the bee gees, then, awesome australian auteurs or treacly, trend-hopping trash? i trust that i won't be alone in considering them classic, yet i feel that i'll be made to stand in the corner by myself for suggesting that odessa is better than any beatles album you care to name.
― fred "the fourth bee gee" solinger, Wednesday, 6 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― fred solinger, Wednesday, 6 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― tarden, Wednesday, 6 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
However, their 70's output is pretty awesome, especially the Saturday Night Fever album.
They should have retired or disappeared into the Bermuda Triangle afterwards.
I do hope that The Solinger takes the fourth bee gee title seriously and starts going to tanning booths and getting a beard. Maybe then he'd be cool. Somehow I doubt it though.
― Nicole, Wednesday, 6 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tom, Wednesday, 6 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
But come to think of it, the Bee Gees looked cool. Bonny Prince Billy looks better furry. So why not? My hostility towards them is fading.
― duane zarakov, Wednesday, 6 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― mark s, Wednesday, 6 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― d. zarakov, Wednesday, 6 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
actually, there were four bee gees at one point, one glance at their first best of cover will tell you that much. who he was is a question that remains unanswered for me. the brothers gibb are hanging out and then there's this other guy, like father gibb paid him to be in the band so the guys would have friends who weren't family members.
as for blue-eyed soul, yeah, hall & oates, bowie (on young americans and elsewhere), the righteous brothers, the rascals, rundgren, DUSTY!, van the man (on moondance, at least), the box tops, mitch ryder, the soul survivors, the average white band, etc.
Did you really think I was going to say anything else?
― masonic boom, Wednesday, 6 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
*gags uncermoneously*
*leaves room to put on GOOD music, not this Bee Gees rubbish*
Sums it up nicely.
― Ally, Wednesday, 6 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― -- Mike Hanley, Wednesday, 6 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 6 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Mark, Wednesday, 6 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― DG, Wednesday, 6 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
and i froze, i really had no answer for him. that is until now! mark, you singlehandedly redeem all of pitchfork. surely, the bee gees aren't greater than abba -- hardly a crime! -- even though they have more great songs. abba's best songs are better than the bee gee's best, that's all. however, if you take "world" off of the first best- of and replace it with "melody fair," you've got an album that'll give gold a run for its money.
what's funny is how it all used to be, "many are quick to judge the bee gees based on their disco work, but few are aware of the classic pop they churned out in the 60s." but now it's "that 60s stuff really isn't my thing, but the saturday night fever soundtrack is great!"
And, alas, you and Mark are both wrong in my eyes, because you are making the wrong claims. You don't want the songs, you want the image, the beards, tans and gold medallions, as Nicole indicated. Admit you are both Lotharios.
If I could rescue that song from the disco hell that is the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, I'd be very, very, very, very happy. Two, twice, two times.
So, Fred, you're saying that someone with interest in the Gibb's frilly baroque pop period should start with Odessa?
― David Raposa, Wednesday, 6 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Classic Bee Gees singles: "Jive Talkin'", "You Should Be Dancing", "Stayin' Alive", "Tragedy". "Night Fever" just isn't strong enough, "Spirits (Having Flown)" is just too twee, all the singles from 1987 onwards are execrable AOR.
― Robin Carmody, Wednesday, 6 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
robin, i have to admit that i'm a sucker for "first of may," especially in the context of odessa where it's theme of young love lost forever is amplified to the nth degree. and "night fever" is FABULOUS, the string arranging is brilliant and it's so well composed (with three distinct parts).
"First of May" is such a sad whinge for Innocence Lost, though ...
― Geoff, Wednesday, 6 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― keith, Wednesday, 6 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Geoff, Thursday, 7 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
(Geoff, you're not actually hinting you're a Bee Gee by Blood, are you?)
― mark s, Thursday, 7 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Mark, Sunday, 30 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― robin carmody (robin carmody), Saturday, 15 November 2003 03:22 (twenty years ago) link
― robin carmody (robin carmody), Saturday, 15 November 2003 03:23 (twenty years ago) link
― Geirvald Hongfjeld jr., Saturday, 15 November 2003 03:29 (twenty years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 15 November 2003 03:47 (twenty years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 15 November 2003 03:52 (twenty years ago) link
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
― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 26 April 2004 05:31 (twenty years ago) link
― Dave M. (rotten03), Monday, 26 April 2004 05:33 (twenty years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Monday, 25 April 2005 13:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 25 April 2005 15:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 25 April 2005 15:36 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 25 April 2005 17:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Monday, 25 April 2005 18:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 25 April 2005 18:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Monday, 25 April 2005 18:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Leon Future Coffee (Ex Leon), Monday, 25 April 2005 18:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 10:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 14:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 14:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 14:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 15:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 15:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 15:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 15:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 15:42 (nineteen years ago) link
this box set is amazing
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 5 July 2007 16:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Which -- Tales?
