Friday 14 June 2024

Greatest – BEE GEES*****

Jive Talkin'/Night Fever/Tragedy/You Should Be Dancing/Stayin' Alive/How Deep Is Your Love/Love So Right/ Too Much Heaven/(Our Love) Don't Throw It All Away/Fanny (Be Tender With My Love)/If I Can't Have You/You Stepped Into My Life/Love Me/More Than A Woman/Rest Your Love On Me/Nights On Broadway/Spirits (Having Flown)/Love You Inside Out/Wind Of Change/Children Of The World

This double LP compilation includes all the Bee Gees best songs from their enormously successful late 1970s disco period. Coupled with the two earlier greatest hits packages, together they provide a testament to the group’s huge contribution to popular music. (US:1 UK:6)

“This album perfectly assembles the nuggets from the Bee Gees' disco period, the best phase of their career. Every song, whether a hit or not, is as outstanding as its performance. The high quality of the arrangements and the musicianship are just breathtaking. And the grooves are irresistible as well as the harmonies, and the ballads are heart wrenching.”

“What great memories they brought up. Having listened to this music profusely in the 70s, the songs are ingrained into my both my heart and mind.” “When you listen to these songs, they earmark a period of music. The landmark Saturday Night Fever album, and the Bee Gees number one hits from that period, are all here and have aged better than most of us would have ever predicted.”

“Barry Gibb's falsetto had developed into an instrument unto itself, yet Robin and Maurice had their own leads along with extraordinary harmonizing abilities. Children Of The World probably best displays that interplay the brothers shared.”

“There is something appealing about this compilation. It sets its own mood because the songs all fit together so well. If you are only interested in the Bee Gees for their disco music or if (like me) you appreciate being able to play their disco music separately from all their other stuff, this is ideal.”

“It's truly incredible how smooth of a transition this band made from their original sound to this sound, all the while maintaining their incredible writing and singing skills, in some ways enhancing both.”

“This was the period when the Bee Gees adopted their trademark sound and became identified at the forefront of the disco movement.”

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