the bee gees, then, awesome australian auteurs or treacly, trend-hopping trash? i trust that i won't be alone in considering them classic, yet i feel that i'll be made to stand in the corner by myself for suggesting that odessa is better than any beatles album you care to name.
― fred "the fourth bee gee" solinger, Wednesday, 6 June 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
― fred solinger, Wednesday, 6 June 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
― tarden, Wednesday, 6 June 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
However, their 70's output is pretty awesome, especially the Saturday Night Fever album.
They should have retired or disappeared into the Bermuda Triangle afterwards.
I do hope that The Solinger takes the fourth bee gee title seriously and starts going to tanning booths and getting a beard. Maybe then he'd be cool. Somehow I doubt it though.
― Nicole, Wednesday, 6 June 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
― Tom, Wednesday, 6 June 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
But come to think of it, the Bee Gees looked cool. Bonny Prince Billy looks better furry. So why not? My hostility towards them is fading.
― duane zarakov, Wednesday, 6 June 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
― mark s, Wednesday, 6 June 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
― d. zarakov, Wednesday, 6 June 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
actually, there were four bee gees at one point, one glance at their first best of cover will tell you that much. who he was is a question that remains unanswered for me. the brothers gibb are hanging out and then there's this other guy, like father gibb paid him to be in the band so the guys would have friends who weren't family members.
as for blue-eyed soul, yeah, hall & oates, bowie (on young americans and elsewhere), the righteous brothers, the rascals, rundgren, DUSTY!, van the man (on moondance, at least), the box tops, mitch ryder, the soul survivors, the average white band, etc.
Did you really think I was going to say anything else?
― masonic boom, Wednesday, 6 June 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
*gags uncermoneously*
*leaves room to put on GOOD music, not this Bee Gees rubbish*
Sums it up nicely.
― Ally, Wednesday, 6 June 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
― -- Mike Hanley, Wednesday, 6 June 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 6 June 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
― Mark, Wednesday, 6 June 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
― DG, Wednesday, 6 June 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
and i froze, i really had no answer for him. that is until now! mark, you singlehandedly redeem all of pitchfork. surely, the bee gees aren't greater than abba -- hardly a crime! -- even though they have more great songs. abba's best songs are better than the bee gee's best, that's all. however, if you take "world" off of the first best- of and replace it with "melody fair," you've got an album that'll give gold a run for its money.
what's funny is how it all used to be, "many are quick to judge the bee gees based on their disco work, but few are aware of the classic pop they churned out in the 60s." but now it's "that 60s stuff really isn't my thing, but the saturday night fever soundtrack is great!"
And, alas, you and Mark are both wrong in my eyes, because you are making the wrong claims. You don't want the songs, you want the image, the beards, tans and gold medallions, as Nicole indicated. Admit you are both Lotharios.
If I could rescue that song from the disco hell that is the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, I'd be very, very, very, very happy. Two, twice, two times.
So, Fred, you're saying that someone with interest in the Gibb's frilly baroque pop period should start with Odessa?
― David Raposa, Wednesday, 6 June 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
Classic Bee Gees singles: "Jive Talkin'", "You Should Be Dancing", "Stayin' Alive", "Tragedy". "Night Fever" just isn't strong enough, "Spirits (Having Flown)" is just too twee, all the singles from 1987 onwards are execrable AOR.
― Robin Carmody, Wednesday, 6 June 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
robin, i have to admit that i'm a sucker for "first of may," especially in the context of odessa where it's theme of young love lost forever is amplified to the nth degree. and "night fever" is FABULOUS, the string arranging is brilliant and it's so well composed (with three distinct parts).
"First of May" is such a sad whinge for Innocence Lost, though ...
― Geoff, Wednesday, 6 June 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
― keith, Wednesday, 6 June 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
― Geoff, Thursday, 7 June 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
(Geoff, you're not actually hinting you're a Bee Gee by Blood, are you?)
