Saturday Night Fever - SOUNDTRACK****

Stayin' Alive/How Deep Is Your Love/Night Fever/More Than A Woman/If I Can't Have You/A Fifth Of Beethoven/ More Than A Woman/Manhattan Skyline/Calypso Breakdown/Night On Disco Mountain/Open Sesame/Jive Talkin'/You Should Be Dancing/Boogie Shoes/Salsation/K-Jee/Disco Inferno

The Grammy winning double LP soundtrack Saturday Night Fever was the best selling album of the late 1970s, topping the US album chart for nearly six months and the UK chart for almost as long. Features the Bee Gees best remembered disco songs, the US No. 1 hits Stayin’ Alive, How Deep Is Your Love and Night Fever. (US:1 UK:1)

“A great soundtrack to a great film. It's crystal clear in retrospect, that the intensely negative reaction to disco was just the panic of male rock fans challenged by a new order. Yes, the best tracks are supplied by the Bee Gees, but most all of the material just glides a long wonderfully. Just try not grooving.”

“Lets not mince words, The Bee Gee's stuff here is just amazing and the best disco music you are likely to hear. Sadly though the other tracks are a bit hit and miss and take the cheese quota to worryingly high levels at times.”

“Saturday Night Fever isn't so much a soundtrack as a genre-defining compilation. Although the LP is ostensibly just a collection of assorted songs, the movie itself has become so iconic that it almost serves to define the disco movement.”

“Saturday Night Fever, although dated, has some great material and captures the essence of the disco era. The Bee Gees provide the album's strongest tracks while the rest play like a less than cohesive mix-tape, only two of the five instrumental tracks holding up really well. Some tracks are just too disco dependent and end up drowning in a haze of polyester leisure suits, gold chains and platform shoes.”

“If you're going to have at least one disco album in your collection, you might as well make it this one. All the hits that made disco so big in the first place are on this album. Pretty much all the Bee Gees material are stone cold classics. Unfortunately the instrumentals weigh it down quite a bit - they're not bad, but they don't translate well to record. Saturday Night Fever is the definitive disco album; it's very rare for just one LP to represent a musical cultural phenomenon.”

“Love it or hate it, whether you were there or not, disco was not just a fad in the late 70s, it became a worldwide obsession. This album was the zenith of the movement.”