Product Description

1976 was a banner year for Philly s finest Hall & Oates, which was the year of their #1 smash Rich Girl and their platinum smash album Bigger Than Both Of Us.

This incredible album also culled two other hit singles with Back Together Again and Do What You Want, Be What You Are, which helped make this one of their most ground breaking albums of their long and successful career.

Amazingly, this smash has been out of print for a quite some time, but never fear...the good folks at Friday Music are now here to the rescue!

Friday Music will re-release Bigger Than Both Of Us as the definitive remaster from this duo, as part of their continuing Hall and Oates Remaster series. Complete with original graphics, lyrics, and a pristine remaster by Joe Reagoso (Doobie Brothers, Boz Scaggs, America) from the original RCA source tapes.

Wait until you hear the new definition in the voices and the solid contrast in instrumentation that makes this new remaster the definitive version of this platinum-plus album from 1976.

This compact disc will be available in late September, and it will sell quickly, so reserve your copy today!

Track Listing

1. Back Together Again
2. Rich Girl
3. Crazy Eyes
4. Do What You Want, Be What You Are
5. Kerry
6. London Luck & Love
7. Room to Breathe
8. You'll Never Learn
9. Falling

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #63749 in Music
• Released on: 2008-09-23
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .19 pounds

Customer Reviews

First Hall & Oates Platinum!
On Daryl & John's early RCA releases, they made it a point to put the hits on side one and the experimental songs on side two. You'll hear plenty of both with songs like "Do What You Want, Be What You Are" which is a classic, and their first number one song "Rich Girl". Other songs that deserved hit status are "Kerry" and "London, Luck & Love". Best from the 'experimental' side include "You'll Never Learn" and "Room To Breathe".

Daryl wasn't too happy with the production (which they took care of when they started producing themselves) and you can see what he means if you play "Room To Breathe" from this and from "Live Time".

It's a fine rock album overall and has one of the best album covers you'll ever see.

Bigger Than the Both Of Us
(4.5 Stars)

This is criminally out of print..criminal because there's a lot more to be found on here than the pop hit "Rich Girl".

Oates pens two of H&O's prettiest hooks on the ELO-ish "Back Together Again", as well as "Crazy Eyes". He also turns in another fantastic song with the mysterious "You'll Never Learn". Oates was definetely on his A-Game here.

And Daryl's tunes are as good as you'd expect from him. The aforementioned "Rich Girl" is a great pop/soul number with an instantly catchy chorus. He's hauntingly beautiful on the minor-key ballad "Do What You Want, Be What You Are" (which may have been a minor hit, I'm not sure), and he even rocks it out on the stomping, guitar-driven "Room To Breathe" (which has some great bluesey riffs).

There's more, though. "Kerry" is a fantastic mid-tempo pop/rocker; brooding, but really catchy at the same time. He also works some mandolin into the uptempo "London Luck and Love", which has some cool droning guitar effects throughout..

And "Falling" alone justifies paying $20 for an out of print CD. It starts off quiet (electric piano + voice), and dynamically reaches a memorable guitar solo at the end. They diddle around with a synthesizer for the lengthy outro (which probably sounded super futuristic and spacey at the time, though a bit dated now). But the actual song is phenomenal, with chord changes and lush production that would make their buddy Todd Rundgren smile with glee..

(As a somewhat useless factoid, there's a title track to this album..only it's one of those "Houses of the Holy" situations where the band finished the album before the song, so you have to buy their next album, "Beauty on a Back Street" to find it)

Not sure why this hasn't been remastered. It's one of my favorite Hall & Oates albums, and there's really no filler to be found.

Creative Energy used Through Out
**** and a half stars, rich girl (which began the road to fame for H&O), the romantic ballad "Do what you wanna do, be what you are", "back together again" was a minor hit, and the sleeer hit the great "room to Breath", Awesome rocker!, "kerry" and "falling" are nice and innocent songs, but don't flow with the rest of the album.a Nice starting place for hall and oates fans!