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One of the least cool bands of all time to admit liking but after watching a documentary on them recently, I was reminded that they weren't always beardy, disco twats. I just got "Ist" in the post today and am very impressed with it. Much of it reminds me of The Zombies "Odessey and Oracle". What other albums of theirs are worth seeking out?

I find plenty to like on Odessa (the album with the furry red cover), particularly "You'll Never See My Face Again" and "Melody Fair." A bit on the sweet side, but how many Beach Boys fans would mind that?

Love 1st. It's one of my favorite albums of all time.

To be perfectly honest, I don't love their other albums as much as that one. I do have Horizontal and there are some great moments on it (Lemons Never Forget, the Rubber Soul-esque Birdie Told Me, Massachusetts, and The Earnest of Being George, being my personal favorites). Odessa is a good one, though, but a bit more of a grower than 1st (I especially like the pre-Who's Next sounding Marley Purt Drive, Melody Fair, and Never Say Never Again).

The Bee Gees were great all the way up to (AND INCLUDING) the disco era.

I once had a psychedelic era beegee lp called IDEA.  It had some good moments.

!st was a gem.  How many hits did that produce?

I think I Started A Joke came from Idea.

Also I forgot to mention the pre-1st stuff which is pretty great. Songs like Spicks and Specks, Forever, Coalman, etc. A lot of Nuggets sounding material.

I just saw this for the first time and thought it would fit in here. Brian inductingthe Bee Gees into the HoF:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5ObWUNnjXA&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5ObWUNnjXA&feature=related)

I'll back that up!!! ;D

Yeah, what's wrong with Disco? 

Lots of great songs by the Bee Gee's, "How Deep is your love",  "Night Fever", "Too much heaven", "Emotions", "More than a Woman", several more are all well written, well sang songs that the whole world enjoys.

Barry Gibb's falsetto. And to think people rag on Jeff Foskett...

 I love Odessa very very much!

"First Of May" manages to make me tear up every time!

I consider Cucumber Castle and Mr. Natural to be highly underrated!

The Bee Gees were one of the few bright spots in that whole disco blight. How Can You Mend A Broken Heart is one of the greatest singles ever.

Oh, come on, the Bee Gees were great falsetto singers.  It's just a different style.  I think Maurice handled most of the background falsettos, and he had the best one.

True about Maurice. It's just once they went disco Barry started hogging too many leads in his new squeaky voice, to the detriment of Robin, who I thought was a much better singer.

I think Barry's falsetto works really well on a song like "More than a Woman".  The whole thing with Disco was it was music to dance to, when he sings like that it's realy rhythmic, sound fantastic in my opinion. 

I love falsetto Barry on Night Fever as well!


For anyone who hasn't heard it: please track down Cucumber Castle! There a a ton of great Barry leads with his "manly voice"!!!!

Just one example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ7R6DyAoiQ