― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 21 May 2012 21:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
had no idea this band had been covering the Bee Gees live for several years:
― Lee971 (Lee626), Monday, 21 May 2012 21:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
second one is John Frusciante solo
― Lee971 (Lee626), Monday, 21 May 2012 21:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
did you really have to sully this thread with the RCHP
here's a little Elvis palette cleanser:
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 21 May 2012 21:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
I always like unlikely or unexpected cover versions. It's not like i'm a huge RHCP fan, although I don't share your animosity towards that group
― Lee971 (Lee626), Monday, 21 May 2012 21:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
I dunno is that really that unexpected? RHCP have been mining 70s funk & disco since the beginning, and the SNF sdtk is like the most well-known disco album in the world
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 21 May 2012 22:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
funk, yes. disco? didn't know. Again, not a big fan.
― Lee971 (Lee626), Monday, 21 May 2012 22:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
I lived near a college campus in the 2000s and there's a certain species of 20something dude whose aural diet consisted of Linkin Park, Sublime, and RHCP. I never heard these guys listening to the Bee Gees
― Lee971 (Lee626), Monday, 21 May 2012 22:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
well there isn't that much difference between, say, the Ohio Players' "Love Rollercoaster" and disco-era Bee Gees imho
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 21 May 2012 22:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
er difference difference
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 21 May 2012 22:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
DISTANCE
stupid fingers
bee gees were so fucked up. those voices could be pretty fucked up. i'll hear some early track by them and think...what the hell were they thinking with those voices? don't get me wrong, i'm a fan, but talk about over the top.
― scott seward, Monday, 21 May 2012 22:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
feel like there are probably alien races on distant planets that could really vibe to those voices. they sound like aliens sometimes.
― scott seward, Monday, 21 May 2012 22:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
robin even prays for his extraterrestrial lover on this song. and will go to the depths of hell for them!
― scott seward, Monday, 21 May 2012 22:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
still want someone to make this into a doom metal epic. nothing says 1969 like a thirteen minute sea dirge. (??!!)
― scott seward, Monday, 21 May 2012 22:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
re "You Win Again," here's Freaky Trigger, published a couple years ago:
http://freakytrigger.co.uk/popular/2010/04/bee-gees-you-win-again/
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 21 May 2012 23:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
well then
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 21 May 2012 23:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
It's remarkable that until 1989's "One" (a song I like a lot) the Bee Gees had, like, NO American hits under their own name.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 21 May 2012 23:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
I hadn't heard of "You Win Again" until a few years ago. A huge hit everywhere around the world except here.
It was pretty big in Australia at the time, I remember.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 21 May 2012 23:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
?
what criteria are you going by here?
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 21 May 2012 23:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
non-SNF Top 10 US Chart placings:
I've Gotta Get a Message to You - #8I Started a Joke - #6Lonely Days - #3How Can You Mend a Broken Heart - #1Jive Talking - #1Nights on Broadway - #7You Should Be Dancing - #1Love So Right - #3Too Much Heaven - #1Tragedy - #1Love You Inside Out - #1
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 21 May 2012 23:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
― scott seward, Monday, May 21, 2012 6:24 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
You and Daltrey both, man:
"Look at great huge Maurice Gibb, singing like Donald Duck on 'Stayin' Alive.' And that's a great song. Bruce Springsteen could sing that lyric."
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Monday, 21 May 2012 23:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
I meant the eighties, Shakey.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 21 May 2012 23:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
ah. yeah the 80s were a weird time for them - they had gotten overexposed and they knew it, were sort of smart to retreat behind the curtain a bit imo
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 21 May 2012 23:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
on a different note, this whole album is underrated:
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 21 May 2012 23:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
Also, that's not just the band flailing around chasing a ZTT-ish sound or anything -- it's Arif Mardin, who loved the stomps Maurice had recorded in his garage studio in Miami for the demo and asked him to sample them for the final version. According to the band anyway, there are no *real* drums on it at all.
