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Bee Gees - Cucumber Castle Audio CD

A fair review of the Bee Gees "Cucumber Castle" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Bee Gees reviews here, or go back to the Bee Gees tabs.

Bee Gees Band: Bee Gees
Title: Cucumber Castle
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Release Date: 1997-09-09
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: If I Only Had My Mind on Something Else 2: I.O.I.O. 3: Then You Left Me 4: Lord 5: I Was the Child 6: I Lay Down and Die 7: Sweetheart 8: Bury Me Down by the River 9: My Thing 10: Chance of Love 11: Turning Tide 12: Don't Forget to Remember

As Good As Odessa
It was the magic of the "Fever" songs that hooked me in and then as I started buying more and more of their back catalogue it was the realisation that those falsetto songs were just the tip of the iceberg. I've loved this album from the get go and it's albums like this that made discovering the Bee Gees so entertaining for me.

This is an album of country/r&b that features arguably the best natural voice singing the Gibb's ever laid down. "Then You Left Me," "Bury Me Down By The River," "I Lay Down And Die," etc are all such beautiful and wonderfully weird songs. Maybe their appearance in the silly film that the album accompanied made people dismiss the music without giving it a chance.

"Cucumer Castle" is the sort of album that would have done Robbie Robertson and The Band proud in that it is more evoking of their Americana sound (country, gospel, southern r&b, folk) than it is of the Beatles. It certainly isn't slick pop, but the hooks are as glorious as ever and the vocals, despite the absence of Robin, are sublime.

Stunning. .


Bee Gees Cucumber Castle
Have the original album. This is the best album before they were really known for their disco. Needed to update.


Their best album!!
You need to be a real fan to appreciate the Bee Gees at the start of their career (as I am). This is a a great album for those of us who heard it in the early seventies. This is by far the most played Bee Gees album in my collection (I own everything they recorded on CD), especially for "I Lay Down and Die" and "Then Yoy Left Me" which are the standout cuts. There is a considerable amount of distortion in some tracks, but overall a very emotional listening experience.


Two Out Of Three Is Not Bad!


When "Robin's Reign" was a disappointment and Barry and Maurice scrapped their solo efforts, "Cucumber Castle" carried on the Bee Gees name. Note: This is a re-issue until Rhino Records releases the Remastered Expanded version. Extremely typical in their ballad approach throughout this album, they still manage to bring in a few gems. . . and a few duds. "If Only I Had My Mind On Something Else," is one example. Singing about captains, submarines and an ace in an airplane flying to Spain, might have been more serious in its lyrics as it is in it's sound. "The Lord," "My Thing," "The Chance Of Love" and "Turning Tide" all seem odd and frivolous, as if to fill the album with whatever came to mind. Teenage love songs come to mind. But remember, the Bee Gees were a 'singles' oriented group at the time. They released three singles from this album that went nowhere. Some face is saved by the tempo building "I Lay Down And Die" and an extremely strong blues number called "Bury Me Down By The River," where Barry really belts it out. I only wish they had given credit to the female back-up singers. The Gibbs are, after all, songwriters first. They were paid compliments from this collection by Janis Joplin, who covered "I. O. I. O. " and Englebert Humpberdink who recorded "Sweetheart. " All in all, a modest, pleasant effort.
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Japanese Track List
If Only I Had My Mind On Something Else
2. Same track list of US version, no bonus track:

1. I. O. I. O
3. Then You Left Me
4. The Lord
5. I Was The Child
6. I Lay Down And Die
7. Sweetheart
8. Bury Me Down By The River
9. My Thing
10. Chance Of Love
11. Turning Tide
12. Don't Forget To Remember
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