BeforeAfter (Daryl Hall album)

BeforeAfter
Compilation album by
Daryl Hall
ReleasedApril 1, 2022
RecordedAugust 1977 – March 2022
Genre
Length144:57
LabelLegacy Recordings
Daryl Hall chronology
Laughing Down Crying
(2011) 		BeforeAfter
(2022) 		D
(2024)

BeforeAfter is a compilation album by Daryl Hall, released in 2022. It features his solo work outside from Hall & Oates, composed of 30 songs draw from Hall's five studio albums—Sacred Songs (1980), Three Hearts in the Happy Ending Machine (1986), Soul Alone (1993), Can't Stop Dreaming (1996) and Laughing Down Crying (2011)—as well as from his long-running concert broadcast series, Live from Daryl's House. It was released on April 1, 2022, on Sony's Legacy Recordings imprint.[1]

Hall released the solo retrospective because his Hall & Oates audience hadn't been exposed to much of it. "I obviously had this whole body of work that I haven't really performed other than at Live from Daryl's House. I do a lot of these songs on the Live from Daryl's House show, which is one of the reasons I started Live from Daryl’s House, so there would be an outlet for me to have to play all my music, not just the music I write for Hall & Oates. I consider what I do outside of that as just as important to me. I have a long history of working with various people and I want to bring it out there, you know? Have the world hear it and all those things."[2]

Eight of the album's 30 tracks are from Live from Daryl's House. Guests include David A. Stewart, with whom Hall covers Stewart's band Eurythmics' hit "Here Comes the Rain Again", Monte Montgomery on a live version of Hall's "North Star", and Todd Rundgren, who joins Hall on Rundgren's hit "Can We Still Be Friends".[3] Rundgren joined Hall on a 2022 U.S. tour in support of BeforeAfter.[4]

Track listing

All songs written by Daryl Hall unless otherwise listed.

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Dreamtime"
  • Hall
  • John Beeby
4:45
2."Babs and Babs" 7:44
3."Foolish Pride" 3:57
4."Can't Stop Dreaming"
4:13
5."Here Comes the Rain Again" (with David A. Stewart Live from Daryl's House)
4:45
6."Someone Like You" 5:32
7."Talking to You (Is Like Talking to Myself)" 4:27
8."Sacred Songs" 3:15
9."Right as Rain" 4:24
10."Survive" 6:39
11."North Star" (with Monte Montgomery Live from Daryl's House) 4:01
12."In My Own Dream" (Live from Daryl's House)Paul Butterfield5:51
13."NYCNY"
4:28
14."What's Gonna Happen to Us" 5:39
15."Love Revelation"
  • Hall
  • Peter Lord Moreland
  • V. Jeffrey Smith
  • Gorrie
4:35
16."Fools Rush In"
  • Hall
  • Gorrie
  • David Bellochio
4:23
17."I'm in a Philly Mood"
  • Hall
  • Moreland
  • Smith
  • Gorrie
5:14
18."Send Me"
  • Hall
  • Moreland
  • Smith
  • Gorrie
4:56
19."Justify"
  • Hall
  • Louis Brown
3:57
20."Borderline"
6:16
21."Stop Loving Me, Stop Loving You"
4:42
22."Eyes for You (Ain't No Doubt About It)" 5:35
23."The Farther Away I Am" 2:52
24."Why Was It So Easy" 5:28
25."Can We Still Be Friends" (with Todd Rundgren Live from Daryl's House)Todd Rundgren4:13
26."Cab Driver"
  • Hall
  • Gorrie
  • Brown
5:22
27."Our Day Will Come" (Live from Daryl's House)
  • Bob Hilliard
  • Mort Garson
4:11
28."Laughing Down Crying" (Live from Daryl's House) 4:20
29."Problem with You" (Live from Daryl's House) 4:40
30."Neither One of Us (Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye)" (Live from Daryl's House)Jim Weatherly4:33

References

  1. ^ Sinclair, Paul (2022-04-01). "Daryl Hall / Before After". Super Deluxe Edition. Retrieved 2022-05-13.
  2. ^ Uitti, Jacob. "Daryl Hall Talks New LP 'BeforeAfter'". American Songwriter. Retrieved 2022-05-13.
  3. ^ Richards, Sam (2022-03-28). "'BeforeAfter' reminds us Daryl Hall is more than radio hits". Riff. Retrieved 2022-05-13.
  4. ^ Cohen, Jonathan (2022-01-22). "Daryl Hall Plots New Solo Collection, Tour With Todd Rundgren". Variety. Retrieved 2022-05-13.


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