War Babies | ||||||||||
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Studio album by Hall & Oates | ||||||||||
Released | October 19, 1974 | |||||||||
Recorded | June – July 1974, Secret Sound Studios, New York | |||||||||
Genre | Art rock, progressive rock | |||||||||
Length | 43:25 | |||||||||
Label | Atlantic | |||||||||
Producer | Todd Rundgren | |||||||||
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War Babies is the third studio album by Hall & Oates, released in 1974, and their last of three albums for Atlantic Records before moving to RCA Records. The album was produced by Todd Rundgren. Rundgren and other members of Utopia, his then-recently-formed prog-rock band, perform on the record.
The album was a radical departure from the previous two albums, alienating fans of the blue-eyed soul material that dominated the albums. War Babies is a more rock-oriented LP with heavy keyboard work and sarcastic lyrical content. War Babies would be their first charting album, reaching #86 on the Billboard 200.
On February 24, 2017 Friday Music released a remastered version of the album along with their first studio album, Whole Oats but it doesn't include any bonus track.