Bee Gees' 1st: 50th Anniversary

Not trying to smear the thread, the box above is astounding as far as sound. The linear notes are incredible. A 50th anniversary would be a great idea but not needed. If one does come out, if priced reasonably maybe I would get it?

 

The reissues sound way better than the original LPs. I have those too.

 

Yeah they should just reissue this first box set.

 

Hahahaha!! Don't get me wrong, I'm nostalgic as anyone on Hoffman. You do bring up a good point.

 

Great idea for a thread I wish I thought if it.

 

I just read through your thread from last year. It was pretty good as well.

 

Have original lps to. The reissues do sound way better. I do like to listen to originals because you hear how that vinyl sounded when they were released. Albeit on a much more elaborate stereo system than a phonograph that was used at the time 1967--1969.

 

Absolutely brilliant lp that has aged well. IMO their best lp. Totally worth getting just for one cut: "Every Christian Lion Hearted Man". One of the greatest pop-psych songs of all time with its ominous Mellotron and chant that sounds like Tomorrow Never Knows meets King Crimson. Just an absolute stunner of a track and an early prog-rock contender.
One regret is that "Town Of Tuxley Toymaker" (which they gave away some months earlier to Jon Blanchfield) could not have been re-recorded and included on the album It would have fit in perfectly. If I have to nit pick, I think there's a bit too much orchestration on too many cuts (although Cucumber Castle is superb) and I would have preferred more Revolver-esque pop-psych like Exit Stage Right vs MOR ballads like One Minute Woman and To Love Somebody. "Please Read Me" is another stunner with gorgeous harmonies, one of their most overlooked and underrated tracks. The only dud really is the closing track but all in all a superb piece of pop and an early peek into the sound of '67 when pop exploded into technicolor sound

 

Great tune. Shades of the Fabs Taxman.

 

Another great one.

 

Thanks, I learn from all comments wether I agree or not. Do love Bee Gees 1st.

 

Hahahaha!!

 

I have an original mono, which is all I'll ever need.

 

Nice Sami, I saw one at a thrift a few months ago but it looked pretty beat up so I passed. Hoping I run into a good player eventually

 

I have a stereo and two mono vinyl copies of 1st. All ultrasonic cleaned.

 

I've always loved this one...



Darryl

 

Not everybody wants to spend the money for two vinyl copies of three different albums, as the 2007 box presents the albums. An individual release of each album isn't out of the question.

 

A very unusual track. I read about how they thought it up while killing some time in a stairwell at a studio and then recorded the vocal in it.

 

I give most of the props to Maurice Gibb for his Mellotron playing which sends the song into another universe. He was the Brian Jones of the group: a talented multi-instrumentalist who provided a lot of the melodic and ornate textures to the Bee Gees early sound.

 

I'm sure a fellow Bee Gees obsessive will correct me if wrong, but I think that story is actually true of 'New York Mining Disaster...' rather than this admittedly amazing track.

 

Always thought I heard a 'Pet Sounds' influence on this one.....

 

And its great that Nina Simone did a great cover of this one.

 

I seem to remember someone (I think Robin) in the liner notes for the Rhino box saying this song owed a little to Brian Wilson or something along those lines. I always assumed it was the falsetto at the end of the wordless vocal section that seems for a second to be going into "You Still Believe In Me" (six notes of it anyway.) "Please Read Me" is my favorite track on the album.

 

You are correct, but there was no NY Mining Disaster in that year. The song was based on an actual mining disaster in England in the early 60s (I think?) and it wiped out an elementary school full of kids. Unthinkable horror.

 

Maybe slightly off topic (I am assuming this is shortly before they left for England?) but I had never seen or heard this.