― mark s, Thursday, 7 June 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
― Mark, Sunday, 30 September 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
― robin carmody (robin carmody), Saturday, 15 November 2003 03:22 (9 years ago) Permalink
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― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 15 November 2003 03:47 (9 years ago) Permalink
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 15 November 2003 03:52 (9 years ago) Permalink
Wait, I had a question... *rummages around in bag* Should I buy albums or just stick with singles comps?
― Dave M. (rotten03), Monday, 26 April 2004 05:27 (9 years ago) Permalink
― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 26 April 2004 05:31 (9 years ago) Permalink
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― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Monday, 25 April 2005 13:32 (8 years ago) Permalink
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― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 25 April 2005 15:36 (8 years ago) Permalink
My pals and I made the trek to Memphis to interview Alex Chilton once, back before he was really famous, and he was living with his mom down there and had no money. We're sitting in this biker bar and he goes off about Gibb's "Robin's Reign," very amusing:
"I mean, I like everything, you know, but then again what I would do would be something different. But Robin Gibb’s solo album, this is before the Bee Gees went disco, he had quit the group, he though he was too great to be in it. I didn’t find it until 1977. I was in New York. I was going through this record store and I always kind of liked Robin Gibb the way he’d stand there like Bette Davis (puts finger in cheek). You know, I thought his songs were the best songs they had done and I saw this album and had to buy it and took it home and it was really great."
― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Monday, 25 April 2005 16:07 (8 years ago) Permalink
Interesting about Chilton — Robin's stuff is fantastic. Say what you will, but nobody sounds like him, and Sing Slowly Sisters is really quite a remarkable example of 60's orchestral pop at its most expansive.
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Monday, 25 April 2005 17:40 (8 years ago) Permalink
As for their disco-era stuff, specially their "Saturday Night Fever" contributions: Classic. But I'm reminded of an accurate comment Matty made recently on the "Supertramp's Breakfast In America: C or D? thread. An unflattering comparison was made between both groups and their over-reliance on "mewling" falsetto lead vocals. A complaint I can totally relate to, despite my giving both groups "classic" status.
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 25 April 2005 17:54 (8 years ago) Permalink
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― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 14:54 (8 years ago) Permalink
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― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 15:15 (8 years ago) Permalink
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this box set is amazing
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 5 July 2007 16:07 (5 years ago) Permalink
Which -- Tales?
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 5 July 2007 18:30 (5 years ago) Permalink
The Studio Albums: 1967-1968 6 CDs, the first three full lengths (First, Horizontal, and Idea) + loads of extras, b-sides, ad jingles, alternate versions. Could do without the mono mixes (who gives a shit) but the rest is great.
what a strange band.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 5 July 2007 18:33 (5 years ago) Permalink
I am a bird; watch me go drifting by. With my feathers of power I laugh as the hours go slowly by. That could mean ev'rything. I am a street watching the people walk. As I listen their conversations glisten as they start to talk. Then I hear ev'rything.
Little white jug, me and Kilburn Towers, as we sit on the hill and we drink and we swill till the early hours, Then I am ev'rything. Little white jug and me and Kilburn Towers
― Tim Ellison, Thursday, 5 July 2007 18:40 (5 years ago) Permalink
anybody else diggin' the Barry Gibb 80's demos currently found on iTunes?
― henry s, Thursday, 5 July 2007 19:08 (5 years ago) Permalink
Odessa was one of these instances of just attaining this tremendous pinnacle. It's almost ridiculous to see how far they came down with Cucumber Castle and Robin's Reign.
Robin's vocal on "Black Diamond" is so virtuosic. When he shifts into his throat and then does that fake soul impression on the repetition of the "He wa' leavin' in the morning" line - that's really something else.
― Tim Ellison, Friday, 20 July 2007 02:12 (5 years ago) Permalink
And then the chorus is...country? But maybe like the Band were country - it sounds ancient.
