Is this a joke?
That 70's Bee Gee's disco was awful. They were a fruity 60's pop band that jumped on the disco bandwagon in the 70's and sucked beyond belief. Maybe the bass player was good (??) but I remember the songs, vocals and production being about as screwed as it got.
They sold a lot of albums and had success with disco ... but so did the pimps and coke dealers. If you want something good from that period/genre check out Isley Brothers, Earth Wind And Fire, Tower Of Power or any or the REAL stuff from back then ... I can't see citing 70's BeeGees for musical content. It just blows.
Wow, you're ignorance is blinding.
Fruity 60's pop? What planet are you on? How on Earth is the Odessa album fruity, or for that matter the Sing Slowly Sisters lost album from 1970 when Robin Gibb went solo, the art of that song writing is out of this world, and the singing, the most beautiful and unique thing I've ever heared.
I haven't even touched on the Horizontal or 1st albums, I Started a Joke, New York Mining Disaster 1941, And The Sun Will Shine, Gotta Get a Message to You, Words, Massachusetts, Holiday, To Love Somebody, I Can't See Nobody, explain to me how all this could possibly be seen as fruity?
These guys were just teenagers when they were doing
all this and its out of this world, how 3 brothers can all have that talent that equals the other in some way or form, Robin has the best voice in musical history in my little opinion and a song writing hand, Barry has a heavenly voice and one hell of a guitar, one of the greatest song writers and producers of all time, he's the 3rd most successful producer there is for a start, and Maurice had that bass, mellotron, piano, synth, organ, lead, rhythm guitar and voice, if you can't respect that then you need educating, and I'll happily do that.
The Bee Gees never made a disco record, they didn't even kinow what that was, Jive Talkin' and You Should Be Dancing were released well before fever, as was How Deep Is You're Love a few months before appearing on the sound track, the first 2 were both number 1's and How Deep stayed in the US top 10 for nearly 20 weeks, then Night Fever, Stayin' Alive, Emotion, If I Can't Have You and Tavares version of More Than A Woman came along as singles from Fever, all these songs were already written before the film, they were recorded and put on the sound track, this is what started the idea of calling it 'Disco' if you just listen to it its quite plainly white R&B, the Bee Gees were one of the first white groups to get serious airplay on black radio and we're all still talking about them 30 years later, come on, where is the respect?
Do care to explain why any of these songs have screwed up production and vocals, I really would like to know as this is some pretty well produced stuff, You Should Be Dancing for example is laden with gold production, brilliant vocals and emotion purveying lyrics, just fun really.
Spirits Having Flown followed, classic album, 3 number 1 hits on it, Too Much Heaven, Love You Inside Out and Tradegy, great songs, great melodies, great Bass, they ended up raising 100 million for Unicef donating 15 million of their own cash to the cause.
Now lets get onto other people they have written and produced for, lets start, Grease, what is wrong with Grease? Barry production, writing and backing vocals. Elvis covered Words (doesn't fit but thought it deserves a mention!), Andy's records are equally brilliant and successful, the Gulity album for Barbara Striesand, the title track and Woman In Love were smash hits all around the world while the Bee Gees were fighting a pretty pathetic American backlash which meant they couldn't get airplay on a radio station no matter what they released, however, in the rest of the civilised world the records sold like wild fire.
Heartbreaker album for Dionne Warwick, Bee Gees write and produce, gold again, nothing wrong with it, number 1 title track, Islands In The Stream, written and produced by the Bee Gees, one of the most successful country records of all time, Diana Ross got Chain Reaction, number 1 smash but not in America, the Bee Gees then started themselves up again, You Win Again was a huge number 1 hit in Europe, absoloutely everywhere, this was in 1987, Robin and Maurice had a huge European hit in 1984 with Juliet, the One Album of 1989 did get into the U.S charts for a change, great drums on the hit title track, Wish You Were Here is one of my all time favourites, written for Andy, a huge tour followed, High Civilization and Size Isn't Everything were sucessful European albums with some great songs relegated to B sides.
I've been skipping a lot but I'm rushing, we now get onto Still Waters, my favourite Bee Gees album, released in 1997, the writing of this is unbelivable and the production is God worthy, went to number 2 in the UK charts with 3 hit singles, very successful in europe as well, I plead, listen to this album as it is pure and prime Bee Gees, everything they did is on here, dance, ballads, that unique and phenomenal writing and melody and simply classic Gibb harmony, here is one of Robin's tracks from it
Robin was nearly killed in a train crash in the 60's which led to some pretty dark song writing, all 3 were involved in a serious car crash in the early 60's and now they have lost 2 brothers, they have been through a lot, but achieved so much that people simply don't know about.
5th greatest selling act according to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, part of the songwriters Hall of Fame and are the 2nd greatest selling songwriters of all time, the Beatles are 1st.....it brings us back to that word, respect, show it, come on.
Luke.
Thanks for reading.
