POLL: Favorite Hall & Oates Top 10 hit

Out of Touch
Family Man (the 12" single version)
Maneater

 

She's Gone
Private Eyes
Did It In A Minute

But Some Things Are Better Left Unsaid--which missed the Top 10--would beat out all of 'em for me if it were eligible.

 

She's Gone (Their best and an absolute classic)
I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)
Maneater

 

Voices is also an oddity in that the first single released from the album, the terrific but sadly overlooked How Does It Feel To Be Back, didn't even make the Top 20; the second single, You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling, made the Top 20 but missed the Top 10; and the third single, Kiss On My List, soared to No. 1. How often do the first three singles from an album follow that trajectory?

 

Everybody forgets Dreamtime. Great, great song.

 

Sure, but that is a Hall song, not a Hall and Oates song.

 

Two more brilliant singles that missed the Top 10 [by a long shot.] "Your Imagination" & "It's A Laugh."



Hall & Oates - It's a Laugh (1978)

 

I know, and as such, it is easily forgotten.

 

Just heard Maneater in a store the other day and it was better than I remembered, so I voted for it. I wondered whether it might have kicked off a certain style of '80s rock (often considered "alternative"), with the synth wash and saxophone.

 

Never understood the inclusion of that song. I absolutely hate it. The only song I skip on a classic H&O album.

 

Kiss On My List
I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)
One On One

 

I love "Your Imagination." I always wondered where they shot that video.

 

This is my favorite. Has maybe their funkiest/urban groove, and it has some knowing lyrics about high school from guys long past it:

 

Voting's closed, but I would've chosen:

'Out of Touch'
'Say It Isn't So'
'Private Eyes'

I would've felt really bad about not selecting 'Kiss On My List', as it is a totally gorgeous song.

 

Forgot about that video for “Imagination”. I love GE Smith!

“It’s a Laugh” is prob my fave H&O tune ever now that I really think about it.