Hall & Oates - "Family Man"

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Is all their stuff this mental?!

― Sundar (sundar), Sunday, 23 October 2005 14:15 (twenty years ago)

no, but it's all good!

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 23 October 2005 14:17 (twenty years ago)

This song is APESHIT. I wish more of their singles sounded this crazy. The guitars are fantastic.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Sunday, 23 October 2005 14:17 (twenty years ago)

It is originally a Mike Oldfield song so he should also get some of the blame/credit for the mentalness.

― gspm (gspm), Sunday, 23 October 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)

Bizarre song. Great, but probably one of their lesser 80s hits.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Sunday, 23 October 2005 15:08 (twenty years ago)

Leave Me Alone, I'm a Family Man, and My Bark is Much Worse Than My Bite....

Leave Me Alone, I'm a Family Man, and if you Push Me Too Far, I Just Might

Always wondered.....if you push him too far, he just might what? Bark or bite?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 23 October 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

Bite, I think.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Sunday, 23 October 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

It's the not knowing which adds to the song's tautness, giving it such an eerie feel. Unsurprising, since Daryl & John so fucking RULE.

― Thomas Inskeep (submeat), Sunday, 23 October 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

Great song, great video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQdu4UOCUZc&feature=PlayList&p=65981EC5625000AC&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=11

― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 22 July 2009 03:25 (sixteen years ago)

eleven years pass...

this version is sweet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2JSYnj2sfw

― Spottie, Monday, 16 November 2020 16:45 (five years ago)

Is Daryl Hall really 74??? Jesus!

― does it look like i'm here (jon123), Monday, 16 November 2020 18:41 (five years ago)

They were recording (separately) with different local bands in the early Sixties, IIRC.

― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Monday, 16 November 2020 18:47 (five years ago)

haulin' oats

― maelin, Monday, 16 November 2020 19:32 (five years ago)

try butthole surfers beat the press https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is0hVNZJTOU

― xzanfar, Monday, 16 November 2020 19:37 (five years ago)

They were recording (separately) with different local bands in the early Sixties, IIRC.

Which means Daryl was about 35 at the time of I Can't Go For That.

― does it look like i'm here (jon123), Monday, 16 November 2020 20:24 (five years ago)

goofy hair aside the guy looks great. can't believe he's two years older than my dad.

― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Monday, 16 November 2020 20:35 (five years ago)

Family Man is the worst song on the Mike Oldfield album Five Miles Out, which is otherwise probably his last consistent record.

Daryl Hall (I presume) gets credit for actually writing an end to the story rather than redundantly repeating the same information in the verse the way the original did.

― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 16 November 2020 23:09 (five years ago)

and for being a better singer

― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 16 November 2020 23:12 (five years ago)

Well, Maggie Reilly was the singer on the record.

― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 17 November 2020 00:11 (five years ago)

haulin' oats

my go-to joke for when someone who I suspect hasn't heard it asks if anyone's heard any good jokes lately

― the burrito that defined a generation, Tuesday, 17 November 2020 02:19 (five years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3S-IuxseAI

― the burrito that defined a generation, Tuesday, 17 November 2020 02:37 (five years ago)

henry rollings really wants to kick family mens' asses!

― the burrito that defined a generation, Tuesday, 17 November 2020 02:39 (five years ago)

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