Reviews (page 7 of 8)
Not my favorite album of all time. I knew BeeGees were a different sounding band before disco, but they are so much more interesting in the disco era now. Nothing here appealed to me at all. 2.5/5.
Baroque pop and soft rock built from lush orchestration, melodic piano, layered harmonies, and tender vocals feels like leafing through an old family photo album of a stranger where every picture is carefully posed but AS you don't know a thing about the people you see you don't care. The album hast a consistent gentle melancholy and polished sentiment rarely develops enough momentum to become emotionally gripping and I was Happy about it ending.
The Bee Gees give me a headache. Next album please
Great the Bee Gees. Wrong wrong wrong. Pick an album with no hit songs. Then subject us to songs about wanting to kill yourself because the wife left. Do this in the most smaltzy over wrought way possible. Then the crown jewel, Israel. Your sandy beaches and lovely ladies. Taking out any politics this is one of the worst songs iv ever heard. Made it to the end that was truly dire. Worst album iv heard on this. I know I won't like jazz or prog but I like the Bee Gees. I thought the start was bad the last 4 songs plume new depths of awfulness. I checked I was playing at the right speed and that it wasn't a parody album. It's also a concept album two songs Trafalger and Waterloo the second being really cringe. 1 star.
Nope. Listened to the first two songs, was greeted by Kermit the Frog attempting to sing a ballad, and then a sickening love song to the "country" of Israel. I shan't be listening any further. Fuck this album.
A set of weepy, overly dramatic ballads that wears out your welcome halfway through. This fails as rock, as it has no groove or edge, and it fails as pop, because the hooks are limp. The songs are too slow, with too many strings layered over them, possibly to cover for the uninspired songwriting. And for a band known for its vocals, those vocals are pretty awful, affected and with no power behind them. There are some OK moments - the drums on "Lion in Winter" are kind of interesting and "Don't Wanna Live Inside Myself" has decent climaxes drowned out by its overall sappiness. "Dearest" is the nadir; it's a song that would stain even a great album, but there are several here on its level. This doesn't add anything new to the pop of the era, and it sounds bad doing it.
Oh, how boring it is! Very.
Cheese. Derivative. Cheese.
it's ok? don't know what to do with pre-disco bee gees there's a bunch of music tho
Excuse me tf is this shit and where is the disco? 0 stars
Pre-disco era efforts by the Bee Gees (such as this record) were cloying sub-Beatles wimp rock that finds a hard time justifying its existence. Not only do the Gibb brothers over-emote on every track, their vocal stylings lean more towards Broadway than to Liverpool or London.
Intolerable - this band never should’ve made it to their disco era
1.2 fuck off with these nerds
This was a hard listen, I know rh3 bee gees are highly talented- but not for me in any shape
Only made it to track 4. Shite.
This is some crazy sad boy music. And some of the songs sound pretty happy? But everything is about how this guy is depressed because his wife/girlfriend/partner (not really sure) left him. Also, what the hell is the end of this album??? It's really not good. Oh my gosh, that wasn't actually the end. Maybe it's me. Maybe I just don't understand the Bee Gees, but this album is very not good. There's only like 2 or so songs that are even all that listenable.
Ridiculously dull.
I at different times said: "this is grandma music", "this sounds like it was made by birds", and "this sounds like it was made by sheep". The vocals were nearly always either painful or funny to me. I now know there are 2 flavors of Bee Gees music that I don't like. Honestly almost "horseshoe theoried" itself into being enjoyable by being so funny. But I don't have a negative scale ala JelloApocalypse or Brandon Sanderson.
Sorry I could not get past the love song to a genocidal state
They have a unique sound, but definitely not my preferred music
How Can You Mend a Broken Heart
Saccharine sweet and ultra schmaltzy. I feel like I’m being punked. The lyrics are embarrassing and the embellishments and strings make the whole album sound like a parody. What a joke.
Huh, today I learned The Bee Gees existed before disco, and it's just as cringey and saccharine as what I knew.