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 5 July 2007 18:30 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen years ago) link
anybody else diggin' the Barry Gibb 80's demos currently found on iTunes?
― henry s, Thursday, 5 July 2007 19:08 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen years ago) link
me like the unreleased "A Kick in the Head..."
― dell, Thursday, 20 September 2007 22:57 (sixteen 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
"Tragedy" is a good tune with a sub-Moroder production. Because it's a good tune, some believe it's classic.
Anyway, that "beating" they took was, like, 20 years ago in the decade following disco's demise. Since that time they've been pretty well re-established as pop royalty.
I don't doubt that for a while it was weird to say you liked the Bee Gees or anything. It's just weird for someone to talk about feeling guilty for liking them today, as if it were still 1989 or something.
― Naive Teen Idol, Sunday, 9 March 2008 21:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Well, I'm old. And I'm over it. These songs are great.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 9 March 2008 21:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, Tragedy sounds kinda...overcooked?
Yeah, desperate somehow. Like what Ned said above: It's the sound of a band trying too hard to squeeze one more song from a genre that they knew had overstayed its welcome (commercially, at that time). But like I said, I think that's precisely what makes the song compelling.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 9 March 2008 21:32 (sixteen years ago) link
That's a nice theory ("burning out on a sound") but it seems to miss the fact that they actually hadn't tried that sound before. As I said above, the only thing they're trying too hard at on "Tragedy" is to mimic Giorgio Moroder's computer disco style, which was never their thing before or after "Tragedy." I think reading this "Their moment had passed" thing into it is a little melodramatic. Granted it's the Bee Gees, but still.
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 10 March 2008 08:13 (sixteen years ago) link
So I see that a 3-cd box set rerelease of Odessa was released today. Any thoughts on this from people who've heard it? Is it worth seeking out? I love the album despite its lyrical inanity; the vocals are so gorgeous, esp. "Melody Fair". And "Seven Seas Symphony" is stupendous, the kind of tender symphonic pop of which I wish I knew more good examples.
― Euler, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 20:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Apparently released here tomorrow. I will pick it up. Only know the album, but will not own an original version until I have this.
― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 00:38 (fifteen years ago) link
honestly, who gives a shit about mono mixes? never understood why those are "bonus tracks"... curious to hear the other stuff though
― There was even a brief period when I preferred Sally Forth. (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 00:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah it looks like there's more than mono mixes thankfully.
― Euler, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 01:50 (fifteen years ago) link
When they embraced disco they embraced their inanity more, emblematic of the nineteen seventies as a decade.
― Dan Landings, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 02:15 (fifteen years ago) link
uh for me, they have a select few excellent singles. plowing through a mountain load of their material in search of goodness, as i was recently, proves a cumbersome task, however.
― Charlie Howard, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 08:58 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^so wrong
― There was even a brief period when I preferred Sally Forth. (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 16:52 (fifteen years ago) link
honestly, who gives a shit about mono mixes?
some guys. i like them when it's one of those "band were involved with the mono mix, label just paid some dude to do the stereo mix" situations. also bee gees' 1st sound better blasting in mono for some reason.
― HELPING CHILDREN THROUGH RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 16:55 (fifteen years ago) link
HELPING CHILDREN THROUGH RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Hahaha. "Hi everyone, let's pitch in 'n get cracking..."
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 16:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, sometimes the mono mix is the better sounding. I think that's the only reason. I certainly prefer the mono of SF Sorrow. I don't think I need a 3cd version of Odessa. I bet the public library will get a copy of it eventually.
― Trip Maker, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 16:58 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, I'm hoping to hear more about what this beast offers, before buying or rejecting it. The packaging sounds great: a red velvet box (get your mind out of the gutter) like the original vinyl release. But are the demos etc gorgeous? And how's the remastered sound?
― Euler, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 17:00 (fifteen years ago) link
anyone know where i can get the original bee gees recording of "emotion?" (not the samantha sang version). downloaded "their greatest hits: the record" which has an AWFUL remix/rerecording of the song.
