Sacred Songs

by Daryl Hall

Sacred Songs cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: March 1980
  • Label: RCA
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 45:44
  • Community rating: 3.53/5 from 5 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Daryl Hall recorded 'Sacred Songs' with Robert Fripp, producing a solo album far stranger than Hall & Oates' mainstream image suggested. The album combines art-rock structures, blue-eyed soul vocals, and Fripp's late-1970s experimental guitar concepts.

Genres

Descriptors: avant-garde, melodic, progressive, atmospheric, theatrical, vocal, guitars, electronic, rhythmic

Tracklist

  1. Sacred Songs (3:12)
  2. Something In 4/4 Time (4:20)
  3. Babs And Babs (7:20)
  4. Urban Landscape (2:24)
  5. Nycny (4:24)
  6. The Farther Away I Am (2:52)
  7. Why Was It So Easy (5:18)
  8. Don't Leave Me Alone With Her (6:24)
  9. Survive (6:40)
  10. Without Tears (2:50)

Credits

  • Daryl Hall - primary artist, vocals, keyboards, synthesizer, percussion [mandar], written-by
  • Kenny Passarelli - bass
  • Sara Allen - cover [album cover]
  • Roger Pope - drums
  • Caleb Quaye - guitar
  • David Kent - backing vocals [background vocal]
  • Charlie Dechant - saxophone, backing vocals [background vocal]

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