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The Bee Gees - Bee Gees Greatest Audio CD

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The Bee Gees Band: The Bee Gees
Title: Bee Gees Greatest
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Release Date: 2007-09-18
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Jive Talkin' 2: Night Fever 3: Tragedy 4: You Should Be Dancing 5: Stayin' Alive 6: How Deep Is Your Love 7: Love So Right 8: Too Much Heaven 9: (Our Love) Don't Throw it All Away 10: Fanny (Be Tender with My Love) 11: Warm Ride 12: Stayin' Alive 13: If I Can't Have You 14: You Stepped In My Life 15: Love Me 16: More Than A Woman 17: Rest Your Love On Me 18: Nights on Broadway 19: Spirits (Having Flown) 20: Love You Inside Out 21: Wind Of Change 22: Children of the World 23: You Should Be Dancing Remix 24: If I Can't Have You Remix 25: Night Fever Remix 26: How Deep Is Your Love Remix

Awesome tunes!
I'm not a "Disco Nut" living in the past, but the music in this set is AWESOME!!!.


Very Pleased
I sent a review previously. . maybe you did not get. I was very happy with my purchase of the BeeGees CD. It arrived one day before I was to meet with my s/o. We were able to dance to our song. This made our day together perfect. Thanks so much.


Bee Gees Greatest Hits
Not every artists' greatest hits albums contains their greatest hits. The title "Greatest Hits" is loosely used. If these are released singles, then the album should be "singles". If these are just greatest hits, then the album should contain great hits. So, I only listen to their greatest hits and any other songs I like between the two disks. This isn't a review on the artist, only the product.


Get that white polyester suit out of the closet.
As it is, "Greatest" covers a mere five years of a career that went through four distinct phases, and this was basically phase three. It's hard to not rate this double CD with a fifth star, as it contains some of the most sublimely perfect dance pop of the seventies. Starting with Main Course and going to Spirits Having Flown, it misses out on their 80's comeback and the Beatlesque years in the 60's and early 70's.

But when you listen to these songs, they earmark a period of music. The landmark Saturday Night Fever album and the Bee Gees' three number one hits from that record breaking period are all here and have aged better than most of us who wore "Disco Sux" shirts back in the day would have ever predicted. The Miami-sound that producer Arif Mardin coaxed them into actually predates that album, with the number one "Jive Talking" and top ten "You Should Be Dancing'" being irresistible even before the white suits and gold chains.

Those white suits overshadow the brilliant vocals that the group had developed at this stage. 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.

Originally that was the last track on the double album, but the remastered CD drops some bonus cuts. For me, the only real plus is the B-Side "Warm Ride," the rest are 12-inch remixes. Only the re-mix of "Staying Alive" on disc one is from the disco era, the others are new to this CD and superfluous. "He's A Liar" or the live Top 30 "Edge of The Universe" would have been a better pick. Maybe the upcoming 50th anniversary re-issues will have more for us. Still, "Greatest" is prime stuff.


You SHOULD be dancing!
" There's nothing here from the earlier phase of their career on the Atco label or that post-dates 1979, and only a handful that showcases great album tracks not released as singles like "You Stepped Into My Life," "Wind of Change" and "Children of the World. The title "Greatest" is a bit misleading since the focus here is the Brothers Gibb's biggest hits during their oft maligned disco era on the RSO label, from 1975's "Jive Talkin" (the leadoff track) to 1979's "Love You Inside Out. " While the Bee Gees didn't invent disco they certainly were one of its leading proponents and "Greatest" oddly excises two tracks that were Top 40 hits during this era like 1977's "Boogie Child" and "Edge of the Universe. " But the big disco hits are all here in all their ear-shattering falsettoed glory. It's easy to stereotype what's here as vapid mindless disco, but if you look deeper "Greatest" showcases some of songwriting's greatest hooks. If you're looking to get your disco on "Greatest" is a great place to start.


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