B-side "Bank on Your Love" Format 7", 12", CD Genre Pop | Released December 15, 1984 Recorded 1984 | |
Length 5:34 (album version)
3:58 (single version)
7:49 (extended mix) | ||
"Method of Modern Love" is a 1985 song by the American duo Hall & Oates. It was released as the second single from their 1984 album, Big Bam Boom. The song reached number five on the Billboard Hot 100 in February 1985 and is included in numerous compilation albums except on the album: Playlist: The Very Best of Daryl Hall & John Oates.
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Music video
The setting and the mood of the music video is kept very surreal, almost dream-like. At the beginning, Hall and Oates are discovered in their cozy apartment by someone on the roof, looking through a skylight. G.E. Smith throws a V-style guitar through the window, as if it were a spear. The guitar sticks into the floor and then begins glowing. This incites Hall and Oates to go up to the roof to investigate. There, on the roof of the apartment, they become mesmerized by a four-man band, and then all the men perform a choreography. While performing Daryl Hall falls from the roof, and the other men rush to see what became of him. There, they see him dancing on the clouds next to the moon, and upon Hall's beckoning, they dive off the roof in an attempt to walk on the clouds. At the end, they are seen swimming and dancing in the clouds, with neon signs flashing the letters of the song title.
The version of the song used in the video is a special edit, which incorporates both the album version and the 12" remix version.
In popular culture
In 1985, "Weird Al" Yankovic included the song in his polka medley "Hooked on Polkas" from his album Dare to Be Stupid. In 1993, rapper Method Man sampled the song on his song "Method Man".
Chart performance
The song entered on the Billboard Hot 100 when Out of Touch was still on the top of the chart, it debuted at #50 the same week it was released, after eight weeks it peaked at #5 staying there for a week, the single remained on the chart for nineteen weeks. Curiously, on the January 19, 1985 issue this song was at #21 while another song by the band, Out of Touch, was at #22.
On the Radio & Records airplay chart the song debuted at #38 on the December 14, 1984 issue, after four weeks it reached and peaked at #5 staying there for two weeks, the song was on the top 10 of the chart for five weeks and remained on it for ten weeks.