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 02:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
I am 100% in love with and will rep for Spicks & Specks forever....I love Barry's voice in this
It'll be in my top 5 for certain
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 02:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
haha roger daltrey should be careful when accusing others of singing goofily
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 03:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
Hoping to see a lot of love for both Emotion by Samantha Sang and Boys Do Fall in Love by Robin Gibb itt.
― Blue Collar Retail Assistant (Dwight Yorke), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 10:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
first ballot received!
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 17:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
I will submit one in the next day or so
― buzza, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
d/ling Sing Slowly Sisters, never heard this before
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 21:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 21:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
well the sound quality is really shitty, but can't say I'm digging Sing Slowly Sisters. reaaaaaaally maudlin and monotonous.
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 21:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
Shakey, search "The Flag I Flew" and "A Very Special Day" -- I think you might hear the forest thru the trees.
― Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 01:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah i can't get past the sound quality.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 03:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
there's no youtube for it, but would like to put in a kind word for "Completely Unoriginal", perhaps their funniest moment
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
what, funnier than the attempt to use a moog on "Sweet Song of Summer"?
― Jeff W, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 17:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
what's funny about that?
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 17:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
This song is awesome.
― Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
which one
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 23:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
"Sweet Song of Summer." The middle eastern melismas in that song are off-the-charts crazy.
I've been stockpiling things to say about "Mr. Natural" in the results thread (assuming it places). I came to it late -- but am finding its chorus to be just a masterfully written, arranged and sung.
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 24 May 2012 00:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah I like Sweet Song of Summer, it's like their doomy-y prog track
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 24 May 2012 15:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
I've been reading the Gibb Songs website the last few days: http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/beegees/index.html
One of the things discussed in some detail is the demos Barry and the boys did for Dionne and Kenny Rogers. Which it turns out I have on a bootleg. Some highlights:
"Islands in the Stream" -- while not exactly the Sam Cooke-like version described by Robin, the chorus on the demo is just stunningly beautiful. Apparently, Kenny was super lazy, hadn't bothered to learn any of the songs and just ended up singing what Barry did on the demo -- but the harmonies on the chorus by Dolly (who was added later, I believe) transforms it from Bee Gees ethereal to something decidedly more country.
Also great is the demo for "Midsummer Nights":
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 24 May 2012 17:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
Never realized this was a longer, unreleased take on this. The Gibb Songs site calls it his "masterpiece." Must hear it!
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 25 May 2012 19:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
Posted this to ILM somewhere before, but I think it's worth posting again, and I couldn't find the other thread anyway, this being the Mix magazine Classic Tracks article about the recording of "Stayin' Alive": http://mixonline.com/mag/audio_bee_gees_stayin/index.html
― Ian Hunter Is Learning the Game (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 26 May 2012 23:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
fyi I am love love loving Mr Natural - gonna have it nicely represented in my ballot methinks
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 27 May 2012 02:14 (11 months ago) Permalink
2 days to go, a whopping 2 ballots received...
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 16:27 (11 months ago) Permalink
oh shi I forgot -- I will do mine tonight!
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 16:32 (11 months ago) Permalink
*Jumps on browbeater bandwagon*
― Jeff W, Thursday, 14 June 2012 14:10 (11 months ago) Permalink
only TWO days of voting left!!! OMG SO EXCITING
― a dense custard of infinity (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 14 June 2012 17:26 (11 months ago) Permalink
As it stands, is the #1 track expected or unexpected?
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 14 June 2012 17:32 (11 months ago) Permalink
it is a lustrous pop pearl of the highest quality, buffed and polished to perfection
― a dense custard of infinity (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 14 June 2012 17:38 (11 months ago) Permalink
Oh great, that could be 50 different Bee Gees songs.
I guess more people should vote so the right pearl wins!
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 14 June 2012 17:42 (11 months ago) Permalink
at this stage, more votes will make the lower ranks more diverse/interesting, rather than being a string of entries all separated by less than a single point. I don't expect the top 10 to change too much.
― a dense custard of infinity (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 14 June 2012 17:44 (11 months ago) Permalink
I'm sending in a ballot today. I just keep being introduced to new awesomeness by y'all.
