X-Static [EXTRA TRACKS] [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED]

Hall & Oates

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 10, 2000)
• Original Release Date: 1979
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
• Label: Buddha
• ASIN: B00004YRGM
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #245,887 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Woman Comes and Goes

2. Wait for Me

3. Portable Radio

4. All You Want Is Heaven

5. Who Said the World Was Fair

6. Running from Paradise

7. Number One

8. Bebop/Drop

9. Hallofon [Instrumental]

10. Intravino

11. Time's Up (Alone Tonight) [#][*]

12. No Brain, No Pain [#][*]

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Who Said The World Was Fair?, May 11, 2004

By	blaine (Tampa, Florida) - See all my reviews

Like everyone else who has contributed a review for "X-Static", let me join in to say thanks to Buddha for finally getting this out on CD.

It was a "change of styles" so to speak, as the follow up to "Along the Red Ledge". David Foster is behind the board again for this excellent CD. It contains the one "hit", Wait for Me, but the rest of the CD was largely ignored. It's sad, becuase when this came out in late 1979, radio stations were force feeding me songs like Escape (The Pina Colada Song) and Funkytown! We all could have been listening to X-Static! I was younger and didn't know better. Thankfully, I went to my local Record Bar and bought the 8-track. Later in life, I was fortunate enough to get the CD. If your a H&O fan, so should you.

High spots include "Woman Comes and Goes" and the John Oates' penned "Portable Radio". For the next CD, radio was not able to hold them back any longer, but people who had "X-Static" at that time already knew that these guys had a great sound!

Buddah presents 2 excellent bonus cuts and some nice liner notes. This CD should have been more of a success, but "Who Said the World was Fair?".

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I need Intravino, April 16, 2002

By	Thomas Calhoun "Tom Calhoun" (Charlotte, NC United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

One of my favorite Hall and Oates albums and one of their most underappreciated. Most people will recognize Wait for Me, but won't be familiar with the rest of the album. Some of the gems included the "should have been" second single, Portable Radio. The great concert rocker Bebop/Drop and one of the coolest Hall and Oates songs they recorded, Hallofon-Intravino. The CD also includes the tough to find No Brain, No Pain and an unreleased track which almost sounds like a "sequel" to Wait for Me. Buddah did a great job on the CD and the packaging also includes some great liner notes where Daryl and John talk about the songs. Hopefully Buddha will bring out some of the other out of print CD's (Livetime, Beauty on a Back Street, Bigger Than Both of Us) with bonus tracks. Visit them at [another website] and drop them a note telling them you want more Hall and Oates.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Nothing really to be X-Static about., September 30, 2001

By A Customer

With X-STATIC, their 1979 album, Hall and Oates got caught in the middle of a raging battle between disco and rock. They started incorporating ceratin elements of disco into their sound; however, contrary to popular belief, X-STATIC is not a disco album. It's a combination of disco and their signature rock 'n soul music. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. It's kind of like a mixed bag.

But X-STATIC does have its moments. The first several songs, "The Woman Comes and Goes," "Wait For Me," "Portable Radio," "All You Want Is Heaven," and "Who Said the World Is Fair," are all standouts, proving that Daryl and John can write some great songs.

But from the sixth track "Running From Paradise," its title says it all. A silly, unfocused dud, it is the worst song on the album, and, things start to fall apart from then on. It's a dry spell that even Oates's tough rocker "Bebop/Drop," and the silly but melodic charm of "Intravino" can't save. The two bonus tracks on the Buddha Records reissue of the album I have not heard; instead I have an earlier Japanese import CD.

The problem with X-STATIC lies within the overall quality of the record. The production sounds a bit on the unfocused side, and not surprisingly, it was the last Hall and Oates album to have any connection with an outside executive producer. With VOICES, however, Hall and Oates produced themselves, to a better sound, but it wasn't until PRIVATE EYES that the magic came alive.