Bee Gees

Delightfully strange, the band's second album is even trippier than their debut, with the first half devoted to honestly weird psychedelic ballads while the rest is more straightforwardly rocking, if no less eccentric. This album features the excellent No. 1 hit "Massachusetts" and the driving "The Earnest of Being George."

To comprehend the Bee Gees is to comprehend much that is banal, without grace, and
trite. This is necessarily to say that the Bee Gees have deep roots in one of the most
neglected areas of rock music, the popular romantic ballad. What is called rock and roll
sprang not only from the blues, rhythm and blues, and country-western, but also from the
American popular song. Even the early vocal groups mined this lode of mediocre... More >