Can we talk about the Bee Gees?

Nights on Broadway just may be their best song.

Trying again…

I'm not a huge fan or anything, but I love Spirits (Having Flown).

Can we NOT talk about the Bee Gees?

I love Run to Me

I started liking the Bee Gees in 1967. I've often wondered whether Bee Gees 1st would have gained a wider listening audience if it hadn't been released two months after Sgt. Pepper's.

Barry Gibb is a musical genius.

The documentary on them on Max is excellent. How Deep is Your Love has always got to me. When I learned about its origin story in the documentary, got to me even more. They were amazing.

Night Fever is fucking everything.

R7 totally agree

He has written so many hits for other performers I can’t begin to name them all.

Barbra’s Guilty comes to mind. I love this performance

This is a fun one too.

Isn’t the Saturday Night Fever what made them global superstars. Whatever the case Maurice would have been my white daddy.

Barry was so hot.

Fanny Be Tender With My Love is gorgeous.

They wrote and produced If I Can't Have You by Yvonne Elliman. One of my favorite songs of all time.

I saw them in concert at Madison Square Garden in 1979. None of my friends wanted to go, so I went by myself ... and had a ball!!! Danced all night.

Hard to name a favorite song when they're *all* your favorites!

Our Love Don’t Throw It All Away…They had so many good ones.

I love too many to mention them all.

"Too Much Heaven".

Yeah, I know. That's one of their later pop, sugary, corny ones but I can't help it, probably because I agree with it- nobody gets too much heaven.

For an early hit, "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart."

Barry Gibb says Al Green's cover of it is his favorite of all the songs of theirs other performers have covered, but to me it's a tie. I love them both equally.

Robin looks goofy cute in that Nights on Broadway video. Is that some VPL thrown in as a bonus?

One of their early hits - Massachusetts. Gorgeous.

Barry Gibb was a hot piece of ass.

Yeah R19 his moves remind of Elaine Benes.

I haven’t watched Max doc, maybe it’s mentioned, but I’ve read that Robin felt like he deserved more credit and attention. He and Barry apparently had an issue some of the time.

Nights on Broadway

Fanny Be Tender

Stayin' Alive

Jive Talkin'

Al Green's version of Mend a Broken Heart is better, IMO.

Grease is the word.

Barry G.

Barry was good looking, but I thought Vince (center) was the hottest one.

Barry and Andy's hair were works of art, but Robin had the pretty lips.

Datalounge is the only place I will admit my long ago love for the BeeGees. This was my favorite song.

Disco does not suck. Saturday Night Fever is a perfect album, start to finish. The album includes disco, pop and rhythm & blues.

Barry could always get it.

Maurice was married to Lulu!

Sad that Olivia's schedule never allowed for the post Physical CD that was supposed to be done for her by the Bee Gees. It would have been great.

Maurice had a one-night-stand with Barbara Windsor!

OP types methy.

Save some for Andy, too, please. 🥲

Love You Inside You Out. There is so much more than Disco, although I love Disco, too.

Words on The Ed Sullivan Show

I get a little sick of people banging the "disco sucks!" drum.

It doesn't. It has a great beat, and was the basis for many popular genres today.

Also, it still elicits that time period that will never be again - somewhat innocent, yet wild at the same time, but still with a feel of safety and comfort.

I have disco songs on my playlist, and love to sing along with them. They make me feel happy, upbeat, energetic.

Including the Bee Gees! I love What Kind of Fool, Love You Inside and Out, Grease and so many others of their songs.

Are we talking about the Bee Gees, or are we just spamming YouTube links?

Spirits Having Flown

R38, Then contribute something instead of whining. Geez.

Spirits Having Flown

Disco doesn't suck, but OP does.

[Quote] Rockism is the belief that rock music depends on values such as authenticity and artfulness, which elevate it over other forms of popular music.

Also for those of you who can't get enough dopamine hits from copy/pasting YouTube links.

I meant to say Barry. Barry is the one I like.

Andy Gibb

Sigh...Andy -

God, why did you have to take such (promising) snatch...err, talent from us so early??

Is cocaine God now?

It's become pretty clear that Barry was the true superstar here, and the rest were druggies with marginal talents.

Why isn’t their work covered by more artists?

At least the great Darlene Edwards took them on.

Cover

Another (shit) cover

I love the Bee Gees! When I hear them on the radio I crank it up and sing along, I don't care who sees me.

R42 I think you’ve missed my point, dear. . I started a thread to talk about the genius of the Bee Gees. Their supreme talent has, in many ways, not been fully recognised. In large part, it is because of metal heads who literally chanted “disco sucks” in large venues that made prime time news. As you were saying…

Sweet dreams

Learn how to write, then. Don't hang your shit on me because you can't.

