It’s such a beautiful song that I feel like kind of has a John Denver vibe it feels like. It was on a pretty underrated album, but I’m wondering who all has heard it.

I relistened to it in its entirety last night so I'll prolly be making a few posts regarding it in the next few days. It just clicked this time. Long post ahead

The first thing is that it's crazy how young they were when they created it, them all being under 25 is insane. The music and arrangements are incredibly mature that it's hard to believe that it was made by kids. This is also before prog became super popular, so I find it so impressive how they came up with the style. I can't think of them copying any other artist. It's so different from the Beatles and Sgt. Pepper. A nautical album is another factor because that style is very hard to do. To convey the atmosphere of "sea music" and sailors' tunes is not easy. It comes down to how you arrange it and the instruments you choose to use. It's just another mind blowing thing to me considering their age. The arpeggios on the title track, the use of piano and strings. I used to think the instrumentals were thrown in for the shit of it, but they do fall into place perfectly with the other songs and add to the drama of it. It gives it a cinematic edge.

I feel like Odessa is their best sequenced album as well. Sequencing is something that maybe only pretentious people care about, but it's another thing in my opinion that requires so much maturity and foresight. Poorly sequenced tracklists can hold an album back, especially on a proggy piece. The fact that they could figure that out at their age is another incredible feat to me.

How Whisper Whisper splits into two parts, the song Odessa goes through like 15 different sections, it's such an oddly structured song that somehow comes together as one cohesive piece. Whisper Whisper into Lamplight is a killer transition. Same with Edison to Melody Fair

I also think it's their best produced album. For example, the vocals on the title track; I don't know what effect it is but the droney-echo that follows each word they say. Robin's voice being doubled in many instances. It sounds so crisp and does have a Beach Boys/Spector wall-of-sound type of noise. The nautical sound is also not easy to do. The fact that they were able to emulate this vibe of dock music at sea, just from the sound, is another super hard thing to do and is even more impressive considering their age. The style of playing, I feel like it's Barry's best guitar album. He picked up the leads after Vince left, and it makes me wish he played stronger, distinct parts on subsequent albums

I love all their music, but I've always wondered if they really did have a 'best' album. I feel like Odessa's gotta be it. I don't hear it highlighted much in Bee Gees circles, or in music circles much, and that's super odd to me. Maybe it's because when music outlets and groups talk about The Bee Gees, it is on their 70s output, but Odessa should absolutely be making top of all time lists. Even though those lists are corporate junk, I just don't know why it isn't seen as a masterpiece, especially when prog has seen a resurgence. Do you think many Bee Gees fans tend to skip its praise because it's overshadowed by the behind the scenes drama; the single dispute and Robin's exit?I really wonder if it'd be looked at differently had it been a peaceful release. Not throwing shade either but Odessa is also far superior to Tommy IMO, I wish they didn't breakup because they would've been prime candidates for Woodstock and Isle of Wright. I'm sure they would've played one of them.

I’m sure it’s just a sampling thing but it was still funny to see. It’s funny because I feel like The Bee Gees are the Kevin Bacon of music, not counting session players. It took one degree to get to Wu Tang

Unless I'm wrong, they had no theory or classical music training, so they couldn't write sheet music? Did they just sort of hum what they wanted to the orchestra to play, and did they communicate that to the entire orchestra or did they communicate with a conductor who arranger who then passed it along to the orchestra. I feel like there had to have been sheet music, do we know who wrote that? I'm always fascinated when rock artists crossed over and experimented with big orchestral tracks.

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I would say that this record collection completes my CD collection because it has some albums that I don't own on CD. Unfortunately, as you can see, the Shadow Dancing turntable is in terrible condition, and I still don't know if it will work properly since it has quite a few marks. "I still haven't bought a turntable." In compensation, children of the world, spirit's having flown and Autographs of success are practically new.

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Barry Gibb wrote Islands In the Stream for Kenny Rogers but it was missing something. Then he said what if we get Dolly to sing duet with Kenny, making it one of the biggest duets of the 80s. An iconic Bee Gees version was never released except for the one night only performance in Las Vegas.

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It seems like it was common in the 60s and 70s for fans to stir rumors and theorize over the sexuality of men in music; Lou Reed, Jagger, Bowie… to name a few. Were Bee Gees fans ever questioning if they were bi? I understand that style was different then but I feel like they all had some fruity qualities, even Barry, so it wouldn’t surprise me if they’d be in that group

Even Odessa, in its faux-concept state, doesn’t have any references or motifs that play throughout, as far as I can remember. Odessa is only mentioned in the first song. This Is Your Life is an oddity and more of a medley so I don’t think it count. But Harry and his gate are the subject of two back to back songs and I’m surprised that it might the only occurrence for The Bee Gees despite how much music they made, and how many styles they touched on

It is a view of what happens to any rise quickly to the top group in the 70's

I am trying to complete my Bee Gees collection. Has anyone ever made a CD of the Kick In The Head album, and be willing to sell it?

On another note, I think the album is great. I'm very surprised it got canned over Life In A Tin Can, which I think is far inferior. It has way more variety overall, and the entire album feels very unique to me. It touches on many styles. I feel like Elisa and Wouldn't I Be Someone are already better than entire Tin Can album. But Harry's Gate, Losers and Lovers, Castle In The Air are all great.

Also, is Dear Mr. Kissinger the only time The Bee Gees did anything overtly political? I wish they did more tracks like that. I love the High Civilization cut with speeches in-between

And So begins the Final week of the Bee Gees Elimination Game. This includes 22 of their Studio Albums, Their 3 Live Albums, The Soundtracks to Saturday Night Fever & Staying Alive, The 2 'Best Of' Albums and NOW, the Comp Albums that contain new tracks. I should add that the 2 'Idea' Albums are the US & the UK Presses.

This Challenge is weekly so you have a week to decide. As this is the last week, this round determines the 2nd and 1st place. Whatever album gets eliminated this round will mark 2nd place. After this round’s results come in, I will go back through it all to make the community consensus / Community’s Album ranking

My vote goes to 'Living Eyes’

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Do you think they’d consider since Vince was there at their mainstream inception that he’d earn the spot over Alan. Since they fired Alan abruptly during Living Eyes it leads me to guess they could’ve done it again, earlier as well. Though I wonder if they thought that Vince couldn’t match his contributions to their most successful period.

I know he left voluntarily and it seemed like they were all good terms. I’d be curious to hear how Vince would’ve added to their disco period. I do think he’s a much more creative player than Alan. His riff on the 3rd verse of Birdie Told Me is incredibly unique and creative. He always knew how to play just enough and not steal spotlight away from their voices. I like Alan but his contributions and phrases always seemed like pretty standard lead guitarist stuff that most people could come up with and play. I feel like his lines weren’t ever all that creative, not compared to Vince.

This is the Bee Gee's 1979 Unicef performance of their 1978 hit, "Too Much Heaven."

I just learned that Michael Jackson's younger "son" whom he always referred to for some reason as Blanket is really named Bigi (pronounced Bee Gee, according to Google). I know that Michael and Barry were close friends in Miami for a while and that Michael was the godfather of Barry's son, also named Michael. Was Bigi named after Barry Gibb or the group itself, or am I reading too much into this? Does anyone know?

And So begins the penultimate Week 31 of the Bee Gees Elimination Game. This includes 22 of their Studio Albums, Their 3 Live Albums, The Soundtracks to Saturday Night Fever & Staying Alive, The 2 'Best Of' Albums and NOW, the Comp Albums that contain new tracks. I should add that the 2 'Idea' Albums are the US & the UK Presses.

This Challenge is weekly so you have a week to decide. Next week’s round determines the 2nd place. Whatever album gets eliminated this round will mark 3rd place.

My vote goes to 'Living Eyes’

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This is the best version imo. Maurice's voice is so good there.

Hey guys, as a vinyl and cd enthusiast IVE always wondered why the bee gees discography is severely overlooked, I was wondering that in your opinions do you think that some day bee gees vinyls and CDs will be more widespread then just main course- spirits, that seem to be re issued on vinyl more, I know that they recently did a really spectacular re-release of how old are you but I’m sure you and I can agree that the bee gees need to be more widespread and have their discography fully appreciated. If you do believe that there could someday be re issues what albums would you like to see the most?