Consumer Guide Album

Daryl Hall & John Oates: No Goodbyes [Atlantic, 1977]
The three previously unreleased songs on this compilation--especially "Love You Like a Brother," an ironic double or triple whammy--define worldly, media-saturated, serially monogamous singles (as in singles bar, though I'm sure they wouldn't stoop so low) as well as the best cuts on the well-represented Abandoned Luncheonette. The three songs from War Babies take on larger issues of concern to singles--destruction by stardom, etc. B+