Maneater (Live At Sydney) - HALL AND OATES

"Maneater" is a song by the American duo Hall & Oates, featured on their eleventh studio album, H2O (1982). It reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on December 18, 1982. It remained in the top spot for four weeks, more than any of the duo's five other number-one hits, including "Kiss on My List", which remained in the top spot for three weeks.

The Hall & Oates music video opens with a woman (Aleksandra Duncan) walking down a red staircase, and the band playing in a dimly lit studio with shafts of light projecting down on them. The band members step in and out of the light for their lip sync. A young woman in a short party dress is shown in fade-in and fade-out shots, along with a black jaguar, hence the song line "The woman is wild, a she-cat tamed by the purr of a Jaguar." (In the lyrics' context, the Jaguar in question is the car manufacturer.) The song's chorus is "Oh, oh here she comes; watch out boy, she'll chew you up; oh, oh here she comes, she's a Maneater."

[Dimster]

Daryl Hall's voice is "still there" but he seems as though he can't be bothered putting the effort in to sing properly. Such a disappointment as this is one of the greatest songs of all time. I'd rather remember them as they were!

[daveycmusic]

Darryl is a monster. And the band is awesome. But this version of this song is a turd.