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Wait, I had a question... *rummages around in bag* Should I buy albums or just stick with singles comps?
― Dave M. (rotten03), Monday, 26 April 2004 05:27 (twenty years ago) link
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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."
― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Monday, 25 April 2005 16:07 (nineteen years ago) link
Interesting about Chilton — Robin's stuff is fantastic. Say what you will, but nobody sounds like him, and Sing Slowly Sisters is really quite a remarkable example of 60's orchestral pop at its most expansive.
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Monday, 25 April 2005 17:40 (nineteen years ago) link
As for their disco-era stuff, specially their "Saturday Night Fever" contributions: Classic. But I'm reminded of an accurate comment Matty made recently on the "Supertramp's Breakfast In America: C or D? thread. An unflattering comparison was made between both groups and their over-reliance on "mewling" falsetto lead vocals. A complaint I can totally relate to, despite my giving both groups "classic" status.
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this box set is amazing
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 5 July 2007 16:07 (seventeen years ago) link
Which -- Tales?
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 5 July 2007 18:30 (seventeen years ago) link
The Studio Albums: 1967-1968 6 CDs, the first three full lengths (First, Horizontal, and Idea) + loads of extras, b-sides, ad jingles, alternate versions. Could do without the mono mixes (who gives a shit) but the rest is great.
what a strange band.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 5 July 2007 18:33 (seventeen years ago) link
I am a bird; watch me go drifting by. With my feathers of power I laugh as the hours go slowly by. That could mean ev'rything. I am a street watching the people walk. As I listen their conversations glisten as they start to talk. Then I hear ev'rything.
Little white jug, me and Kilburn Towers, as we sit on the hill and we drink and we swill till the early hours, Then I am ev'rything. Little white jug and me and Kilburn Towers
― Tim Ellison, Thursday, 5 July 2007 18:40 (seventeen years ago) link
anybody else diggin' the Barry Gibb 80's demos currently found on iTunes?
― henry s, Thursday, 5 July 2007 19:08 (seventeen years ago) link
Odessa was one of these instances of just attaining this tremendous pinnacle. It's almost ridiculous to see how far they came down with Cucumber Castle and Robin's Reign.
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, Friday, 20 July 2007 02:12 (seventeen years ago) link
And then the chorus is...country? But maybe like the Band were country - it sounds ancient.
― Tim Ellison, Friday, 20 July 2007 02:16 (seventeen years ago) link
Some kind of archetype you can't quite put your finger on but which seems to hit the nail squarely on the head.
― Tim Ellison, Friday, 20 July 2007 02:18 (seventeen years ago) link
man I cannot stop listening to this stuff - Trafalgar is such a beautiful album, way underrated.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 20 September 2007 21:35 (seventeen years ago) link
me like the unreleased "A Kick in the Head..."
― dell, Thursday, 20 September 2007 22:57 (seventeen years ago) link
They should have retired or disappeared into the Bermuda Triangle afterwards (after the SNF Soundtrack).
No. Spirits Having Flown had some good songs on it.
On a whim, I just bought the Greatest Hits, then immediately regretted it, then decided some of the songs are really stellar, then decided I couldn't listen to them without the baggage, then . . . Ahh, Schizoid I am.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 9 March 2008 16:24 (sixteen years ago) link
What "baggage"?
― Naive Teen Idol, Sunday, 9 March 2008 16:39 (sixteen years ago) link
All the ridicule I remember them taking when I was growing up.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 9 March 2008 16:41 (sixteen years ago) link
The new "remixes" on the Greatest Hits really breathe new life into a few of their songs, e.g., the Supreme Beings of Leisure's remix of How Deep Is Your Love, The Teddybears' remix of Stayin' Alive.
I wish they had more of these remixes on The Greatest Hits.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 9 March 2008 16:43 (sixteen years ago) link
I do have to say that "Tragedy" is way overrated, though, the sound of someone burning out on a sound, and badly.
Sort of true for the whole Spirits Having Flown, but that's part of what makes those songs so compelling.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 9 March 2008 17:25 (sixteen years ago) link
"ESP" has "You Win Again" on it at least (I'm pretty sure), that song's up there w/anything they did
cosign
― tremendoid, Sunday, 9 March 2008 20:16 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah, it is the best bee gees song, hands down
― remy bean, Sunday, 9 March 2008 20:19 (sixteen years ago) link
i also thing tragedy is pretty great
― remy bean, Sunday, 9 March 2008 20:20 (sixteen years ago) link
I've been listening to Spirits Having Flown this afternoon (the single), and it's pretty great.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 9 March 2008 20:24 (sixteen years ago) link
it is a surprisingly sweet song, with unexpected folksiness that i think is lacking from the rest of the album ... a stripped-back cover could be a great single
― remy bean, Sunday, 9 March 2008 20:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Agreed, I think the title track is my favorite song from that album. Yeah, Tragedy sounds kinda...overcooked? Too Much Heaven's great, though.
― dell, Sunday, 9 March 2008 20:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Considered it.
― CeeLô Borges (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 20:54 (one year ago) link
Could only be better than The Bee Gees: The Biography by David Meyer which I mention above.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 7 June 2023 21:44 (one year ago) link
In 1978, they wrote Too Much Heaven, Tragedy and Shadow Dancin’ during a day off on the set of Sgt Pepper – probably an afternoon off, in fact, as all three songs, all future No 1s, were wrapped in about two hours.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 21:48 (one year ago) link
...and "Lonely Days" and "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart" in another (earlier) single-day session.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 7 June 2023 21:50 (one year ago) link
Very much want to read Bob's book, can't imagine it won't be brilliant
― serving aunt (stevie), Thursday, 8 June 2023 09:29 (one year ago) link
Have read it and can confirm it is brilliant.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Sunday, 11 June 2023 13:16 (one year ago) link
Big profile of Barry here, gift link
https://wapo.st/3SWRaFm
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 28 November 2023 02:44 (nine months ago) link
The brothers’ initial success in the United Kingdom was stunning, defying probability and logic, worthy of a biopic. One is in the works with Graham King, who produced “Bohemian Rhapsody” about the band Queen. Gibb wrote a song for the movie, his first in years, while penning a memoir.Who should play young Barry? Gibb said, “I don’t know but he better be pretty.”
Who should play young Barry? Gibb said, “I don’t know but he better be pretty.”
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 28 November 2023 02:46 (nine months ago) link
barry otm lol
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 03:19 (nine months ago) link
Very much enjoyed Bob Stanley's book from the summer, though it was light on original research.
― Yngwie Azalea (stevie), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 09:11 (nine months ago) link
will they ever release the maurice and barry post-breakup solo albums? cmon!
― buzza, Tuesday, 28 November 2023 10:08 (nine months ago) link
Never heard the Maurice one but I've heard most, if not all, of the Barry one and it's no lost classic.
― Tom D has a right to defend himself (Tom D.), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 10:14 (nine months ago) link
yeah i'm not super aware of what constitutes a solo recording versus just a beegees joint where its just one brother running the whole thing
for barry i was thinking of stuff like this which seems very solo album-y but maybe not
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHu-mHFD7Kw
― buzza, Tuesday, 28 November 2023 10:32 (nine months ago) link