― JessFlip, Thursday, 14 June 2012 19:59 (11 months ago) Permalink
JessF's ballot brings the total up to 15... still waitin on some dude
― a dense custard of infinity (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 14 June 2012 21:10 (11 months ago) Permalink
i'm trying man
― bronytheus (some dude), Thursday, 14 June 2012 21:11 (11 months ago) Permalink
your welcome for explaining to you how these things actually work and what would help w/ turnout though
― bronytheus (some dude), Thursday, 14 June 2012 21:12 (11 months ago) Permalink
domo arigato some dude-san
― a dense custard of infinity (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 14 June 2012 21:20 (11 months ago) Permalink
voted
― Euler, Thursday, 14 June 2012 21:22 (11 months ago) Permalink
16! a few more and we'll beat ABBA
― a dense custard of infinity (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 14 June 2012 22:10 (11 months ago) Permalink
we can do it you guys!!
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 14 June 2012 22:38 (11 months ago) Permalink
― a dense custard of infinity (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 14 June 2012 23:16 (11 months ago) Permalink
oh shit it's the last day to vote
― a dense custard of infinity (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 15 June 2012 15:35 (11 months ago) Permalink
Did anyone ever realize that they wrote the opening song to "Grease"?! I didn't, but listening to it now I can hear them all over it.
― JessFlip, Friday, 15 June 2012 15:37 (11 months ago) Permalink
hi
― buzza, Friday, 15 June 2012 15:38 (11 months ago) Permalink
yeah Grease appeared on several people's ballots
― a dense custard of infinity (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 15 June 2012 15:39 (11 months ago) Permalink
Next: 4 Seasons Tracks Poll
― Lee626, Friday, 15 June 2012 17:10 (11 months ago) Permalink
Damn...if I had realized, it would probably have been on mine too.
― JessFlip, Friday, 15 June 2012 17:21 (11 months ago) Permalink
I am hoping that more ballots will break up the number of ties in the lower ranks...
― a dense custard of infinity (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 15 June 2012 18:26 (11 months ago) Permalink
how many spots are on the countdown?
― bronytheus (some dude), Friday, 15 June 2012 18:27 (11 months ago) Permalink
my original plan was to do 50
― a dense custard of infinity (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 15 June 2012 18:35 (11 months ago) Permalink
interestingly, there is not a single song that has appeared on every ballot
― a dense custard of infinity (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 15 June 2012 18:36 (11 months ago) Permalink
really? wow!
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 15 June 2012 18:49 (11 months ago) Permalink
i'd vote but i only really know the 70s era. looking forward to getting an education though.
― piscesx, Friday, 15 June 2012 19:23 (11 months ago) Permalink
by "70s era" do you mean the Saturday Night Fever sdtk
― a dense custard of infinity (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 15 June 2012 19:26 (11 months ago) Permalink
yeah and your Main Course and Spirits Having Flown type stuff etc. i knew the Staying Alive sdtrk pretty well as a kid; wouldn't like to hear it now.
― piscesx, Friday, 15 June 2012 20:18 (11 months ago) Permalink
eh you should still vote imho
― a dense custard of infinity (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 15 June 2012 20:21 (11 months ago) Permalink
Barry co-produced "Grease" as well
― Lee626, Friday, 15 June 2012 20:39 (11 months ago) Permalink
we're at 17 ballots now... clock is ticking for anyone else plannin a last minute vote!
― a dense custard of infinity (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 15 June 2012 21:15 (11 months ago) Permalink
c'mon just two more votes and we'll at least TIE with ABBA
― a dense custard of infinity (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 15 June 2012 22:52 (11 months ago) Permalink
do it peoples!
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 16 June 2012 03:47 (11 months ago) Permalink
you should be voting!
― bronytheus (some dude), Saturday, 16 June 2012 03:56 (11 months ago) Permalink
how deep is yr love of the Bee Gees, ilxors?
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 16 June 2012 04:03 (11 months ago) Permalink