― akaky akakievich, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 20:53 (fourteen years ago) link
The song "ESP" is great! I've been listening through the Tales box this morning, and it's a pretty strange listen: from the string-laden Beatlesque pop of the late 60s, to the country rock of the early 70s, to the r&b and disco of the mid 70s, to the gloss of the 80s. It all works, somehow; these were guys with great voices and even better connections, and between those they tapped into various zeitgeists that allowed them to make timely pop records in several different eras without sounding silly like, I dunno, the Monkees in 1987.
― Euler, Saturday, 7 November 2009 10:34 (fourteen years ago) link
"Nights On Broadway" remains the best thing they ever did (to my ears).
― Alex in NYC, Saturday, 7 November 2009 13:54 (fourteen years ago) link
"Lonely Days" has always been my go to Bee Gees tune. Rhyming nonchalant with restaurant gets me every time.
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 7 November 2009 14:02 (fourteen years ago) link
That's an outstanding one, yes.
I wrote an passionate piece about the `Gees on this blog not too long back.
― Alex in NYC, Saturday, 7 November 2009 19:17 (fourteen years ago) link
an passionate!
The Samantha Sang album is all kinds of awesome
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Sunday, 31 October 2010 19:56 (thirteen years ago) link
BBC doc available until Sunday and bloody brilliant:http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b010tbk5/Bee_Gees_In_Our_Own_Time/
― piscesx, Saturday, 30 April 2011 13:25 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2129558/Robin-Gibb-news-Bee-Gees-star-coma-doctors-fear-days-live.html
― nostormo, Saturday, 14 April 2012 11:30 (twelve years ago) link
Unlycky bastards. The Kennedy family of pop? :(
― The GeirBot (Geir Hongro), Saturday, 14 April 2012 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
afaik, none of the Bee Gees were assassinated. So, no.
― Dancing with Mr. T (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 14 April 2012 17:04 (twelve years ago) link
Robin out of his coma now, apparently...?
― heavy is the head that eats the crayons (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 23 April 2012 01:51 (twelve years ago) link
I had a dream of a place far away.I followed a river where the dead man would play.And I'm leaving in the morning.And I'm leaving in the morning.And I won't die, so don't cry. I'll be home.
― buzza, Monday, 23 April 2012 01:55 (twelve years ago) link
I am going to pretend that all the devotional Bee Gees listening I've done in the past week have had a hand in this
― heavy is the head that eats the crayons (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 23 April 2012 01:56 (twelve years ago) link
what he said. robin still has rough road ahead of him, but still. love these guys so fucking much.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 01:40 (twelve years ago) link
Another one bites the dust ...
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 20 May 2012 22:56 (eleven years ago) link
man...
― dell (del), Sunday, 20 May 2012 23:13 (eleven years ago) link
Wow. Just re-discovering their music...of course I knew he was sick, but this might affect my enjoyment. Bee Gees music is eternal and not something one associates with cancer.
I remember struggling with brother Andy's death as a child. RIP.
― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Bulgarian Tourist Chamber (Mount Cleaners), Sunday, 20 May 2012 23:17 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpEkugItKQI
― Sisig Steve (stevie), Sunday, 20 May 2012 23:18 (eleven years ago) link
rip robin my favourite bee gee
i know he was really ill but this one hurts
― buzza, Sunday, 20 May 2012 23:21 (eleven years ago) link
a sad week for disco (and other genres)
― Lee971 (Lee626), Sunday, 20 May 2012 23:49 (eleven years ago) link
jesus, fuck this. g'night, Robin
― Stormy Davis, Sunday, 20 May 2012 23:50 (eleven years ago) link
Awesome live vocal of a very underrated song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Wufvuw9WQ0
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 21 May 2012 14:23 (eleven years ago) link
I love bustin' out classic Bee Gees for those (most?) that only know their disco stuff:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PLeNdfkoBI
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 21 May 2012 15:06 (eleven years ago) link
Mr. Natural is all time
RIP Robin
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 21 May 2012 15:26 (eleven years ago) link
If we had someone who was willing to run the poll, I'd say we should bump this one up a la Beasties...
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 21 May 2012 15:37 (eleven years ago) link
I'd be happy to do it but I kinda doubt we'd get many votes...
