Hall & Oates "Out of Touch" outsold The Beatles' "Hey Jude" by over two and a half million copies.

[LoZoccolo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnCMnUH5WKs

Dance on your knees.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

1. And we give one flying fuck because...?

*scratches head*

[LoZoccolo]

3. I think the record sales are standalone evidence of many many flying fucks. n/t

[Oeditpus Rex]

2. Sales are probably the worst way

to gauge the quality of art.

[Lex]

4. Does the population growth have anything to do with it?

Just a guess.

[cemaphonic]

5. Probably also had something to do with the screwy distribution of Beatles albums

Before their catalog was organized for CD mastering, they were being released by a couple different lables, with different songs on each version so there was a lot of overlap. I think most of the songs on Hey Jude were available elsewhere. It doesn't even exist as a CD release.

[LoZoccolo]

10. This is a comparison of single sales, not albums.

The album on which "Out of Touch" appeared was titled Big Bam Boom.

[idgiehkt]

6. If you keep posting these threads

I may just fall in love with you.

:rofl:

(no thanks for the earworm, though)

[SPKrazy]

7. While Hall And Oates Weren't Bad

to compare them to beatles is just, well sacreligious

[crispini]

8. But...

are they bigger than Oasis? :shrug:

[LoZoccolo]

9. No, but they were the Beatles of the 80s until Terence Trent D'Arby came along. n/t

[Redstone]

11. I knew those guys. Actually Oates more than Hall. Hall was a bit of a prig.

Oates didn't care that I had no idea who he was when we bought each other beer and played each other's guitars. My kind of guy.

Redstone

[pintobean]

12. I call BS

Where did this info come from?

[LoZoccolo]

17. I am sorry; I was under the influence of LSD when this was written.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=5902778&mesg_id=5902778

[LSdemocrat]

13. Both good songs, but I would guess there were more people to buy music in the 1980's

[KG]

14. score one for Hall & Oates!

[Magrittes Pipe]

15. K&R

:thumbsup:

[Rabrrrrrr]

16. This is why popularity is an utterly bankrupt rubric for judging value of art