I say this cause 'too much heaven' has a lot of prince-isms....espeically the ''nobody get tooooo much heaven'' bit at the end where they bend the note on ''tooo''

peppeken said:

im sure that with the bee gees recording almost 15 years by then i doubt they copied.

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No

I've always thought the influence of both the Bee Gees and Alicia Bridges was absolutely undeniable, and damn anybody who denies it. Finally there is someone else who shares my sentiment. Thank you!

I wouldn't doubt it. Everyone has influences

According 2 the org.....Prince has been influenced by everyone.

i don't know, but the Bee Gees were one of the best. i loved listening to them.

ReginaCarman said:

In one of his early albums he said that he recorded Prince the album to sound like the BeeGees to help get a commercial hit.
I'm Not 100% sure off this but I'm at least 95% sure.

as my 2 all time favorite acts, I always thought there were a lot of parallels between Prince and the Bee Gees. I suspect both influenced the other to some extent.

The Bee Gees even used Femi Jiya (batman, rainbow children among others) for two of their early 90s albums, High Civilization and Size Isn't Everything.

And I believe The Most Beautiful Girl In The World was supposed to be inspired by the Bee Gees.
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For some reason,"Mountains" reminds me of a Bee Gees song.The horns and Prince's falsetto make it sound like a Bee Gees track from the late 70s.His falsetto sounds just like Barry Gibb.


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Yep.

alandail said:

too much heaven was recorded in 1978
prince career started in 1977 with a garage band style
the bee gees may have influenced prince because they were all over the radio during that time, but NO, prince did not influence the bee gees in 1978 without even for you available. in the 1990's? maybe. but still, they were more established... by 1997 they had been recording for over 30 years!
as far as borrowing hot producers... sure... the cloud gets smaller the more rain has been given.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w...Revolution
http://en.wikipedia.org/w...uch_Heaven

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Everybody's inspired by the "BeeGee's." If Ur not...something's wrong with U.

ahhh, i love the Bee Gee's.....my favorite is "how deep is your love?"

Tame said:

Co-Sign!

Interesting question. I've always thought that Prince's song "Sexy Dancer" sounded like a Bee Gees song. The harmony in that song sounds like something Barry Gibb and his brothers would have recorded.

7e7e7 said:

I was thinking more about some of the tracks and effects from High Civilization in terms of Prince influencing the Bee Gees, not their work from the 70s.

Human Sacrifice, the guitar in True Confessions, etc. Perhaps it's because I know Femi was involved in that. That was during a period when the Bee Gees got no respect at all in the US. I'd play tracks from High Ciliziation to people I knew were prince fans, they universally loved the music until I told them who it was. I even had one friend who heard it enough he bought it himself (he especially loved the song Dimensions).

One day he told me he had friends over and was playing the CD while they were there. They didn't know who it was and said "When is it people get so old they stop listening to great music like this and start listening to stuff like the Bee Gees".

I've always thought it was a shame that so much great music like the 80s/90s bee gees output and the late 90s/2000s prince output gets recorded with most people never even hearing it because of stupid reasons totally unrelated to the actual quality of the music.

You Win Again
One
Ordinary Lives
Toys
Happy Ever After
Dimensions
For Whom The Bell Tolls
Omega Man
Decadance
Blue Island
Haunted House
Alone
Still Waters Run Deep
Rings Around The Moon
This Is Where I came In
Sacred Trust
Deja Vu
Just In Case

Just some amazing Bee Gees songs, several of which in other circumstances would be grammy worthy, instead are otherwise largely unknown.

I hope not I loathe the Bee Gees.. I can't stand anything about them I think they sound like a bunch of stray cats mating in a alley. Seriously if I hear them on TV or Radio or in a movie I have to run and turn it off straight away... Nails on a chalk board!!!

Haunted house is a great song....

I read somewhere that Prince was not a fan of the Bee Gees. I think it was in Per Nilsen's "DMSR" biography.....

WaterInYourBath said:

I don't think he cared for disco-sounding acts in general.In 1979,he put together a side project called The Rebels.One of their songs is called "Disco Away" and if I'm not mistaken,the lyrics feature an unfavorable mention of the Bee Gees and the Village People.

WaterInYourBath said:

I remember a negative comment about them in the book Slave To The Rhythm but that was the author's words, not Prince's.

SoulAlive said:

I consider that disingenuous as he name dropped them in early interviews and his early work was clearly influenced by the disco movement.

alandail said:

I dig all those songs you listed except for Decadance. Why they bothered to butcher one of their own classic tracks is beyond me.

Cloudbuster said:

I just found out that Dez Dickerson actually wrote the lyrics to "Disco Away",and he sings the lead vocals as well.

SoulAlive said:

The highlighted part explains it all.

ok, maybe the hair

Cloudbuster said:

SoulAlive said:

just making things up wont do... we have wikipedia

cheers!
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Cloudbuster said:

Right! That was the book. Thanks.