Hall & Oates Look Up At--"MARIGOLD SKY" poll:

Marigold Sky



Got this cd spinning and like totally digging this 1997 H&O album.
Not a bad album, smooth easy listening. My standout tracks, Romeo Is Bleeding, Marigold Sky, Throw The Roses Away and Time Won't Pass Me By. Like them all.

An underappreciated 1990's gem.
I remember when this album came out I hadn't paid much attention to it in 1997. Twenty years later I find myself enjoying it. A little 1970's, 1980's blended in with a 1990's style vibe.

WIKIPEDIA:

Studio album by Hall & Oates
Released September 17, 1997
Genre Pop, rock, soul
Length 57:40
Label Push Records
Producer Daryl Hall (also executive producer), John Oates, David Bellochio, Peter Moshay

Marigold Sky is the fifteenth studio album by Hall & Oates, released in 1997 on Push Records. It would be their last album of new material until 2003's Do It for Love.

Personnel:

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  • David Bellochio: keyboards, percussion programming, acoustic guitar (3, 4)
  • Charles DeChant: saxophone (6, 7)
  • Daryl Hall: vocals, keyboards, acoustic guitar (1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 10), electric guitar (4, 8, 10, 11), percussion programming (11)
  • Peter Moshay: percussion (10)
  • John Oates: vocals, acoustic guitar (2, 12)
  • Paul Pesco: electric guitar (2, 5, 7, 10, 11, 12)
  • Ken Sebesky: acoustic guitar (1), electric guitar (1, 3, 4, 9)
  • Dave Stewart: electric guitar (1, 6)
  • Tom "T-Bone" Wolk: bass guitar (2-4, 6-9, 12), electric guitar (3, 6, 8), acoustic guitar (5)
  • Shawn Pelton: drums (1-10, 12), percussion (10)
  • String arrangements (3, 4, 7) by Rob Mounsey

Hall & Oates - Marigold Sky (1997): Hall & Oates - Marigold Sky (1997) - YouTube

 

Never heard this one, I'll Tube it. Thanks for shining a light.

 

Anytime.

 

It was an under-the-radar album. Nevertheless it was a solid effort. There was some promotional fanfare, but H&O had not yet had its full commercial resurgence circa 1997, and it isn't as if Push Records had the budget to fully market and promote the album the way a major label could have during that era. I remember enjoying seeing them recommitted to working again.

 

Haven't played it for over 10 years, will give it a spin again this week

 

Not a huge fan of the album but I like it. Romeo Is Bleeding is my favorite track.....ahem, for obvious reasons (see my avatar).

 

Terrific record. A return to form, IMHO.

 

Great album. Didn't do much, but glad they had a bigger "comeback" with Do It for Love a few years later. I was surprised that this album was not acknowledged or included in the Do What You Want Be What You Are box set....Beauty on a Backstreet was not acknowledged as well, but they all but disowned that album.

 

The title track is one of their very best. I'd include it on a 1 CD compilation.

 

Just finishing my listen now - great album, forgot how much I enjoyed it - except for the way-too-obvious 'I Can't Go For That' clone 'Hold Onto Yourself'

 

Record label issues might have prevented their inclusion.

 

I agree that Marigold Sky may have been a label issue, but Beauty... was on RCA. Oates talked about it's exclusion on a morning talk show if I remember correctly. Either way I love both albums!

 

I like the album a lot...but I have to say the guitar on "Romeo" has always irritated me...

 

Love this tune.

 

The Sky Is Falling
Throw The The Roses Away
I Don't Think So
Time Won't Pass Me By

Darryl

 

Spinning this CD again now. Some great 90's H & O.

 

What a great largely forgotten H&O album- I am not even sure any tracks were on their long overdue "Do What You Want" box set a few years ago????

Romeo is Bleeding is maybe the best H&O album opener ever!

 

Love this tune live or studio.

 

The sound quality on this wasn't great IMO. Quite dull and pinched. Almost sounds like an MP3, at least on the European pressing. Has anyone compared mastering on different copies from different countries? Was ours just crap?

 

Do you recall why they dislike Beauty? It's one of my faves, especially as a transition to Red Ledge.

 

It had to do with the breakdown of their relationship with the producer Chris Bond.

 

Last week I was re-listening to this album and songs from the era - "Hall and Oates go independent!". I was reminded of my impression of it 20 years ago. After a month of listening to it, off and on, I realized Marigold Sky is designed as a "new" greatest hits album. Most of the songs are either rewrites of or modeled on their more famous tracks:

Romeo Is Bleeding - Say It Isn't So
Hold On To Yourself - I Can't Go For That
Time Won't Pass Me By - Back Together Again/Starting All Over Again
etc., etc.

I love the song Marigold Sky, and a few other tracks - Romeo Is Bleeding, The Sky Is Falling, I Don't Think So - but the album is too mellow. But despite it's commercial adult contemporary vibe, Arista refused to release it. Weird.

 

I'm a big fan of H&O and this is pretty much the last album I picked up from their discography (actually...yes, the dead last). I haven't given it much of a chance, but it really seems like a Darryl Hall solo project that they tacked John Oates onto in order to get more name recognition. That doesn't atomically make it bad, but it does but a bit of a cynical spin on it. Just my take.

 

Romeo Is Bleeding is basically Say It Isn't So, Part 2, let's face it.

But yeah, it's the standout track on this album. Annoyingly, the Europe CD release of this album cuts off the first two or so seconds of this song.