― Tim Ellison, Friday, 20 July 2007 02:16 (5 years ago) Permalink
Some kind of archetype you can't quite put your finger on but which seems to hit the nail squarely on the head.
― Tim Ellison, Friday, 20 July 2007 02:18 (5 years ago) Permalink
man I cannot stop listening to this stuff - Trafalgar is such a beautiful album, way underrated.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 20 September 2007 21:35 (5 years ago) Permalink
me like the unreleased "A Kick in the Head..."
― dell, Thursday, 20 September 2007 22:57 (5 years ago) Permalink
They should have retired or disappeared into the Bermuda Triangle afterwards (after the SNF Soundtrack).
No. Spirits Having Flown had some good songs on it.
On a whim, I just bought the Greatest Hits, then immediately regretted it, then decided some of the songs are really stellar, then decided I couldn't listen to them without the baggage, then . . . Ahh, Schizoid I am.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 9 March 2008 16:24 (5 years ago) Permalink
What "baggage"?
― Naive Teen Idol, Sunday, 9 March 2008 16:39 (5 years ago) Permalink
All the ridicule I remember them taking when I was growing up.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 9 March 2008 16:41 (5 years ago) Permalink
The new "remixes" on the Greatest Hits really breathe new life into a few of their songs, e.g., the Supreme Beings of Leisure's remix of How Deep Is Your Love, The Teddybears' remix of Stayin' Alive.
I wish they had more of these remixes on The Greatest Hits.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 9 March 2008 16:43 (5 years ago) Permalink
I do have to say that "Tragedy" is way overrated, though, the sound of someone burning out on a sound, and badly.
Sort of true for the whole Spirits Having Flown, but that's part of what makes those songs so compelling.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 9 March 2008 17:25 (5 years ago) Permalink
"ESP" has "You Win Again" on it at least (I'm pretty sure), that song's up there w/anything they did
cosign
― tremendoid, Sunday, 9 March 2008 20:16 (5 years ago) Permalink
yeah, it is the best bee gees song, hands down
― remy bean, Sunday, 9 March 2008 20:19 (5 years ago) Permalink
i also thing tragedy is pretty great
― remy bean, Sunday, 9 March 2008 20:20 (5 years ago) Permalink
I've been listening to Spirits Having Flown this afternoon (the single), and it's pretty great.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 9 March 2008 20:24 (5 years ago) Permalink
it is a surprisingly sweet song, with unexpected folksiness that i think is lacking from the rest of the album ... a stripped-back cover could be a great single
― remy bean, Sunday, 9 March 2008 20:29 (5 years ago) Permalink
Agreed, I think the title track is my favorite song from that album. Yeah, Tragedy sounds kinda...overcooked? Too Much Heaven's great, though.
― dell, Sunday, 9 March 2008 20:39 (5 years ago) Permalink
"Tragedy" is a good tune with a sub-Moroder production. Because it's a good tune, some believe it's classic.
Anyway, that "beating" they took was, like, 20 years ago in the decade following disco's demise. Since that time they've been pretty well re-established as pop royalty.
I don't doubt that for a while it was weird to say you liked the Bee Gees or anything. It's just weird for someone to talk about feeling guilty for liking them today, as if it were still 1989 or something.
― Naive Teen Idol, Sunday, 9 March 2008 21:05 (5 years ago) Permalink
Well, I'm old. And I'm over it. These songs are great.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 9 March 2008 21:07 (5 years ago) Permalink
Yeah, Tragedy sounds kinda...overcooked?
Yeah, desperate somehow. Like what Ned said above: It's the sound of a band trying too hard to squeeze one more song from a genre that they knew had overstayed its welcome (commercially, at that time). But like I said, I think that's precisely what makes the song compelling.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 9 March 2008 21:32 (5 years ago) Permalink
That's a nice theory ("burning out on a sound") but it seems to miss the fact that they actually hadn't tried that sound before. As I said above, the only thing they're trying too hard at on "Tragedy" is to mimic Giorgio Moroder's computer disco style, which was never their thing before or after "Tragedy." I think reading this "Their moment had passed" thing into it is a little melodramatic. Granted it's the Bee Gees, but still.
