!!! omg never seen that before
― a dense custard of infinity (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 21 June 2012 19:59 (twelve years ago) link
otm re songcraft trivia. i love that stuff, sorta makes it seem like their brains were sub-consciously, or consciously, 24/7 tuned into songwriting, which is kind of how I imagine songwriting to be when you're seriously *in it*
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 21 June 2012 20:19 (twelve years ago) link
Gotta dig out my copy of Life In a Tin Can now. I'm sure there is something there that I'm gonna love that I've totally forgotten about.
The first is a three-hanky Robin tearjerker with Barry trading off in the gorgeous chorus.
The second is a really good Barry country song and namechecks his unreleased record, The Kid's No Good, in the chorus -- but is otherwise unrelated I think.
Third song is a Robin ballad with an unbelievable middle eight in which he uses the duck quack soul voice from "I Can't See Nobody."
Some of my favorite stuff by these guys.
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 22 June 2012 01:06 (twelve years ago) link
1. How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?2. (Love Is) Thicker Than Water3. More Than a Woman4. How Deep Is Your Love5. Emotion6. Night Fever7. To Love Somebody8. Please Read Me9. Nobody's Someone10. An Everlasting Love11. Baby As You Turn Away12. I Just Want To Be Your Everything13. Charade14. I Can Bring Love15. New York Mining Disaster 194116. Birdie Told Me17. Jive Talkin'18. Fanny (Be Tender With My Love)19. I Started a Joke20. Spicks and Specks21. My Thing22. If I Only Had My Mind On Something Else23. If I Can't Have You24. Nights on Broadway25. South Dakota Morning26. Shadow Dancing27. Children of the World28. Massachusetts29. The Battle of the Blue and Grey30. The Chance of Love
― Lee626, Saturday, 23 June 2012 21:39 (twelve years ago) link
Anyone have recommendations for a good Andy Gibb comp? This poll made me realize that I need one.
― hutlock, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 14:50 (twelve years ago) link
The 4-CD Mythology box of the Bee Gees includes one disc per brother, with the last dedicated to Andy. Seems pretty comprehensive, but of course, you need the whole thing. Not sure what else is available.
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 15:14 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, but then I'd also be saddled with a whole disc of Maurice.
(I KID, I KID)
― hutlock, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 21:24 (twelve years ago) link
I have a friend who grew up thinking this song ("I Started a Joke") was written from the perspective of Adolf Hitler, an interpretation which has always stuck with me.
.. this is awesome!
― SomeTwat from Tring (Tom D.), Monday, 16 July 2012 11:06 (twelve years ago) link
Finally put on the copy of Bee Gees Greatest I bought at a record show a few months ago. This was tucked inside:
http://i1059.photobucket.com/albums/t427/sayhey1/beegees_zps4bec8bc2.jpg
Not sure what the statute of limitations on these things is, but my checkbook's out. (There's an ad for this on the other side.)
― clemenza, Monday, 30 December 2013 20:12 (ten years ago) link
Not sure how that happened...As ahead-of-their-time as they were, the Bee Gees were not selling website domains in 1979. Should have linked here:
http://www.amazon.com/THE-LEGEND-Illustrated-Legend-Maurice/dp/B00113HQP2
― clemenza, Monday, 30 December 2013 20:16 (ten years ago) link
those tour shirts are sweeet
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 30 December 2013 22:20 (ten years ago) link
I like the look of those chains too.
― president of the people's republic of antarctica (Arctic Mindbath), Monday, 30 December 2013 22:22 (ten years ago) link
ooh I missed that, I want one of those too
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 30 December 2013 22:24 (ten years ago) link
Send cash, check or money order to:
Official Bee Gees Fan ClubP.O. Box 9488N. Hollywood, CA91606
Go ahead, I dare you--I double-dare you.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 31 December 2013 03:24 (ten years ago) link
Are you maniacs seriously telling me "Country Lanes" didn't place in this thing??
― JRN, Thursday, 2 January 2014 07:35 (ten years ago) link
This thread was boss. Mad props to the Shakey Mo!