No thanks
Not for me 1/5
Apart from the first song, this is completely insipid crap. A real waste of an orchestra.
Typically, to get 1star you need to make me angry. Meh work that’s not for me gets 2stars as a rule. The exception to this was the Bee Gees’ Odessa, which I pitied rather than being angry at it, but it’s 1star. Trafalgar gets us back to basics; this record is incompetent and wastes your time. One of handful on here where I think the curator is picking trash at random to see if we’re paying attention. The Beeges made 22 albums. If these are the best two, the band should be erased from memory. This music is for no one.
After the first song it was all downhill for me…
Ugh. I don't actually mind the Bee Gees. Their early folk stuff circa New York Mining Disaster is lovely, Saturday Night Fever is a deserving classic, and I have a soft spot for 90s stuff like You Win Again. But this? This is shite. How Do You Mend A Broken Heart is a pleasant enough opener, but otherwise this is saccharine, string laden emptiness. One of the Gibbs - possibly Robin? - sounds very much like a horse, and on a later track when he tries to emote he just sounds like he's being strangled. I kept wanting to find reasons to make this a 2 and it just kept failing. After the album finished, Tidal played me a Carpenters track, and I found that interesting by comparison. The Carpenters FFS! Maybe this has historical importance, but for me, it just reminded me why punk happened. Godawful.
Overblown, overproduced and overly dramatic, the 100th album that I end up rating here is a big fat miss. Whilst I was hoping for something special for the landmark, like my first Beatles record for example. Instead of that, I get an album desperately trying to sound like the Beatles and failing at everything that made that band so iconic. The high-pitched vocals are irritating and unpleasant. On 'Lion On Winter' the vocals are so insufferable, they sound like nails on chalkboards. When you're average person on the street thinks of the Bee Gees, they think of their disco hits. Listening to this made me wish they included an album of those tracks instead of these sorry songs.
A zionist ballad from the falsetto disco dudes was not on my bingo card.
0/10 - fuck this album for having a love song to shitrael, not an excuse that "it was a product of its time", they've been stealing land from the get go
Meh. Not what I was expecting from the Bee Gees. Not terrible but really not my jam.
Man, this was brutal. Why is this on here?
It’s a good thing that Disco and Funk were introduced to The Bee Gees five years after this album was released. Without those musical elements, The Bee Gees were bland and boring like this album.
Oh dear. Sometimes songs are SO appallingly bad that they make me want to laugh, cry, scream and break things, all at the same time. My friends all know that I consider Silvia's Mother - Dr Hook - to be one such song. Now, there's another. If anyone ever makes me listen to "Remembering" by the Bee Gees again, I won't be responsible for my actions. Very few songs on here were actually any better. The whole album gave me rage. I like the disco stuff; they were lovely guys, but this was (almost entirely) utterly dreadful. At least I can avoid it, now.
I shouldn’t have ignored the instructions that came about half way through.
Wow. Why? It's like wannabe Beatles, but a lot worse? Holy shit that's some bad fucking vibrato. Like -- take a voice lesson man. And I thought the whole point of The Bee Gees was the falsetto so, what are we even doing here? It's not completely horrible. Just so bizarre and melodramatic, and not a particularly enjoyable use of 47 minutes. Fave tracks: - How Can You Mend A Broken Heart - It's Just The Way
LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ISRAEL?!?!?! Gibb said of writing the song "I wrote this as a tribute; a dedication to the country." HE'S NOT EVENJEWISH i would've rated this 1 just for israel but it really is just a terrible album too what the fuck is lion in winter lmfao
En el mundo de la música hay personas dotadas, carismáticas, generacionales... Y luego están estos tipos que lo único que dan es grima. Desde sus caras a sus voces pasando por sus portadas y sus composiciones. Pura grima.
Tough album to get through.
