Bee Gees

The lame cover art doesn't even hint at the awesome album within - this is another brilliantly eccentric mix of soaring harmonies, bracing rock guitars, historical obsessions and sweeping pastoral grandeur from a band about to "go disco." While the album doesn't contain any hits, this is perhaps their most cohesive mix of tunes since their debut. Brilliant.

"The sweetest music this side of heaven," the epithet misapplied to Guy Lombardo, is the
aptest description I can think of to describe the Bee Gees at their best. Beginning with
Odessa, a minor masterpiece of jewel-encrusted, late-Sixties psychedelia, they have
concentrated chiefly on developing a single musical idea, technologizing the standard Top
40 ballad to achieve unprecedented lushness and sonic depth. The result is hea... More >