― Naive Teen Idol, Sunday, 26 January 2014 05:39 (ten years ago) link
I have a friend who grew up thinking this song was written from the perspective of Adolf Hitler, an interpretation which has always stuck with me.
Lending some credence to that theory about 'AH' (I think you know who I mean) perhaps...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrg1UAixGaM
― A frenzied geologist (Tom D.), Thursday, 8 May 2014 18:25 (ten years ago) link
lol
― stadow shevens (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 8 May 2014 18:32 (ten years ago) link
49. (Love is) Thicker Than Water (writers: Barry and Andy Gibb) -- 36 points (1 vote)
this song is lame-o and awesome in equal measure.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Thursday, 8 May 2014 21:00 (ten years ago) link
missed deep cuts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apkDuq54SeQ
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Wednesday, 27 January 2016 06:56 (eight years ago) link
For venal reasons, I didn't participate, but here's my list.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 24 February 2018 06:16 (six years ago) link
no Bee Gees list without "Mr. Natural" can be considered complete. the perfect midpoint between their phases.
― Simon H., Saturday, 24 February 2018 08:02 (six years ago) link
also the complete absence of even a MENTION of "Stop (Think Again)" on this entire thread hurts me deeply in my heart
― Simon H., Saturday, 24 February 2018 08:04 (six years ago) link
the hbo doc was just ok, typical useless talking head segments from chris martin, justin, gallagher dude etc. disappointing about how they glossed over the breakup as if they all went their separate ways vs robin leaving and the other 2 continuing as the bee gees (there were other shortcuts and misleading parts as well). some nice footage tho
― buzza, Sunday, 13 December 2020 08:43 (three years ago) link
the sideman interviews were a lot more rewarding
― buzza, Sunday, 13 December 2020 08:44 (three years ago) link
the nicky siano bits were great. vince lawrence, too. a mini disco doc within the bee gees doc.
― fact checking cuz, Sunday, 13 December 2020 09:19 (three years ago) link
I did come away thinking that Barry really does miss his brothers. The other thing is that it does catch me that the Gibbs were a bit of why Miami became such a bling bling town, in a way. It would have been something to see Miami circa 76-78. Probably on real estate alone, those guys crushed some serious cash. The clip with them making the drum loop was some cool music geek stuff.
― earlnash, Monday, 14 December 2020 01:18 (three years ago) link
I really enjoyed the doc - most of the “talking heads” were the brothers or the band or ppl working close with them, so the odd naff chris martin or noel gallagher was tolerable. the studio stuff was so great, and the demo tapes add so much apprecication for the raw talent. and yeah the disco sucks section was handled really well, i loved the way they told that. Barry having had that amazing creative bond with his brothers & to be now left alone, the melancholy of that feeling must be so difficult to endure. as the oldest of three siblings who are very close I think how utterly bereft I would feel if they died before me, it breaks my heart to think about.
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 14 December 2020 01:58 (three years ago) link
I sometimes think about examples of musicians who went into a funk when their creative partner died, namely Bill Evans after Scott LaFaro died in a car accident and Buck Owens after Don Rich died in a motorcycle accident. There is still a naive part of me that will think "couldn't you just go on with the show?" but another part of me knows "nuh-uh."
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 14 December 2020 02:10 (three years ago) link
I mean I guess Buck still showed up for Hee-Haw tapings, but still.
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 14 December 2020 02:21 (three years ago) link
I actually kind of adored that documentary, which has to be the third or fourth I’ve seen by this point. The contemporary talking heads were minimized and used well (Noel Gallagher talking about sibling dynamics and how you don’t just buy family members’ vocal harmonies at a store was surprisingly relevant and well put). Beyond that tho, they did a fabulous job on the early years and the tensions that built up between them. Notwithstanding no mention of Cucumber Castle, I hadn’t really seen that articulated very well elsewhere. The footage of Robin playing to that crowd in NZ angry that it was just him was incredible.
Iand yeah the disco sucks section was handled really well, i loved the way they told that.
