Daryl Hall and John Oates: Big Bam Boom (RCA)

IT'S NOT exactly a secret that Hall and Oates have been riding the hot streak of their lives since the '80s began. Voices, Private Eyes and H2O were all solid if unspectacular success stories that continually unleashed a slew of memorable hit singles on an insatiable listening public (of which I am an avid member). I tune in loud and clear when I hear a Hall and Oates 45 coming at me over the airwaves. And we're talking durable, brother; all the saturation airplay in the world is not gonna dim the glow of something as propulsively vibrant as 'Say It Isn't So'.