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 (eleven years ago) link
To Poll Somebody - The Robin Gibb Memorial BEE GEES TRACKS POLL (voting thread)
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 9 June 2012 04:36 (eleven years ago) link
Do your civic duty people.
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 9 June 2012 12:06 (eleven years ago) link
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
― buzza, Saturday, 15 December 2012 11:08 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
all their mid-'60s to early '70s albums bursting with great deep cuts, and sometimes outtakes.
― Lee626, Monday, 17 December 2012 23:04 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/07/14/islands-in-the-stream/
― just sayin, Monday, 14 July 2014 20:37 (nine years ago) link
^ by bob stanley
nice, thank you.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 04:03 (nine years ago) link
Yes, very nice, thks. Guess I should go ahead and get the book.
― I Need Andmoreagain (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 10:23 (nine years ago) link
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
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:55 (nine years ago) link
hmm no real bonus tracks :(
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 29 January 2015 16:31 (nine years ago) link
rip robert stigwood
― hunangarage, Monday, 4 January 2016 20:26 (eight years ago) link
Outlived 3 Gibb Bros.
― Anyway, it's not a three, it's a yogh. (Tom D.), Monday, 4 January 2016 20:49 (eight years ago) link
Assuming he was 112.
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 5 January 2016 14:36 (eight years ago) link
Happy 70th Barry!http://dlisted.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/hbbarrygibb2016.1-500x691.jpg
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 1 September 2016 21:41 (seven years ago) link
classic mooseknuckle
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 2 September 2016 04:15 (seven years ago) link
Speaking of which!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzwlig6qU-o
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 6 September 2016 02:28 (seven years ago) link
would you believe me if I told you that some of this album has a Blue Nile vibe
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Sunday, 23 October 2016 23:56 (seven years ago) link
umm i love "In The Now"
― The times they are a changing, perhaps (map), Monday, 24 October 2016 01:23 (seven years ago) link
totally nomming + voting for it in the EOY poll
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Monday, 24 October 2016 23:29 (seven years ago) link
I hate to admit hearing the dentures in his delivery is a bit distracting
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 25 October 2016 02:18 (seven years ago) link
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
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 26 June 2018 17:57 (five years ago) link
would prefer the royal family all died in a fire but...
good for Barry, deserves all the respect
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 26 June 2018 17:59 (five years ago) link
co-sign x2, fucking legend
― Simon H., Tuesday, 26 June 2018 18:00 (five years ago) link
"Arise, Sir Barry Gibb!" rather than "KNIGHT FEVER". Journalism is dead. https://t.co/DvpkAQK2T4— Matthew Horton (@matthewjh) June 26, 2018
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 26 June 2018 18:07 (five years ago) link
Hail Sir Baz, awesome
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 26 June 2018 21:22 (five years ago) link
No jokes about him getting it for Staying Alive please.
― Alan Alba (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 June 2018 21:59 (five years ago) link
really thought yerman from cheers deserved it ahead of him tbh
― under a mand'rin tsar (darraghmac), Tuesday, 26 June 2018 22:51 (five years ago) link
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.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 June 2018 22:53 (five years ago) link
lol that's awesome. p sure he still lives down there.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 26 June 2018 23:01 (five years ago) link
lol woops -- I meant early '00s. I'm not that old.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 June 2018 23:23 (five years ago) link
yeah I heard an interview from a couple years back & he was still there iirc
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 26 June 2018 23:53 (five years ago) link
I rank their American and British top tens.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 26 May 2019 13:46 (four years ago) link
You Win Again is fantastic, you heartless fiend!
― Tiltin' My Lens Photography (stevie), Monday, 27 May 2019 16:01 (four years ago) link
^^^ agree
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 27 May 2019 20:19 (four years ago) link
thirded(and so is “Love You Inside Out” btw - I see it’s already moved up from Worst Song Ever to Meh status, so there’s hope yet)
― breastcrawl, Monday, 27 May 2019 20:39 (four years ago) link
Fourthed.
Although, what's 'Massachusetts' doing down there!?
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Monday, 27 May 2019 20:59 (four years ago) link
New HBO doc is compelling although quite a bit of it is sourced from a lot of archival footage real heads have probably digested in some form.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 14 December 2020 16:31 (three years ago) link
as someone with cursory knowledge, I absolutely loved it. one of the better music docs I've seen in a long time.
that shit where they were doing the manual tape loop with the drums to Stayin' Alive is so sick. I remember the Beastie Boys talking about doing the exact same thing (using mic stands to run the tape all over the room) with "Paul Revere" in their apartment
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 14 December 2020 16:40 (three years ago) link
yes I was thinking of the Beastie Boys too! so great
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 14 December 2020 17:53 (three years ago) link
They left out the best part of that story!
As a joke, the group listed the drummer as "Bernard Lupe" (a takeoff on session drummer Bernard Purdie). Mr. Lupe became a highly sought-after drummer—until it was discovered that he did not exist.[5]
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 14 December 2020 18:01 (three years ago) link
LMAO
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 14 December 2020 19:24 (three years ago) link
lolwhat a lupe fiasco
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 14 December 2020 19:25 (three years ago) link
plz leavejk
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 14 December 2020 19:26 (three years ago) link
:)
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 14 December 2020 21:43 (three years ago) link
wonder if this version of "Love You Inside Out" is in the archives anywhere, in any case it's a better lyric than the original
During recording, the Bee Gees played a prank on their manager Robert Stigwood, sending him a version with the line "backwards and forwards with my cock hanging out" to see if he was paying attention to their work.[2] For the released version, the line is "backwards and forwards with my heart hanging out".
― JoeStork, Monday, 14 December 2020 22:22 (three years ago) link
I had no idea they were Manxmen by birth. Nor did I ever know Barry's wife was so stunning.
I loved the thread of how falsetto played into the reinvention of the band. In my mind I drew parallels to the sport of baseball, a hard-throwing pitcher will over time lose velocity and need to reinvent themselves in order to stay in the game: a curveball, location, a knuckleball, a falsetto...
The ending with Barry just by himself and his late-life confession/revelation was really touching. They were such a unique band with extraordinary ability to surf the currents of pop/soul music.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 15 December 2020 01:13 (three years ago) link
This seemed a v rote, by-the-numbers music doc to me... It also seemed they really blitzed through the early years in order to leverage the whole “disco sucks” thing (none of which—the Comiskey Park thing, Disco Duck, etc.—was v revelatory) for all they could. Was looking forward to it and kind of underwhelmed.
― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 15 December 2020 01:48 (three years ago) link