{"id":2366,"date":"2009-10-15T22:59:01","date_gmt":"2009-10-16T02:59:01","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-10-17T15:22:01","modified_gmt":"2009-10-17T15:22:01","slug":"hits-that-should-have-appeared-on-an-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/hits-that-should-have-appeared-on-an-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Hits That Should Have Appeared on an Artist&#8217;s Greatest Hits Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q7ooPfAAr9o?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nAbout 5 years ago I finally bought the standard <strong>Hall &amp; Oates<\/strong> greatest hits collection, <em>Rock &#8216;n Soul, Part 1<\/em>. It was clear to me that there was no killer Hall &amp; Oates album to be had, and for the right price I was will to bring home a hits collections that included some &#8217;80s turds by an artist I liked best in the &#8217;70s. Beside, as &#8217;80s hitmakers went, I could live with my share of Hall &amp; Oates hits like &#8220;You Make My Dreams&#8221; and &#8220;I Can&#8217;t Go for That (No Can Do).&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Over the years I kept feeling like something was missing from the collection of five or so Hall &amp; Oates songs that made buying this hits CD for the right price. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2009\/01\/16\/thank_god_for_greatest_hits_albums_hall_\">I listened to clips from each of their earlier &#8217;70s albums<\/a> in search of the <em>hit that was not included<\/em>, but it was not until I got to the band&#8217;s 1980 &#8220;New Wave&#8221; album, <em>Voices<\/em>, that I found the song I was missing: &#8220;How Does It Feel to Be Back.&#8221; Although the third highest-ranking song on the album (behind &#8220;You Make My Dreams&#8221; and the presumably-also-left-for &#8220;Part 2&#8221; cover of &#8220;You&#8217;ve Lost That Lovin&#8217; Feeling&#8221;), the song did crack the <em>Billboard Top 30<\/em> and it was in regular rotation on Philadelphia radio in its time. Listening to it now, it still stands up as a pretty stately power pop song, if not the most immediately catchy song in their catalog.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s funny how that song has lost its place in the band&#8217;s catalog, and I wonder if there are other hit songs you feel have suffered this fate owing to their not being included on an artist&#8217;s first <em>greatest hits<\/em> collection, perhaps with a <em>Part 2<\/em> left long ago on the drawing board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 5 years ago I finally bought the standard Hall &amp; Oates greatest hits collection, Rock &#8216;n Soul, Part 1. It was clear to me that there was no killer Hall &amp; Oates album to be had, and for the right price I was will to bring home a hits collections that included some &#8217;80s <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/hits-that-should-have-appeared-on-an-art\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[206],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}