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 21 May 2012 15:55 (eleven years ago) link
yeah nobody has heard those early-mid 70s records. well not nobody but... can't imagine we'd get too many folks repping for deep cuts from 'life in a tin can'
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 21 May 2012 16:06 (eleven years ago) link
I've got all kinds of love for Trafalgar, Mr. Natural, and To Whom it May Concern myself, but yeah these are not popular opinions
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 21 May 2012 16:10 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wc2hq3vbO7w
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 21 May 2012 16:12 (eleven years ago) link
big o has this pretty good unreleased solo album from 1970. http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=1101RIP. unmistakeable style and voice.
― tylerw, Monday, 21 May 2012 16:15 (eleven years ago) link
tyler, watch that video above. beautiful footage. beautiful song.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 21 May 2012 16:22 (eleven years ago) link
yeah that is wonderful
― tylerw, Monday, 21 May 2012 16:30 (eleven years ago) link
IF ONLY THERE WERE A WAY TO FIND OUT.
Seriously, Shakey, why don't we suggest this in the poll thread! If there's any time we could maximize votes, it would be now.
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 21 May 2012 16:56 (eleven years ago) link
Oddly, the only three Bee Gees albums I've ever owned were To Whom, Tin Can and Mr. Natural; radio promos I brought home. Sold 'em, and honestly can't remember much of any of them, but that clip of Mr. Natural brought the memory of that one back big time.
― Soccer mom, hopeless and lost, in utter despair (Dan Peterson), Monday, 21 May 2012 17:05 (eleven years ago) link
Tin Can is pretty crap
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 21 May 2012 17:11 (eleven years ago) link
I was just spinning some Bee Gees and 'Nights on Broadway' came up, which I love...and I remembered Fallon & Timberlake used it as the SNL Barry Gibb Talk Show theme song and I got SO teary and then I had to laugh at myself and ugh I'm just so bummed
I know Robin was sick but still, I really hate not having him anymore. I loved them for so long.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 21 May 2012 17:12 (eleven years ago) link
every time I watch a live clip I still get blown away by how there's barely any drop-off between them in the studio and them on stage...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDiwHYDm7VA
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 21 May 2012 17:17 (eleven years ago) link
that's what happens when you've been performing since you were like 6 years old. they were pros.
barry sometimes seems to be fake-playing guitar in live gigs.
robin looks almost normal there.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 21 May 2012 18:23 (eleven years ago) link
yeah I've noticed the fake-playing too
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 21 May 2012 18:24 (eleven years ago) link
Had no idea the Bee Gees completely missed the UK album charts from late 1970-76. Main Course was huge in the US.
Conversely, they were all but banned from US radio in the early to mid 80s, the Bee Gees having been the biggest target of the disco backlash. I doubt many Americans have heard "You Win Again".
I really like Mr. Natural, a transitional album that catches them just as they were starting to search for a new sound.
― Lee971 (Lee626), Monday, 21 May 2012 21:55 (eleven years ago) link
<3 alex chilton
― buzza, Monday, 4 June 2012 06:55 (eleven years ago) link
2001 ilx vmic
― buzza, Monday, 4 June 2012 06:56 (eleven years ago) link
attention ye robin gibb mourners -- bee gees polling in effect, 10 ballots received and we would love more contributions :D
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 9 June 2012 04:35 (eleven years ago) link
To Poll Somebody - The Robin Gibb Memorial BEE GEES TRACKS POLL (voting thread)
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 9 June 2012 04:36 (eleven years ago) link
Do your civic duty people.
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 9 June 2012 12:06 (eleven years ago) link
― Tim Ellison
so otm
― buzza, Saturday, 15 December 2012 11:08 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Doctor Flange, Sunday, 16 December 2012 23:55 (eleven years ago) link
all their mid-'60s to early '70s albums bursting with great deep cuts, and sometimes outtakes.
― Lee626, Monday, 17 December 2012 23:04 (eleven years ago) link
am thinking of picking up the Mythology box set
any naysayers out there?
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 27 December 2012 16:34 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/07/14/islands-in-the-stream/
― just sayin, Monday, 14 July 2014 20:37 (nine years ago) link
^ by bob stanley
nice, thank you.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 04:03 (nine years ago) link
Yes, very nice, thks. Guess I should go ahead and get the book.
― I Need Andmoreagain (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 10:23 (nine years ago) link
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
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:55 (nine years ago) link
hmm no real bonus tracks :(
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 29 January 2015 16:31 (nine years ago) link
rip robert stigwood
― hunangarage, Monday, 4 January 2016 20:26 (eight years ago) link
Outlived 3 Gibb Bros.
― Anyway, it's not a three, it's a yogh. (Tom D.), Monday, 4 January 2016 20:49 (eight years ago) link
Assuming he was 112.
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 5 January 2016 14:36 (eight years ago) link
Happy 70th Barry!http://dlisted.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/hbbarrygibb2016.1-500x691.jpg
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 1 September 2016 21:41 (seven years ago) link
classic mooseknuckle
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 2 September 2016 04:15 (seven years ago) link
Speaking of which!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzwlig6qU-o
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 6 September 2016 02:28 (seven years ago) link
would you believe me if I told you that some of this album has a Blue Nile vibe
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Sunday, 23 October 2016 23:56 (seven years ago) link
umm i love "In The Now"
― The times they are a changing, perhaps (map), Monday, 24 October 2016 01:23 (seven years ago) link
totally nomming + voting for it in the EOY poll
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Monday, 24 October 2016 23:29 (seven years ago) link
I hate to admit hearing the dentures in his delivery is a bit distracting
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 25 October 2016 02:18 (seven years ago) link
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
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 26 June 2018 17:57 (five years ago) link
would prefer the royal family all died in a fire but...
good for Barry, deserves all the respect
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 26 June 2018 17:59 (five years ago) link
co-sign x2, fucking legend
― Simon H., Tuesday, 26 June 2018 18:00 (five years ago) link
"Arise, Sir Barry Gibb!" rather than "KNIGHT FEVER". Journalism is dead. https://t.co/DvpkAQK2T4— Matthew Horton (@matthewjh) June 26, 2018
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 26 June 2018 18:07 (five years ago) link
Hail Sir Baz, awesome
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 26 June 2018 21:22 (five years ago) link
No jokes about him getting it for Staying Alive please.
― Alan Alba (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 June 2018 21:59 (five years ago) link
really thought yerman from cheers deserved it ahead of him tbh
― under a mand'rin tsar (darraghmac), Tuesday, 26 June 2018 22:51 (five years ago) link
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.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 June 2018 22:53 (five years ago) link
lol that's awesome. p sure he still lives down there.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 26 June 2018 23:01 (five years ago) link
lol woops -- I meant early '00s. I'm not that old.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 June 2018 23:23 (five years ago) link
yeah I heard an interview from a couple years back & he was still there iirc
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 26 June 2018 23:53 (five years ago) link
I rank their American and British top tens.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 26 May 2019 13:46 (four years ago) link
You Win Again is fantastic, you heartless fiend!
― Tiltin' My Lens Photography (stevie), Monday, 27 May 2019 16:01 (four years ago) link
^^^ agree
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 27 May 2019 20:19 (four years ago) link
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)
― breastcrawl, Monday, 27 May 2019 20:39 (four years ago) link
Fourthed.
Although, what's 'Massachusetts' doing down there!?
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Monday, 27 May 2019 20:59 (four years ago) link
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.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 14 December 2020 16:31 (three years ago) link
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
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 14 December 2020 16:40 (three years ago) link
yes I was thinking of the Beastie Boys too! so great
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 14 December 2020 17:53 (three years ago) link
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]
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 14 December 2020 18:01 (three years ago) link
LMAO
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 14 December 2020 19:24 (three years ago) link
lolwhat a lupe fiasco
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 14 December 2020 19:25 (three years ago) link
plz leavejk
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 14 December 2020 19:26 (three years ago) link
:)
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 14 December 2020 21:43 (three years ago) link
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".
― JoeStork, Monday, 14 December 2020 22:22 (three years ago) link
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.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 15 December 2020 01:13 (three years ago) link
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.
― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 15 December 2020 01:48 (three years ago) link
I think I've seen two (old) Bee Gees documentaries in the last week, is there some kind of anniversary coming up?
― Godless Tiny Tim (Tom D.), Tuesday, 15 December 2020 01:54 (three years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 04:35 (three years ago) link
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!
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 15 December 2020 13:54 (three years ago) link
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.
― na (NA), Tuesday, 15 December 2020 14:13 (three years ago) link
Haven't seen this one but, having seen other Bee Gees documentaries, I'm surprised that the fact that their father was a musician and bandleader is rarely mentioned, if at all.
― Godless Tiny Tim (Tom D.), Tuesday, 15 December 2020 14:18 (three years ago) link
Is it as good as this one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIVUl8-wvwQ
― piscesx, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 14:19 (three years ago) link
Lol Timberlake wouldn't let go of that "their voices are trumpets" thingsseems like it's a case of the less you know about them the better it is, they were always a blind spot for me, notwithstanding the inescapable disco hits
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 15 December 2020 14:23 (three years ago) link
I thought Andy got squeezed into the movie as a compulsory afterthought, and they definitely skipped super fast through the early stuff. In fact when they were playing bits of (the gorgeous and haunting) "Holiday" over the death montage end cards I wondered how many people might not realize that was them, too, since it doesn't show up elsewhere.
Maybe there's a darker side to it that got ignored, but I was shocked at how their lives diverged from the Beach Boys/Jackson Five family model, in that mom and dad seemed super cool and supportive. Though we barely get to know them, either. I might have missed why they even ended up in Australia.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 14:24 (three years ago) link
The (well rehearsed) story of them moving to Australia is that Barry was getting in trouble with the law and on the verge of becoming a juvenile delinquent.
― Godless Tiny Tim (Tom D.), Tuesday, 15 December 2020 14:27 (three years ago) link
Might have been nice to stick that in the doc. That also seems like an ... extreme overreaction!
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 14:29 (three years ago) link
Well, it's a good story.
― Godless Tiny Tim (Tom D.), Tuesday, 15 December 2020 14:31 (three years ago) link
having only just watched the first 15 mins of it^ the BBC doc moves just as fast but seems to have a narrative coherence the HBO one doesn't, at least gives a much clearer sense of their origins + more insightful talking-head clips
― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 15 December 2020 14:43 (three years ago) link
I didn’t realize this existed but one of the other documentaries did a nice job describing the drama of the band around 1969-70 when they broke up in the wake of Odessa. I believe Robin and Barry are interviewed together in that documentary but don’t really discuss it as I recall. There are some stories that Robin got his nose bent out of shape when Barry’s First of May was chosen as the single instead of Robin’s Lamplight. But I’d have been fascinated to get the inside scoop on what really led to a group of brothers splintering.
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 17 December 2020 05:17 (three years ago) link
The latest doc implied mostly the usual ego and jealousy stuff, but I think there's also something (addressed in the doc, too, iirc) to having spent practically every waking hour together for their whole lives and then finally having a measure of independence. Same thing took down the Beatles, the Band, probably plenty of acts that didn't start with B and weren't brothers. Anyway, how long did the Bee Gees stay broken up? A year? Less than a year?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 17 December 2020 13:46 (three years ago) link
per wikipedia it was about a year (mid-1969 to mid-1970)
― na (NA), Thursday, 17 December 2020 14:02 (three years ago) link
According to David Meyer's biography, all of the above is true, plus Robin's amphetamine use contributing to both megalomania and a copious number of solo songs. If you listen to Robin's Reign and Cucumber Castle, you can see the different directions they were going.
I wouldn't actually recommend the Meyer book; I don't need to be told that Robin "looked like the world's biggest dork" on one of their TV appearances.
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 17 December 2020 15:22 (three years ago) link
Listening to some Time Crisis podcasts where they would go through the top 5 for a random week in the '70s, it was crazy how often the top few songs would either be performed or written by a Gibbs. It really changed how I think about them, especially since in the '90s they were only referenced as a punch line.
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 17 December 2020 15:27 (three years ago) link
and that continued on into the '80s. i had no idea that they wrote islands in the stream. which means two members of the fugees had solo tracks that interpolated songs written by the gibbs bros.
― na (NA), Thursday, 17 December 2020 15:33 (three years ago) link
Oh wow, I did not know that either
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 17 December 2020 15:36 (three years ago) link
I was thinking about "Grease" (not mentioned in the film) and how odd it is that a song written by a singer who recently discovered his falsetto voice, for a singer known for falsetto, contains no falsetto at all.
Also, no mention of the Sgt. Pepper film, but that's not particularly surprising.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 17 December 2020 15:42 (three years ago) link
Good points all.
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 17 December 2020 16:07 (three years ago) link
Like, even this Barbara Streisand song is pretty tighthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVyeNZCENZA
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 17 December 2020 16:11 (three years ago) link
The Streisand/Gibb record got 5 stars ("indispensable") in The New Rolling Stone Record Guide (1983) and I remember thinking, "...really?" But hearing "Guilty" and "Woman In Love" recently I thought, ok, maybe I should check out the rest of the album.
And "Bernard Lupe" is credited as the drummer on three of its songs!
