What Are You Listening To?

[CRAZY-HORSE]

BEE GEES "ultimate" cd, 2009

career stats:

22 studio albums
10 compilations
83 singles

#1 hits: AU 2, UK 5, CAN 12, US 9.

this double album contains 40 of their hits down under, probably close to that elsewhere also...
album was released to coincide with the 50th anniversary of their first tv performance here in australia in 1959...
i cannot knock these guys even when they made some real stupid disco type stuff in the 1970s...
i mean i love the "stayin alive" track but when you see the video of them in their skintight pants,bleached white teeth,bling around their necks and that horrid wavy 1970s hair and theyre singing "you can tell by the way i walk-im a ladies man!" in falsetto, that is really cringworthy stuff IMO...
right from their formative years of "spicks and speck" through "jive talkin" and up past "one and "alone", these guys had what most others wish they had....ie: endless talent in all departments!
also, it shows the strength,depth of quality andclass of these guys when an album spanning forty years of singles and forty tracks still gets a love score, not many artists could do that and still have their latter material stand up superbly against their early so-called classic era.

I LOVE THIS ALBUM

worst track: you should be dancing
sorry but i cannot pick a "best track" from their material without leaving
another ten out that should have been there!!!

tracks:

1. you should be dancing *
2. stayin alive ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_izvAbhExY video
3. jive talkin ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7kNG_usig4 live
4. nights on broadway **
5. tragedy ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdkjXU2wA78 live
6. night fever **
7. more than a woman **
8. fanny *
9. spirits having flown *
10.if i cant have you *
11.boogie child *
12.love you inside out **
13.you win again **
14.one ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTI2SKJYFJc live
15.secret love **
16.alone ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0gUSYcXLzU live
17.still waters run deep *
18.this is where i came in **
19.spicks and specks ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CouKuIk_P0s aussie tv preformance
20.how deep s your love **
21.to love somebody ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMPoKM2hVsw 1967 aussie tv performance
22.words ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slsrXSLvmuE 1968 aussie tv performance
23.how can you mend a broken heart ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mih_E_KQBAY 1971 aussie tv performance
24.too much heaven ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymcCqeK7-nw live
25.emotion ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LzxV4d3RIw live
26.lonely days **
27.run to me ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfTWNEWsTfY 1972 aussie tv performance
28.love so right **
29.for whom the bell tolls **
30.ive gotta get a message to you ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CA4CInDnTk8 1968 aussie tv performance
31.new york mining disaster 1941 ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps-Qq7ucMA0 1967 video
32.massachusetts ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMZESDL4t0Q 1974 tv performance
33.i started a joke ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QTQdAKUZmA 1969 'tom jones' show
34.world *
35.first of may ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gewTWM6fH0 audio
36.holiday ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hQ1HQh9_JM tv performance
37.dont forget to remember ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIdewXHh3eQ audio
38.islands in the stream ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nvR_7mJtMk live
39.heartbreaker ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-u383lGZE8 live
40 guilty **

3s=21
2s=12
1s=7

rating: 2.4