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 10 March 2008 08:13 (5 years ago) Permalink
So I see that a 3-cd box set rerelease of Odessa was released today. Any thoughts on this from people who've heard it? Is it worth seeking out? I love the album despite its lyrical inanity; the vocals are so gorgeous, esp. "Melody Fair". And "Seven Seas Symphony" is stupendous, the kind of tender symphonic pop of which I wish I knew more good examples.
― Euler, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 20:34 (4 years ago) Permalink
Apparently released here tomorrow. I will pick it up. Only know the album, but will not own an original version until I have this.
― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 00:38 (4 years ago) Permalink
honestly, who gives a shit about mono mixes? never understood why those are "bonus tracks"... curious to hear the other stuff though
― There was even a brief period when I preferred Sally Forth. (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 00:44 (4 years ago) Permalink
Yeah it looks like there's more than mono mixes thankfully.
― Euler, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 01:50 (4 years ago) Permalink
When they embraced disco they embraced their inanity more, emblematic of the nineteen seventies as a decade.
― Dan Landings, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 02:15 (4 years ago) Permalink
uh for me, they have a select few excellent singles. plowing through a mountain load of their material in search of goodness, as i was recently, proves a cumbersome task, however.
― Charlie Howard, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 08:58 (4 years ago) Permalink
^^^so wrong
― There was even a brief period when I preferred Sally Forth. (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 16:52 (4 years ago) Permalink
honestly, who gives a shit about mono mixes?
some guys. i like them when it's one of those "band were involved with the mono mix, label just paid some dude to do the stereo mix" situations. also bee gees' 1st sound better blasting in mono for some reason.
― HELPING CHILDREN THROUGH RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 16:55 (4 years ago) Permalink
HELPING CHILDREN THROUGH RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Hahaha. "Hi everyone, let's pitch in 'n get cracking..."
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 16:57 (4 years ago) Permalink
Yeah, sometimes the mono mix is the better sounding. I think that's the only reason. I certainly prefer the mono of SF Sorrow. I don't think I need a 3cd version of Odessa. I bet the public library will get a copy of it eventually.
― Trip Maker, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 16:58 (4 years ago) Permalink
yeah, I'm hoping to hear more about what this beast offers, before buying or rejecting it. The packaging sounds great: a red velvet box (get your mind out of the gutter) like the original vinyl release. But are the demos etc gorgeous? And how's the remastered sound?
― Euler, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 17:00 (4 years ago) Permalink
anyone know where i can get the original bee gees recording of "emotion?" (not the samantha sang version). downloaded "their greatest hits: the record" which has an AWFUL remix/rerecording of the song.
― akaky akakievich, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 20:53 (3 years ago) Permalink
The song "ESP" is great! I've been listening through the Tales box this morning, and it's a pretty strange listen: from the string-laden Beatlesque pop of the late 60s, to the country rock of the early 70s, to the r&b and disco of the mid 70s, to the gloss of the 80s. It all works, somehow; these were guys with great voices and even better connections, and between those they tapped into various zeitgeists that allowed them to make timely pop records in several different eras without sounding silly like, I dunno, the Monkees in 1987.
― Euler, Saturday, 7 November 2009 10:34 (3 years ago) Permalink
"Nights On Broadway" remains the best thing they ever did (to my ears).
― Alex in NYC, Saturday, 7 November 2009 13:54 (3 years ago) Permalink
"Lonely Days" has always been my go to Bee Gees tune. Rhyming nonchalant with restaurant gets me every time.
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 7 November 2009 14:02 (3 years ago) Permalink
That's an outstanding one, yes.
I wrote an passionate piece about the `Gees on this blog not too long back.
― Alex in NYC, Saturday, 7 November 2009 19:17 (3 years ago) Permalink
an passionate!
