Bee Gees: Classic or Dud

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wc2hq3vbO7w

big o has this pretty good unreleased solo album from 1970. http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=1101
RIP. unmistakeable style and voice.

tyler, watch that video above. beautiful footage. beautiful song.

yeah that is wonderful

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

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.

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.

Tin Can is pretty crap

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.

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...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDiwHYDm7VA

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.

yeah I've noticed the fake-playing too

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.

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."

<3 alex chilton

2001 ilx vmic

attention ye robin gibb mourners -- bee gees polling in effect, 10 ballots received and we would love more contributions :D

To Poll Somebody - The Robin Gibb Memorial BEE GEES TRACKS POLL (voting thread)

Do your civic duty people.

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

so otm

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.

all their mid-'60s to early '70s albums bursting with great deep cuts, and sometimes outtakes.

am thinking of picking up the Mythology box set

any naysayers out there?

http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/07/14/islands-in-the-stream/

^ by bob stanley

nice, thank you.

Yes, very nice, thks. Guess I should go ahead and get the book.

Box set of the 74 to 79 years due on Rhino end of March

http://www.amazon.com/1974-1979-Bee-Gees/dp/B00SKFJMCY/ref=dp_return_2?ie=UTF8&n=5174&s=music

hmm no real bonus tracks :(

rip robert stigwood

Outlived 3 Gibb Bros.

Assuming he was 112.

Happy 70th Barry!
http://dlisted.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/hbbarrygibb2016.1-500x691.jpg

classic mooseknuckle

Speaking of which!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzwlig6qU-o

would you believe me if I told you that some of this album has a Blue Nile vibe

umm i love "In The Now"

totally nomming + voting for it in the EOY poll

I hate to admit hearing the dentures in his delivery is a bit distracting

Those are ROYAL dentures, sir:

Arise, Sir Barry Gibb!

The @BeeGees legend has received a knighthood for his services to music and charity. pic.twitter.com/V1abWHH1mG

— 5News (@5_News) June 26, 2018

would prefer the royal family all died in a fire but...

good for Barry, deserves all the respect

co-sign x2, fucking legend

"Arise, Sir Barry Gibb!" rather than "KNIGHT FEVER". Journalism is dead. https://t.co/DvpkAQK2T4

— Matthew Horton (@matthewjh) June 26, 2018

Hail Sir Baz, awesome

No jokes about him getting it for Staying Alive please.

really thought yerman from cheers deserved it ahead of him tbh

so excited for Barry Gibb, who used to hang out (and maybe still does) at the Miami Beach bookstore I used to work at in the early nineties; you'd see his head poking through the clouds in the history section.

lol that's awesome. p sure he still lives down there.

lol woops -- I meant early '00s. I'm not that old.

yeah I heard an interview from a couple years back & he was still there iirc

I rank their American and British top tens.