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Sign in to create & share playlists, get personalized recommendations, and more. Greatest Hits of the Bee Gees. Album • The Triple Brothers • 2016
- Tom Eames
- 'I've Gotta Get a Message to You' Bee Gees - I've Gotta Get A Message To You [1968 Video] This was their second UK number one single, released in 1968. It also gave them their first significant US hit.
- 'Tragedy' Bee Gees - Tragedy. This was a number one for the Gibbs in both the UK and US in 1979, and featured on their Spirits Having Flown album. Read more: Private studio footage of Barry Gibb and the Bee Gees recording 'Tragedy' is phenomenal.
- 'Alone' Bee Gees - Alone. This was another comeback for the Bee Gees in 1997, and it gave them another top 5 hit in the UK. Robin Gibb said of the song's style: "I like the idea of being that sort of Beatlesque type of song.
- 'Love You Inside Out' Bee Gees - Love you inside out. This disco tune gave the Bee Gees their ninth number one in the US in 1979. Read more: Watch the extraordinary moment the Bee Gees busked on the streets of London in 1993.
- For Whom The Bell Tolls
- Wildflower
- Trafalgar
- Until
- She Keeps on Coming
- New York Mining Disaster 1941
- Massachusetts
- Sweet Song of Summer
- I Can’T See Nobody
- Odessa
The Bee Gees’ biggest 90s hit sums up the pros and cons of their output during the decade. On the one hand, it’s an exceptionally high-quality song, the product of master craftsmen at work. On the other, the production is slick to the point of seeming faintly anodyne.
The sound of a band still reeling from the 1979 disco backlash – one variant on the DiscoSucks T-shirt also featured the phrase “Kill the Bee Gees” – the album Living Eyes is all over the place. But Wildflower is a moment of genuine magic in the shape of understated, folky soft rock.
Written by and featuring a rare lead vocal from Maurice Gibb, the title track of their 1971 album is audibly indebted to the oeuvre of John Lennon, but none the worse for that. The descending melody is sulkily beautiful; the chorus soars. Oasis should have covered it.
Lurking on the B-side of Tragedy – or at the very end of Spirits Having Flown – Until is among the Bee Gees’ most underrated tracks. It’s a brief waft of delicate, beatless, synthesiser-backed misery that leaves the listener hanging, uncertain what happened to destroy the youthful romance it initially depicts.
After a run of glossily professional 90s albums, This Is Where I Came In seemed to hark back to the Bee Gees’ 60s work while also experimenting. It was their best record in years, its willingness to push the boundaries summed up by She Keeps on Coming, which strongly suggests they had been listening to Talking Heads.
A scurrilous rumour suggested that the Bee Gees’ first UK hit was secretly the work of the Beatles. You can see why: the northern accents, the richness of the tune. But the Beatles never recorded anything this bleak, inspired equally by the Aberfan disaster and a power cut that left the Gibb brothers harmonising in the dark.
The No 1 singles of 1967 usually fit one of two categories: turned-on psychedelia, or the MOR reaction against it. But Massachusetts sat somewhere in the middle. Soft and straightforward by Bee Gees ballad standards, the lyrics nevertheless dealt with a hippy hitching to San Francisco but getting no further than New England.
The title of the album To Whom it May Concern underlines its unfocused contents, but just occasionally the Bee Gees’ increasing confusion about their purpose led them to try something completely off-beam. Sweet Song of Summer’s eerie analogue synth backing and ominous mood is a haunting anomaly in their catalogue.
Subsequently covered by Nina Simone, I Can’t See Nobody – originally the B-side of New York Mining Disaster 1941 – introduced audiences outside Australia to the extraordinary voice of Robin Gibb, which even his mother said made her “go cold”. Singing lead, he sounds as if he is about to burst into tears.
It’s sometimes hard to convey to those who know only the hits how weird the Bee Gees’ late 60s albums can be. Quick fix: play them Odessa’s title track, seven and a half ever-shifting minutes involving harp, strings, heartbreak, the saga of an 1899 shipwreck and a burst of Baa Baa Black Sheep. Inexplicable, but amazing.
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- Alexis Petridis
12 songs • 37 minutes Best of Bee Gees is a 1969 compilation album by the English-Australian rock band Bee Gees. It was their first international greatest hits album. It featured their singles from 1966–1969 with the exception of the band's 1968 single "Jumbo".
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The Record is the career retrospective greatest hits album by the Bee Gees, released on UTV Records and Polydor in November 2001 as HDCD. The album includes ...
