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Roth Renegade
05-08-2007, 07:20 PM
Who can deny the bee gees? They put every rock band to shame in the 70's! Anyone else like this band?
Ellyllions
05-08-2007, 07:29 PM
Are you kidding?
Not many music fans can deny the power of the "Gee"...
Terry
05-08-2007, 09:36 PM
Sure.
Have Bee Gees Greatest 2-disc set. Can't deny the songwriting talent they had, and their production qualities were astounding for their time - the Fever stuff still holds up sound-wise to anything being put out these days.
Am not gonna say they put every rock band to shame in the 1970s, because (even outside of the whole rating bands nonsense) I just don't believe that to be true. They did write a shitload of great songs, both for themselves and for many other artists. Most of which are love songs, so a bit one-note in that respect, but I still like 'em. Wasn't so thrilled with them back in the late 1970s when radio was spinning the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack into the ground, though. Even as a kid when that stuff was new, I was sick of it at the time.
Their older stuff wasn't bad (before they got castrated)
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Wawazat
05-09-2007, 04:07 AM
Originally posted by Roth Renegade
Who can deny the bee gees? They put every rock band to shame in the 70's!
Lack of definition is about to reach the danger point.
Watch out Suckdicki, there's a new kid in town.
binnie
05-09-2007, 05:02 AM
Are they good songwriters? Yes
Have they sold a bucket load of records? Yes
Have they made records in more than one genre? Yes.
But they annoy the shit out of me, just can't get into them at all.
Sorry
Jimmy Jingles
05-09-2007, 10:04 AM
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Steve Savicki
05-09-2007, 10:11 AM
I like of Barry Gibb's collaborations as well - Barbra Streisand's "Guilty", Dionne Warwick's "Heartbreaker", and the one in '85 he did with Diana Ross.
Jimmy Jingles
05-09-2007, 11:22 AM
Originally posted by Steve Savicki
I like of Barry Gibb's collaborations as well - Barbra Streisand's "Guilty", Dionne Warwick's "Heartbreaker", and the one in '85 he did with Diana Ross.
Shocker.
Too bad he never did a song with Laura Branigan.
Coyote
05-09-2007, 02:18 PM
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binnie
05-10-2007, 02:49 AM
Originally posted by FORD
Too bad he never did a song with Laura Branigan.
Oh dear God, I can't even imagine how bad that would have been...
Panamark
05-11-2007, 03:11 AM
I dont think they exist anymore, do they ??
Didnt Maurice Gibb pass away last year ??
Or are they bringing back the youngest
brother to take his place ??
Not really my thing either, but one of those acts
that you cant deny were brilliant songwriters and
influenced the world.
ThrillsNSpills
05-11-2007, 01:33 PM
What a phenomenal Saturday Night skit.
While the Bee Gees invented the bizarre stomach vocal vibrato, they had some good tunes early on. Holiday is one that comes to mind.
I remember my sister had a Bee Gees greatest hits (before their disco comeback) on the old ATCO label.
At the end of the song Gotta Get a Message to you where there is an upward key change and one of the background singers' voice cracks on the "Hold on" line and he stops singing and says Oh god.
And they left it in.
I've heard subsequent versions where it's edited properly but I thought it was surprising the better version wasn't on the greatest hits.
Originally posted by Panamark
I dont think they exist anymore, do they ??
Didnt Maurice Gibb pass away last year ??
Or are they bringing back the youngest
brother to take his place ??
Andy died in the late 80's. I don't think he's eligible.
Panamark
05-11-2007, 05:37 PM
Originally posted by FORD
Andy died in the late 80's. I don't think he's eligible.
Shit yeah ! Thats right, I had forgotten about that.
Well if thats the case, then its only Barry and Robin left.
Not sure they would continue working as "The Bee Gees"
Although I guess technically there is still some
"Brothers Gibbs" left.... (Brothers Gibbs being where
the name Bee Gees came from)
Albeit only 2
I believe that they officially "retired" after Maurice died. Though they still do the occasional appearance. And Barry Gibb talk show episodes.....
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Funny though.....
When Robin left the band in the late 60's, Barry and Maurice DID actually carry on as a duo for an album or two.
http://www.ibcstudio.co.uk/Tracks/Photos/Cucumber%20Castle.gif
Nickdfresh
05-11-2007, 07:01 PM
Not a Bee Gees fan, but I give them R-E-S-P-E-C-T. They recorded a lot of albums and kept it goin' for a long time and had a great career of original music. You have to respect their accomplishments. And will I listen to their cheesy Disco songs if they come on the radio? --hell yes! But only once in a long while...
And I recall that one of them was on Howard Stern like 15-years ago, and he opened up to Stern about his very bi-sexual wife, and how she would bring girls home to him!
