Tin Can is pretty crap
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 21 May 2012 17:11 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve years ago) link
yeah I've noticed the fake-playing too
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 21 May 2012 18:24 (twelve 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 (twelve 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."
<3 alex chilton
― buzza, Monday, 4 June 2012 06:55 (twelve years ago) link
2001 ilx vmic
― buzza, Monday, 4 June 2012 06:56 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve years ago) link
Do your civic duty people.
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 9 June 2012 12:06 (twelve years ago) link
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
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 (ten years ago) link
^ by bob stanley
nice, thank you.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 04:03 (ten 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 (ten 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 (eight years ago) link
classic mooseknuckle
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 2 September 2016 04:15 (eight 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 (eight 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 (six 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 (six years ago) link
co-sign x2, fucking legend
― Simon H., Tuesday, 26 June 2018 18:00 (six 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 (six years ago) link
Hail Sir Baz, awesome
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 26 June 2018 21:22 (six years ago) link
No jokes about him getting it for Staying Alive please.
― Alan Alba (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 June 2018 21:59 (six 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 (six 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 (six years ago) link
lol that's awesome. p sure he still lives down there.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 26 June 2018 23:01 (six 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 (six 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 (six 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 (five years ago) link
You Win Again is fantastic, you heartless fiend!
― Tiltin' My Lens Photography (stevie), Monday, 27 May 2019 16:01 (five years ago) link
^^^ agree
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 27 May 2019 20:19 (five 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 (five years ago) link
Fourthed.
Although, what's 'Massachusetts' doing down there!?
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Monday, 27 May 2019 20:59 (five 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