BeforeAfter (Daryl Hall album)

For the Heaven 17 album, see Before After.

BeforeAfter is a 2022 compilation album of singer Daryl Hall's solo work, independent of the duo Hall & Oates. Its 30 songs draw from Hall's five studio albums—Sacred Songs (1980), Three Hearts in the Happy Ending Machine (1986), Soul Alone (1993), Can't Stop Dreaming (1996) and Laughing Down Crying (2011)—as well as from his long-running concert broadcast series, Live from Daryl's House. It was released on April 1, 2022, on Sony's Legacy Recordings imprint.^[1]

BeforeAfter
Compilation album by Daryl Hall
Released	April 1, 2022
Recorded	August 1977 – March 2022
Genre	Pop rock rock R&B soul
Length	144:57
Label	Legacy Recordings
Daryl Hall chronology
Laughing Down Crying (2011) BeforeAfter (2022)

Hall released the solo retrospective because his Hall & Oates audience hadn't been exposed to much of it. "I obviously had this whole body of work that I haven't really performed other than at Live from Daryl's House. I do a lot of these songs on the Live from Daryl's House show, which is one of the reasons I started Live from Daryl’s House, so there would be an outlet for me to have to play all my music, not just the music I write for Hall & Oates. I consider what I do outside of that as just as important to me. I have a long history of working with various people and I want to bring it out there, you know? Have the world hear it and all those things."^[2]

Eight of the album's 30 tracks are from Live from Daryl's House. Guests include David A. Stewart, with whom Hall covers Stewart's band Eurythmics' hit "Here Comes the Rain Again", Monte Montgomery on a live version of Hall's "North Star", and Todd Rundgren, who joins Hall on Rundgren's hit "Can We Still Be Friends".^[3] Rundgren joined Hall on a 2022 U.S. tour in support of BeforeAfter.^[4]

Track listing

All songs written by Daryl Hall unless otherwise listed.

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Dreamtime"	Hall John Beeby	4:45
2.	"Babs and Babs"		7:44
3.	"Foolish Pride"		3:57
4.	"Can't Stop Dreaming"	Hall Walter Afanasieff Alan Gorrie Dan Shea	4:13
5.	"Here Comes the Rain Again" (with David A. Stewart Live from Daryl's House)	Annie Lennox David A. Stewart	4:45
6.	"Someone Like You"		5:32
7.	"Talking to You (Is Like Talking to Myself)"		4:27
8.	"Sacred Songs"		3:15
9.	"Right as Rain"		4:24
10.	"Survive"		6:39
11.	"North Star" (with Monte Montgomery Live from Daryl's House)		4:01
12.	"In My Own Dream" (Live from Daryl's House)	Paul Butterfield	5:51
13.	"NYCNY"	Hall Robert Fripp	4:28
14.	"What's Gonna Happen to Us"		5:39
15.	"Love Revelation"	Hall Peter Lord Moreland V. Jeffrey Smith Gorrie	4:35
16.	"Fools Rush In"	Hall Gorrie David Bellochio	4:23
17.	"I'm in a Philly Mood"	Hall Moreland Smith Gorrie	5:14
18.	"Send Me"	Hall Moreland Smith Gorrie	4:56
19.	"Justify"	Hall Louis Brown	3:57
20.	"Borderline"	Hall Lena Fiagbe Michael Peden	6:16
21.	"Stop Loving Me, Stop Loving You"	Hall Sara Allen Marvin Gaye	4:42
22.	"Eyes for You (Ain't No Doubt About It)"		5:35
23.	"The Farther Away I Am"		2:52
24.	"Why Was It So Easy"		5:28
25.	"Can We Still Be Friends" (with Todd Rundgren Live from Daryl's House)	Todd Rundgren	4:13
26.	"Cab Driver"	Hall Gorrie Brown	5:22
27.	"Our Day Will Come" (Live from Daryl's House)	Bob Hilliard Mort Garson	4:11
28.	"Laughing Down Crying" (Live from Daryl's House)		4:20
29.	"Problem with You" (Live from Daryl's House)		4:40
30.	"Neither One of Us (Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye)" (Live from Daryl's House)	Jim Weatherly	4:33

References

1. Sinclair, Paul (2022-04-01). "Daryl Hall / Before After". Super Deluxe Edition. Retrieved 2022-05-13.
2. Uitti, Jacob. "Daryl Hall Talks New LP 'BeforeAfter'". American Songwriter. Retrieved 2022-05-13.
3. Richards, Sam (2022-03-28). "'BeforeAfter' reminds us Daryl Hall is more than radio hits". Riff. Retrieved 2022-05-13.
4. Cohen, Jonathan (2022-01-22). "Daryl Hall Plots New Solo Collection, Tour With Todd Rundgren". Variety. Retrieved 2022-05-13.