This Is Where I Came In
5/1/2001, LAUNCH, Rob O'Connor
As their 28th studio album, you might expect these "real-life brothers" to cover old ground. The title alone--and don't miss the cover shot of the old boys juxtaposed with...
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This Is Where I Came In
7/13/2005, AMG
There is a reason why the Bee Gees have been around for decades, successfully making music -- they are innovative craftsmen, who have carved out and maintain a signature...
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The Record: Their Greatest Hits (Sampler)
7/13/2005, AMG
Their Greatest Hits: The Record stands as the best Bee Gees hits package available, assembling both vital European and American hits from their early-'60s period all the way...
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Brilliant From Birth
7/13/2005, AMG
At last, a comprehensive collection of everything the group recorded in their "Australian years," from 1963 to 1966, before their move to England and rapid ascent to...
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Still Waters
7/13/2005, AMG
As if they finally realized that they couldn't quite compete with contemporary musical fashions any more, the Bee Gees moved firmly into "mature" territory with Still...
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Main Course
7/13/2005, AMG
It may sound silly to call the 12th album by a group with an eight-year string of gold records behind them a "breakthrough," but that's what Main Course was. The group's...
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To Be Or Not To Be
7/13/2005, AMG
A 26-track, single-disc collection culled from the Bee Gees' mid-'60s recordings as Australian pop stars mimicking the styles and sound of the British Invasion, To Be or Not...
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One Night Only
7/13/2005, AMG
On November 14, 1997, the Bee Gees reunited for a concert at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. This was the Gibbs brothers' first show in ten years, and the concert sold out in a...
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Here At Last...Live
7/13/2005, AMG
At the time of its release, no one knew quite what to make of this double live LP -- the price was equivalent to a single platter, and the song line-up was alluring enough,...
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2 Years On
7/13/2005, AMG
The Bee Gees split apart in the wake of a dispute regarding the single to be released from their album Odessa, spent a year with Barry and Maurice Gibb recording together...
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Bee Gees' 1st
7/13/2005, AMG
The debut long-player by the Bee Gees may shock anyone who only remembers them for their mid- to late-'70s disco mega-hits, or their quirky early-'70s romantic balladry. Up...
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Best Of The Bee Gees, Vol. 1
7/13/2005, AMG
If anyone needs conclusive proof that the brothers Gibb weren't always the chest-medallion-flashing kings of mainstream disco or, since about 1980 on, meaningless AOR...
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Best Of Bee Gees, Vol. 2
7/13/2005, AMG
This album, which originally appeared on LP in several slightly different versions and song lineups in different countries, came out at an unlikely moment. The group's first...
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Children Of The World
7/13/2005, AMG
The Bee Gees' second R&B album, Children of the World, had the advantage of being written and recorded while the group was riding a string of Top Ten singles and the biggest...
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Cucumber Castle
7/13/2005, AMG
An overlooked work in the Brothers Gibb catalog, Cucumber Castle is an excellent album that plays to the Bee Gees' strengths of melody, arrangement, and craftsmanship....
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Gold
7/13/2005, AMG
The Bee Gees Gold, Vol. 1 compiles the group's biggest singles from their first five years of hit records, beginning with 1967's "New York Mining Disaster 1941" and ending...
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Greatest
7/13/2005, AMG
Greatest is a double-album, 20-song retrospective of the Bee Gees' late '70s hits. All of the band's biggest disco-era hits -- "Jive Talkin'," "Nights on Broadway," "Fanny...
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Tales From The Brothers Gibb
7/13/2005, AMG
This four-CD set is very good, but it also isn't quite all it could have been, mostly because the makers were hamstrung by the peculiar nature of the Bee Gees' audience. In...
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Horizontal
7/13/2005, AMG
The group's second album, cut late in 1967 amid their first major British success, is less focused than their first, but also presents a more majestic sound than its...
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Idea
7/13/2005, AMG
The Bee Gees' third album is something of a departure, with more of a rocking sound and with the orchestra (apart from a few well-placed harp arpeggios) somewhat less...
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Spirits Having Flown
7/13/2005, AMG
Spirits Having Flown is regarded today as something of a letdown, representing the tail-end of the Bee Gees' period of greatest success, perhaps because it preceded a...
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Living Eyes
7/13/2005, AMG
In terms of hit singles and precise musical vision, it would have been difficult for anyone to have to follow-up the brilliant Spirits Having Flown album, but these industry...
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Mr. Natural
1/1/1974, LAUNCH, Brett Milano
Typical mid-'70s attempt, notable for the first stab at an R&B sound that emerged on Main Course the following...
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Mr. Natural
7/13/2005, AMG
Their previous album having scarcely made a ripple and now hitless for two years, the Bee Gees went for a new sound in the hands of producer Arif Mardin. The result was Mr....
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Odessa
7/13/2005, AMG
The group members may disagree for personal reasons, but Odessa is easily the best and most enduring of the Bee Gees' albums of the 1960s. It was also their most improbable...
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One
7/13/2005, AMG
The Bee Gees made a commercial comeback outside the U.S. with 1987's E.S.P. and its single, "You Win Again." One, on the other hand, had an improved chart showing in the...
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To Whom It May Concern
7/13/2005, AMG
The next to last of the Bee Gee's "old-style" albums is one of their most fully realized works, with pleasing and memorable songs from beginning to end, and for a change...
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Trafalgar
7/13/2005, AMG
The Bee Gees had entered the early '70s with a roaring success in the guise of "Lonely Days" and its accompanying album, which established their sound as a softer pop...
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