Detailed item info | Track listing | DISC 1:
1. Girl I Love You - (with The Temptones)
2. I Need Your Love - (with The Masters)
3. Say These Words of Love - (with The Temptones)
4. Perkiomen
5. I'm Sorry
6. Fall In Philadelphia
7. Waterwheel
8. Lilly (Are You Happy)
9. Had I Known You Better Then
10. Las Vegas Turnaround
11. She's Gone
12. You're Much Too Soon
13. Is It a Star
14. It's Uncanny
15. Love You Like a Brother
16. Lady Rain - (previously unreleased, live)
17. Beanie G. and the Rose Tattoo - (previously unreleased, live)
18. Better Watch Your Back - (previously unreleased, live)
19. Abandoned Luncheonette - (previously unreleased, live)
20. When the Morning Comes - (previously unreleased, live)
DISC 2:
1. Camellia
2. Sara Smile
3. Alone Too Long
4. Gino (the Manager) [2009 Remix] - (remix, previously unreleased)
5. Ennui On the Mountain
6. Out of Me, Out of You
7. Back Together Again
8. Rich Girl
9. Crazy Eyes
10. Have I Been Away Too Long
11. August Day
12. It's a Laugh
13. I Don't Wanna Lose You [7" Remix] - (remix)
14. Wait For Me
15. Time's Up (Alone Tonight)
16. Woman Comes and Goes, The
17. How Does It Feel To Be Back
18. You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling
19. Kiss On My List
20. Everytime You Go Away - (previously unreleased, live)
DISC 3:
1. You Make My Dreams
2. Private Eyes
3. Head Above Water
4. Did It In a Minute
5. Your Imagination
6. I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)
7. Don't Go Out - (previously unreleased)
8. Maneater
9. Family Man
10. One On One
11. Go Solo
12. Say It Isn't So
13. Adult Education
14. Out of Touch [7" Version]
15. Method of Modern Love
16. Some Things Are Better Left Unsaid
17. Possession Obsession
18. Nite At the Apollo Live! the Way You Do the Things You Do/My Girl [7" Version], A - (live, featuring David Ruffin/Eddie Kendrick)
DISC 4:
1. Everything Your Heart Desires [Video Mix] - (remix)
2. Missed Opportunity
3. Keep On Pushin' Love
4. Storm Warning - (previously unreleased)
5. Change of Season
6. Starting All Over Again - (previously unreleased, live)
7. So Close - (previously unreleased, live)
8. Do It For Love
9. Forever For You
10. Heartbreak Time
11. All the Way From Philadelphia - (previously unreleased)
12. Have You Ever Been In Love - (previously unreleased)
13. Me and Mrs. Jones - (live)
14. I Want Someone [Live From Daryl's House] - (previously unreleased, live)
15. Do What You Want, Be What You Are - (previously unreleased, live)
16. Dreamer ['72-'09 Redux] - (remix, previously unreleased)
| | Details | | Playing time: | 314 min. | | Contributing artists: | David Ruffin, Eddie Kendrick | | Producer: | Jeremy Holiday (Compilation), Rob Santos (Compilation) | | Distributor: | n/a | | Recording type: | Studio | | Recording mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
| | Album notes | Liner Note Author: Ken Sharp.
Recording information: 1966; 09/1966-12/1966; 10/03/1967; 05/1972; 03/1973; 05/1973; 06/1974-07/1974; 02/1975; 06/1975; The New Victoria Theatre, London, England (10/03/1975); 03/1976-04/1976; 1978; 1979; ??/1980-06/1981; 03/1980-06/1980; 1981; 06/1982-09/1982; 09/1983; 1984; Apollo Theater, Harlem, NY (05/23/1985); 1987-1988; 1990; The Budokan, Tokyo, Japan (1995); Tokyo, Japan (1996); 2001-2002; 2002; John Jay College, NY (03/24/2003); Portland, OR (2006); 2007; 07/2009.
Photographers: Chris Walter; David Gahr; Ken Regan; Neal Preston; Lynn Goldsmith; Laura Levine; John Rockwood; Larry Williams.
It's telling that DO WHAT YOU WANT TO BE WHAT YOU ARE, Sony/Legacy's comprehensive, career-spanning Daryl Hall and John Oates box set, takes its title from a moderately successful mid-'70s single from the duo, written and recorded just as the group was hitting their creative stride. The slow Philly groove of "Do What You Want Be Who You Are" may have hearkened back to the duo's soul roots, side-stepping some of the outré pop experiments they had done just two years earlier on War Babies, but Hall & Oates took the title's sentiment to heart, blurring boundaries between rock, pop, and soul in a way that wasn't always easy to appreciate at the peak of their popularity in the '80s. During that decade, Hall & Oates were omnipresent, seemingly dominating every radio format and MTV, racking up so many hits that it was easy to overlook how "Private Eyes" wore bright, angular New Wave threads, or how "I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)" pulsated on electronic rhythms, not to mention the duo's earliest folk-rock records. DO WHAT YOU WANT TO BE brings all this into perspective, rounding up all the group's big hits and sharply selected album tracks, enhancing the canon with several rarities ranging from early singles (Hall as a member of the Temptones, Oates as one of the Masters) to a host of live cuts from throughout the years. Many of the live tracks are mildly revelatory--particularly the lengthy stretch of WAR BABIES material at the end of Disc One, which diminishes the Todd Rundgren influence and emphasizes Hall & Oates' muscular melodicism. The group's forté was within the studio, where they set the sounds of the time, from the lush early '70s to the synthesized '80s. This, too, is where the box shines, when it traces the duo's remarkable, restless progression from WHOLE OATES to BIG BAM BOOM, a narrative that takes up the first three discs of the four-disc set. Like many career-spanning boxes, this does lose a little momentum on the last disc, when the hits start to slow down, but by smartly balancing outtakes and unreleased concert cuts, this final disc makes a convincing argument for Hall & Oates' enduring strengths adding a fitting coda to a box that stands as a testament to the duo's considerable musical legacy.
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