Reply With QuoteBee Gees, the Brothers Gibb , I really like (but didn't vote):
1) Stain' Alive
2) Saturday Night Fever
3) Guilty (Barbra Streisand&Barry Gibb), Do you permit ???
4) Love So Right (live)
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The Bee Gees. So what took me so long to get to these guys?!
Don't know.
I really like several of there of their disco songs but my favorite is "You Should Be Dancing." I suspect it's due in part to Travolta's high energy dance moves in Saturday Night Fever, a very controversial movie 'round here.
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Bee Gees, the Brothers Gibb , I really like (but didn't vote):
1) Stain' Alive
2) Saturday Night Fever
3) Guilty (Barbra Streisand&Barry Gibb), Do you permit ???
4) Love So Right (live)
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Well Paul, if nothing else, THIS topic could be the one to bring Fantomas back from exile (under a new guise, of course).Fanto HATED the Brothers Gibb!!!!! I had several wars of words with Fanto regarding the Bee Gees.
My faves:
"JIVE TALKIN'"-- I LOVE this record--their reinvention comeback after several years of inactivity. The promo was released to radio stations WITHOUT their names on it....such was the lack of interest in new product from the Bee Gees from radio stations at the time.
"Stayin' Alive"--well I could never really understand the words--but who could forget Travolta's strut with that paint can down the city street as this song percolated in the background. A Classic.
"You Should Be Dancing"--their best out and out high energy "dancer". Looking back at their oeuvre, almost all their songs were in the 100-110 bpm category.
"How Deep Is Your Love"--a simply gorgeous ballad.
While I'm at it, let's not forget their contributions (as writers and/or producers) for other artists:
"You Stepped Into My Life" - Melba Moore
"If I can't Have You" - Yvonne Elliman
"More Than a Woman" - Tavares
"Emotion" - Samantha Sang
"How Can You Mend A Broken Heart" - Al Green
"Nights On Broadway" - Candi Staton
"Love So Right" - Jerry Butler & Thelma Houston
"Heartbreaker" - Dionne Warwick
"Woman In Love/ Guilty/Promises/ What Kind Of Fool" - Barbra Streisand
"Ain't Nothing Gonna Keep Me From You" - Teri DeSario
"Chain Reaction" - Miss Ross
"Hold On To My Love" - Jimmy Ruffin
and there are more!!!!!! :D
"Lost inside adorable illusion...."
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Right on Marky.Originally Written by markydefad
Well Paul, if nothing else, THIS topic could be the one to bring Fantomas back from exile (under a new guise, of course).
While I'm at it, let's not forget their contributions (as writers and/or producers) for other artists:
"You Stepped Into My Life" - Melba Moore
"If I can't Have You" - Yvonne Elliman
"More Than a Woman" - Tavares
"Emotion" - Samantha Sang
"How Can You Mend A Broken Heart" - Al Green
"Nights On Broadway" - Candi Staton
"Love So Right" - Jerry Butler & Thelma Houston
"Heartbreaker" - Dionne Warwick
"Woman In Love/ Guilty/Promises/ What Kind Of Fool" - Barbra Streisand
"Ain't Nothing Gonna Keep Me From You" - Teri DeSario
"Chain Reaction" - Miss Ross
"Hold On To My Love" - Jimmy Ruffin
and there are more!!!!!! :D
I only realized their significant contributions to music as writers and/or producers for others within the last several years.
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Hi Paul,
I was wondering if the Bee Gees would have ever made the "Best Artist" list. I see that once again we share a favorite "You should Be Dancin'" :) ! For a slower tempo, I 'll choose "How Deep Is Your Love".
*DISCO DELIGHT*
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Hi Marky
I thought the Tavares were the original artist for "More Than A Woman". The songs listed above are some of my favorites "Woman In Love", "Guilty", "If I Can't Have You", "Ain't Nothing Gonna Keep Me From You", "Emotion" and "How Can You Mend A Broken Heart". I know that over the years, many people including the TROLL[i] has crapped on the Bee Gees for killing disco and many other ridiculous reasons. Regardless of what they say, I love
them!
*DELIGHTFUL*
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"How Deep Is Your Love" remains my fave. This is one of the few absurdly overplayed songs that I just never get sick of.
I still wouldn't call the Bee Gees disco; but pop artists who did a few disco songs. These guys were probably singled out more than any other* during the "disco sucks" backlash, which really wasn't fair, considering that disco had only been a brief part of their career. The other cruel irony is that this sort of abrupt fall-from-grace had already happened before, in the early 70s when they outgrew their Hanson-esque boy-band image. It wasn't until the last few years that mainstream North American audiences could get beyond the whole big ugly gold medallion image, and see that they were really great songwriters who had consistently written decent tunes for more than 30 years. Today they are finally starting to get some of the respect they deserve as pop craftsmen.
