The three-disc budget-line compilation Legendary tries to offer a stepping stone for fans who want more than just a disc of hits, but who don't want to buy all the albums. While Hall & Oates' one-disc singles compilation is superb, it misses a lot, mainly in lesser-known singles and quality album tracks. Legendary attempts to offer an affordable solution to this problem by offering up 50 tracks sequenced in chronological order. The set leans heavily on Voices, Private Eyes, H2O, and includes every track from Big Bam Boom, ...
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The three-disc budget-line compilation Legendary tries to offer a stepping stone for fans who want more than just a disc of hits, but who don't want to buy all the albums. While Hall & Oates' one-disc singles compilation is superb, it misses a lot, mainly in lesser-known singles and quality album tracks. Legendary attempts to offer an affordable solution to this problem by offering up 50 tracks sequenced in chronological order. The set leans heavily on Voices, Private Eyes, H2O, and includes every track from Big Bam Boom, as well as singles and highlights from the years before and after their early-'80s peak. Since three of those four albums were the band's best, it makes sense to lean heavily on them, and most of the album tracks from those years -- like "Unguarded Minute," "Head Above Water," "Delayed Reaction," and "Everytime You Go Away" -- are on par with their biggest hits. That means that the second disc is by far the strongest. The first disc -- which finds the band making tentative steps toward the blend of blue-eyed soul and pop/rock that they would later perfect -- features many strong moments, the material is largely scattershot, and terrific tracks (the excellent "Wait for Me") come up as often as dreck. The third disc, on the other hand, contains most of the band's disappointing late-'80s material, including all of Big Bam Boom, which unfortunately consisted largely of very dated-sounding filler. Apart from the big hits -- "Out of Touch," "Everything Your Heart Desires," and "So Close" -- the band's late-period material is largely forgettable and occasionally downright awful. Since this is a bargain compilation, BMG didn't bother to license any of the duo's early-'70s Atlantic material, and that means that a few things are missing -- most notably their number 11 hit "She's Gone," a modern soul classic. The album packaging itself is cheap and non-descript (they reuse the same photo from the front of The Very Best of Hall & Oates), there is no remastering whatsoever, and the "liner notes" consist of a single-page essay that reads like a press release. Still, considering this three-disc budget collection generally retails for around 15 dollars -- the price of most single-disc sets -- it's a huge bargain for anyone wishing to have most of Hall & Oates' best material in one place. ~ Jason Damas, Rovi
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