Can't believe they made me listen to a early Bee Gees album. Thought I would never see the day. I can see how they were inspired by literally everyone from their contemporaries to the past. I've heard of some alright music from other groups that sounds just like this. Do I really care for this album? Not really, but at times it was plesant.
Anyone remember Air Supply? Now imagine if they were worse. First of all, 47 minutes. Really? The Beatles did Revolver in 34. And this, believe me, is no Revolver. It's 12 slow ballads full of heart break and pathos, almost to the point of masochism. The one that is a little upbeat - The Greatest Man In the World - contains lyrics like "I'd be the Greatest man in the world, 'Cause I can say I've got the greatest girl." and runs out of words with a couple of minutes to go, so they just keep repeating the title over and over in a maudlin way. Oh, it's SO NOT Revolver! It's emotional to the point of melodrama with lyrics that come close to self-parody, all sung in vibrato laden voices that are, at times, only more or less in tune. The fact it is, they're not very good song-writers. And yes, I know they went on to write a lot of songs for other people, but does anyone really think Chain Reaction is Diana Ross's finest moment? Or that Dolly Parton couldn't have written something better than Islands in the Stream? At times it's like Abbey Road, only awful. And a song that's "a love letter to the Nation of Israel" hasn't aged well. "Israel, you make the whole world think about you." Well, quite.
Oh joy. More early Bee Gees…. It’s not quite as awful as Odessa, but that’s not saying much. I don’t get it. Just leaves me stone cold. Like a bunch of bad 70s variety show cover songs. 1
1/5. These days when we think of 70’s music most people often go to either the rockers of the era (Zeppelin, Floyd, Glam/Berlin Bowie, etc.) or the rise of disco later in the decade. But if you look at what was topping the charts before the rise of disco, it wasn’t any of those bands, it was easy-listening soft rock. Some of it still holds up, like the best Carpenters songs, but a lot more of it is like this pre-disco Bee Gees album. And man this thing was insufferable to me, if I wasn’t listening to it for this project I would have shut it off a few tracks in. I already don’t particularly like Disco Bee Gees but this is even worse. It tries to be so dramatic and emotionally heavy, but it’s completely unearned and ends up feeling forced. The vocals are also quite annoying at points. might be my least favorite on the list so far.
Way too milk toast for me.
Did not enjoy, from the first note
Give. Me. Robert. Dimery's. Address. I JUST WANT TO TALK.
1.5
This is terrible. I can't stand them in their disco mode but them in sad white guy slow jam mode is so much worse. At least you could hypothetically shake your ass to the disco songs. Cool cover, though.
I just can’t.
Tapped out on track 2, the ad-libbed, straight from the heart tribute to Israel. I did just buy the Staying Alive 4K tho…….
Funny close singing, the musical release. Hey, you there! Yes, you! Do you like uncomfortable pro-Israel content interspersed with paint by numbers love songs sung too close to the mic? Can I pique your interest further by saying it’s sung in a very funny, abbreviated fashion by three of the weirdest looking brothers to exist outside the pages of a medieval fairy tale tome? Did I mention we get weird and warbly about halfway through? Yeah and “Remembering” is for all you freaks who love the song “Little Drummer Boy” but don’t want to hear about all that Christmas crap. Anybody? How about all you renaissance fair/muppet fans? The last quarter of the record is made for you! It’s basically a Kermit the Frog operetta drunkenly performed at a Red Deer dinner theatre! Alright, now that nobody could possibly care about this record, let’s give it oh I don’t know… 1 HIGHLIGHTS: Somebody stop the music??? Errrrm I’ll say!!!
I wanted to be open to this, but what in the world is it? The songs are often incoherent and the writing maudlin, and the one guy is not making his voice work for his songs. This did not convert me to a Bee Gees guy.
Why did I hate it.
i literally said "oh no" out loud to myself when they started singing.
Album I would replace this one with: Real Estate - Days (2011) 5/5
Probably some of the worst music that I've heard in a long, long time. Like if the people who did The Hobbit (1977) soundtrack tried to mimic The Beatles. Awful stuff.
