alandail said:

Thier music still got played on radio in the US, and was very successful. But only if they didn't record it themselves, which is rediculous.

You could say the same thing for Chic, another disco labeled act. The radio stopped playing their own records, but Nile Rodgers & Bernard Edwards wrote and/or produced a lot of hits for other acts during the 1980s like Madonna, Duran Duran, Robert Palmer, David Bowie, and others.

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2freaky4church1 said:

They are talking about all around artists not songs. Most critics hate the Bee Gees.

The hatred towards this act is irrational. There was a period in 1977 or 78 when the entire Billboard Top 10 was songs written and/or performed by the Gibbs.

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I just listened to some Bee Gees on You Tube and it was fun hearing some of that stuff again.

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I agree.

The hatred is irrational.

Maybe they do deserve to be on the list.

It makes you wonder if they were blacklisted in America.

You know much more about them that I do.

I just listened to the radio and the music that my parents, friends, and older siblings exposed me to

I remember when The Bee Gees and Andy Gibb were all over the radio and then I remember "Disco Sucks".

I think that music snobs dislike the Bee Gees because they are so accessible and easy to listen too.

I like them OK, but they don't move me the way Classic Rock, Folk Music, Soul, and Blues do.

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Bee Gees Greatest [RSO, 1979]
Not that I don't think "Jive Talkin'" and "Stayin' Alive" are "great," but it's hard to trust a group that leaves such monuments of master-schlock as "To Love Somebody" and "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart" out of its own pantheon. This is a solid sampler of twenty late-'70s hits and oddities. But I remember. B+"

Robert Christgau.

2freaky4church1 said:

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Bee Gees Greatest [RSO, 1979]
Not that I don't think "Jive Talkin'" and "Stayin' Alive" are "great," but it's hard to trust a group that leaves such monuments of master-schlock as "To Love Somebody" and "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart" out of its own pantheon. This is a solid sampler of twenty late-'70s hits and oddities. But I remember. B+"

Robert Christgau.

Those were left off because Bee Gees Greatest was their 3rd greatest hists release, Best of the Bee Gees vol 1 and Best of the Bee Gees vol 2 had the earlier hits.

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Conservatively, Stevie is top 5 and Prince is top 10. Catalogue-for-catalogue, early half of the artists ranked ahead of Prince aren't at his level.

But hey, it's Rolling Stone.

no earth, wind and fire....no otis redding....no wilson pickett...

QueenofCardboard said: