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List Price: $11.98 | | Label: Reprise Records
Salesrank: 6362
Released: November 11, 2008 |
| Our Price: $6.10 |
| Used Price: $6.11 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Best of Bee Gees Track Listing:
1. Holiday
2. I've Gotta Get a Message to You
3. I Can't See Nobody
4. Words
5. I Started a Joke
6. Tomorrow, Tomorrow
7. First of May
8. World
9. Massachusetts
10. To Love Somebody
11. Every Christian Lion Hearted Man Will Show You
12. New York Mining Disaster 1941
Editorial Review:
Brilliant songwriting that yielded tender and powerful hits showcase the Brothers Gibb and the harmonies that put them on the musical map. Sonically and lyrically they put their own stamp on the psychedelic rock of the late sixties and emerged with some of the most memorable hits of the decade. 'Best Of, Volume 1' features 12 stunning tracks for a fan base looking for a taste of the early Bee Gees hits.
Description of Best of Bee Gees:
Long before they reinvented themselves as the kings of Saturday Night Fever, The Bee Gees were an amazing Australian trio singing songs that were more rooted by lilting folk guitar melodies than dance floor beats. The high, almost falsetto, harmonies were in place even in their hits of the mid- and late-1960s. The melodicism of hits like "Holiday" and "I've Gotta Get a Message to You" had a darker, even eerie, quality compared to the more typically melancholy "To Love Somebody." Comparing the music on Best of the Bee Gees, Volume I to the later antics of the Brothers Gibb is the proverbial apples and oranges. It's clear that the boys truly knew how to craft a hit regardless of the genre, but it does beg the question, "Will the real Bee Gees please stand up?" While both periods have their moments, the smart money seems to be on their earlier work. --Steve Gdula
Best of Bee Gees Reviews:
Best of the Bee Gees 
2009-07-05 - Everything arrived in good condition. I am glad that I purchased it new. The music by the Bee Gees is the best.
First Brothers Of Pop 
2009-01-13 - When The Bee Gees, first burst through radio in this country in 1967, they were already ten-year veterans in the music business. Moving back to England from Oz, they got to swinging London, just in time. When the wonderful magic of: "New York Mining Disaster 1941" was heard on our radios, word quickly spread that this was some kind of Beatles, spin-off band. Barry, Robin and Maurice, were of course real people, but they were aware that this type of rumor, was the best marketing device of all, being compared to the Kings of the Hill!
The mothers of America, were tickled pink that these clean, good looking boys would be singing to their little boys and girls, and now would save them, from that dirty rock music from London and San Francisco, and R & B from Motown. The brothers Gibb, would smoke and drink, have sex with amazing girls and discover mind-expanding drugs. And they would be very low-key about all of that. When Jimi, was scaring our parents, The Bee Gees were plastered across all the girlie music mags like: "Sixteen" because it is all about: IMAGE ~ IMAGE ~ IMAGE.
If that was the only thing going for The Bee Gees, I would not be posting any thoughts about them forty years on, they would be in that: "Where are they now file." The Bee Gees wrote and performed some amazing pop music, that was as good or better than almost everybody else of that time.
With the hits: "I Started A Joke", "World", "Massachusetts", "Holiday", "I've Gotta Get A Message To You" "Words" and "New York Mining Disaster 1941" all being from 1967-1968, the brothers had a lifetime of hit music in barely two years. You COULD listen to Cream or Iron Butterfly, then play: "Odessa" in 1969, this was allowed, it didn't break any rules of cool.
The real deal here is that these songs hold their water as great pop tunes, still today. These brothers are more than great teeth and hair, they have the songs, and the talent to perform them perfectly.
This is a faithful {with the subsitution of: "Spicks & Specks" with: "Tomorrow, Tomorrow" for copyright reasons} duplicate of the 1969 LP, that I played to death. This is good music, and The Bee Gees, do have a place in music along with Deep Purple and The Flying Burrito Brothers.
Good, will always hold up and will stay alive...The Bee Gees, were just starting up here, there was lot's more to come.
Four Stars !!!
A great easy listener collection
2008-06-15 - I like this CD...pre-Disco era though I have been known to boogie to "Stayin' Alive"...it is a soft collection of the Bee Gees first greatest hits. My personal favorites are "I've Gotta Get a Message To You", "Massachusetts" and "Words", but the whole album is good.
Quick question for you Bee Gees fans...who is the fourth face on the cover of this album? We all know Barry, Robin and Maurice, but there is a fourth member shown here and I've always wondered.
Proof that Bee Gees are much more than a disco dynamo
2007-02-18 - The early Bee Gee's are so good, it's a shame their career is judged by the disco days only.
2 songs sold me to early Bee Gee's Every Christian Lion Hearted Man Will Show You is just as good as the Moody Blues complete w/mellotron and gregorian chants way before enigma and actually before the moody blues.
New York Mining Disaster- It's so good, it's like a lost Beatles song from Help or something.
Bee Gees album is "but good"
2006-11-03 - Delicately recorded and mournfully sung, these choice cuts from the early years of the Bee Gees belong in any serious record collector's stash.
The "hook," if you want to call it that, is "Holiday," and "I started a joke." Both selections ask us to use our heads as to what the lyrics really mean. And somehow, it adds to one's enjoyment. Culled from master tapes before "Saturday Night Fever," the cuts demonstrate musicality that is a departure from their disco peroid -- and they are simply refreshing to hear againn.