The Samantha Sang album is all kinds of awesome
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Sunday, 31 October 2010 19:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
BBC doc available until Sunday and bloody brilliant:http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b010tbk5/Bee_Gees_In_Our_Own_Time/
― piscesx, Saturday, 30 April 2011 13:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2129558/Robin-Gibb-news-Bee-Gees-star-coma-doctors-fear-days-live.html
― nostormo, Saturday, 14 April 2012 11:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
Unlycky bastards. The Kennedy family of pop? :(
― The GeirBot (Geir Hongro), Saturday, 14 April 2012 16:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
afaik, none of the Bee Gees were assassinated. So, no.
― Dancing with Mr. T (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 14 April 2012 17:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
Robin out of his coma now, apparently...?
― heavy is the head that eats the crayons (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 23 April 2012 01:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
I had a dream of a place far away.I followed a river where the dead man would play.And I'm leaving in the morning.And I'm leaving in the morning.And I won't die, so don't cry. I'll be home.
― buzza, Monday, 23 April 2012 01:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
I am going to pretend that all the devotional Bee Gees listening I've done in the past week have had a hand in this
― heavy is the head that eats the crayons (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 23 April 2012 01:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
what he said. robin still has rough road ahead of him, but still. love these guys so fucking much.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 01:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
Another one bites the dust ...
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 20 May 2012 22:56 (11 months ago) Permalink
man...
― dell (del), Sunday, 20 May 2012 23:13 (11 months ago) Permalink
Wow. Just re-discovering their music...of course I knew he was sick, but this might affect my enjoyment. Bee Gees music is eternal and not something one associates with cancer.
I remember struggling with brother Andy's death as a child. RIP.
― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Bulgarian Tourist Chamber (Mount Cleaners), Sunday, 20 May 2012 23:17 (11 months ago) Permalink
― Sisig Steve (stevie), Sunday, 20 May 2012 23:18 (11 months ago) Permalink
rip robin my favourite bee gee
i know he was really ill but this one hurts
― buzza, Sunday, 20 May 2012 23:21 (11 months ago) Permalink
a sad week for disco (and other genres)
― Lee971 (Lee626), Sunday, 20 May 2012 23:49 (11 months ago) Permalink
jesus, fuck this. g'night, Robin
― Stormy Davis, Sunday, 20 May 2012 23:50 (11 months ago) Permalink
Awesome live vocal of a very underrated song:
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 21 May 2012 14:23 (11 months ago) Permalink
I love bustin' out classic Bee Gees for those (most?) that only know their disco stuff:
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 21 May 2012 15:06 (11 months ago) Permalink
Mr. Natural is all time
RIP Robin
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 21 May 2012 15:26 (11 months ago) Permalink
If we had someone who was willing to run the poll, I'd say we should bump this one up a la Beasties...
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 21 May 2012 15:37 (11 months ago) Permalink
I'd be happy to do it but I kinda doubt we'd get many votes...
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 21 May 2012 15:55 (11 months ago) Permalink
yeah nobody has heard those early-mid 70s records. well not nobody but... can't imagine we'd get too many folks repping for deep cuts from 'life in a tin can'
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 21 May 2012 16:06 (11 months ago) Permalink
I've got all kinds of love for Trafalgar, Mr. Natural, and To Whom it May Concern myself, but yeah these are not popular opinions
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 21 May 2012 16:10 (11 months ago) Permalink
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 21 May 2012 16:12 (11 months ago) Permalink
big o has this pretty good unreleased solo album from 1970. http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=1101RIP. unmistakeable style and voice.
― tylerw, Monday, 21 May 2012 16:15 (11 months ago) Permalink
tyler, watch that video above. beautiful footage. beautiful song.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 21 May 2012 16:22 (11 months ago) Permalink
yeah that is wonderful
― tylerw, Monday, 21 May 2012 16:30 (11 months ago) Permalink
IF ONLY THERE WERE A WAY TO FIND OUT.
