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Bee Gees documentary on HBO Max I thought it was well done. A fair amount of time was spent on the Saturday Night Fever era. I always thought The Bee Gees were unfairly tagged with disco hate. There was plenty of bad disco in the mid to late 70s but not from The Bee Gees. They were really great songwriters and had great vocal harmony. And some of the songs they/Barry wrote for others (Woman in Love, Heartbreaker, Islands in the Stream) are fantastic songs. Highly recommend this documentary. Paisley Park is in your heart
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Just watched this the other day. There was a large chunk on the SNF part, but they also wove the anti-disco movement into it, and then drew the parallel of them losing popularity because of that. But a good point was made that before the Bee Gee's, disco had very little melody or singing to it. The Bee Gees put melody, harmonies, etc, into it. I agree with that. " donât really care so much what people say about me because it is a reflection of who they r." | |
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as famous as they are for their disco era smash hits, i always thought their pre-disco classic "Main Course" was their best album... "Nights On Broadway", "Jive Talkin" , "Fanny"... i loved that whole album...more than the SNF Soundtrack even | |
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Love the Bee Gee's will have to watch this. | |
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Love their music too, I will view the documentary. | |
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Man... Anyone who lived through the 70s during the height of Bee Gees would remember how huge they were. Saturday Night Fever is still the best soundtrack album to this day. | |
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"Saturday Night Fever", one of my favorite Albums and Movies! Fabulous sound track songs! And John Travolta - great actor. | |
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Watched it last night and loved it. I really miss them. It's amazing to me how some can hear the clickety clack of wheels on pavement and write a song around the sound.
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I'm watching this again. This was very good. Got to the heart. Even felt like reconnecting to a piece of myself. Time keeps on slipping into the future...
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Watching the Bee Gees documentary has made me realize that we're just getting so damn old. All of our icons of the golden ages of music throughout the 50s-80s are dying. Part of our childhood, teenage years and young adulthoods are going away.
Is a damn shame when you think about it. [Edited 12/24/20 23:06pm] | |
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"We went where our music was appreciated, and that was everywhere but the USA, we knew we had fans, but there is only so much of the world you can play at once" Magne F | |
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Honestly, I never really respected nor thought much of the Bee Gees when they were popular in the mid to late 70's. I would hear it and just blew it off as some bugglegum fluff. Do understand, I am a hardcore funkateer mind-blown by some Parliafunkadelicmentation, especially at that era.
So glad I watched this. I will never doubt the song-writing prowess and musical talent of this band ever again. | |
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mrwiggles said: Honestly, I never really respected nor thought much of the Bee Gees when they were popular in the mid to late 70's. I would hear it and just blew it off as some bugglegum fluff. Do understand, I am a hardcore funkateer mind-blown by some Parliafunkadelicmentation, especially at that era.
So glad I watched this. I will never doubt the song-writing prowess and musical talent of this band ever again. yes,The Bees were the real deal....a truly talented group of brothers who wrote and produced some incredible songs.I recommend that you go back and listen to a few of their 70s album....âMain Courseâ (1975) and âChildren Of The Worldâ (1976) would be a good place to start. | |
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Barry Gibb has a new album out this week Greenfields: The Gibb Brothers' Songbook, Vol. 1, new versions of Bee Gees songs, each one recorded with a different country artist. I've never been much of a country music fan, but somehow always liked country songs by the Bee Gees. A few of these were originally country songs, most werent. | |
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This is one of the best music documentaries I have ever seen. Worth catching even if youâre not a fan (though youâll probably become one) #SOCIETYDEFINESU | |
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Yes, it was really well done. My only complaint is they should have made it 20-30 minutes longer to better cover their post 70s career. Such a shame that songs like
You Win Agian One Bodyguard When He's Gone Paying hte Price of Love For Whom the Bell Tolls Alone Still Waters Immortality This is Where I Came In
Aren't better known.