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 17 December 2020 16:25 (three years ago) link
Woman in Love could almost fit on the moody AOR thread.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 17 December 2020 16:31 (three years ago) link
I was thinking about "Grease" (not mentioned in the film) and how odd it is that a song written by a singer who recently discovered his falsetto voice, for a singer known for falsetto, contains no falsetto at all.― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, December 17, 2020 7:42 AM (one hour ago)
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, December 17, 2020 7:42 AM (one hour ago)
Also the incongruity of a contemporary disco song in a retro film about the 50s.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 17 December 2020 16:55 (three years ago) link
Sure, but you're gonna have a Stigwood-produced, Travolta-starring film in 1978 without a disco song?
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 17 December 2020 17:02 (three years ago) link
There was already a similar time warp thing with "December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)"
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 17 December 2020 17:04 (three years ago) link
It's kind of a disco song too, isn't it
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 17 December 2020 17:08 (three years ago) link
Really good points about "Grease." Here you have a guy known for his falsetto ... singing *not* in falsetto, just after the Bee Gees made it fashionable (for white people), and for that matter singing an incongruous if denuded disco song on the soundtrack to a movie about the '50s ... right at peak disco, written by one of disco's prime engines. As Travolta would say, that's like, so weird.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 17 December 2020 18:27 (three years ago) link
Okay, the fact that it wasn't sung falsetto really is kind of bizarre. It's barely even sung, some Rex Harrison stuff.
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 17 December 2020 18:29 (three years ago) link
I think the major issue with "Grease" (song) is that we live a life of illusion, wrapped up in trouble laced with confusion...
What are we doing here?
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 17 December 2020 18:36 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbeNpqE0Ys4
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 17 December 2020 19:01 (three years ago) link
https://ew.com/movies/2018/04/20/barry-gibb-grease-demo-40th-anniversary-blu-ray/
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 17 December 2020 19:02 (three years ago) link
Okay, always thought it was weird that the title song of Grease was not a doo-wop song and seemed so fixated on the actual word “grease.”
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 17 December 2020 19:14 (three years ago) link
There's a story somewhere of Robert Stigwood telling Barry Gibb he needed to write a new theme song for his upcoming film Grease.
"'Grease'? How the hell do I write a song called 'Grease'?"
"Oh Barry, you know... Grease di di di, Grease da da da..."
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 17 December 2020 19:18 (three years ago) link
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 17 December 2020 19:38 (three years ago) link
Some of that stuff (xpost) is covered in the interview I linked to.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 17 December 2020 19:42 (three years ago) link
Are you excited to have people hear this demo?
No, not particularly.
lmao
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Thursday, 17 December 2020 20:18 (three years ago) link
I guess it's similar in approach to a George Clinton song about The Funk.
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 17 December 2020 20:42 (three years ago) link
Most of all we need The Grease.
https://theaudiophileman.com/true-falsetto-talking-frankie-valli/
Intriguingly, however, Valli generally only uses the falsetto when singing with the Four Seasons. For most of his solo hits, it’s nowhere to be found, “Falsetto is a great tool to have, if it’s not overdone.”
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 17 December 2020 20:48 (three years ago) link
Valli was going all in on disco at that point, he also recorded the first version of "Native New Yorker" at about that time
― Josefa, Thursday, 17 December 2020 20:58 (three years ago) link
He was also having some kind of hearing problems at the time, which is one of the reasons the drummer in the (new) Four Seasons was singing so many of the their material - including their singles.
― Eggbreak Hotel (Tom D.), Thursday, 17 December 2020 21:05 (three years ago) link
Here we are:
Valli began suffering from otosclerosis in 1967, forcing him to "sing from memory" in the latter part of the 1970s. Surgery performed by Los Angeles ear specialist Victor Goodhill restored most of his hearing by 1980.
― Eggbreak Hotel (Tom D.), Thursday, 17 December 2020 21:07 (three years ago) link
“Falsetto is a great tool to have, if it’s not overdone.”_
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 17 December 2020 21:13 (three years ago) link
Is that a quote from The Sopranos?
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 17 December 2020 21:19 (three years ago) link
Goodfellas:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPPYDZsXBvw
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 17 December 2020 21:31 (three years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 18 December 2020 05:08 (three years ago) link
wow, that's great, thanks. ethereal, yeah. would have slotted in beautifully next to late yacht stuff, and also "Cruisin'." hard for me to not hear it as a duet after all these years with Dolly and Kenny though!i note a small instrumental lift from "S.O.S." (the "when you're gone" part) about 2/3 of the way through...
