Music Review

The Atlantic Collection (1996)

EW's GRADE
A

Details Lead Performance: Hall & Oates; Genre: Reissues

If Hall & Oates had vanished after cutting ''She's Gone,'' they'd still have achieved immortality. The tune bestrides the '70s in the same way that ''You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling'' (the Righteous Brothers' original, not H&O's pallid cover) does the '60s: Each was its decade's perfect expression of blue-eyed soul. An anthem, plus 20 others from H&O's four Atlantic LPs on The Atlantic Collection — how can you go wrong? A

Originally posted Jan 26, 1996 Published in issue #311 Jan 26, 1996 Order article reprints

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