Four words: it's about fucking time.As a lifetime Hall & Oates fan (almost literally - I can still remember picking up a Hall & Oates Greatest Hits disc at a San Antonio-area Best Buy when I was about ten), it seems that Daryl Hall and John Oates are about to retake the cultural zeitgeist.
Exhibit A: Bonnaroo, the hipster nirvana/huge-ass music festival, has recently announced that "Daryl Hall and Chromeo" will be a part of the lineup. If not hearing that the New York-based electro duo with a dude that pioneered electro pop isn't enough to get your blood charged-up, then head on over to Daryl Hall's wonderful website Live at Daryl's House to see the two bands jam together (just click here). Results are glorious.
Exhibit B: The Bird and the Bee, one of the country's greatest pop bands, is set to unleash "Guiltless Pleasures, Vol. 1: A Tribute to Daryl Hall and John Oates" in March. As someone who saw the duo perform "I Can't Go for That" at the Fairfield Theatre Company last year, I can tell you that this album is going to be off the hook. And the indie kids are going to love it.
Exhibit C: Hall and Oates are still awesome.
When did this resurgence begin?
I'll point to the mediocre romantic comedy "(500) Days of Summer," released last summer. The highlight of that movie was a prolonged musical number in which Joseph Gordon-Levitt sings and dances along to Hall & Oates classic "You Make My Dreams." (Watch it here.) And the movie was pre-packaged for the Urban Outfitters generation and a lot of young adults really loved that movie and bought the DVD.
Oh and speaking of the DVD (or Blu-ray), when you opened the DVD what fluttered out?
A flyer for the new Hall & Oates box set.
And I say: bring it on.
ACTUAL JOURNALISM BONUS: Read my write-up of a recent Hall & Oates show (done for the Fairfield County Weekly) here.
This excellent. I love the lede and and the structure. Your tone through out is spot on. A couple of suggestions about links. Well first of all, i really like when you just say "check it out here..." I'm a big fan of straight forwardness. But in a couple of other places I'm not sure the link is in the right place. For example "unleash" - I think the link should be on the name of the album. And the link for Bonnaroo should be on Bonnaroo. The link you have on "announce" takes me to that site.
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