OK, I doubt everyone will agree with "musics most understated act"... but certainly they are greatly overlooked.

Have "Maneater", "Out Of Touch", "Rich Girl" or "Private Eyes" ever made a "best ever" song list?

I think these songs are better than many of the songs that do. I don't get it. H&O hits are still played on the radio and their recordings sold in the millions.

I love Hall and Oates - I also found them very nice guys when I interviewed them for Entertainment USA.

Underestimated, surely.

Crap album act, great singles band. John Oates could now make a decent living as a Prince lookalike, as opposed to the archetypal dodgy paedo look he sported for years. Speaking of paedos, I was unaware until today that one half of an act named after a sex toy spent a few years inside for underage fiddlings. which is the reason for that act's lengthy hiatus.

Hall and Oates are more underated than people would think and more innovating than most would say too.The major hits were mostly very early use of a drum machine. I could not believe my ears when I first heard them on the radio.I was listening to Kraftwerk and Cabaret Voltaire etc and they were using the same instrumentation to make MOR pop.Genius stuff.