Horrible
The most unreliable election polling company.
The back half of that was tough work. The delivery was so sincere it was indistinguishable from parody
This is not the Bee Gees you remember from the disco era. This is the sleepy boring rock precursor that nobody listened to.
Dog shit
FREE PALESTINE
Booooring. Probably one of the most boring albums made.
2/10 Ah, the Bee Gees. Kings of Disco. Jive Talkers. Patient zeroes of Night Fever. Oh, but this is not a disco album. It's, bafflingly enough, their ninth album and they still haven't found the hook that they needed to plough their own musical furrow. The best bits of this album variously sound like weak copycat Beatles and Elton John songs. Which is not necessarily a bad thing, but both of those artists have enough material that I'd rather just listen to the genuine article rather than traipse my way through this slog of an album to find something that might vaguely pique my interest. Unfortunately, the rest of the album is way worse. The production is a bit all over the place, the songwriting is either limp or so obvious as to be mundanely predictable and it's actually quite an uneven selection of tracks. Robin Gibbs voice is outrageously bad. Not in a "that's unique and interesting" way, but in a "please Barry, make him stop" way. It's very lucky for the Bee Gees that they came along at a time when artists could get away with bundling out a string of nothing albums while they found their own path. If they were starting out today, there is now way we would ever have found our way to the brilliant disco era of their work. Which is a massive shame. Anyway, I digress. This album was limp, boring and, in many places, vastly irritating, as well as being saccharine and dull. I toyed with a 3/10, but the worst bits dragged the passable bits down like the French at Trafalgar. How Can You Mend A Broken Heart - An inauspicious start with one of the least convincing bass slides I've heard committed to record. This is so limp and uninspiring. By the numbers easy listening pop rock that sounds like so loads of other bands that aren't worth remembering the names of. Insipid stuff. Israel - At least there's a bit of something to this. It's still not brilliant and feels a lot like a fairly weak Elton John effort, particularly in Barry's delivery, but at least it's not as limp as the opener. In the current climate, I'm not particularly enamoured by a love song to Israel, though. The Greatest Man In The World - Back to the easy listening rock of the opener. There are tiny hints of inspiration from Brian Wilson's songwriting, but they're hidden under a sea of the world's mildest cheese. It's not very good. It's Just The Way - Ah, now we get a Beatles-lite effort. Like, very Beatlesy. In that respect, it's not bad, but if I wanted to listen to the Beatles, I'd probably pick one of their albums, rather than finding my way to the fourth track of a random Bee Gees album. Remembering - Ooh, croony over-vibratoed vocals? This album is really doing its best to irritate. This is another limp, by the numbers soft rock number and the vocals are almost unlistenable. It's both over dramatic and incredibly dull at the same time. Somebody Stop The Music - The Bee Gees must be reading my mind. I also want to stop this music. The disco era can't come fast enough for these guys. To be fair, this isn't actually that bad. It's another Beatles inspired effort that moves through a range of different styles and moods. It's not bad, but it still feels like it's not their own style of music, just another from the pile of Beatles copycats. Trafalgar - This sounds like the Beatles too. Again, it's not bad, it's just also not that interesting or inspiring either. Competent songwriting, reasonably well performed and produced. But again, it's another song that gives me no reason to revisit this album when the Beatles back catalogue exists. Don't Wanna Live Inside Myself - I can't quite put my finger on who this sounds like, but it's very reminiscent of another band. It's not bad actually. Pretty morose, but there's nothing wrong with that. There are some nice harmonies and it ebbs and flows nicely in a way that echoes the themes of the song. When Do I - This is pretty weak. Robin definitely has the most irritating voice in the band. It feels very affected and he uses a fast, subtle vibrato that I find quite grating. He's also not got great tonal control. The song is pretty plodding and uninteresting, as far as I can tell, but I'm struggling to deal with the vocals so can't focus too much on the underlying instrumentation. Dearest - Oh God, it's Robin again. At least he's split lead duty on this one. But it's a plodding song that's half nursery rhyme, half sickly love song. Too much warbly vibrato. Too aimless. Too melodramatic. Truly awful. Lion In Winter - That's a nice cardboard box they're using for a kick drum. This is a bit of an Elton John lite song this time during the verses and then what the actual fuck is that chorus? The vocals are completely awful in an entirely different way to the last couple of tracks. It's like they asked the Gibb brother they normally keep locked in the attic to come down and have a go at the chorus. Which is a shame because the verses are not bad. Walking Back To Waterloo - This isn't terrible and it's kind of half way between a Beatles and an Elton song in certain ways. But it also feels like it just kind of exists without having anything particularly memorable or engaging about it and it feels unnecessary ponderous. Perhaps I'm just Bee Geed out at this point.
