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Music CD - The Bee Gees: Their Greatest Hits: The Record
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Music CD: Their Greatest Hits: The Record
Artist: The Bee Gees
List Price: $19.98
Our Price: $13.84
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Manufacturer: Reprise
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Tracks:
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1. New York Mining Disaster 1941
2. To Love Somebody
3. Holiday
4. Massachusetts
5. World
6. Words
7. I've Gotta Get A Message To You
8. I Started A Joke
9. First Of May
10. Saved By The Bell
11. Don't Forget To Remember
12. Lonely Days
13. How Can You Mend A Broken Heart
14. Run To Me
15. Jive Talkin'
16. Nights On Broadway
17. Fanny (Be Tender With My Love)
18. Love So Right
19. If I Can't Have You
20. Love Me
21. You Should Be Dancing
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0081227760427
Label: Reprise
Manufacturer: Reprise
Number Of Discs: 2
Publisher: Reprise
Release Date: 2006-06-06
Studio: Reprise
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Excellent!
Comment: What can I say? They are the Bee Gees afterall. Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb have been making great music for five decades and they are still a force in the music business in the 21st century. Although Maurice left us way too soon, I know that Barry and Robin will still continue to write great music for themselves and others. Barry Gibb is not just a song writer he is a poet. His lyrics make sense and they touch your heart. When most think of the Bee Gees they think Disco and Saturday Night Fever...how wrong they are just to limit this dynamic group to that era. I am only 38 years old and it wasn't until I turned 30 that I truly discovered who this group was and what they had done. They have forever changed the landscape of music. In one word, the Brothers Gibb are amazing.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Bee Gees : The Record
Comment: Who doesn't remember the upbeat disco music as John Travolta dances to "More Than a Woman"?? This CD evokes memories of the 1960's when The Brothers Gibb sang "Lonely Days," the 1970's when they sang "Nights on Broadway," and the next three decades when they performed in concerts such as One Night Only. This CD includes the very best songs of the Bee Gees and is guaranteed to uplift anyone's spirits!
Customer Rating:
Summary: The Soundtrack of a Generation
Comment: Even if you never bought any Bee Gees when they were regularly releasing LPs and singles, you put this collection in and every song takes you back - it is the soundtrack of my generation. Every song from New York Mining Disaster through at least Islands in the Stream is recognizable. But more than recognizable; listening you really get a sense of how the Bee Gees really did define popular music for a significant period of time. From everyone who has covered their songs to their own recordings. And truth be told, their disco is the only disco that survives the test of time. You can't help but start moving from Jive Talking through Too Much Heaven.
This is a real must-have collection. I never bought the Bee Gees when their stuff was new; but I realize now how much a part of my musical psyche they are.
A fabulous collection.
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Great Songs, Terrible Sound Quality
Comment: As unfortunately is the case with many CDs these days, this CD has been remastered so loud using dynamic range compression that your ears will get tired within 2-3 songs. In their quest to push the loudness of the CD, they made it sound terrible by taking out all of the dynamics of the original sound. Sure, it's louder, but the volume on the drums and certain other parts of the mix that used to stand out in the mix because they were louder have been clipped and the volume on the softer parts boosted so now everything is just loud white noise. It is unlistenable. DO NOT BUY!
Customer Rating:
Summary: another casualty in the CD loudness wars
Comment: It is tough, tough, tough to quibble with the music here. "I've Gotta Get a Message to You", "Lonely Days" and "To Love Somebody" are essential listening. "How Deep Is Your Love", "Love So Right" and "Love You Inside Out" are more than just guilty pleasures, they're great tunes. The comp could be a little more expansive, giving us better and needed insight into the early and pre-1975 Bee Gees, such as "Mr. Natural" and "Morning of My Life". Not huge hits, but then not everything here is either. The new recordings of Gibb brother-penned tunes that were hits for others could *easily* be jettisoned in favor of the above mentioned tunes.
However, the biggest complaint with this set is undeniably its VOLUME LEVEL. In a futile effort to keep with industry "standards", the alleged mastering engineer raises the volume to ridiculous and unnecessarily loud levels. The dynamic range is literally compressed away, with excessive noise reduction applied to eliminate the resulting increased hiss. All of this overprocessing kills the "breath" in the mixes and life in the performances, resulting in a very unspectacular, one-dimensional listening experience. Give me tape hiss and natural volume peaks anyday over this. This music deserves better.
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Editorial Reviews:
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The individual voices of the legendary Brothers Gibb—Maurice, Barry, and Robin—are each wonderfully distinctive in their own right. In combination, they lock together for extraordinary harmonies, perfectly blending and magically complementing each other. This vocal wizardry is at the heart of their phenomenal success, which spanned five decades and transcended multiple genres with chart-busting glory. From their Beatles-esque `60s roots and the subsequent flowering of their own progressive pop-rock songwriting and performance style through their blue-eyed R&B superstardom and Saturday Night Fever disco-era domination, the Bee Gees constantly evolved and never stopped delivering timeless hits. The trio's beautifully crafted, sonically enchanting work is one of the cornerstones of contemporary popular music, and this hit-packed compilation spotlights their career-spanning best.
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