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Daryl Hall conducted his solo career largely concurrently with his work with John Oates, stepping outside the duo whenever they reached a creative or business crossroads. The first of these happened in the back half of the 1970s, when the success of "Sara Smile" and "Rich Girl" paradoxically left Hall & Oates in a corner where they battled with their label and producer during the recording of Beauty on a Back Street. Frustrated, Hall took a busman's holiday and recorded the angular, arty Sacred Songs with King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp. Hall & Oates incorporated many of the artistic innovations of Sacred Songs on such blockbusters as Voices, Private Eyes, and H2O, albums that made the duo the biggest hitmakers of the early 1980s. When that run concluded, Hall released Three Hearts in the Happy Ending Machine, a dense, psychedelic-infused album made with David A. Stewart of Eurythmics -- an album inspired by post-New Wave trends that did give Hall a hit in "Dreamtime."
Both Sacred Songs and Three Hearts are sampled heavily on Before After, a double-disc compilation covering the entirety of Daryl Hall's solo career. Sequenced with a studious disregard for chronology, Before After uses the modernist pop as bracing contrasts with the smooth rock & soul that constitutes the rest of Hall's career, including highlights from his acclaimed, long-running internet show Live from Daryl's House. The cumulative effect can downplay the appealing weirdness of the first two records, but that amounts to a fair portrait of Hall's solo work: he worked out his experiments early, then returned to R&B for 1993's Soul Alone, a fine record that set the template for Can't Stop Dreaming and Laughing Down Crying. If there are few surprises in form, the overall strength of the material can come as a shock: Hall remained a strong craftsman into the 21st century and, as versions of Eurythmics' "Here Comes the Rain Again" and Todd Rundgren's "Can We Still Be Friends" prove, an expert interpreter of material. At two-and-a-half hours, Before After is a bit lengthy, but taken on a cut-by-cut basis, each song serves as a testament to one of Hall's skills, whether it's as a songwriter, singer, or recordmaker.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
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David A. Stewart, Producer - BOB CLEARMOUNTAIN, Mixing Engineer - Daryl Hall, Composer, Lyricist, Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Tom "T-Bone" Wolk, Producer - John Beeby, Composer
(P) 1986 RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Robert Fripp, Producer - Daryl Hall, Composer, Lyricist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
(P) 1980 RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
David A. Stewart, Producer - BOB CLEARMOUNTAIN, Mixing Engineer - Daryl Hall, Composer, Lyricist, Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Tom "T-Bone" Wolk, Producer
(P) 1986 RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Dan Shea, Composer, Lyricist - Alan Gorrie, Composer, Lyricist - Daryl Hall, Composer, Lyricist, Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - WALTER AFANASIEFF, Composer, Lyricist, Producer - David Bellochio, Producer
(P) 1996 Untied Artists Productions, Inc. under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd. Licensed courtesy of BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd.
Daryl Hall, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Vocal - Annie Lennox, Composer, Lyricist - Dave Stewart, Composer, Lyricist, Acoustic Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, with - Peter Moshay, Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer - Daryl Hall with Dave Stewart, AssociatedPerformer
(P) 2022 Good Cop Bad Cop Productions, LLC
David A. Stewart, Producer - BOB CLEARMOUNTAIN, Mixing Engineer - Daryl Hall, Composer, Lyricist, Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Tom "T-Bone" Wolk, Producer
(P) 1986 RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Greg Bieck, Producer, Engineer - John Fields, Producer - Paul Pesco, Producer - T-Bone Wolk, Producer - Michael Brauer, Mixing Engineer - Daryl Hall, Composer, Lyricist, Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Peter Moshay, Engineer
(P) 2011 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Robert Fripp, Producer - Daryl Hall, Composer, Lyricist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
(P) 1980 RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
David A. Stewart, Producer - BOB CLEARMOUNTAIN, Mixing Engineer - Daryl Hall, Composer, Lyricist, Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Tom "T-Bone" Wolk, Producer
(P) 1986 RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Robert Fripp, Producer - Daryl Hall, Composer, Lyricist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
(P) 1980 RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Everett Bradley, Percussion - T-Bone Wolk, Acoustic Guitar - Elliot Lewis, Keyboards - Robert Fripp, Composer - Daryl Hall, Composer, Acoustic Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Lead Vocalist - Shawn Pelton, Drums - Monte Montgomery, Acoustic Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, with - Zev Katz, Bass - Peter Moshay, Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer - Joanna Walton, Lyricist - Daryl Hall with Monte Montgomery, AssociatedPerformer
(P) 2008 Good Cop Bad Cop Productions, LLC
Everett Bradley, Percussion, Background Vocal - T-Bone Wolk, Acoustic Guitar, Background Vocal - Elliot Lewis, Acoustic Guitar, Background Vocal - Daryl Hall, Acoustic Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Lead Vocalist - Paul Butterfield, Composer, Lyricist - Zev Katz, Acoustic Bass - Peter Moshay, Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer
(P) 2009 Good Cop Bad Cop Productions, LLC
Robert Fripp, Composer, Lyricist, Producer - Daryl Hall, Composer, Lyricist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
(P) 1980 RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
BOB CLEARMOUNTAIN, Mixing Engineer - Daryl Hall, Composer, Lyricist, Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
(P) 1986 RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
DISC 2
Vernon J. Smith, Composer, Lyricist - Peter L. Moreland, Composer, Lyricist, Producer - Alan Gorrie, Composer, Lyricist - V. Jeffrey Smith, Producer, Programmer, Background Vocal - Peter Lord Moreland, Keyboards, Background Vocal - David Morales, Mixing Engineer - John Poppo, Mixing Engineer - Sandra St. Victor, Background Vocal - Daryl Hall, Composer, Lyricist, Producer, Keyboards, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Background Vocal - Vlado Meller, Mastering Engineer - Eric Kupper, Keyboards - Peter Moshay, Engineer
(P) 1994 Epic Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Alan Gorrie, Lyricist - Daryl Hall, Composer, Lyricist, Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - David Bellochio, Composer, Producer
(P) 1996 Untied Artists Productions, Inc. under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd. Licensed courtesy of BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd.
Vernon J. Smith, Composer, Lyricist - Peter L. Moreland, Composer, Lyricist - Alan Gorrie, Composer, Lyricist - V. Jeffrey Smith, Producer, Keyboards, Programmer, Background Vocal - Peter Lord Moreland, Keyboards, Background Vocal - David Morales, Mixing Engineer - T-Bone Wolk, Acoustic Guitar, Bass - John Poppo, Mixing Engineer - Sandra St. Victor, Background Vocal - Daryl Hall, Composer, Lyricist, Producer, Keyboards, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Background Vocal - Vlado Meller, Mastering Engineer - Bernard Davis, Drums - Peter Moshay, Engineer
(P) 1993 Epic Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Vernon J. Smith, Composer, Lyricist - Peter L. Moreland, Composer, Lyricist - Alan Gorrie, Composer, Lyricist - V. Jeffrey Smith, Producer, Guitar, Background Vocal - Peter Lord Moreland, Keyboards, Background Vocal - David Morales, Mixing Engineer - John Poppo, Mixing Engineer - Sandra St. Victor, Background Vocal - Daryl Hall, Composer, Lyricist, Producer, Keyboards, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Background Vocal - Vlado Meller, Mastering Engineer - Peter Moshay, Engineer, Programmer
(P) 1993 Epic Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Louis Brown, Lyricist - Daryl Hall, Composer, Lyricist, Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - David Bellochio, Producer - Buster & Shovani, Producer
(P) 1996 Untied Artists Productions, Inc. under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd. Licensed courtesy of BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd.
Michael Peden, Composer, Lyricist, Producer, Mixing Engineer - Lena Fiagbe, Composer, Lyricist - Lorraine McIntosh, Background Vocal - David Morales, Mixing Engineer - Phil Todd, Flute, Saxophone - John Poppo, Mixing Engineer - Tee Green, Background Vocal - Daryl Hall, Composer, Lyricist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Background Vocal - Nick Ingman, Arranger - Miles Bould, Percussion - Vlado Meller, Mastering Engineer - Mel Wesson, Programmer - Tommy Eyre, Keyboards - Tag, Guitar - Martin Hayles, Engineer - Paul Bloom, Assistant Engineer - Peter Moshay, Engineer - Trévor Murrell, Drums - Yan Meemi, Assistant Engineer - Marin Hayles (Strings), Recording Engineer - Lorna Bannon, Background Vocal - Bob Bitsand, Bass
(P) 1993 Epic Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Alan Gorrie, Background Vocal - Michael Peden, Mixing Engineer - Peter Lord Moreland, Producer - Daryl Hall, Composer, Lyricist, Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Background Vocal - Marvin Gaye, Composer, Lyricist - Nick Ingman, Arranger - SARA ALLEN, Composer, Lyricist - Vernon Jeffrey Smith, Producer - Martin Hayles, Engineer, Recording Engineer - Trévor Murrell, Drums - Charlie Dechant, Saxophone - Yan Meemi, Assistant Engineer
P) 1993 Epic Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Greg Bieck, Producer, Engineer - John Fields, Producer - Paul Pesco, Producer - T-Bone Wolk, Producer - Michael Brauer, Mixing Engineer - Daryl Hall, Composer, Lyricist, Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Peter Moshay, Engineer
(P) 2011 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Robert Fripp, Composer, Lyricist, Producer - Daryl Hall, Composer, Lyricist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
(P) 1980 RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Robert Fripp, Producer - Daryl Hall, Composer, Lyricist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
(P) 1980 RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Daryl Hall, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Todd Rundgren, Composer, Lyricist, AssociatedPerformer, with - Daryl Hall with Todd Rundgren, AssociatedPerformer
(P) 2009 Good Cop Bad Cop Productions, LLC
Alan Gorrie, Lyricist - Louis Brown, Lyricist - Daryl Hall, Composer, Lyricist, Producer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - David Bellochio, Producer - Buster & Shovani, Producer
(P) 1996 Untied Artists Productions, Inc. under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd. Licensed courtesy of BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd.
