The Best of Material

the best of material

Track Listings

1. I'm The One

2. Disappearing

3. Square Dance

4. Let Me Have It All

5. Upriver

6. Over & Over (featuring Nona Hendryx)

7. For A Few Dollars More

8. Reduction

9. On Sadism

10. Ciquiri

11. Memories (featuring Whitney Houston)

12. Busting Out

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The Best of Material

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A Must Buy
H & O still groovin' -- wow!
ONE OF MY FAVORITES!
Get this album and "Do it for Love"
Their best since Big Bam Boom

Do It for Love
Hall & Oates
Manufacturer: U-Watch Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000083JT6
Release Date: 2003-02-11

Tracks:

Man on a Mission
Do It For Love
Someday We'll Know
Forever For You
Life's Too Short
Getaway Car
Make You Stay
Miss DJ
(She) Got Me Bad
Breath of Your Life
Intuition
Heartbreak Time
Something About You
Love Ina Dangerous Time

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VH-1's Behind the Music may signify the final curtain for some acts, but Hall and Oates aren't so easily confined to the dustbins of pop history. With a chart run that spanned most of the '70s and '80s, Philadelphia's most enduring purveyors of blue-eyed soul went on to keep a fairly low profile until "Do It for Love," a newly recorded track for their 2002 VH-1 retrospective, crept up to the top of the adult contemporary charts. Nearly a year later, the duo reprises the track and title on a full album that aims to recapture the best aspects of their glory days. Among its highlights are a sublime cover of New Radical's "Someday We'll Know" that teams them up with War Babies collaborator Todd Rundgren, and the funky "Miss DJ," a playful pop confection that avoids the excessive novelty of their more calculated '80s hits. After three decades, Hall's remains one of pop's most expressive voices. And while the album as a whole may lack the edge and energy of the pair's earliest work, it's still a promising collection from a rock duo that's earned a place in Philly soul history. --Bill Forman

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2003 album, their first in six years, it's everything you love about them. U-Watch Records.

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A Must Buy.......2006-04-30

Hard to believe that this CD is just as good as their many hit albums from the 1980s. Their ability to create hooks, songs you can't get out of your head, is at their absolute best. If you are an H&O fan, or if you just want great pop music to listen to - over and over - I can't recommend this highly enough. If only it could airplay instead of the junk you hear today on the radio!

H & O still groovin' -- wow!.......2005-08-16

More than 100 reviews here, almost all five or four stars, what does that tell you?! Simply that Hall & Oates are still just a great group. The blend of their voices, the instrumentation, the songwriting -- it's all here. This is as good of album they've ever made, and they've made some legendary ones.

This is an epic CD -- and I just picked it up at the library and need to buy it this week. It truly is wonderful. Favorites include "Man On A Mission," the title track, and "Heartbreak Time."

Wow! Thanks H & O for keeping your music alive. Please, don't take so long between albums next time.

ONE OF MY FAVORITES!.......2005-03-12

I'm a big Hall and Oates fan and I recommend this selection. Not only is Do It For Love a contagious hit that you'l want to play over and over again, but this CD is full of other terrific tracks as well. My second favorite off this CD would be Man On A Mission. Daryl Hall is one of the smoothest vocalist of all time, half of the most popular duo in recording history...so what else would you expect from this talented pair!

Get this album and "Do it for Love".......2004-11-13

I have been following Daryl and Johns music since the late 70's and they seem to be like fine wine. They get better and better with age! I should know! I have even met them in person! This album is definately a hit! As I proceeded to pick up this album the day it went on sale I did not know how much of a good thing I was going to get. Man was I pleased when I found out all 14 tracks are great hits in themselves. I would elaborate on all of them, but just the title one "Do it for Love". It is definately a Hall and Oates song! The vocals of Daryl just make the song come alive as if your actually living the song. Daryl is THAT good! Johns background vocals as well as the blend of the vocals of Tom "T-Bone" Wolk, Charlie "Mr. Casual" DeChant and the rest of the band really make this song a hit! On one final note, I am engaged to be married. My fiancee and I both agreed that this will be 'our' song at our wedding. Thats how good this song is and the album is just as good!

Their best since Big Bam Boom.......2004-11-02

This is a really solid album. Most of the songs on here are very good. My favorite one is Life's Too Short. I think it would have been a big hit if it had been released as a single.

My only beef with this album, and it's a small beef, is that I wish John Oates was on here more. There's some songs on here that he doesn't appear on at all. Not that the songs sound bad, but come on, it's supposed to be Hall AND Oates.

P.S. - Does anyone else think that Love In A Dangerous Time sounds a LOT like Bonnie Raitt's Nick Of Time? It's not a bad song, but I prefer the non-Bonnie-sounding version on John's solo album Phunk Shui.

