How Can You Poll a Broken Heart - the Robin Gibb Memorial BEE GEES TRACKS POLL RESULTS

Final results

1. To Love Somebody
2. Nights on Broadway
3. More Than a Woman 
4. How Deep is Your Love
5. Jive Talkin'
6. How Can You Mend A Broken Heart
7. Stayin' Alive
8. If I Can’t Have You
9. I Started A Joke
10. Night Fever
11. Mr. Natural
12. Fanny (Be Tender With My Love)
13. Islands In The Stream
14. Massachusetts
15. I've Gotta Get A Message To You
16. New York Mining Disaster 1941
17. You Should Be Dancing
18. You Win Again
19. Tragedy
20. Heartbreaker
21. Melody Fair
22. Every Christian Lionhearted Man Will Show You
23. Spicks & Specks
24. Run To Me
25. Emotion
26. Lonely Days
27. Holiday
27. Spirits Having Flown
28. Love You Inside Out
29. World
30. Lemons Never Forget
31. I Just Want To Be Your Everything
32. Words
33. Grease
34. Trafalgar
35. Odessa (City on the Black Sea)
36. Too Much Heaven
37. **TIE** I Can't See Nobody, Sweet Song of Summer, Guilty
38. Paradise
39. Don't Wanna Live Inside Myself
40. For Whom the Bell Tolls
41. The Flag I Flew
42. Shadow Dancing
43. **TIE** Kilburn Towers, Edge of the Universe, Nobody's Someone,
Please Read Me
44. I Laugh in Your Face
45. **TIE** Indian Gin And Whisky Dry, (Our Love) Don't Throw It All Away, Seven Seas Symphony
46. Black Diamond
47. An Everlasting Love
48. **TIE** Throw a Penny, Chain Reaction
49. **TIE** A Very Special Day, (Love is) Thicker Than Water
50. Woman in Love

Playlist here. I know almost the entire Top 20, then it gets a bit spotty. Never got around to Odessa, Trafalgar, etc.

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Thanks!

*25. Emotion (Writers: Barry and Robin Gibb)
104 points (5 votes)*

"Spicks and Specks" would have made a great Spïnäl Tap song title

I saw them at Maple Leaf Gardens just prior to Saturday Night Fever, but I don't think I was ever that big a fan.

1. “More Than a Woman,” Tavares (40)
2. “Night Fever,” Bee Gees (36)
3. “If I Can’t Have You,” Yvonne Elliman (33)
4. “To Love Somebody,” Bee Gees (30)
5. “How Can You Mend a Broken Heart,” Al Green (28)
6. “Run to Me,” Bee Gees (26)

muh ballot

To Love Somebody - 40
Paradise - 36
Nights on Broadway - 33
World - 30
You Win Again - 28
Every Christian Lion Hearted Man Will Show You - 26
I Believe in Miracles (Robin Gibb) - 25
Spicks and Specks - 24
Stayin' Alive - 23
Suddenly - 22
Cryin' Every Day - 21
I Laugh in Your Face - 20
Nobody's Someone - 19
Bury Me Down by the River - 18
Tragedy - 17
One - 16
Lonely Days - 15
Kitty Can - 14
Holiday - 13
You Know It's for You - 12

Thanks for posting!Here's mine:

To Love Somebody
More Than a Woman
Heartbreaker (Dionne Warwick)
Fanny (Be Tender With My Love)
Emotion (Samantha Sang)
I Started A Joke
I Just Wanna Be Your Everything (Andy Gibb)
New York Mining Disaster 1941
Love You Inside Out
I've Gotta Get a Message to You
Edge of the Universe
Run To Me
How Deep Is Your Love?
Jive Talkin'
Holiday
All This Making Love
Islands in the Stream
Nights on Broadway
I Can't See Nobody
Words
Night Fever
You Should Be Dancing
Spicks & Specks
Too Much Heaven
Massachusetts
Mr. Natural
Wildflower
Morning of My Life
If I Can't Have You (Yvonne Elliman)
Living Eyes

Just compared the final list to my ballot -- looks like 26 of my 30 made it. Would love to see some other folks' individual ballots if anyone feels like posting them...

great stuff! here's my ballot:

Love You Inside Out
More Than A Woman
To Love Somebody
Lonely Days
Words (Elvis Presley)
Tragedy
Hudson's Fallen Wind (Robin Gibb)
Paradise
Fanny (Be Tender With My Love)
Every Christian Lionhearted Man Will Show You
Spicks & Specks
I Just Want To be Your Everything (Andy Gibb)
Jive Talkin'
Heartbreaker (Dionne Warwick)
Nights On Broadway
An Everlasting Love
(Our Love) Don't Throw It All Away (Andy Gibb)
Guilty (Barbra Streisand & Barry Gibb)
You Should Be Dancing
Alone
Give A Hand, Take A Hand (P P Arnold)
Shadow Dancing (Andy Gibb)
Stayin' Alive
Kathy's Gone (Robin Gibb)
I Started A Joke
Walking Back To Waterloo
Boys Do Fall In Love (Robin Gibb)
How Can You Mend A Broken Heart
Night Fever
How Deep Is Your Love

