The Bee Gees - One
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Free Music Review: The Bee Gees - One
Hit: 5 Stars
If you like the Bee Gees, you'll want this CD. Well worth the work to get it.Free Music Review: Not available via download
Hit: 4 Stars
The entire album, used, seemed to be my only option in getting this music as it's not available on iTunes. Great album, great music. I'm confused as to why the album isn't available in the US market. Some of these songs were big hits... Still, very satisfied with it.Free Music Review: My All Time Favorite Bee Gees album
Hit: 5 Stars
The title track of this album is worth the price alone. "One" has a groove that just won't quit, and the harmonies....well, that's their trademark. The production is consistent throughout, and Maurice and Robin turn in some great lead vocals as well. This could be the best Bee Gees album ever made....Free Music Review: A Great Album, But . . .
Hit: 4 Stars
The Bee Gees always followed trends, but almost always transcended them.
Their early work was scattered--blues, rock, folk, blue-eyed soul, and more. But it was great. They sometimes lost focus (or never had a focus), but their brilliant, searing (almost, but not quite, whining) harmonies always made them better than their models.
This was true even in their Disco Phase. "Main Course" is a wonderful album, despite, rather than because of, the disco.
This album, "One," has some very nice things in it.
But it does have a terrible problem: the mix.
The boys' voices are mixed FAR BACK--and the cheesy 80s arrangement tends to drown them out.
This is a big mistake.
The vocals are always the Bee Gees' greatest asset, yet here it is hard to hear them.
Sometimes they sound as weak as Michael Jackson. (Jackson, whose voice is frail--who is more a mannerist than a singer--was always helped by his arrangements, because they disguised his voice.)
That's a shame.
Still, this is not a bad album.
It could have been a masterpiece if the voices were more audible.
Free Music Review: Great collection of sad love songs.
Hit: 5 Stars
Well now I have only the Living Eyes cd to get from the Bee Gees, the hardest one to find. I bought this cd online as it was hard to find in stores, and idiotically didn't pay attention and got the one with the bonus track You Win Again, instead of the import, Wing And A Prayer. Although that song is one of their best, I have it on E-S-P, and feel stupid. So be careful. But ANYWAY, the rest of the album is great, although almost every song is a sad song. Probably because their younger brother Andy passed away right before the making of it. From all the hundreds of released and unreleased bootleg versions of Bee Gees songs I know, Ordinary Lives is my favorite. I first heard it on the One For All Tour concert on VHS, and loved it instantly. It's quite a simple song, but it's incredible. I also love Bodyguard, an incredible and memorably sad song. The other standout song for me is Wish You Were Here, the song I think was made in memory of Andy. Tokyo Nights is quite different, but also lovely. It's My Neighborhood sounds like an attempt of late 80's pop/ rap music or something, but is also pretty good. I also love Maurice's House Of Shame. The U.S. single One sounds great recorded live, but is somewhat not as good in the studio version. Tears is another outstanding, yet very sad, beautiful ballad. I love the end of the chorus in it. Will You Ever Let Me is probably the only "boring" song on here, and definitely most different. 5 star album. And following it, was an even better one, High Civilisation.