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List Price: $19.98 | | Label: Reprise
Salesrank: 15976
Released: June 6, 2006 |
| Our Price: $13.99 |
| Used Price: $13.46 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Editorial Review:
The individual voices of the legendary Brothers Gibb—Maurice, Barry, and Robin—are each wonderfully distinctive in their own right. In combination, they lock together for extraordinary harmonies, perfectly blending and magically complementing each other. This vocal wizardry is at the heart of their phenomenal success, which spanned five decades and transcended multiple genres with chart-busting glory. From their Beatles-esque ‘60s roots and the subsequent flowering of their own progressive pop-rock songwriting and performance style through their blue-eyed R&B superstardom and Saturday Night Fever disco-era domination, the Bee Gees constantly evolved and never stopped delivering timeless hits. The trio’s beautifully crafted, sonically enchanting work is one of the cornerstones of contemporary popular music, and this hit-packed compilation spotlights their career-spanning best.
Their Greatest Hits: The Record Reviews:
Great songs -- Terrible, terrible sound engineering 
2009-07-21 - I love old Bee Gees songs; and I have most of their old stuff on vinyl albums -- which means that I'm quite familiar with how these songs should sound. When I got this CD and started listening to it, something didn't sound right. After several songs, I was pretty sure that these weren't the original mixes; and I didn't like them nearly as much as the original ones. So I decided to come to Amazon.com and see if anybody had left any reviews that mentioned this sound mix problem. Sure enough, some people have. (I say all this to make it clear that I didn't read any of the negative reviews here first; and so my opinion upon first hearing the CD was not just influenced by those reviews.)
Some other reviewers mention that the problem is that the songs are remixed to make all parts louder, thereby compressing the dynamic range. I think that may be a fair assessment, because I do believe I notice that same effect. However, I also think the songs may have been sped up slightly, relative to the original mixes. I say this because everything seems a bit 'brighter' (i.e., more trebley) and 'peppier'. And therefore, the earlier songs seem to have lost a lot of that wonderful feeling of melancholy that I love so much.
There was one reviewer that tried to counter another person's comments about 'bad sound quality' by saying that that other person must have gotten a bootleg copy or something. I realize that the term 'bad sound quality' can quickly conjure up in one's mind the way that bootleg albums sound. But I don't think the critical reviewer had that type of 'bad sound quality' in mind. This CD definitely doesn't sound bad in that way. It's bright and crisp and not hissy, and sounds like it's had lots of meticulous studio engineering work done to it. If you had never heard the songs before, or if you weren't really familiar with them being played on a good component stereo system or a good set of headphones, this CD would probably strike you as being very well produced. The problem (in my opinion) is that this CD has had too much studio engineering done to it in ways that significantly alter the tone and feel of the songs from the original release versions.
In short, these songs are great songs; but don't buy this CD to get them. They dinked with the mixes so much on this CD that I still don't feel like I have a CD version of them.
Best Bee Gees 
2009-01-22 - I read a review that said this was the best Bee Gees offering - it is. It has all the tracks I wanted to hear and more.
a beauty, 1970's to the present 
2008-12-04 - an attractive item. love red. just wish there were more songs released on this package. imports contained a few extra tracks. why not the U.S.***** enjoy.*********p.s. no need to edit "to whom the bells may toll".****
Bee Gee's at their finest
2008-11-13 - Lets keep this really simple. If you want the hits this is the collection for you. With the exception of their own interpretation of songs they wrote, were hits for others, every song is simply wonderful. The reviewer that said the sound quality was bad must have gotten a bootleg or something mine sounds spectacular. This is a great span of great melodies, harmonies and vocals, great writing/lyrics from one of the greatest groups around.
Beware of New Versions of Old Songs
2008-09-20 - I was disappointed by new versions of Islands in the Stream and Heartbreaker versions that appear on this CD. I was hoping to hear the originals with Dionne Warwick and Dolly Parton.
