Best Bee Gees album 1974-1979

I like "Mr Natural" but not sure it belongs here. Voted "Main Course".

do disco-era bee gees have deep cuts worth listening to? i've never been inspired to listen to anything beyond the hits.

Def Mr. Natural altho Nights on Broadway alone is almost enough yo justify a Main Course vote

do disco-era bee gees have deep cuts worth listening to?

hell yes

do disco-era bee gees have deep cuts worth listening to?

hell yes

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ok maybe i should've phrased that better, that wasn't a yes or no question, hit me up!

Spirits Having Flown itself is a deep cut worth hearing

I'd add "Stop (Think Again)" and, tbh, most of Main Course

love all of these, but voting Spirits Having Flown. Also seconding "Stop (Think Again)" as a total jam.

I was in two minds about including Mr. Natural, but ended up doing so because even though they hadn't quite arrived at the disco sound that resuscitated their careers, I think the album still shows a shift towards that direction and was a very important album for them - not to mention it was the first one that Arif Mardin worked on.

the title track is not only my favorite bee gees song but easily one of my favorite songs of all time

Children of the World, although the secondary singles from Main Course are superior, namely "Nights on Broadway" and "Fanny."

Never heard Mr. Natural, tbh.

I thought Spirits Having Flown was their "New Jersey" long before I heard that term

Mr. Natural is great, but at the moment I'm torn between Main Course and, strangely, Spirits Having Flown...

Love all of these but have to go with Mr. Natural, which is probably my favorite Bee Gees album, period.

the title track is not only my favorite bee gees song but easily one of my favorite songs of all time

^^^seconded

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Are the Bee Gees in general just massively unpopular these days? Seems strange that people are willing to admit their love for ABBA's work, but the Bee Gees...

Bee Gees rehab started long before ABBA's, so people not as visibly vocal about it.

I am not sure when the rehab started - certainly there was lots of appreciation of SNF-era in the 90s ("ironic" or not), but I personally didn't get my head turned around on them until the big 60s box set came out, and then I was all in.

I remember there being a lot of press about 'em circa Still Waters and 'Alone', and of course they performed at the Brits and the now legendary Clive Anderson walk-off happened around then, but...

...since then pretty much what sticks in my mind is cheesy boy band/girl band versions of their tracks: 'More than a Woman', 'Tragedy' and 'Words' being three I particularly remember. The disco era was their most popular era, so of course that gets a lot of attention, and their '60s stuff very much has a cult following even though Odessa made it into that 1001 Albums book...

...but where fans of, say, The Visitors don't hesitate to say how much they adore that record, you don't really hear anyone praise any Bee Gees record to the same level, not even Odessa or Main Course and definitely not even in the '90s...

idk I personally have but I have met some p big Bee Gees fanatics - it's true in the press and larger music world they don't get the respect they should imo

tbf I'm a pretty huge fan but I don't think any of their albums are front-to-back killer

The Beegees have a song called "Fanny"?You couldn't play that in Glasgow without much sniggering ensuing.

It's a pleading request for fanny to be tender with barry's love

...since then pretty much what sticks in my mind is cheesy boy band/girl band versions of their tracks: 'More than a Woman', 'Tragedy' and 'Words' being three I particularly remember. The disco era was their most popular era, so of course that gets a lot of attention, and their '60s stuff very much has a cult following even though Odessa made it into that 1001 Albums book...

...but where fans of, say, The Visitors don't hesitate to say how much they adore that record, you don't really hear anyone praise any Bee Gees record to the same level, not even Odessa or Main Course and definitely not even in the '90s...

I bet you there have been far more cheesy boy band/girl band versions of ABBA tracks than Bee Gees tracks. And I won't even bother mentioning Mamma Mia, the stage show, the movie. And I've heard Odessa, and Trafalgar and other albums absolutely praised to the skies too, while we're at it.

I'm not convinced the Bee Gees were ever that beyond the pale tbh. Pretty sure their talent, as songwriters at least, was always accepted, even among people who didn't like their disco period.

Europe never turned its back on em afaict

The Beegees have a song called "Fanny"?You couldn't play that in Glasgow without much sniggering ensuing.

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Or anywhere else in the UK, for that matter!

I bet you there have been far more cheesy boy band/girl band versions of ABBA tracks than Bee Gees tracks. And I won't even bother mentioning Mamma Mia, the stage show, the movie.

I reckon there have been too, but even with this - and that Mamma Mia thing - in mind, ABBA have still managed to be taken seriously for their best work in a way that I've never seen the Bee Gees being taken seriously for theirs, and this is in spite of ABBA's discography occasionally having a whiff of Simon Cowell cheese about it. There was a whole thread on here devoted to analysing 'The Day Before You Came'!

And I've heard Odessa, and Trafalgar and other albums absolutely praised to the skies too, while we're at it.

As have I. By about 4 people.

Like, these guys were immensely popular over a long period. First, the '60s hits, then the '70s disco stuff, then the ESP album and 'You Win Again' and writing 'Chain Reaction' for Diana Ross in the '80s, and then into the '90s with Still Waters, which may not be one of their better albums but was still a visible period for them...

...yet even with all of this success, even with all those classic songs, they feel very underrated in 2017. Not just their '60s stuff, but their whole career.

Well, it depends which country you're in. In the US, they were immensely popular in the '60s and especially the mid to late '70s, but circa 1980 there was suddenly a massive backlash against disco in general and the Bee Gees in particular, who seemed oversaturated on radio at the time. From that point on, the Bee Gees were all but banished from US radio, old songs or new. ESP and "You Win Again" weren't hits here. "One" got some airplay a few years later but that's the only post-1980 Bee Gees i recall hearing on the air.

Mr. Natural is to the Bee Gees what Bare Trees is to Fleetwood Mac - a "transitional" album that catches them about halfway between their old and new sounds, and it's interesting for that reason.

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Christ, Disco Sucks was such a rockist, racist, homophobic piece of shit movement.

I think I remember hearing Barry Gibb say that they never really thought they were making disco, anyway... as far as they were concerned they were just playing R&B.