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The Bee Gees top twenty
Posted by Dave Amitri on 10 December 2011 - 12:13am.
The ying to BigJimBobs yang, did you see the Bee Gees Top Twenty on ITV? This is a proper, proper song that I had forgotten existed, there were others apparently.
The Bee Gees "Run To Me"
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Great songwriters
I'm just learning this for a Christmas concert.
That is a lovely film
but I must confess this version of this great song is more to my taste:
(James Carr sings To Love Somebody)
Oh, alright..
You should be dancing
In the Songwriters Hall of Fame
the list of songwriting credits for the Gibb brothers is 22 pages long!!
Fair play.
The Bee Gees suffered
from being seen to be on the 'wrong side' of the disco wars, so subsequent empty headed 'personalities' have seen them as an easy target for ridicule (take a step forward Mr Clive Anderson). Anyone that can write songs like these 2 is above criticism from all but their peers IMO.
A fantastic song & one of the best cover versions ever:
One of my faves, from their 'ambitious' Odessa album:
my sentiments entirely
I've been thinking this myself just recently. They deserve much greater respect than they probably get.
Here's another of their great songs and some good footage of Janis Joplin too
"Marley Purt Drive"
A big "yes indeed" to Odessa. An extraordinary record.
And surely the Massive must have some love for "Marley Purt Drive" from that fine album?
hmmm...
nice, but they'd obviously been listening to "Music from Big Pink" a bit...
poptastic
The Bee Gees are fantastic songwriters who soar above and beyond any spurious notions of 'cool'. And that's a good thing.
Like most teenage dafties at the time, I pretended to myself that their work during the 'Saturday Night Fever' era was rubbish.
So much for surfing the zeitgeist.
The Bee Gees wrote three great songs
"How can you mend a broken heart" and "To Love Somebody" as mentioned above.
And this one
in the event of something happening to me...
a great opening line
Mmmm, nice
Bee Gees, Spirits Having Flown
Agree
with all the above but had Robin got itching powder in his clothes in the first clip?
Great songs
But they are really unlikeable people. Maurice seemed the most normal/decent. Barry Gibb is just a prick - or comes across as one.
Sorry,
but you're completely wrong.
That's
the way they seem to me. They have a touch of the Cliff about them. Something just not right.
Decent songs songs though. Better than Abba. Not as good as Tony MacAuley.
Met them
and have a good friend who worked with them for years. Smashing, down to earth guys. Saw them live in '89 - stunning show, with non-stop classic hits.
Better than Abba?
Not in this universe. Some good stuff (You Win Again is a favourite of mine), but far too much dross.
Infinitely better than Abba
Abba have, IMO, only 3 good songs - SOS, Take a chance and Mamma Mia. As regards dross - Fernando, anyone?
As a song
I like The Name Of The Game.
Make that
4 good songs
Also up there
Knowing Me Knowing Me You
Winner Takes It All
Dancing Queen
Actually One Of Us is pretty good too
and Gimme Gimme Gimme for that keyboard bit especially
Lay All Your Love On Me I rather like too
and Chiquitita
I think the period production styles of records can create an off putting veneer that makes it sometimes hard to appreciate the sheer quality of such material, also true for the Bee Gees. Once you see beyond that you can see the brilliance.
Here's a nice cover of Chiquitita by Sinead O'Connor. Submit!
"I am Barry
EFFIN' Gibb!"
I Started A Joke
My ultimate Bee Gees fave.
no, no, no
"For those that like that sort of thing, that's the sort of thing they like". But I hated their (now hip) 60s stuff, and their 70s disco stuff was just shrill, forced and horrid. IMHO, the inanity of disco helped bury funk which is far truer to the needs of dance, sex, and ethnicity. I like gay and black artists and their musics, but disco was a travesty of what is good about both. Give me Jobriath, Sylvester (in reality, early house), Brothers Johnson or Parliament any day.
One of the best records ever made...
Stayin' Alive. Great video too.
According to last nights programme
this was the first song to us a drum loop, or it could have been "Night Fever" I was so excited by it all I've forgotten now but it was definitely one of the two.
I think that was 'Night Fever'...
but I could have it the wrong way round.
I've just remembered something - in around 1987 when I still had long hair my friend Ben's new girlfriend told me upon first meeting me that I looked like Barry Gibb. At the time I was appalled by this suggestion, but I now see it as having been quite a compliment. I should have put my nads in a vice and formed a tribute band...
Nads In A Vice
TMFTL including "Stayin' Alive" and "Jive Talkin'" sounds like a plan Patrick, it's never too late.
My favourite
I just love this tune. Funky but pre falsetto
Can I have 2?
I want a satin tour jacket...
with 'Patrick' sewn onto it.
My favourite Bee Gees song
But this is THE version
Guilty pleasure
watch for Burt and Liz enjoying this show
Some of the less familiar
songs (to me anyway) were incredible. This along with "Run To me" has been in my head all day
"Nights On Broadway"
Surely in the top 20?
How Deep Is Your Love?
Not really a fan
apart from the very wonderful Sergeant Pepper movie with Peter Frampton
My favourite
As John Peel said: if you're going to imitate anyone, you might as well imitate the best...
Another great imitation