Barry having had that amazing creative bond with his brothers & to be now left alone, the melancholy of that feeling must be so difficult to endure. as the oldest of three siblings who are very close I think how utterly bereft I would feel if they died before me, it breaks my heart to think about.
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 19 December 2020 13:51 (three years ago) link
There is also a similarity in how the whole family was involved in this big adventure, not dissimilar to what you see in that Australian TV documentary on AC/DC. Very similar history in some ways between those two bands.
― earlnash, Saturday, 19 December 2020 14:59 (three years ago) link
I'm not sure if Barry Gibb still lives in here, but in the early '00s when I worked at a Miami Beach bookstore he was a regular -- you could easily spot him his tall, hunched form in the history section. Like NYC, nobody bothers stars here.
I ordered The Corrections for Iggy Pop a few months later (asked by the employee at the other store transferring a copy for a name, I said, "Osterberg, James." Iggy winked at me).
― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 19 December 2020 15:54 (three years ago) link
Ha! That’s a great story.
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 19 December 2020 15:55 (three years ago) link
All the anecdotes I've read about Iggy being hyper-literate are true. He'd buy piles of books, a genuine miscellany: Nietzsche, art books, Bellow, Tolstoy.
Anyway, back to thread.
― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 19 December 2020 16:01 (three years ago) link
Yeah, him and Bowie.
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 December 2020 16:06 (three years ago) link
I think I’m actually just starting to realize what an incredible song Stayin’ Alive is. Like, in addition to the opening groove and that great drum loop story, I’m not sure I ever fully appreciated how fucking boss and weird the chorus is on this song. I mean, we all know the “ha ha ha” part but that slurry syncopated line that leads into the ha ha ha’s is subtly strange and amazing (and not that it matters but I still have zero idea what they’re singing there). This realization is just another reminder that whole thing is just perfect from top to bottom. Maybe it is their best song? I’m willing to be convinced here.
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 19 December 2020 17:32 (three years ago) link
Or the way the strings kick in for the bleak-as-fuck "I'm goin' nowhere."
― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 19 December 2020 17:36 (three years ago) link
Hey now, there was a thread for that sort of thing but it was only Shakey and me on it most days!
― Eggbreak Hotel (Tom D.), Saturday, 19 December 2020 17:44 (three years ago) link
The song by song rundown?
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 December 2020 17:46 (three years ago) link
Sorry, couldn’t keep up.
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 December 2020 17:47 (three years ago) link
Shakey did tend to press on regardless somewhat.
― Eggbreak Hotel (Tom D.), Saturday, 19 December 2020 18:48 (three years ago) link
Oh right! I couldn’t keep up either. Which bummed me out. Was it before quarantine? I feel like it must’ve been because I imagine I would’ve looked forward to every next entry like my life depended on it.
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 19 December 2020 19:33 (three years ago) link
Pretty sure it was. Could have done with some more contributors in the Bee Gees' imperial stage because I found I couldn't think of as many things to say about something like "Staying Alive" as opposed to, er, "I Have Decided to Join the Air Force".
― Eggbreak Hotel (Tom D.), Saturday, 19 December 2020 19:40 (three years ago) link
Lol, check out the current last post on that thread
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 December 2020 20:12 (three years ago) link
Ha, exactly. It’s good to know my self-hatred pre-dated COVID, I guess.
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 19 December 2020 23:27 (three years ago) link
the Tropical Fuck Storm version of "Stayin' Alive" almost approximates the swagger level of the original, albeit from a scuzzier angle
― stylish but illegal (Simon H.), Saturday, 19 December 2020 23:32 (three years ago) link
Where we talking about the Barry Gibb duets record? So good.
― Next Time Might Be Hammer Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 22 January 2021 00:28 (three years ago) link
i cant remember which thread but I LOVE IT SO MUCH OMG
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 22 January 2021 00:48 (three years ago) link
play "Mr. Natural" at my funeral
― stylish but illegal (Simon H.), Friday, 22 January 2021 00:57 (three years ago) link