Oats as demos. The first two demos are somewhat hard to find. The demo version of Fall in Philadelphia can be found on a lot of the versions of Past Times Behind.

Also decent are Goodnight and Goodmorning, South East City Window Side, Lilly {which features a false ending} and Thank You. All these listens later, "I'm Sorry" is hands down the best track. I'm amazed it was left off Atlantic's "No Goodbyes" album {which was the best of the early Hall & Oates albums by Atlantic records}.

I'd like this album a lot more if it weren't for the songs Georgie and They Needed Eachother. Both are depressing and way too metaphoric. Rereleased without them, this album would have faired better.