Daryl Hall in Pitchfork: "I love the fact that the record companies are all going down."

There's a Hall & Oates mash-up album coming? Cool! Who are the Gym Class Heroes, and are they going to mess up my nostalgic love for H&O?

Gym Class Heroes suck, but if I let mashups ruin songs for me I wouldn't have any songs left to love.

he sounds like a really great interview subject

he sounds out of touch, out of time

in interviewed him in 2001, he's great fun and a fantastic interview.

He's smart as a whip and enormously self-confident, which help.

the hall & oates behind the music was really sweet and touching. they both came off as really good guys.

the hall & oates behind the music was really sweet and touching. they both came off as really good guys.

He does come off sounding a little dismissive of John Oates' contribution to their songs, but maybe he's OTM. He always seemed like the obvious leader of H&O. And Alfred's right: Hall seems smart and confident, which certainly make him a good interview subject.

My wife has an irrational hatred of H&O's music. I love them to bits. And yet, we stay married.

amazing interview!

My wife

Wait, hold on. Did I miss when you got married?

Hall is OTM about Oates' underrated guitar prowess. This was pretty clear in the "Behind the Music" episode.

My wife has an irrational hatred of H&O's music. I love them to bits. And yet, we stay married.

A love-and-hate *foursome*? O the power of music!

Am I the only one that thinks he sounds like an arrogant douchebag?

HE WROTE AND SANG MANEATER. HE HAS EARNED IT.

Wait, hold on. Did I miss when you got married?

LOL. My married life predates my ILX life. Married for 11 years. We have a wonderful, kind, happy, beautiful, spirited 6 year old girl.

But does any of it have any meaning if Ned and jaymc don't know about it?

Am I the only one that thinks he sounds like an arrogant douchebag?

haha he does, in bits. There's a Rolling Stone interview from 1985 in which he comes off like a preening asshole, but it's bothersome insofar as the preening assholism of H&O's purported love songs bother you. Christgau OTM just once about H&O (he never really got them): "I wouldn't sit around waiting for that marriage proposal if I were you."

But does any of it have any meaning if Ned and jaymc don't know about it?

NONE AT ALL, dammit. (I've now realized based on Daniel's response that I was confusing him with another Daniel, so.)

My guess is that Ned was confusing him with Daniel Rf, but I don't know shit about either of them.

The German speaker who lives in Portugal- Daniel RF?

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NOW who's running the database.

LOL. And now, I can sink back into complete ILX anonymity!

Don't have a complete database, just some cherce nuggets.

Oh, don't be so modest. Especially after that ILXors as Hollywood Squares thread, I've thought that your .xls was at least as comprehensive as mine.

Back to Daryl Hall. A lot of the interview does make him sound full of himself but you know, I'm fine with that.

he's got a lot to brag about! and he comes from a family of warlocks!

He has a lot to brag about, but inventing indie and taking rod stewart's career as a personal insult is a little too much.

if he's full of himself, he has good reason to be so -- not just all of those hits, but even some corny indie fuXor cred these days. plus when all else fails, he can throw some bad juju on you.

Well, I just wrote elsewhere that I found Dahlen and Hall's decision to limit discussion of their eighties heyday to one question...surreal. That's like interviewing John Lennon and asking him about the Cavern Club and recording Mind Games and ignoring the Beatles years.

With the focus on "Tight A$"

If you're interviewing John Lennon in 2007, I can think of plenty of other questions I'd want to know the answers to.

i guess the 70's stuff has more indie cred/interest to pitchfork readers? whole oats and abandoned luncheonette would definitely appeal to that crowd.

I didn't want to mention THAT elephant in the room

i guess the 70's stuff has more indie cred/interest to pitchfork readers?

I'd bet the 80s stuff would be of more interest to Pitchfork readers, whether because they genuinely or ironically enjoy those songs more.

let's be real, folks...Daryl Hall ain't John Lennon...

The revelation of the giant artistic ego is fine as long as it doesn't eclipse any other possible interview insights, saying essentially: "I've become a big windbag, my time is past." In this case, he told some interesting stories about Robert Fripp and the music biz and after he put down his partner he raised him back up, so I'm cool with it.

um, no one's comparing their work.

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But I heard Geoff Emerick is writing a hatchet job on Hall and Oates.

kenny gamble & leon huff would be more likely candidates to have dirt on H&O (if there IS any).

no cow (or song) is too sacred...

probably there is no real dirt on these guys...because they are so likable and sincere, their "Behind The Music" was the most boring one I have seen...

well, there's their hair and coke habit.

i want to know how many black philly soul artists of the late 60s would support daryl's claim that music was "color-blind"

I remember reading something in Sweet Soul Music about how things changed at Stax when Dr. King was shot.

Also, just read in the Peter Shapiro disco book about Kenny Gamble being asked about the white members of his orchestra and answering: "My color is not black or white, my color is green."

the other day, "Adult Education" and "Family Man" came up on the pod, and it struck me how utterly strange, dareIsay avant, they are for top 40 tunes. and goddamn can that dude sing…

he does seem a bit arrogant in places here (and In many interviews elsewhere)…but I like the phrases "Clive Davis' dog" and "Robert Fripp is a girl." as for the BhM, the bit where his ex-GF and co-writer Sara whatshername talking about how her sister dying ended their relationship was pretty affecting…

It's refreshing! At least his remarks aren't as air-brushed as his face.
(then again, he's got nothing to lose).

Somehow that last story reminds me that I had a bass teacher in the late eighties who got me to go to one of his gigs where he was backing up Jan Somebody-or-other, "the sister of the girl 'Sara Smile' was written about!"

I guess it was Janna Allen. Now I feel bad.

No mention of Yacht Rock? BOO!

He was on the most recent episode of Flight Of The Concords!