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 | Title : The Bee Gees - Their Greatest Hits: The Record
Author : The Bee Gees
Release Date : 20011120
Binding : Audio CD
Regular Price : $24.98
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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.
Buyer Reviews :
This two cd hits collection from The Bee Gees represents over 30 years of their music. Originally a melodic soft rock band from the sixties then turning disco in the mid-seventies, The Bee Gees are one group that has diversity and style. Early songs such as 'To Love Somebody' and 'I've Gotta Get A Message To You' represent the songwriting talents of the Gibb Brothers. Many compare the Bee Gees to The Beatles which there are similarities in the terrific songwriting and harmonies they display. The Bee Gees popularity soared to gigantic proporations when The Bee Gees wrote and performed many of the songs for the disco soundtrack 'Saturday Night Fever'. Some die hards wrote them off as trying to cash in on the disco craze when actually this was some of their best music ever. How can you dislike songs like 'More Than A Woman', 'How Deep Is Your Love', 'Stayin' Alive' or 'Night Fever'? Great songs all. This collection contains songs all the way to 2001 - quite a nice collection indeed. Remastered with nice packaging make this collection a must have for Bee Gees,Disco or Rock fans alike. Highly recommended.
(by barrycrist)
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