* The Village People would be my other nominee for "most hugely successful act to later become objects of ridicule"... but that's for another topic.
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Jive Talkin' was the first record I ever bought by these guys so it holds a place in my heart :D but, You Should Be Dancin' will get my nod for best. Disco or not, I don't care... the song works! :P
Honorable mention to brother Andy for Shadow Dancing 8) . This went over very well on the dancefloor.
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About disco, you know, The Salsoul Orchestra coverd some Bee Gees' songs like "Night Fever" (7:11 !!!), the brothers Gibb did the lyrics of "Warm Ride" by Rare Earth and there's the vocal imitations like Partners and Pacific Blue (I never heard it :( ).
Oh, I just forgot
5)More Than Woman
6)Reaching Out/the falsetto of Barry Gibb in this song is excellent, I guess.
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Dear Friends!
I totally agree with MARKYDEFEAD: I like the compositons
of the BEE GEES, but I dislike them personally. Maybe they
were really responsible for the DISCO-BACKLASH...and it´s
similar with ABBA...
What about MOULIN ROUGE produced from MICHAEL ZAGER:
They did a whole Album with Bee-Gees-Coverversions...
much better than the Originals.
Cosmic Love & Kisses From SIRIUS & DARKTUNES
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Oh Delight! Were it not for 3000 miles of Mother Nature I would love to answer you presumed question
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Paul,
I thought we were talking DISCO here! If I've said it once....
(You knew this would get my ire!)
Only if you can call Diana Ross disco, Rod Stewart disco, the Rolling Stones disco, can you say the Bee Gees are disco! They are not! They had one disco-type song as did the others: "You Should Be Dancin'." Befoer that, in the 60s and early 70s, they were considered Pop (and they had some really good Pop back then.) One song does not a disco genre make.
And - I hope you were speaking tongue-in-cheek when you mentioned John Revolta's energetic dancing. He looked like an idiot and he could not dance at all! I've said before that if he had not given the award to the Peurto Rican couple (who danced their asses off way better), I was going to be really mad.
Now, back to Group # 30: I liked their earlier, pre-Saturday Night Fever stuff like: "To Love Somebody."
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Hey Lean.
I thought sex and disco went hand in hand.
As for the Bee Gees, you were the kind of person I thought of when I thought of the controversy around this group. Leave it to one of you grrrls to put a little spark in this "nice" forum :lol: I like it.
Well, at the risk of you wacking my pee pee for this I did kinda like his little dance sequence with "You Should Be Dancing." :oops:
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[quote="Leanmean"]Paul,
I thought we were talking DISCO here! If I've said it once....
(You knew this would get my ire!)
Only if you can call Diana Ross disco, Rod Stewart disco, the Rolling Stones disco, can you say the Bee Gees are disco! They are not! They had one disco-type song as did the others: "You Should Be Dancin'." Befoer that, in the 60s and early 70s, they were considered Pop (and they had some really good Pop back then.) One song does not a disco genre make.
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Ah Lean,
Yeah, I remember now that you were NOT a Bee Gees Disco fan.
However, you are wrong when you state the Brothers Gibb had only ONE disco record!!!!
They charted the following on the Billboard DISCO/DANCE charts:
1) JIVE TALKIN'
2) YOU SHOULD BE DANCING
3) STAYIN' ALIVE
4) NIGHT FEVER
5) TRAGEDY
6) HE'S A LIAR
7) THE WOMAN IN YOU
AND, in addition to the previously listed records, also charted the following slower groove records on the R&B charts:
1) LOVE SO RIGHT
2) BOOGIE CHILD
3) TOO MUCH HEAVEN
4) LOVE YOU INSIDE OUT
Add that to the hits written & produced for other artists that I listed earlier...Melba Moore, Tavares, Teri DeSario, Jimmy Ruffin, Diana Ross, etc. I would say they were more than a one hit wonder.
Rick Dees & His Cast Of Idiots were a 1 hit wonder. :roll:
And Diana Ross, jeez, she charted a least a dozen records on the Disco/Dance charts (several hitting #1)...even Rod Stewart had several more ("Passion") and so did the Rolling Stones ("Emotional Rescue")!!!
I got evidence!!!! :lol:
"Lost inside adorable illusion...."
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Marky: I believe leanmean's sentiments are right even though the evidence refutes them. A dilemma, huh?
From my own perspective, I gladly played Jive Talkin' and Stayin Alive prior to You Should Be Dancing which was the knockout track. Night Fever had me reaching for the sick bag and Tradgedy was just what it said. The whole Saturday Night Fever thing was a bit of a joke so far as I was concerned, with only one track coming out of it with its reputation intact, Disco Inferno.
Their slow grooves were more endearing in many ways with Emotions probably topping my list.
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