Jesus Christ this is so bad.
The vibrato is reminiscent of Hugh Jackman's in the worse way possible and overall doesn't sound that great. It's a shame because the Bee Gees have some great (disco) albums and it's honestly an absolute travesty that 'Saturday Night Fever' isn't on this list. This genuinely make me wonder how they even got the gig for that album because this is uninspiring in every way (especially the lyrics). 1.5 rounded down
Lush orchestration is ruined by lackluster songs and the brothers struggle to find their harmonies. Robin sounds like a parody of himself. Dreadful.
I really did not like one bit of this
Rating: 3/10 boring shit, even though it's not technically the worst thing ever I can't say I enjoyed a single moment really. let's actually give it the 1 treatment because I was on a really good run on the site and this ruined it.
so boring my god take me, nonetheless fun sociological analysis to see the link btw music and political propaganda in the song "Israel", I decided to shut them up, closing spotify
israel love song 1*
Abject snivelling pish
snoozfest
Well, the centrefold image from the album is 5/5. The songs, not so much...
What possessed them to write a ballad to Israel? Only a couple of good bits in this album but nowhere near enough.
Very slow. I aggressively disliked this.
This is really bad and nothing that I enjoyed even a little bit. I wanted to turn off most of the tracks.
This was really bad. And I thought I hated their disco...
WTF is this? Ninth album? Are any of the first eight any better? At least there are orchestrated arrangements to wash the medicine down. With terrible production, a stolen melody, and just a lack of energy, there are probably 1,001 albums not on the list that are better than this one.
The Bee Gees might, in fact, need disco. This is, so far, the most boring and plain album I've listened to. My God man, the lyrics, instrumental and voice are all so zzzzzzzzzzz. It's giving absolutely nothing, and even worse, became annoying to listen to at times. Also no disco Bee Gees album on this list wtf.
Not for me.
Nah
Why was this album included? It's not prime Bee Gees, it's not their hits, it's just bland, middle-of-the-road, easy listening ballads. What's its significance?
I gotta keep it a buck, I was bored to tears
Yeah, no.
Good grief, Odessa was bad enough and now we have to endure more of this crap? Trafalgar is just as bad and just as Beatles yearning as Odessa. It's another one star review (just like the last one) and I'll comment again, I didn't realize that disco actually helped them break free from dull pop songs. Guh.
Another non-disco Bee Gees Album, jeee-bus! The best about this album is that I will never have to listen to it ever again. Second best thing about this album -- the cover. So boring.
It is an improvement on Odessa, but let's be honest, just about anything that isn't Odessa is an improvement on Odessa. This felt a bit like a college band attempting their best renditions of The Beatles, David Bowie and Pink Floyd in one fell swoop, whilst remaining blissfully unaware of the fact that their vocalist just cannot fucking sing or pen a decent harmony. It's only 47 minutes long but it felt like double the length, and then some. A load of saccharine, cheesy, pretentious nonsense for the most part.
Saccharine, saccharine, saccharine. I can't think of a better word to describe this album. It's so inauthentically sweet I can't stand it. Every song is so painfully dull, but is trying to be so emotional. The vocals range from ok to terrible. I don't know how this ended up on this list. If all that wasn't enough there's a whole ballad to Israel. "Israel you make the whole world think about you" Well you're not wrong there.
