X-Static
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X-Static is the eighth studio album by Daryl Hall & John Oates
Hall & Oates
Hall & Oates are an American musical duo composed of Daryl Hall and John Oates. They achieved their greatest fame in the late 1970s and early to mid-1980s. Both sing and play instruments. They specialized in a fusion of rock and roll and rhythm and blues styles, which they dubbed "rock and soul."...

, released in November 1979 by RCA Records
RCA Records
RCA Records is one of the flagship labels of Sony Music Entertainment. The RCA initials stand for Radio Corporation of America , which was the parent corporation from 1929 to 1985 and a partner from 1985 to 1986.RCA's Canadian unit is Sony's oldest label...

. X-Static was the duo's eighth album. Buddah Records
Buddah Records
Buddah Records was founded in 1967 in New York City. The label was born out of Kama Sutra Records, an MGM Records-distributed label, which remained a key imprint following Buddah's founding...

 re-released the album with two bonus tracks in 2000.

The song "Portable Radio" was covered by the group Clout. "Wait for Me" reached #18 on the Billboard charts
Billboard charts
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 and won a BMI airplay award.

Track listing


  1. "Woman Comes and Goes" (words and music by Daryl Hall
    Daryl Hall
    Daryl Hall is an American rock, R&B and soul singer, keyboardist, guitarist, songwriter and producer, best known as the co-founder and lead vocalist of Hall & Oates . Hall scored several Billboard chart hits in the 1970s and early 1980s, and is regarded as one of the best blue eyed soul singers...

    ) 3:49
    • Daryl Hall: Lead Vocals, Electric Rhythm Guitar
    • John Oates
      John Oates
      John William Oates is an American rock, R&B and soul guitarist, musician, songwriter and producer best known as half of the rock and soul duo Hall & Oates ....

      : vocals
      Singing
      Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

      , Electric Guitar
      Electric guitar
      An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...

    • G.E. Smith: Lead Guitar
      Lead guitar
      Lead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure...

    • Jerry Marotta
      Jerry Marotta
      Jerry Marotta is a drummer currently residing in Woodstock, New York. He is the brother of Rick Marotta, who is also a well-known drummer and composer....

      : drums
      Drum kit
      A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....

    • John Siegler: Bass
      Bass guitar
      The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

    • Charlie DeChant: Saxophone
      Saxophone
      The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...

       Solo

  2. "Wait For Me" (words and music by Daryl Hall) 4:08
    • Daryl Hall: Lead Vocals, keyboards
      Keyboard instrument
      A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...

    • John Oates: Vocals, Electric Guitars
    • G.E. Smith: Lead Guitar
    • Jerry Marotta: Drums
    • John Siegler: Bass
    • Charlie DeChant: Keyboards

  3. "Portable Radio" (words by John Oates; music by John Oates and Daryl Hall) 4:46
    • Daryl Hall: Vocals, synthesizer
      Synthesizer
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      s
    • John Oates: Lead Vocals, Electric Guitars
    • G.E. Smith: Lead Guitars
    • Jerry Marotta: Drums
    • John Siegler, Neil Jason: Bass
    • Charlie DeChant: Keyboards

  4. "All You Want is Heaven" (words and music by John Oates) 4:03
    • Daryl Hall: Vocals, Mandar Guitars, Synthesizers
    • John Oates: Lead Vocals, Electric Guitars
    • G.E Smith: Lead Guitar
    • Jerry Marotta: Drums
    • Yogi Horton: Bass
    • John Siegler: Bass
    • Charlie DeChant: Keyboards

  5. "Who Said the World Was Fair" (words and music by Daryl Hall and Sara Allen) 4:10
    • Daryl Hall: Lead Vocals, Electric Guitars, Keyboards
    • John Oates: Vocals, Electric Guitars
    • G.E Smith: Lead Guitar
    • Jerry Marotta: Drums
    • John Siegler: Bass
    • Charlie DeChant: Keyboards

  6. "Running From Paradise" (words by Daryl Hall and Sara Allen; music by Daryl Hall) 6:38
    • Daryl Hall: Lead Vocals, Synthesizer Solo
    • John Oates: Vocals, Electric Guitars, Vibraphone
      Vibraphone
      The vibraphone, sometimes called the vibraharp or simply the vibes, is a musical instrument in the struck idiophone subfamily of the percussion family....

    • G.E Smith: Lead Guitar
    • Jerry Marotta: Drums
    • John Siegler: Bass
    • Charlie DeChant: Keyboards

  7. "Number One" (words and music by Daryl Hall) 3:46
    • Daryl Hall: Lead Vocals, Synthesizers, Electric Guitars
    • John Oates: Vocals, Electric Guitars
    • G.E Smith: Lead Guitar
    • Jerry Marotta: Drums
    • John Siegler: Bass
    • Charlie DeChant: Keyboards

  8. "Bebop/Drop" (words and music by John Oates) 3:57
    • Daryl Hall: Vocals, 2nd Guitar Solo
    • John Oates: Lead Vocals, Electric Guitars, Vibraphone
    • G.E Smith: Guitar Solo
    • Jerry Marotta: Drums
    • John Siegler: Bass
    • Charlie DeChant: Keyboards

  9. "Hallofon" (music by Daryl Hall) 1:21
    • Daryl Hall: Hallophone Solo

  10. "Intravino" (words by Daryl Hall, John Oates and Sara Allen; music by Daryl Hall) 3:35
    • Daryl Hall: Lead Vocals, Electric Guitars
    • John Oates: Vocals, Electric Guitars
    • G.E Smith: Lead Guitar
    • Jerry Marotta: Drums
    • John Siegler, Kenny Passarelli: Bass
    • Charlie DeChant: Keyboards

  11. "Time's Up (Alone Tonight)" (Buddha Bonus Track) 3:16
  12. "No Brain, No Pain" (Buddha Bonus Track) 2:53

Additional Musicians

  • David Foster
    David Foster
    David Walter Foster, OC, OBC , is a Canadian musician, record producer, composer, singer, songwriter, and arranger, noted for discovering singers such as Michael Bublé, Josh Groban, and Charice Pempengco; and for producing some of the most successful artists in the world, such as Céline Dion, Toni...

    : Keyboards, Synthesizers
  • Ralph Schuckett: Organ
  • Keith Love, Werner Fritsching: Guitars
  • Neil Jason: Bass
  • Yogi Horton: Drums
  • Jimmy Maelen
    Jimmy Maelen
    Jimmy Maelen was a percussionist in the 1960s-1980s, who worked with many artists including Roxy Music, Bryan Ferry, Peter Gabriel, James Taylor, Dire Straits, Barry Manilow, Alice Cooper and John Lennon...

    : Percussion

Production

  • Produced By David Foster
  • Engineers: Ed Sprigg
  • Assistant Engineers: Bruce Buchalter, David Leonard, Mark Linett, Jo Smith

Singles

  • Post-Static (12" one-sided DJL1-3512)
  1. "No Brain, No Pain"
  2. "Number One"
  3. "Bebop/Drop"
  4. "Intravino"

  • Running From Paradise (12" JD-11770)
  1. "Running From Paradise"
  2. "Portable Radio"

Reception

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