Robin Gibb solo -- C/D?

But yes, my fave Gibb bro. So highly strung!

PS there was mention of Sing Slowly finally seeing release earlier this year, before Mo's unfortunate demise. Anyone know anything, or has this gone the way of the mooted-but-unforthcoming "Odessa Live On Stage" episode?

Yeah, How Dare You has "Juliet, Another Lonely Night In New York (which he re-recorded on this last one) and He Can't Love You -- three of those tunes are first-rate synth-pop.

"Odessa Live"?

While we're on the subject, and since it's now pretty clear that the Bee Gees will never record again under that name, isn't it about time that all their LPs were given a decent re-issue programme?? If the punter could actually buy a decent sounding version of any of their early LPs, with nice sleevenotes & bonus tracks (Mr Waller's Wailing Wall!! Cowman, Milk Your Cow!!, Deeply Deeply Me!!) I'm sure they'd undergo an upturn in their credibility, which has never been too high (not that that concerns them too much, and rightly so).

Odessa Live was mentioned in mojo maybe 3 years ago, not long after the LP had been featured in the Buried Treasure slot. It did seem to be a going concern (the brothers brought the subject up again in Mojo's 2 part-er from a couple of years back), but had to be cancelled for obvious reasons.

I actually wrote up SSS for Stylus's Lost Albums feature last week, if you're interested. What a great record.

I agree -- be nice to see a real reish programme. Do justice to the TON of unreleased stuff they have from that era...

His Jeff Lynne produced 1983 album was great tho.

Was "Juliet" a Jeff Lynne production? If so, it might be the best thing he's been involved with this side of "Xanadu" (ie post-1980).

Just busted SSS out again -- "A Very Special Day" gets me every time...

Thanks for reviving this thread - it made me seek out this, which I hadn't heard in about 23 years:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=2yNdxABpre0

Joseph, I have played "Boys Do Fall in Love" in my DJ sets a few times! So maybe you've heard it and just didn't notice...

As noted above (and many years ago), Robin was always the most "pop" of the Gibb brothers.

Just dug out Robin's Reign again after some time -- it's every bit as good and awesomely over-orchestrated as I remember. "The Worst Girl In This Town," featuring a chorus wall of overdubbed Robins run through cavernous reverb, is particularly outstanding.

yeah, I have both these records, and love "Mother and Jack" on Reign. I hope Rhino reissues them as part of their ongoing Bee Gees program.

it wanted to know if I am published walls have eyes and secret agent in CD and whichever hill a copy of the CD

this dude got cheated out of memehood

just another vote for robins reign as an overlooked wonderpiece

It should be noted that "Boys Do Fall In Love Aside," Secret Agent falls far short of How Old Are You? from 1983, which is just loaded with great synth pop tunes -- "Kathy's Gone" is my latest discovery/obsession from that record.

Great Robin feature with the Bee Gees:

Best song on Odessa IMO...

So Robin is the one who sings in that low voice on the Bee Gees "Nights on Broadway," right? I wish he'd sing like that more often. Love it.

I just discovered How Old Are You? yesterday. Such feel-good synth-pop!

I don't think so -- it's him singing the "Well, I have to fahhhh-low you!!" part. Boy, I love that song, tho...

This is one of my faves of his solo stuff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH4xWChyUos

Jamming this song daily
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3k3y7dykx0
I found Secret Agent at the station, too, and I think it sounds great. Haven't heard How Old Are You? but it's incredibly crepey title makes me want to.

is the maurice gibb solo record ever going to be released?