Everett Bradley, Percussion, Background Vocal - Mort Garson, Composer - T-Bone Wolk, Acoustic Guitar, Background Vocal - Elliot Lewis, Acoustic Guitar, Background Vocal - Daryl Hall, Acoustic Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Lead Vocalist - Bob Hilliard, Lyricist - Zev Katz, Acoustic Bass - Peter Moshay, Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer
(P) 2022 Good Cop Bad Cop Productions, LLC
Everett Bradley, Percussion, Background Vocal - Paul Pesco, Electric Guitar, Background Vocal - Elliot Lewis, Keyboards, Background Vocal - Daryl Hall, Composer, Lyricist, Electric Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Lead Vocalist - Zev Katz, Bass - Peter Moshay, Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer - Brian Dunne, Drums - Joe Interlande, Acoustic Guitar - March Fry, Background Vocal
(P) 2011 Good Cop Bad Cop Productions, LLC
Everett Bradley, Percussion, Background Vocal - Paul Pesco, Electric Guitar, Background Vocal - Elliot Lewis, Keyboards, Background Vocal - Daryl Hall, Composer, Lyricist, Electric Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Lead Vocalist - Zev Katz, Bass - Peter Moshay, Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer - Brian Dunne, Drums - Joe Interlande, Acoustic Guitar - March Fry, Background Vocal
(P) 2011 Good Cop Bad Cop Productions, LLC
Everett Bradley, Percussion, Background Vocal - Jim Weatherly, Composer, Lyricist - T-Bone Wolk, Acoustic Guitar, Background Vocal - Elliot Lewis, Acoustic Guitar, Background Vocal - Daryl Hall, Acoustic Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Lead Vocalist - Zev Katz, Acoustic Bass - Peter Moshay, Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer
(P) 2009 Good Cop Bad Cop Productions, LLC
Album review
Daryl Hall conducted his solo career largely concurrently with his work with John Oates, stepping outside the duo whenever they reached a creative or business crossroads. The first of these happened in the back half of the 1970s, when the success of "Sara Smile" and "Rich Girl" paradoxically left Hall & Oates in a corner where they battled with their label and producer during the recording of Beauty on a Back Street. Frustrated, Hall took a busman's holiday and recorded the angular, arty Sacred Songs with King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp. Hall & Oates incorporated many of the artistic innovations of Sacred Songs on such blockbusters as Voices, Private Eyes, and H2O, albums that made the duo the biggest hitmakers of the early 1980s. When that run concluded, Hall released Three Hearts in the Happy Ending Machine, a dense, psychedelic-infused album made with David A. Stewart of Eurythmics -- an album inspired by post-New Wave trends that did give Hall a hit in "Dreamtime."
Both Sacred Songs and Three Hearts are sampled heavily on Before After, a double-disc compilation covering the entirety of Daryl Hall's solo career. Sequenced with a studious disregard for chronology, Before After uses the modernist pop as bracing contrasts with the smooth rock & soul that constitutes the rest of Hall's career, including highlights from his acclaimed, long-running internet show Live from Daryl's House. The cumulative effect can downplay the appealing weirdness of the first two records, but that amounts to a fair portrait of Hall's solo work: he worked out his experiments early, then returned to R&B for 1993's Soul Alone, a fine record that set the template for Can't Stop Dreaming and Laughing Down Crying. If there are few surprises in form, the overall strength of the material can come as a shock: Hall remained a strong craftsman into the 21st century and, as versions of Eurythmics' "Here Comes the Rain Again" and Todd Rundgren's "Can We Still Be Friends" prove, an expert interpreter of material. At two-and-a-half hours, Before After is a bit lengthy, but taken on a cut-by-cut basis, each song serves as a testament to one of Hall's skills, whether it's as a songwriter, singer, or recordmaker.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
About the album
- 2 disc(s) - 30 track(s)
- Total length: 02:24:25
- Main artists: Daryl Hall
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Legacy Recordings
- Genre: Pop/Rock Pop
(P) 2022 Sony Music Entertainment
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