To Poll Somebody - The Robin Gibb Memorial BEE GEES TRACKS POLL (voting thread) - FINAL DEADLINE IS FRIDAY, JUNE 15, NO FOOLIN'

feel like there are probably alien races on distant planets that could really vibe to those voices. they sound like aliens sometimes.

robin even prays for his extraterrestrial lover on this song. and will go to the depths of hell for them!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rn0yv5P9kW4&feature=related

still want someone to make this into a doom metal epic. nothing says 1969 like a thirteen minute sea dirge. (??!!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipJN5XIYza4

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/

well then

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.

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.

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.

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what criteria are you going by here?

non-SNF Top 10 US Chart placings:

I've Gotta Get a Message to You - #8
I Started a Joke - #6
Lonely Days - #3
How Can You Mend a Broken Heart - #1
Jive Talking - #1
Nights on Broadway - #7
You Should Be Dancing - #1
Love So Right - #3
Too Much Heaven - #1
Tragedy - #1
Love You Inside Out - #1

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, 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."

I meant the eighties, Shakey.

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

on a different note, this whole album is underrated:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8QpGS9i91c&feature=related

I hadn't heard of "You Win Again" until a few years ago. A huge hit everywhere around the world except here.

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.

I am 100% in love with and will rep for Spicks & Specks forever....I love Barry's voice in this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-e8QjU2WRM

It'll be in my top 5 for certain

haha roger daltrey should be careful when accusing others of singing goofily

Hoping to see a lot of love for both Emotion by Samantha Sang and Boys Do Fall in Love by Robin Gibb itt.

first ballot received!

I will submit one in the next day or so

d/ling Sing Slowly Sisters, never heard this before

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PLeNdfkoBI

well the sound quality is really shitty, but can't say I'm digging Sing Slowly Sisters. reaaaaaaally maudlin and monotonous.

Shakey, search "The Flag I Flew" and "A Very Special Day" -- I think you might hear the forest thru the trees.

yeah i can't get past the sound quality.

there's no youtube for it, but would like to put in a kind word for "Completely Unoriginal", perhaps their funniest moment

what, funnier than the attempt to use a moog on "Sweet Song of Summer"?

what's funny about that?

This song is awesome.

which one

"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.

yeah I like Sweet Song of Summer, it's like their doomy-y prog track

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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGx4sBseM-Q

Also great is the demo for "Midsummer Nights": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__sMkNlBplk

still want someone to make this into a doom metal epic. nothing says 1969 like a thirteen minute sea dirge. (??!!)

Never realized this was a longer, unreleased take on this. The Gibb Songs site calls it his "masterpiece." Must hear it!

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

fyi I am love love loving Mr Natural - gonna have it nicely represented in my ballot methinks

2 days to go, a whopping 2 ballots received...

oh shi I forgot -- I will do mine tonight!

2 days to go, a whopping 2 ballots received...

Yikes. I plan to do one, but I've been ABBAing it up the past few days.

Yeah, I really think running this at the same time as the ABBA poll was a bad mistake.

if only Robin had gotten our message about holding on a little longer eh

I'm happy to extend the deadline if people are gonna like actually vote and stuff

wd do

So would I but there's like 40 years of stuff there! So my contribution would be spotty at best.

okay, DEADLINE OFFICIALLY EXTENDED TO JUNE 8th

yay thanks Shakey! <3

Will do this I swear

I have an obligation to drum up support for this.

thanks - I had this week slated for boning up on Fleetwood Mac's obscurities for next week's poll (and maybe ABBA for this week's), and didn't wan't to rely on the mostly-familiar material I already know - and their discography is huge.

But this has the hallmarks of a great tracks poll - a long, storied career, lots of great stuff throughout, several distinct phases, and no consensus whatsoever as to which is the best.

I kind of love all their periods, hard to say which one I like the most

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.

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

hi

yeah Grease appeared on several people's ballots

Next: 4 Seasons Tracks Poll

Damn...if I had realized, it would probably have been on mine too.

I am hoping that more ballots will break up the number of ties in the lower ranks...

how many spots are on the countdown?

my original plan was to do 50

interestingly, there is not a single song that has appeared on every ballot

really? wow!

i'd vote but i only really know the 70s era. looking forward to getting an education though.

by "70s era" do you mean the Saturday Night Fever sdtk

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.

eh you should still vote imho

Barry co-produced "Grease" as well

we're at 17 ballots now... clock is ticking for anyone else plannin a last minute vote!

c'mon just two more votes and we'll at least TIE with ABBA

do it peoples!

you should be voting!

how deep is yr love of the Bee Gees, ilxors?

is there a thread of gibb bros (esp barry)-produced stuff that was recorded by other singers?

like this song, which is the shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW0S0-K3xlM

on a similar note

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGx4sBseM-Q

and to close the circle

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

I think this is that thread, it covers the most ground