Also, this story was just insane
Robert Stigwood to the Bee Gees: We need to release a song before movie, the better the song does, the more theaters they'll release the movie in, so go write the best love song ever. Bee Gees come back with "How Deep is Your Love" | |
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Seen it 3 times. I didn't know of their earlier success. It was interesting to see that the timeline I knew them in was really a comeback period. And what a period. I must confess I loved disco duck but yeah I see the issue now. Poor Rick Dees. Time keeps on slipping into the future...
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Am I the only one fascinated by the whole disco movement and its demise at that demolition event at that game? And how quickly the game changed. They were selling out on tour the night of the record blowup. Its like overnight, they were done. | |
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onlyforaminute said: Seen it 3 times. I didn't know of their earlier success. It was interesting to see that the timeline I knew them in was really a comeback period. And what a period. I must confess I loved disco duck but yeah I see the issue now. Poor Rick Dees. yeah,many people donât know that The Bee Gees were having hit singles in the 60s....long before their late-70s disco heyday. | |
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"We went where our music was appreciated, and that was everywhere but the USA, we knew we had fans, but there is only so much of the world you can play at once" Magne F | |
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Yes, that so called DJ, shock-jock Steve Dahl, did a lot of damage to them.
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but contrary to popular belief,disco didn't really "die" after that event.In fact,disco never really died....they just simply stopped referring to it as "disco" some examples.....in early 1980,Diana Ross had the biggest hit album of her career with a Chic-produced disco album.In the summer of that same year,the disco song "Funkytown" by Lipps Inc. reached Number One on the charts.Donna Summer had several more huge disco hits that year ("Enough Is Enough","On the Radio",etc).All that happened is a song that would have been labeled "disco" a few years earlier was now being referred to as "dance music". | |
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I think the backlash was all on the Bee Gees, a lot of the others just disappeared because they were nothing more than a one song wonder and were producer creations. The Bee Gees at the time had already been going strong for a decade plus had huge hits then had a slump for two years and then went to Miami and were having hits prior to Saturday Night Fever, as Barry Gibb says we just were recording our next album when we got the call to do a song for a movie, NO ONE thought that movie would do anything. "We went where our music was appreciated, and that was everywhere but the USA, we knew we had fans, but there is only so much of the world you can play at once" Magne F | |
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lastdecember said:
I think the backlash was all on the Bee Gees, a lot of the others just disappeared because they were nothing more than a one song wonder and were producer creations. The Bee Gees at the time had already been going strong for a decade plus had huge hits then had a slump for two years and then went to Miami and were having hits prior to Saturday Night Fever, as Barry Gibb says we just were recording our next album when we got the call to do a song for a movie, NO ONE thought that movie would do anything. Itâs interesting that radio was suddenly refusing to play them,and yet those same stations were playing songs that they wrote and produced for others.Barbra Streisandâs 1980 album âGuiltyâ was a massive hit and Barry even revitalized Dionne Warwickâs career with the hit song âHeartbreakerâ in â82.The 1984 song âIslands In The Streamâ was a major hit for Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton. | |
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Great documentary and great band. I do remember the radio being saturarted with the SNF songs...I was pretty young but remember hearing them constantly. The backlash was inevitable. I never hated them, but dismissed that whole era for awhile afterwards. It wasn't until the late 80s when I realized how great those songs and the Bee Gees in general were and how incredibly talented and fab songwriters.
I live in Chicago and remember watching that White Sox game on channel 44 with my Dad, when disco demolition happend in the middle of a double header. My Dad was PISSED and was yelling at the screen that the damn hippies were destroying the field and cancelling the next game. Neither of us had any opinion about disco...just baseball. | |
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regarding the disco demolition night.....as Gloria Gaynor has said,"Why did they have these records in their collections in the first place?" If you don't like a certain style of music,you should just ignore it. | |
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Great doc, Iâd put it up there with Runnin down a dream. [Edited 1/22/21 21:04pm] | |
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It was okay. Much of it was talking about Saturday Night Fever instead of their albums collective history. They literally skimmed over their first releases and singles. What documentary does that? I had to do my own Wiki research just to find out what some of the albums were even called. Then they skipped the rest of their albums and releases after that.
Only getting a 3 out of 5 for me. Their history should be more in depth than that. Straight Jacket Funk Affair
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