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Disc 1

1. Romeo Is Bleeding
2. Marigold Sky
3. Sky Is Falling
4. Out of the Blue
5. Want To
6. Love Out Loud
7. Throw the Roses Away
8. I Don't Think So
9. Promise Ain't Enough
10. Time Won't Pass Me By
11. Hold on to Yourself
12. War of Words
13. Hold on to Yourself [Remix]

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The last great Hall and Oates album
Submitted on: 2009-01-05

I love this album. It proved that even though Daryl did the majority of writing and producing, it takes John Oates to make a ROCK and soul album. The first half of this album is straight brilliant. The second half is the lighter side of Hall and Oates - which apparently is what people think of when they hear H&O, since NONE of my favorite tracks were released as singles..... again. Not too surprising that this is the best album since BIG BAM BOOM - nobody in the record company touched it. Clive Davis forced them to do other people's stuff during the ARISTA years and somebody made the mistake of trying to make them "neuvo soul" on DO IT FOR LOVE on the second half of the album. MARIGOLD SKY: The last great Hall and Oates abum.

Marigold Sky
Submitted on: 2007-08-07

Brilliant CD, for anyone not used to their music this one is a must. I've seen them live many times and they are always good value. This CD epitomises their style,range and above all their talent.

Finally H&O Come Good Albeit Just for 1 Album!
Submitted on: 2005-11-12

Having been a H&O fan for decades and having heard all their studio albums I'll have to say that I felt really betrayed by the Arista years. The only albums that were worse than "Ooh Yeah" and "Change of Season" were "Whole Oates" and "War Babies." It got so bad that for the first time, I'd actually hesitated to buy a H&O album without first hearing it. Fortunately, I decided to take a risk for old-time's sake and got this album. This album is a vast improvement and comes closest to the "Big Bam Boom" and earlier days in terms of quality tracks and musicianship. This could do with a remastering job though although the sound quality isn't all that bad. My favourite tracks here are "Time Won't Pass Me By", "Hold On to Yourself" and "War of Words" and the tracks from 7 onwards run very cohesively together. Sadly this was a false dawn as the next album "Do it For Love" falls short yet again. However, this album is highly recommended as one of H&O's better works harking back to the good ole RCA days. Recommended.

Hall & Oates' last album of the 20th Century
Submitted on: 2005-04-22

Daryl Hall and John Oates returned to the public ear in 1997 after the minor success of CHANGE OF SEASON,released seven years earlier. Hall and Oates were dropped from Arista Records after COS,which was only their second Arista album(the first was 1988's OOH YEAH). The duo's relationship with Arista was very much sour,not like their five-year relationship with RCA and their eight-year relationship with Atlantic. H&O gained the most attention during their RCA era from 1980 to '84. Here on this album,on a new label called Push,is the only Top 10 hit,PROMISE AIN'T ENOUGH. I also like THROW THE ROSES AWAY. Fans even noticed that Oates got rid of the moustache he sported for twenty-something years.

STRONG SINGING STRONG SONGS STRONG SOUL
Submitted on: 2004-05-10

One of only two albums Hall & Oates released in the 1990's, Marigold Sky is one unbelievably good record. It is a shame that more of those who bought Hall & Oates records in the seventies and eighties didn't pick up this one. Contemporary Adult radio did make "Promise Ain't Enough" a minor hit and it is a good song. But "War Of Words" is easily its equal. I remember hearing "War Of Words" a few times on the radio here is the Midwest; however, it did not draw the attention it deserves.

What makes this an exceptional Hall & Oates record is that Marigold Sky is a return to the "blue-eyed soul" reminiscent of the style of Motown artists such as Smokey Robinson. Indeed, in listening to "Out Of The Blue" and "The Sky Is Falling" it is easy to believe these songs were directly lifted from Smokey's late sixties catalogue.

"The Sky Is Falling" is the best song on the CD. A close second is the eponymous "Marigold Sky" itself. "Marigold Sky" meshes easily with the rest of the "soul" material but it is isn't a "soul" song itself. Driven at first by deftly picked acoustic guitar the chorus shifts into a breezy twelve string electric guitar strumming that rides like the wind all while Daryl Hall sings of a love long gone but still alive.

With Marigold Sky Hall & Oates keep to eternal "soul" themes of love discovered, love troubled and love lost. This is a deeply satisfying CD and it is sad that while Hall & Oates had fallen off the popular hits radar they did not make more albums like it. Indeed, since their intensely hot career of the seventies and eighties Hall & Oates have issued only two other albums since 1990's Season Of Change. Of those one was a VH-1 "Behind The Music" collection. I don't fault those who stick mainly to the well-beaten path of popular music because a good deal of enjoyment of music is its communal aspect. There is something heartwarming about sharing music a whole lot of other people love and enjoy. You don't get that if you choose music that only a few thousand in the whole country know about. But maybe there should be a place in your collection for an eccentric but well made record you just like to listen to. I count Marigold Sky as one of my guilty pleasures.

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