I'm just discovering the Bee Gees, I mean I knew them a bit, I had a 2CD collection of their greatest hits from the late 70s period, that was cool. I had Still Waters CD because I had liked the single Alone & I had the first album that a friend had given to me but I hadn't really related to it.
The early stuff is really fun, it's quirky and inventive, that 1st album was released in 1967 at the height of psychedelia when Robin and Maurice were still only 17 and older Brother Barry was 20. At that age you could be psychedelic without the use of substances. All 3 brothers wrote and sang, they started straight off writing some memorable hits, but the early albums are really enjoyable as albums, they had good singing and lost of ideas, their 3rd album was even called "Idea".
They created 10 albums in their first 7 years, throughout the start of the 70s they were losing popularity, but that is still a fair bit of music to explore.
Then in 1975 their Main Course album was their second breakthrough which proved much bigger than their first. Robin and Maurice were still only 24. They recorded 20 albums altogether so it's funny that their catalogue falls so neatly into 2, I wonder if the success and the fact that they were older meant their later work lacked the sense of whimsy and playfulness of the early work, but they were certainly accomplished. For me just exploring their work it seems hard to make sense of their catalogue as a unified whole, but having a band composed of 3 singers, I love vocal harmonies and all writers and musicians makes them interesting and they were extremely successful.
I'd be interested to hear what you guys think of them
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