Do Hall and Oates get the retrospective critical respect they deserve?I know they're huge and award winning.But I get a sense that they're listened to ironically by some. Do we talk enough about the fidelity of their recordings or how they shaped a certain type of pop sound?

I think I need to do a hot take podcast on why John Oates Moustache has single handedly stopped them getting retrospective critical respect, because it unfairly got co opted into early 2010s ironic moustache fetishisation

It will go side by side with the one about Nirvana sounding the way they do because Charles Manson boxed one of the beach boys into the throat

Bowies Lets Dance album is looked back on as hugely successful, but also artistically important to pop. But if you really listen, its sound is heavily influenced by "Maneater", which was released 3 years before it. Yet Hall and Oates are called "Yacht Rock", a derisive genre.

I bet Bowie and Nile Rodgers sat down and said "Let's do a song like Maneater" and came up with this. Same vibe, same drums, same use of key change https://open.spotify.com/track/3gxEZXUjrNbl3TlSrTGbR5?si=zq3Zw-gPQxSjhfzomK_atQ