Maurice has his own disc in the Mythology box. I checked the Robin disc out from my library, that's where I found Juliet.
I made a mental note to check out Maurice's disc next.

this is pretty sweet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGx4sBseM-Q

From the Brothers official website "MYTHOLOGY also features the debut of a pair of previously unreleased Maurice Gibb tracks - "Angel Of Mercy" and "The Bridge." http://www.beegees.com/store/music/beegees-mythology/#more

I really dig that demo of "Islands" -- the chorus has a perfect Bee Gees feel to it. Would love to hear it in better sound.

robin's reign has been killing me recently. ridiculously deep music

guess i need to hunt down his synth pop stuff

is there a reasonable copy of sing slowly sisters floating around? the one i've been listening to sounds like a cassette dub. the wow and flutter kinda compliments the weirdness of the songs in a way tho

"janice" from sss is fucking incredible

sad news:
http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/people/11934577-421/robin-gibb-in-coma-with-pneumonia-in-hospital.html

Terrible

Bad news

very sad, if not entirely unexpected. played some Bee Gees this weekend

This is on the Bee Gees thread, too, but with all these half-assed Bee-Gees-obits-with-a-Few-Lines-About-Robin I've been seeing, I figured some solo Robin was appropriate here. If there's a more beautiful song than this, I haven't heard it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ernk3KeszcM

Love the chorus on this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6Bkh9g37RY

Maybe I'm engaging in connecting-the-dots-around-the-recently-departed but he had a melancholy in his voice like few others, Richard Manuel being one of the few.

Yup:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFBIhA5aGRg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbjwR2GeztM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeWvooO_9b4

The "How Old Are You" album is a bit underrated, actually.

RIP Robin, a unique talent. I hope his solo work from the '69-'70 gets properly reissued but I fear a lot of it's probably gone or else only exists on scratchy acetates. Feel for poor old Barry, the oldest and the last.

yeah. poor barry. i can't bear to watch those videos of them as little kids on youtube right now.

Wow, I had been scarcely aware of Robin's solo work until now! I should know. I'll have to put it on my list!

Maybe I'm engaging in connecting-the-dots-around-the-recently-departed but he had a melancholy in his voice like few others, Richard Manuel being one of the few.

He sounds like a folk singer to me! I mean, as in Mike Waterson not Bob Dylan or whatever.

robin gibb sounds like about nobody else IMO.

he was also a goofy-looking motherfucker.

kinda weird how Barry and Brian Wilson both outlived their younger brothers

kinda sad

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/11536234/Lost-Robin-Gibb-album-to-be-released-thanks-to-fans.html

Aaaaaaaaahhhhhh!

yay

I hope his solo work from the '69-'70 gets properly reissued but I fear a lot of it's probably gone or else only exists on scratchy acetates.

2 Years On, we Robinauts have cause for celebration!

I am stoked for this

co-sign!

Awesome! A few years ago, the bio on his official site had links throughout to ~30 second audio clips of various tracks, and at one point it casually mentioned the Sing Slowly Sisters album with no indication that it was never released, and there was a clip of the title track that was obviously of much better quality than the bootleg versions, so I had a feeling this was in the works, but yeah, super stoked that it's really happening!

Anyone hear 50 St. Catherine's Drive? Worth checking out imo.

hey guys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BleEN89sc78

http://museek.info/download/robin-gibb-saved-by-the-bell-the-collected-works-of-robin-gibb-1968-1970-2015/

holy shit @ those tracks w the orchestra + choir, total eruo-bombast

Nice Uncut review of the Robin's Reign box:

http://ow.ly/OJ7Ib

Just had this delivered not 5 minutes ago.

All but the BBC sessions are on Spotify in the US. This lives up to the hope thus far. Sound is amazing -- you'd never know this was pulled together from old acetates.

OTM, Andrew Sandoval deserves some sort of award or medal or sumthin' for this.

Revive! As winter approaches, this music always sounds so appropriate – like the soundtrack to Ethan Frome or something.

Somehow, despite being ILM’s craziest Robin fan, I never bought the Saved By the Bell box and have only listened to it on Spotify.

It’s worth noting that “Hudson’s Fallen Wind”—the 12-minute epic suite from which Robin’s Reign’s “Farmer Ferdinand Hudson” is excerpted—is amazing. The sound throughout is incredible.

heard robin's reign (and early bee gees for that matter) for the first time this week and i love it! i think robin's reign is the earliest example of drum machine on record that i can think of. very avant-garde!