Mine:
1. Nights on Broadway
2. How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?
3. I Started a Joke
4. Mr. Natural
5. Lamplight
6. Odessa (City on the Black Sea)
7. Fannie (Be Tender With My Love)
8. The Flag I Flew
9. Run To Me
10. Massachusetts
11. For Whom the Bell Tolls
12. Islands in the Stream
13. Kathy's Gone
14. A Very Special Day
15. Heartbreaker
16. World
17. Melody Fair
18. I've Gotta Get a Message to You
19. I Can't See Nobody
20. Juliet
21. Method to My Madness
22. My Life Has Been a Song
23. To Love Somebody
24. Holiday
25. How Deep Is Your Love
26. Please Don't Turn Out the Lights
27. The Worst Girl In This Town
28. Indian Gin and Whisky Dry
29. He Can't Love You
30. First of May

Whoops -- Method to My Madness didn't chart, either. Great song, that.

Here’s my ballot. Mostly consensus picks:

01 Sweet Song of Summer
02 Spirits (Having Flown)
03 How Deep Is Your Love
04 Grease
05 Guilty
06 If I Can't Have You
07 You Should Be Dancing
08 Tragedy
09 More Than A Woman
10 Too Much Heaven
11 Edge of the Universe
12 Robot
13 To Love Somebody
14 Emotion
15 Jive Talkin'
16 How Can You Mend A Broken Heart?
17 Paying The Price Of Love
18 I Held a Party
19 You Win Again
20 Trash (from 'Sesame Street Fever')
21 I've Gotta Get a Message to You
22 Melody Fair
23 Chain Reaction
24 Night Fever
25 Stayin' Alive
26 Words
27 Morning of My Life
28 Woman In Love
29 Nights On Broadway
30 Spicks and Specks

sort of kicking myself for forgetting to include the anecdote about how they wrote/came up with the idea for NY Mining Disaster 1941 (ie, warming up by singing in an echo-y stairwell outside the studio and thinking about how it sounded like they were at the bottom of a mineshaft)

also meant to point out that every single album through 1987 was represented in the final results, with two exceptions: Life in a Tin Can and Cucumber Castle (if only one more person had voted for Maurice's "My Thing" arggh!)

all the anecdotes about how they were inspired to write songs based on car and plane engine sounds and did diy explosion sound effects w/ microphones are so cool, goes to show how resourceful and kinda avant garde they could be for 'professional pop hitmakers' of their era

also interesting to note that their "commercial nadir"(from To Whom it May Concern until Main Course) lasted a grand total of only 4 years lol

yeah but 4 albums in 4 years -- these days if a big artist flops they'll take that long just to come back with a follow-up

well, three albums. but yeah it's different now, people take forever to record follow-ups, rather than rush out something for fear that they will be forgotten/miss their chance

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.

Also, for those of you who haven't heard Robin's contribution to "Sesame Street Fever":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDH_8dNRH_8

!!! omg never seen that before

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*

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.

1. How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?
2. (Love Is) Thicker Than Water
3. More Than a Woman
4. How Deep Is Your Love
5. Emotion
6. Night Fever
7. To Love Somebody
8. Please Read Me
9. Nobody's Someone
10. An Everlasting Love
11. Baby As You Turn Away
12. I Just Want To Be Your Everything
13. Charade
14. I Can Bring Love
15. New York Mining Disaster 1941
16. Birdie Told Me
17. Jive Talkin'
18. Fanny (Be Tender With My Love)
19. I Started a Joke
20. Spicks and Specks
21. My Thing
22. If I Only Had My Mind On Something Else
23. If I Can't Have You
24. Nights on Broadway
25. South Dakota Morning
26. Shadow Dancing
27. Children of the World
28. Massachusetts
29. The Battle of the Blue and Grey
30. The Chance of Love

Anyone have recommendations for a good Andy Gibb comp? This poll made me realize that I need one.

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.

Yeah, but then I'd also be saddled with a whole disc of Maurice.

(I KID, I KID)

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!

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.)

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

those tour shirts are sweeet

I like the look of those chains too.

ooh I missed that, I want one of those too

Send cash, check or money order to:

Official Bee Gees Fan Club
P.O. Box 9488
N. Hollywood, CA
91606

Go ahead, I dare you--I double-dare you.

Are you maniacs seriously telling me "Country Lanes" didn't place in this thing??

This thread was boss. Mad props to the Shakey Mo!

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

lol

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.

missed deep cuts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apkDuq54SeQ

For venal reasons, I didn't participate, but here's my list.

no Bee Gees list without "Mr. Natural" can be considered complete. the perfect midpoint between their phases.

also the complete absence of even a MENTION of "Stop (Think Again)" on this entire thread hurts me deeply in my heart

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

the sideman interviews were a lot more rewarding

the nicky siano bits were great. vince lawrence, too. a mini disco doc within the bee gees doc.

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.

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.

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."

I mean I guess Buck still showed up for Hee-Haw tapings, but still.