Seriously, Shakey, why don't we suggest this in the poll thread! If there's any time we could maximize votes, it would be now.
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 21 May 2012 16:56 (11 months ago) Permalink
Oddly, the only three Bee Gees albums I've ever owned were To Whom, Tin Can and Mr. Natural; radio promos I brought home. Sold 'em, and honestly can't remember much of any of them, but that clip of Mr. Natural brought the memory of that one back big time.
― Soccer mom, hopeless and lost, in utter despair (Dan Peterson), Monday, 21 May 2012 17:05 (11 months ago) Permalink
Tin Can is pretty crap
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 21 May 2012 17:11 (11 months ago) Permalink
I was just spinning some Bee Gees and 'Nights on Broadway' came up, which I love...and I remembered Fallon & Timberlake used it as the SNL Barry Gibb Talk Show theme song and I got SO teary and then I had to laugh at myself and ugh I'm just so bummed
I know Robin was sick but still, I really hate not having him anymore. I loved them for so long.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 21 May 2012 17:12 (11 months ago) Permalink
every time I watch a live clip I still get blown away by how there's barely any drop-off between them in the studio and them on stage...
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 21 May 2012 17:17 (11 months ago) Permalink
that's what happens when you've been performing since you were like 6 years old. they were pros.
barry sometimes seems to be fake-playing guitar in live gigs.
robin looks almost normal there.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 21 May 2012 18:23 (11 months ago) Permalink
yeah I've noticed the fake-playing too
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 21 May 2012 18:24 (11 months ago) Permalink
Had no idea the Bee Gees completely missed the UK album charts from late 1970-76. Main Course was huge in the US.
Conversely, they were all but banned from US radio in the early to mid 80s, the Bee Gees having been the biggest target of the disco backlash. I doubt many Americans have heard "You Win Again".
I really like Mr. Natural, a transitional album that catches them just as they were starting to search for a new sound.
― Lee971 (Lee626), Monday, 21 May 2012 21:55 (11 months ago) Permalink
<3 alex chilton
― buzza, Monday, 4 June 2012 06:55 (11 months ago) Permalink
2001 ilx vmic
― buzza, Monday, 4 June 2012 06:56 (11 months ago) Permalink
attention ye robin gibb mourners -- bee gees polling in effect, 10 ballots received and we would love more contributions :D
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 9 June 2012 04:35 (11 months ago) Permalink
To Poll Somebody - The Robin Gibb Memorial BEE GEES TRACKS POLL (voting thread)
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 9 June 2012 04:36 (11 months ago) Permalink
Do your civic duty people.
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 9 June 2012 12:06 (11 months ago) Permalink
― Tim Ellison
so otm
― buzza, Saturday, 15 December 2012 11:08 (5 months ago) Permalink
Not enough love here for the 60s stuff, which is my favourite Bee Gees. It wasn't all twee; some of it kinda rocked (the Earnest of Being George, In My Own Time, Idea). There's some great McCartney-inspired bass playing on some of that stuff, clearly Maurice really dug Revolver. Robin was one helluva vocalist - actually, singer. We can call him a singer. Listen to "Really and Sincerely", wow. Even his emoting in "I Started A Joke" can move you if you let it.
Plus, they were funny. Stuff like "I've Decided To Join The Airforce" and "Craise Finton Kirk" are wonderfully sardonic in a somewhat cheerier-than-Ray-Davies mold.
Classic, no question. Even before they became Kings of Disco. Even if they never did that thing.
― Doctor Flange, Sunday, 16 December 2012 23:55 (5 months ago) Permalink
all their mid-'60s to early '70s albums bursting with great deep cuts, and sometimes outtakes.
― Lee626, Monday, 17 December 2012 23:04 (5 months ago) Permalink
am thinking of picking up the Mythology box set
any naysayers out there?
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 27 December 2012 16:34 (4 months ago) Permalink