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  1. Hello Neo,
    I quite enjoy you drilling ever deeper into the Bee Gees’ music – you are a devoted and knowledgeable fan and the brothers’ catalog is immense. It is such fun to see you dive into material that brings you joy unlike so much of what you write about here.

  2. So nice song! I listen it for the first time, and i`m really impressed! It’s no wonder because it’s The Bee Gees 😉
    Thank you very much for sharing, dear Neo <3

  3. Cornhead:

    One of the deepest YouTube rabbit holes ever.

    The entire thousand isn’t there, but an awful lot of them are. However, some songs the Bee Gees wrote were recorded by others who made them famous, like for example “Islands in the Stream.”

  4. A well-intentioned older relative gave me a BeeGees LP one Christmas — it was the album “Odessa,” the one with faux red velvet flocked polyester on the cover. I can just vaguely remember the lyrics of the title song. The same gambit as their radio hits, the “Mine Disaster” and the one about a guy on death row: dramatic monologue, unspecified backstory. They must have been trying for “art rock,” taking rock to a higher level. And like Pink Floyd and Procol Harum and the rest, their ambitions went way beyond their abilities. Suitable for marketing to teenagers though. The BeeGees wrote top-notch pop-rock melodies, and the orchestration & production clinched it.

    After that I heard nothing from them for a few years, so when they re-emerged as a disco band it came out of nowhere. I had to blink more than a few times before I registered that they were good at it. Really, very good.

    My friends at that time hated everything disco. I agreed then and still do that it was an unfortunate era for fashion sense. But I can’t hate a music that aims to get people dancing. Yes, too much of what was released as disco music was nothing but a mechanical beat, dully repeating. The BeeGees were in a better class of disco acts: they knew how to weave a tune around a beat, or layer one rhythm over another. Their music doesn’t narcotize you — it doesn’t have to — it’s smart without having a thing to say — just happy — and does it get your body moving!

  5. Wesson: “Sometimes we mis-hear the words of songs in peculiar ways”

    Don’t get me started on “Louie Louie”.

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