Very nice...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2007/03/09/wborat.jpg
Originally posted by ThrillsNSpills
I remember my sister had a Bee Gees greatest hits (before their disco comeback) on the old ATCO label.
At the end of the song Gotta Get a Message to you where there is an upward key change and one of the background singers' voice cracks on the "Hold on" line and he stops singing and says Oh god.
And they left it in.
I've heard subsequent versions where it's edited properly but I thought it was surprising the better version wasn't on the greatest hits.
You can even hear it in the video if you listen for it.......
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrUAMvd9cyQ
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Nights On Broadway.
ThrillsNSpills
05-12-2007, 07:03 PM
http://youtube.com/watch?v=wz-ftjBJpnY
a public service message from the Bee Gees
Shit! I was expecting a parody, but it was really them.
It's cool that they can laugh at themselves and the obvious jokes about castration. You'd never see Hagar do something like that.....
Panamark
05-13-2007, 02:10 AM
That was extremely funny ! :)
Kristy
03-09-2011, 10:22 PM
So..um, what's the verdict on them? Far as I know they were a limey fraternal brother pop group who were more popular in Australia then their native land, hit it BIG in America with the well-polished 'Saturday Night Fever' Soundtrack and then lingered for a bit, and faded back into the woodwork.
http://img.sceper.eu/images/o88034vteu.jpg
Been listening to this and some of it can shred on my god damn nerves and at other times I sit back and think they could write a decent pop tune when in the moment of feeling like writing a decent pop tune. Most center around the typical male paradigm of either being obsessed over 'dem wimmin' either by a metaphorical demonstration of their bloated male ego (ooooooh, so feminist, huh?) and/or penis but really don't play that card so much as does..let's say, that weird-faced douche who was in Chicago does or did.
Interesting in most parts, well produced and songs are amazingly constructed it's just to bad it all on the same subject matter. This 'Mythology' is more of an individual breakdown of the brothers songwriting talents and even Andy the cute one who turned out to be the failed wannabe American Idol has a side all to himself. Nothing to get high to, nothing you'd want to listen to again in under 5 to 7 years and nothing you could fuck to. Shame really, when you consider the talent was there to be more than another one trick pony.
Kristy
03-09-2011, 10:28 PM
Just saw another thread on them. Nevermind.
Their early stuff was alright. They did a few soul songs better than any white Aussie boys had a right to. Once they put Barry's balls in a vice and started making those screaming disco records, I didn't want to hear any of that shit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5APkjB36AH8
Kristy
03-09-2011, 10:34 PM
Their disco era wasn't all that bad. There are some clever harmonies and funk guitar on those tunes. Maybe that era also really stigmatized them as well and I find that a bit disappointing. They were terrific songwriters even if what they wrote about was limited in scope.
Nitro Express
03-09-2011, 10:42 PM
Staying Alive, Staying Alive a girl gets laid and doesn't get paid it's a tragedy.
We use to spoof their songs because the school bus driver was always playing Bee Gee's music on the school bus.
Nitro Express
03-09-2011, 10:48 PM
After this movie you couldn't escape the Bee Gee's. They were everywhere.
WTF?:D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYaymcp2YlE&tracker=False
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hambon4lif
03-10-2011, 07:47 PM
It's about damn time we started seeing some diversity around here! Granted, it's not a major step, but it's one in the right direction.
Roth would actually dig the fact that a thread like this exists on this site.
you should be dancin'......yyyyeeeaaahhhh!
chefcraig
03-10-2011, 07:55 PM
Just saw another thread on them. Nevermind.
Merged.
Va Beach VH Fan
03-10-2011, 09:55 PM
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Seshmeister
03-10-2011, 10:15 PM
Barry Gibb is a crybaby twat. A classic example of the worst of 'up your own ass' celebrity.
Watch this infamous clip, I remember seeing it live.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdvfmGPDVkk
It's sad that the nicest of them, Maurice died whilst that bouffant haired oaf carries on.
Kristy
03-10-2011, 11:18 PM
Great way to kill the moment, Sesh.
Kristy
03-10-2011, 11:27 PM
It's sad that the nicest of them, Maurice died whilst that bouffant haired oaf carries on.
Which reminds me of a joke: How deep is your bruv?
Right, nevermind.
DlocRoth
03-11-2011, 12:02 AM
Which reminds me of a joke: How deep is your bruv?
Right, nevermind.
Oooh... I get it now. You're one of those "Just to hear myself talk." kinda people.
Booooooring.
Even The King himself liked their early stuff....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0tsDXN1spw
Kristy
03-11-2011, 09:24 AM
Oooh... I get it now. You're one of those "Just to hear myself talk." kinda people.
Booooooring.
Oh, I do apologize. We can "talk" about your miserable life if you want.
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