To Love Somebody

r53 shut the fuck up already.

Either give us something, or go along your way (gtfo of this thread).

I have, asshole.

Lonely Days, Nights on Broadway, You Win Again, Tragedy, Love You Inside Out, Holiday, Run To Me, To Love Somebody, Fanny, First of May - ten killers off the top of my head, none from Saturday Night Fever.

My favorite box set of the first wave of box sets. Saw them in '89 on the One tour. They are canon. And they gave away a ton of great songs to other artists.

Andy Gibb thread

Discussion on "Night Fever" being an exquisite song, including all those covers that supposedly don't happen enough.

Discussion on Gibb-produced Streisand album "Guilty"

There, I gave you something.

OP, are you mad? Everyone loved Saturday Night Fever. It was huge.

Were all the brothers as hairy as Andy?

Yes.

"I Think the Dead Bee Gee Is Sending Me Messages Through My Alphabet Soup!"

Dionne Warwick's "Heartbreaker," written by Barry/Robin/Maurice - produced by Barry and with him singing backup vocals.

Not at all. Thanks R62

I love Every Christian Lion Hearted Man Will Show You on Bee Gees First (which was actually their third) - mellotron heaven.

I've just finished reading Bob Stanley's Bee Gees biography, Children Of The World and it's fascinating to see how they are viewed in the USA compared to the UK. We never had the disco backlash with as much ferocity as there was in the US. Yes they had big hair, wore medallions and flares but songs like Stayin' Alive, You Should Be Dancing, Night Fever etc are seen as solid gold classics. They wrote some of the greatest pop music of the 20th century.

Even their worst albums have at least 2 or 3 tracks that are worth hearing, and they kept the quality up right to the end. Also check out Robin's 1970 solo album Robin's Reign.

Even their so-called "turkeys" had hidden gems on them, song-wise. Paradise, a cut off of the dismal Living Eyes (the poorly-selling follow up to Spirits Having Flown, their last release on RSO) is absolutely gorgeous. Even the early rough demo of it is hauntingly beautiful:

Barry Gibb wrote this song for Celine Dion.

Not as well known. Or maybe, other than fans of Celine, not known at all.

Give it a try even if you don't like her. There's an official album video, too, with even better backing vocals.

I love Immortality and that performance. Her (Celine) voice was pretty much at its peak, then.

My favorite song is "New York Mining Disaster 1941."

Hmmm, the link didn't post. Hopefully, this one does.

An Everlasting Love is so fine. I love it.

I noticed this video has great photos

Emotion and If I Can’t Have You are my absolute favorites, besides the entirety of the SNF soundtrack, of course.

I also greatly enjoy the songs Barry wrote for la Streisand: Guilty, Woman in Love, What Kind Of Fool, damn that’s talent.

☺️

And who can forget SNL's homage to the Bee Gees: "The Barry Gibb Talk Show."

I love their early 90s power ballad For Whom The Bell Tolls.

It'd be quite nice to hear it sung by a female vocal - Wilson Phillips would be perfect.

Anyone seen the doc new documentary?

Holy crap, I’m just listening to The Woman In You.

I remember this song!

Didn’t know it was The Bee Gees!

Love the Bee Gees.

Yes, Barry was the best looking of the trio, but I found Maurice the sexiest.

[quote] the Saturday Night Fever album turned off many people

Are you kidding? The album performed brilliantly.

In the United States, the album was certified 16× Platinum for shipments of at least 16 million units.[5] The album stayed atop the charts for 24 straight weeks from January to July 1978 and stayed on Billboard's album charts for 120 weeks until March 1980.

Three singles from the album contributed by the Bee Gees—"How Deep Is Your Love", "Stayin' Alive" and "Night Fever"—along with Yvonne Elliman's "If I Can't Have You", all reached No. 1 in the US.

It was the white polyester gold chain disco cosplay that turned off people. Not the band's music.

I don't see it on Youtube but the Bee Gees eventual made a big public show of burning those white costumes.

When I finally understand the lyrics to Diary it made me cry. What a beautiful, sad song. My mother played it repeatedly when I was a young child. She loved the Bee Gees and so do I.

Samantha Sang the shit out of this Bee Gees hit.

Saturday Night Fever is the perfect disco album, in my opinion. Who knew they could be that good.

R84 agreed and DC gave a nice cover. This is when I realized Beyonce could Sang Sang. She gave Mariah Carey type vocals except she could duplicate hers live.

The Destiny's Child Emotion cover was dogshit.

Dionne - Guilty

Fabulous! A smooth song

Barry wrote Islands In the Stream. Their live version is fantastic and flawless.