The Bee Gees - Their Greatest Hits: The Record
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Description: Don't look for a richly illustrated, critical essay-packed hagiography with this 40-track, double-disc overview of the Bee Gees recording career. In typical, telling fashion, the Brothers Gibb have eschewed such exercises in ego inflation and simply let the best of their remarkable body of music speak for itself. Through it all, their familiar voices lock together in the sort of transcendent, seemingly genetic harmony that few singers since the Everly Brothers (early Gibb inspirations) have managed. Beginning with the plaintive 1966 hit "New York Mining Disaster 1941," this set traces the Gibbs' journey from successful Beatles-era balladeers to '70s white R&B gods and the undisputed kings of disco (we're reminded here that their shrewd metamorphosis began with "Nights on Broadway" and "Jive Talkin'"--long before the mega-success of "Saturday Night Fever"). But even as that dance craze faded, again threatening to turn the Bee Gees into pop anachronisms, the Gibbs simply stepped out of the limelight for a while, turning their talents to MOR hit-making for the likes of Samantha Sang, Dolly Parton, Barbra Streisand, and Dionne Warwick. Those hits ("Emotion," "Heartbreaker," "Islands in the Stream") are featured here in modern rerecordings by the band, along with the Streisand-Barry Gibb duet, "Guilty." And if the Gibbs haven't had much of an American chart presence in recent years, they remain superstars throughout the rest of the world, a richly crafted pop music presence that simply won't be denied.
--Jerry McCulley
Tracklist of The Bee Gees - Their Greatest Hits: The Record
Reviews:
GREAT!!!GREAT!!!GREAT!!!GREAT!!!GREAT!!!
Pure pleasure!!
The Bee Gee's were soooooo good!
This is hours and hours, I mean days of listening pleasure!
It Got it all...Just Enjoy
Bee Gees are certainly one of the most famous bands of all time and if you either want to discover their greatness or re-live some great memories, THIS 2 disc collection is the right album for you. It starts in the mid 60's with the song "New York Miner Disaster" which is more of a traditional pop song then the trademark falsetto disco songs that came with "Saturday Night Fever" in the mid 70's. "To Love Somebody" is a happy love song and "Massachusetts" is one of the better older songs they made. The album continues with the wonderful ballad "Words" "I started a Joke" and " How Can You Mend A Broken Heart" all Pre-disco songs.
In 1975 the disco influented song "Jive Talkin" was released. and it was the beginning of the new 70's dominated disco Bee Gees that had countless of classics to date. "If I Can't Have You" was a big hit for Yvonne Elliman also for SNF but here you'll hear them singing it instead. Same with "Haertbreaker" that Dionne Warwick sang and Dolly Parton's "Island's in the Stream". Then obviously we'll get all of the SNF songs like the legendary floor filler "Staying Alive" the ballad "How Deep Is your Love" and others classics such as "Night Fever" "More Than A Woman" "Emotion" later covered by Destiny's Child "Too Much of Heaven" and "Tragedy" that Step's relived in the late 90's.
Songs such as "You Win Again" "One" and "Secret Love" that came much later are all very good meliodic and happy Bee Gee's trademarks. In the 90's we got "Alone" "Immortality" and "This is Where I Came in" I miss one of my personal favorites, the 90's song "Paying the Price of Love" but other then that this collection is complete and should belong to everyone's personal music collection. Maurice Gibb sadly passed away in 2003 but Bee Gee's music lives on.
OVERPRODUCED SYMPHONIC MESS
In the case of the Bee Gees, less is more. This album is like an ABBA recording session with more strings than a tennis racquet. This is NOT the one for true Bee Gees fans. Cherry pick from other albums or download from web, because you will be disappointed with this one.