For noe ræl
I had no idea that The Bee Gees had a pre-disco era. Apparently that’s for good reason, bc this was pretty difficult to get through. The vocals were sappy at best, and borderline unlistenable at worst. Feel like I could have died without listening to this and I would not have missed much.
Can only hear Justin Timberlake and Jimmy Fallon 1/5
I wasn't actually aware that I could dislike the Bee Gees even more.
1+ Stars (3/15)
I'm sure they'll get the hang of songwriting eventually but not here.
The album cover reminds me of a high school text book, the music was about as interesting as well.
I'm torn between 1 and 2 on this, but only because I gave Kanye West a 1 and I don't think it's as bad as he is.
I'm clearly missing something but this feels very self-important and melodramatic. Like the very concept of basing an album on the battle of trafalgar, with ye olde time lettering, then singing about having a broken heart? What am I missing? And how is this their 9th album? Who was buying this? Naval aficionados? It's like yacht rock without the rock. Why did everyone try to sound like the Beatles most boring stuff? Was honestly surprised to discover it was nearly half the length of yesterdays, felt like forever.
"When do I" was fun, but it was not nearly enough to save this otherwise god-awful album.
It's ok. 1.5/5
None of the fun campy disco I’ve come to know from these guys. Just sappy cheese. The song “Israel” destroyed any good will I had for this record.
This was awful, I know they can do better
(16/100)
I can’t take this level of sentimentality for the entire runtime and every chorus is just longingly wailing the title of the song over and over
Tedious background music with annoying vocals. Somehow it's even worse than their disco era, and I really hated that.
They have a song called Somebody Stop the Music. They should've stopped this dire atrocity. Give me disco Bee Gees over this horror show.
Boring as fuck J'ai pas aimé, ça bouge pas trop.. Big L pour cet album imo 1/5
Is this the same Bee Gees. Wow. Shit.
Naw
It was a great album but moste of the songs i think was just meh. I have heard better from the beegee
wow
Meh
I was excited by the prospect of a Bee Gees album, having heard various songs of theirs over the years. However, this was fucking maudlin dreck. Goodness only knows how bad their other output must be for this to have been worthy of inclusion on the list.
As I become more jaded 800+ albums in, this is the perfect example of what’s wrong with this list. One person had too much power and tried to be cool and say, “Hey, the BeeGees were even better without Staying Alive.” And no one was there to say “Fuck off loser” while jamming Staying Alive at full blast.
bee gees ebe mega lanc underwegs gsi. how can you mend a broken heart super super schön die type chönd songs schribe. israel au sehr cool. aso chli melodramatisch eigentli. greatest man in the world SEHR melodramatisch ui. check wieso sie irgendwenn en disco revrand brucht hend. remembering tönt wie en song wo de ringo gschriebe het aber die andere drü beatles gfunde hend "he de isch vlt für dis nöchste soloalbum" findi str8 ASS. boh das album isch mich am langwile hey. dont wanna live inside myself au whiny as shit. when i do au seeehr langsam und irgendwie tönts sehr noch musig für alti lüt. dearest isch au so sooo schnulziiig mann hey. bi lion in winter singt de eint jo schlimm falsch. glaub s sött so sehr gospelmässig mit chratziger stimm sii aber ooohmein gott de cheeeeese.
Boy, did The Bee Gees come a long way from here. This is shite.
Not much for me here. I suppose Bee Gees has to be on the list but yeah, not my bag.
I'm trying to be very stingy with my 5 and 1 Star reviews but I couldn't justify rating this any higher. I like a lot of Bee Gee's tracks from various points in their career but none of them are on here. Jesus Christ, what a slog of an album. It took me three tries and I barely made it through. I would never choose to listen to this again! The spots on the title track where they "borrow" from "A Day In The Life" were it's only fleeting moments of redemption for me.
