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The Bee Gees - Best of Bee Gees, Vol. 2 Audio CD

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The Bee Gees Band: The Bee Gees
Title: Best of Bee Gees, Vol. 2
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Release Date: 2008-11-11
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: How Can You Mend a B Roken Heart 2: I.O.I.O. 3: Don't Want to Live Inside Myself 4: Melody Fair 5: My World 6: Let There Be Love 7: Saved by the Bell 8: Lonely Days 9: Morning of My Life (In the Morning) 10: Don't Forget to Remember 11: And the Sun Will Shine 12: Run to Me 13: Man for All Seasons 14: Alive

The top of Their Game
The timing for the release of this album was perfect because after this it was all downhill music wise. This album gives us the Bee Gees at the absolute top of their game.

I won't say anything bad about Volume 1, It is an awesome album that gives us the foundation of songwriting that would evolve into the songs on this album. The songs here, lyrical as well as melodies, seem to me to be much more mature than the songs on Volume 1. To me, the hits and songs on this album, the Bee Gees are incredible.

The biggest difference between these songs and the songs on Volume 1 are that there are times in some of the songs on Volume 1 where they struggle to find words to rhyme with what they had written, and quite frankly, sounds a little hard pressed at times. The songs on Volume 2 have lyrics that go somewhere on every song.

The songs on this album show a maturity in the song writing that is missing in Volume 1

I do recommend both volumes. Between the two of them you get the VERY best of the Bee Gees before they starting recording trash.


Their Moody Masterpieces of the Early 70's
Otherwise, this collection is a balance of a few big hits , like HOW CAN YOU MEND A BROKEN HEART , LONELY DAYS, RUN TO ME and MY WORLD, and some lesser known, but equally enthralling material that were both singles & album cuts. The original 1973 LP has been resequenced, and drops the opening song " WOULDN'T I BE SOMEONE ", which at the time was a new song. Overall, I'd describe most of this period of the Gibbs as moody & introspective. ALIVE is one of their great not as well known gems. MORNING OF MY LIFE is a rare song, not on any other album, & previously recorded by LULU on her " New Routes " album. I. O. I. O. is about the only upbeat song on here. It's very memorable & I've been humming it for decades since. LET THERE BE LOVE , AND THE SUN WILL SHINE and MELODY FAIR [ also cut by Lulu ] date back to the Bee Gee's late 60's material and they included Robin's solo hit in the UK, SAVED BY THE BELL , which isn't nearly as good as the group songs. This is a compilation of some excellent Gibb brothers songs, that focuses more on their sullen, sad yet sweet sound. .


Don't Judge a book by it's cover

THis is the Bee Gees circa 1969-72 way before that disco photo session on the cover of this CD. Never mind the mid 70's cover with the disco chest hair and open shirts. Inside their is some of the best pop music ever recorded in that era. Highlights are. . .
How Can You Mend a Broken Heart? - Big hit and the comeback
Melody Fair - from the great red-felt Odessa
Saved by the Bell- Robin solo recorded after he quit the group during Odessa, #1 in the UK
Run to Me - the end of an era, BD before disco.
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Excellent Compilation!
1. This is an excellent compilation and and great follow-up to Greatest Hits Vol. The album in CD format is the same as the original vinyl release except for some unknown reason, they left off Wouldn't I Be Someone, a very superb recording. However, it is found on the boxed set. I definately would recommend this to any Bee Gees fan.
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Not many big hits but interesting
This period started with Saved by the bell (a Robin Gibb solo) and Don't forget to remember (perhaps my favorite Bee Gees song), both of which reached number two on the UK charts. This compilation includes the best of their music from mid-1969 to 1972. They had little success for some time after that. In 1970, I O I O scraped into the top fifty, but Lonely days did better, making the top forty. In 1971, they didn't enter the UK charts at all. 1972 was better with My world making the top twenty and Run to me making the top ten. They had never really established themselves in America with their sixties pop-folk music and the songs from this collection didn't change that.

So this album may be seen by some as the best of a bad period in the careers of the Bee Gees. In fact, there are many good songs in this collection. I particularly like Melody fair and Morning of my life. Are the songs really weaker than those on the earlier volume, or is it just that people were tired of the style and wanted something different from the Bee Gees? It is probably a bit of both.

If you enjoy the earlier Best of Bee Gees, you are likely to also enjoy this - but not quite as much.


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