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The Bee Gees or Al Green? How Can You Mend A Broken Heart?
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*Wipes sweat from head*
For a minute I thought you were asking to pick between the artists... I was about to throw a tantrum!
This belongs to Al.... and I love Bee Gees but Al killed this cut... everything was there... he adds something to it, something the Bee Gees dont fully grasp for this particular song... I get more emotion from Al but I think overall this was a rather hard tackle for the BG's | |
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The Bee Gees wrote it and gave it a beautiful pop flavor and Al Green collard greened it up.
It's like comparing a fish filet mignon dinner to black eyed peas, collard greens and sweet potatoes. I'm not choosing. | |
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I love both. 
Wow: that describes the two versions perfectly | |
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lol | |
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Just a great song period | |
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I think Barry said he preferred Al's version over theirs lolAl Green Andy is a four letter word. | |
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ironic that the other day Al's version of this song came over speakers and i just cranked it up just marveling at how the melody, the instruments and how u can feel al's pain in the song and the urnest 2 live again. then i thought that wow the bee gees do make some incredible songs themselves. i do like the bee gee's version but i just gotta say i LOVE al's version.
and when i hear this song it just makes my cry 4 this generation in missing on what real music sounds like. damn just listen 2 that spacing in al's version, the organ, it's stepped in2 the blues! and then it brings me back 2 the song writting of the bee gees and it can transcend not just about a realtionship with a female, male ..damn it can speak of a lost relative or friend.
damn this is real music! man, he has such an amazing body of music that it's sad to see him constrict it down to the basics. he's too talented for the lineup he's doing. estelle 81 | |
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As artists, I like The Bee Gees' music more than Al Green's music but I only like The Bee Gees' music after they went disco. I don't like their earlier work. To me, The Bee Gees' version of this song sounds too simple like it's unfinished. Al Green's version sounds like a completed song with all the instruments. Now, if it were The Bee Gees "More Than A Woman" vs. Tavares' "More Than A Woman", I would definitely choose The Bee Gees. Andy is a four letter word. | |
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i feel u on that ..have u heard the bee gees versions of songs like emotion islands in the streams etc? man, he has such an amazing body of music that it's sad to see him constrict it down to the basics. he's too talented for the lineup he's doing. estelle 81 | |
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I actually love the Bee Gees' music pre-disco. "To Love Somebody" is one of the greatest songs of all time... "Lonely Days" is also my cut. I love Barry's tenor as much as I do his falsetto. | |
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I got | |
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for both, but Al put his foot in this. He did that.
i love fannie be tender! man, he has such an amazing body of music that it's sad to see him constrict it down to the basics. he's too talented for the lineup he's doing. estelle 81 | |
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Al Green is one of those singers who can take someone else's song and make it his own.He did it with it this song. | |
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Did you know that they wrote that song for Otis Redding to record? | |
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Those two are from the disco era. Andy is a four letter word. | |
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I've heard their version. I prefer Samantha Sang's and Kenny Rogers' version. Andy is a four letter word. | |
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There's very little that's "disco" about any of their music. | |
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And both tracks are R&B. | |
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And yeah, great cover by Al. | |
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My vote goes to Al Green. | |
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Nah that came from their R&B era. They're not disco records by a long shot lol | |
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Co-sign. Not hard at all. I don't want you to think like me. I just want you to think. |
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“Transracial is a term that has long since been defined as the adoption of a child that is of a different race than the adoptive parents,” : https://thinkprogress.org...fb6e18544a | |
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yup...They even considered themselves as a R&B band | |
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co- | |
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I will forever love and miss you...my sweet Prince. | |
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So true...but love how you describe his version.
I didn't say they were disco songs. I said they were from the disco era as in being released during the disco era. The Bee Gees didn't invent disco. It was around before The Bee Gees started making disco. Those two songs sound a whole hell of a lot different than previous stuff from the late 60s/early 70s though. You could play a Bee Gees set of their disco songs, as well as their slow jams from the disco era, and slip one of those two songs in there and they wouldn't sound out of place. But they sound totally out of place being played in the middle of The Bee Gees earlier work. Andy is a four letter word. | |
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