Unpleasant and overly dramatic adult easy-listening for a pompous generation. The pinnacle of unlistenable singing lies in “When Do I.”
I couldn't finish it. I got Monty Python vibes from the first line of track 1 and gave up on Lion in the Winter.
Smooth soul ballads with all the edges polished right off and replaced with strings so saccharine you'll puke. They're talented vocalists and do some nice harmonies, but it's marshalled for some of the most insipid songs imaginable. Dire dire stuff. How are there two bee gees albums and neither is Saturday night fever?!
Yeah nah.
Very mopey and weepy. I'm glad I didn't discover this when I was a sullen teenager full of imaginary heartbreak. I skipped a lot of these songs, too slow and boring. I was going to give it two stars benefit of the doubt for being a product of its time, then I realized that "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?" was the only song I listened to all the way through. I'm okay to never hear any of these songs again. Glad the BeeGees left this behind for the more energetic tunes in the mid '70s.
Tried listening to this throughout the day. Kept having to turn it down, because it was so bad. Did not have time to read much on this album, but was this just Barry and boys cashing in? ..... Well, I guess that was most of their career, so who knows.
why did I need to listen to this pos before I die? Some of the music is ok, but Barry Gibb's voice is grating and the songs get worse as you go. This is what would be playing non-stop in Beelzebub's domain
Feels like generic ai slop of music
Found the fawning philosemitism quite distasteful, honestly
9th album??? Who kept green lighting this drivel?
If you enjoy looking out the window on dreary rainy days, reminiscing about your past lost loves, gently crying, while petting a 9 1/2 year old cat that’s on its death bed, then this album is your jam. I listened to this at work, fell asleep at my desk and someone stole my nature valley granola bar. I was depressed for the rest of the day. 1001 album worthy: Nope - 105/196
I expected something like Stayin' Alive, not singing that sounds vaguely like Golem
If you're gonna be theatrical, at least go hard.
Not for me
I am sad to say this is simply not my jam.
THIS is why they sucked in the early years.
this is ghastly
the pee pees
I enjoyed this album a little bit but I'm not really huge on the Bee Gees or this sappy, sentimental, slow music. I enjoyed How Do You Mend a Broken Heart and I guess I liked Israel and the chorus (?) of Don't Wanna Live Inside Myself but none of this is the kind of stuff I'd listen to outside of this challenge. I enjoy More Than a Woman and Stayin Alive but all the songs in this album were just a little boring to me. I'd give it a 3 but I really don't care for it personally. It's just a little melodramatic and he is not quite the loveliest singer ever.
Oof, this was unexpectedly awful. I guess like most people I only know them from Saturday Night Fever. I had to check if it was written by them after hearing this. It was almost like a spoof at times, those lyrics. The vocals were laughable at points and the music was dull. 1 star it is
Better than the last Bee Gees album this had us listen to. But it is still awful. No rhyme or reason on why some of these made the cut.
Disgusting
The SECOND pre-disco Bee Gees album on this list that I got so far. Both had absolutely zero business being on this list. Absolutely none. Incredibly uninspired, schmaltzy middle-of-the road shite.
bit boring and depressing, didn’t like the register of their voices (wanted to give it a 1.5)
The Bee Gees before disco. On the one hand, who cares. On the other hand, who cares about them when they did start doing disco? I dunno. I don't hate on disco like some, so this pre-disco stuff just seems kind of lame. Just slow rock. These guys' voices were meant for disco dancefloors, not this sappy stuff. The trouble here is the album is either sappy or boring. I really don't get what the point of putting this album here is. It's not a game changer, not experimental. And it sucks. The only purpose seems to be "Hey, the Bee Gees had some stuff before disco, and it sounded like this. Ok. Great. I feel personally enriched... 1/5
Fav: How Can You Mend A Broken Heart Least Fav: Lion In Winter So you choose to include some Bee Gees, and not feature their disco music which everyone knows them for. And you instead include this album of boring songs with some dreadful vocals at times and uninspired songs?! At least the first song is alright I guess…
Boring
If there was a hell, this would be the soundtrack!
