Bee Gees: Classic or Dud

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.

all their mid-'60s to early '70s albums bursting with great deep cuts, and sometimes outtakes.

am thinking of picking up the Mythology box set

any naysayers out there?

http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/07/14/islands-in-the-stream/

^ by bob stanley

nice, thank you.

Yes, very nice, thks. Guess I should go ahead and get the book.

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

hmm no real bonus tracks :(

rip robert stigwood

Outlived 3 Gibb Bros.

Assuming he was 112.

Happy 70th Barry!
http://dlisted.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/hbbarrygibb2016.1-500x691.jpg

classic mooseknuckle

Speaking of which!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzwlig6qU-o

would you believe me if I told you that some of this album has a Blue Nile vibe

umm i love "In The Now"

totally nomming + voting for it in the EOY poll

I hate to admit hearing the dentures in his delivery is a bit distracting

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

would prefer the royal family all died in a fire but...

good for Barry, deserves all the respect

co-sign x2, fucking legend

"Arise, Sir Barry Gibb!" rather than "KNIGHT FEVER". Journalism is dead. https://t.co/DvpkAQK2T4

— Matthew Horton (@matthewjh) June 26, 2018

Hail Sir Baz, awesome

No jokes about him getting it for Staying Alive please.

really thought yerman from cheers deserved it ahead of him tbh

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.

lol that's awesome. p sure he still lives down there.

lol woops -- I meant early '00s. I'm not that old.

yeah I heard an interview from a couple years back & he was still there iirc

I rank their American and British top tens.

You Win Again is fantastic, you heartless fiend!

^^^ agree

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)

Fourthed.

Although, what's 'Massachusetts' doing down there!?

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.

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

yes I was thinking of the Beastie Boys too! so great

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]

LMAO

lol
what a lupe fiasco

plz leave

jk

:)

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".

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.

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.

I think I've seen two (old) Bee Gees documentaries in the last week, is there some kind of anniversary coming up?

lol I immediately thought of the Beastie Boys story as well! But I also thought this was by-the-numbers, maybe even a hair more so than usual. Good choices of Talking Heads, though, imo.

I was also disappointed they rushed through the pre-disco years, a huge & interesting part of their career, was looking forward to getting a little more time to hear about that stuff, maybe a bit less Justin Timberlake saying "their voices were cool" or w/e, but oh well. Pretty boilerplate but still a fun watch. They were such a weird, interesting band. Always amazed to hear about how little effort they put into lyrics, writing them pretty much on the spot in the studio. So many of the lyrics on those pre-disco albums are just so incredibly odd.

Also I had no idea Maurice and Lulu were married at one point!

i was also surprised by how fast it moves through their early career. literally five minutes in and they're already a singing group on TV. i don't need a ton of background but i wouldn't have minded a little more detail on them being actual kids in a successful band.