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 18 December 2020 13:10 (three years ago) link
My favorite Gibb brothers tune written for another artist:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KBfkDaOxEk
― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 December 2020 13:12 (three years ago) link
Which I had forgotten about until the doc, and then the second I heard the second of it included in the movie I started humming along.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 18 December 2020 14:08 (three years ago) link
Another great Barry demo of that one, tho I think I still prefer the final version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPnbs3YHkXgThis is another one he did for the Kenny Rogers album he wrote, I love the chorus on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiCnUqjAueY
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 19 December 2020 15:54 (three years ago) link
saw two Bee Gees threads bumped back to back and was afraid Barry died. phew.
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Saturday, 19 December 2020 15:57 (three years ago) link
The doc should have been a series, like the Grateful Dead one on Amazon. Also, a lot of the vintage interview clips, etc, seemed to have been sped up, perhaps to fit enough material in the timeframe?
― Change Display Name: (stevie), Wednesday, 23 December 2020 07:28 (three years ago) link
Maybe they were just changing the pitch to make it sound more like they were speaking in falsetto.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 23 December 2020 13:29 (three years ago) link
so the Barry Gibb talkshow was real?
― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 23 December 2020 13:46 (three years ago) link
Barry’s new country duets album Greenfields is great, have been listening to it a lot
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 10 January 2021 00:14 (three years ago) link
Barry sounds great and Little Big Town guesting for "How Deep Is Your Love" is every bit as smooth as one would hope.
― stylish but illegal (Simon H.), Sunday, 10 January 2021 00:22 (three years ago) link
if they do more of these I would KILL for a countryfied "Mr. Natural"
― stylish but illegal (Simon H.), Sunday, 10 January 2021 00:23 (three years ago) link
yeah agree!i could listen to Butterfly on repeat, it sounds so good, the way his voice blends w Gillian Welch is lovely and the Keith Urban opener, Got To Get A Message To You really knocked my socks off
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 10 January 2021 00:27 (three years ago) link
the one w/ miranda is great... sounded like something that could've been on one of her records
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 10 January 2021 00:28 (three years ago) link
it took me a couple of listens to get into that one - it was weird hearing it slowed down like that, i wasnt sure if i liked it! but i agree now that they really nailed it
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 10 January 2021 00:33 (three years ago) link
miranda manages the impossible, making "Jive Talkin" sound like it's about something
― stylish but illegal (Simon H.), Sunday, 10 January 2021 00:44 (three years ago) link
otm
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 10 January 2021 03:07 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHa6vYq6Nyk
― Exploding Plastic Bertrand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 13 November 2021 20:44 (two years ago) link
Am I unwiseTo open up your eyes
― tvod+ (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 8 December 2021 04:37 (two years ago) link
Indeed. Though that line about needing someone older has always irritated me somewhat.
― When Smeato Met Moaty (Tom D.), Wednesday, 8 December 2021 09:19 (two years ago) link
I used to sing that song to my kid when she was tiny at bedtime, though I obviously changed that whole problematic chunk of lyric. Still one of my favourite Bee Gees jams though.
― Enjoy the brighter sounds of Analog on CD (stevie), Wednesday, 8 December 2021 09:27 (two years ago) link
You need a boulder?You look like a soldier?You need someone’s folder?What did you sing?
― Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 8 December 2021 12:02 (two years ago) link
I'm trying to remember the fudge. I think I may have just repeated "you need someone's shoulder" or "someone to hold yer"... She was only 3 then and not so demanding an audience, I totally would not get away with it now.
― Enjoy the brighter sounds of Analog on CD (stevie), Wednesday, 8 December 2021 12:17 (two years ago) link
Robin and Maurice's birthday yesterday.
― Circle Sky Pilot (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 23 December 2021 19:39 (two years ago) link
Anyone picked up the Bob Stanley book?https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jun/02/how-the-bee-gees-ruled-late-70s-pop
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 7 June 2023 20:47 (ten months ago) link
Considered it.
― CeeLô Borges (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 20:54 (ten months 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 (ten months 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 (ten months 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 (ten months 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 (ten months 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 (ten months ago) link
Big profile of Barry here, gift link
https://wapo.st/3SWRaFm
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 28 November 2023 02:44 (four 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 (four months ago) link
barry otm lol
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 03:19 (four 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 (four months ago) link
will they ever release the maurice and barry post-breakup solo albums? cmon!
― buzza, Tuesday, 28 November 2023 10:08 (four 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 (four 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 (four months ago) link