20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Material Issue

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20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Material Issue
Material Issue
Manufacturer: Island / Mercury
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Binding: Audio CD

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Some good, some bad.
Still Excellent
in the Irvine tradition

Way Out Yonder
Andy Irvine
Manufacturer: Appleseed Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Rude Awakening
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ASIN: B000059RTS
Release Date: 2001-03-27

Tracks:

Gladiators
Moreton Bay
They'll Never Believe It's True/Froggy's Jig
The Girl I Left Behind
Way Out Yonder
The Highwayman
When the Boys Are On Parade
On a Distant Shore
Born In Carrickfergus

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Although Andy Irvine has been an integral part of three of Irish music's most innovative bands--Sweeney's Men in the 1960s, Planxty in the 1970s, and Patrick Street in the 1990s--he has released very little music under his own name, and consequently is not as well know as he deserves to be. The music of Irvine's bands tended to be fairly evenly split between songs and dance tunes, but on Way out Yonder, only the third solo release in his long career, seven of the nine tracks are songs. Irvine is a very expressive singer who can take a ballad like Loreena McKennitt's version of "The Highwayman" and make its nine-minute length seem too short. The other songs include originals like "Gladiators," a ballad about union organizer Tom Barker, and old ballads such as "Moreton Bay," an Australian convict song. In the late 1960s, Irvine spent two years busking in the Balkans, and the title track is a medley of some of the dance tunes he learned while he was there. Way Out Yonder is a wonderful collection of songs from one of Irish music's secret heroes. --Michael Simmons

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Some good, some bad........2005-07-01

Four or five of the tunes on this cd are good--such as "The Boys are on Parade," "You Wouldn't Believe it's True," "Gladiators," and maybe "Born in Carrickfergus." But other than these, the others are rather lacking. Some of the others I always skip. "The Highwayman" stinks. The others aren't memorable in the least. However, although it isn't exactly the best cd I've gotten before, a couple of these songs are of good quality. If you want to have a cd to play in the background, this would be good, but if you want real good quality cds, perhaps try Old Blind Dogs, Silly Wizard, and some of the Battlefield Band's cds.

Still Excellent.......2001-08-29

The previous reviewer was a bit harsh on this record. The surprise about this record is how good it is considering the apparent demise of Irvine's band Patrick Street and what had seemed like a decline in Irvine's powers of late. I was thrilled to see a new studio solo album by Irvine and fully gratified when I heard it. Here are all of his strengths honed over a lifetime of musical exploration. Yes, Irvine continues to sing the truth about the lives of the underclass in his "old left" ballads, among the best of the songs here, I might add. That an artist champions values other than success and glamour and "winning," is still refreshing no matter how many times he sounds that string. Irvine doesn't need to break new ground to put out an excellent recording; he's done that aplenty and all of it still shines here. Despite its lack of surpise this album is still excellent. Oh yes, and I find the version of the "Highwayman" deeply moving despite myself, perhaps not for the somewhat overdramatic narrative but for the power and emotion of Irvine's voice, which still brings me to the brink even after all of these years. I guess I'm an incorrigable fan thrilled to have yet another Irvine recording after I'd long given up hope.

in the Irvine tradition.......2001-04-23

Veteran Irish folk singer Andy Irvine delivers a typically accomplished recording with no surprises. As usual there are the politically oriented, occasionally preachy originals (e.g., "Gladiators") and covers (Marcus Turner's "When the Boys Are on Parade"), reflecting Irvine's sentimental Old Left sympathies. More interesting are some reworked traditional pieces. His version of "The Girl I Left Behind," with a portion of the lyrics either written or rediscovered by Irvine (his notes are not entirely clear on the point), transforms this lyric folk song/sometime march into a ballad. Another high point is the Australian convict song "Moreton Bay." Irvine's most successful original, the comic "They'll Never Believe It's True/Froggy's Jig," about a musician's encounter with fairies, takes its inspiration from any number of Irish tales ("memorates," in folklorist language) told as true. On the other hand, perhaps the world could do without yet another recording of Alfred Noyes's poem "The Highwayman" -- surely the least inspired song choice here, and more than nine minutes long at that.

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Inferno
Holocaust
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ASIN: B00006D2HO
Release Date: 2002-07-23

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Intro
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Da Rollout
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Unexpected
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Don't Want None!
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Forget Whitney Houston, this is good stuff.
Buying any album for a guest appearance is quite a leap
Rare Whitney Houston -- Can You Go Wrong?

The Best of Material
Material
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Release Date: 2001-06-26

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Forget Whitney Houston, this is good stuff........2006-12-16

If you can overlook the slight disco flavor of 'White Man', this CD is quite a find. Bill Laswell and drummer Michael Beinhorn (although the name of the guitarist escapes me) were meant to be a backing act for Daevid Allen back in the 70's. Tere's a lot of heavy experimentation here with synths, ambience, and flat out dissonance. Good stuff.

Buying any album for a guest appearance is quite a leap.......2003-12-28

of faith. Bill Laswell's MATERIAL is always a much more challenging experience than the popular or radio friendly recordings of Whitney Houston. Laswell's music is jazz and funk based with continual experimentation performed with a steady stream of rotating partners and frequent guest appearances.
There is much to like here but the average Whitney fan is likely to be confused and put off if the only reason for acquiring this collection or "One Down"(Where the track first appeared) is her appearance.

Rare Whitney Houston -- Can You Go Wrong?.......2003-12-03

A rare track from a very young Whitney Houston makes this album worth the buy! Not quite in her prime, this shows us where she was vocally before she hit it big.

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These Are a Few of My Favorite Things

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Release Date: 2003-08-05

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Best Kept Secret: Blues Harmonica
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Great compilation

Almost Lost

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Great compilation.......2005-11-20

Ewald has dug up some stuff from his archives that is well worth listening to. It sounds often simple, but fresh and timeless.

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