How the hell did the Bee Gees get away with recording so much of this awful shit? This is album 9 of the 13 or 14 before they even started on the disco stuff. Truly awful.
Jeez, that was a struggle. Literally halfway through the album there's a track called "Somebody Stop the Music"... okay if you insist!
I hate these voices so fucking much
Awful. Make it stop. Why is this on the list.
Blah. I was excited at the start with "How Can You Mend A Broken Heart"...and then it was a total fizzle.
Horrid
Dreadful. How on earth can this lame schmaltz be in anyone's top 1001? 😏
What you get when you stretch “Day in the Life” into an entire album. Made me want to listen to something better.
Cor, what a slog. Taking up valuable space on this list that could have been filled by the Black Parade. Nil pwa
My 500th album! So just about half way through the process although the exact point will be the start of side 2 on tomorrow’s album. So I await in anticipation of that. 501 days to go which will take me to 29th September 2026. This date has nothing to do with the Battle of Trafalgar so not the reason why I got this today. Trafalgar is very significant in British history. A naval battle where we defeated the naughty French but they got there own back by sneakily shooting Lord Nelson the blighters! He was killed on HMS Victory. Long story short but I once got drunk in Lord Nelson’s quarters and had a piss where Nelson would have done so over the ship’s stern. So having this interest I wondered what homage to it the Australian Bee Gees would serve up and in particular the title track. Imagine my disappointment to discover not one mention of the great battle and one of the greatest British heroes ever. All I can say is that it is obvious that the Aussie’s wanted to get one over of us Poms and do as much damage as possible to one of our finest hours. But what do you expect from Aussies? From a penal colony to proud nation - proof that you can really polish a turd. 1/5 16/5/25
The last Bee Gees album I reviewed received a 2 from me. It was tolerable because it wasn’t their overplayed whiney crap. This is not tolerable. It’s boring, unrelatable, droned on and shouldn’t be on the list. I stopped listening at track 7, “Somebody Stop The Music”. I took it as a sign.
Their 9th album. Soft Rock / Easy Listening. Harmonies are great as you'd expect from the Bee Gees. Israel - Awful lyrics, 'Where there's sand, beautiful sand' lol ! The pre disco Bee Gees have great voices but they're wasted here on singing such beige songs. Remembering is a truly awful song which is followed by Somebody Stop The Music which is hilariously ironic. Trafalgar is the best track and very much like a John Lennon song. Not a good album.
Imaju oni dobrih stvari, ali ovaj album nije reprezentacija toga. Jedna pjesma mi je posebno odbojna, a ostale su sve iste i dosadne. 1/5, 2/10.
What the heck was that? Love the Bee Gees but this was rough - they should stick to disco. Some songs felt like a joke.
Well this was pretty awful. I could have maybe got behind a later album, but this is just dreadful. Warbly vocals, cheesy lyrics, with slow, predictable, and boring music backing it all. Some of it was almost comedically bad. Most of it was just bad.
I thought this disco shirt sucked. Turns out they sucked before then.
Odd.
I’m genuinely surprised this album made the list. Trafalgar sits in a strange, in-between phase of the Bee Gees’ career—after their ‘60s baroque pop heyday and before their iconic disco dominance. Unfortunately, it doesn’t measure up to either era, both of which represent the Bee Gees at their creative peaks. Now, I get that the rules for this list exclude soundtracks, but leaving Saturday Night Fever off while including Trafalgar feels like a major oversight. That soundtrack defined an era; Trafalgar, on the other hand, barely leaves a mark. Aside from the standout ballad “How Can You Mend a Broken Heart,” the album leans heavily into bland, middle-of-the-road folk-pop. It lacks the energy, emotion, and innovation that define the best of their work. Even Robin’s usually moving vocals can’t save some of these tracks. Favorite song: "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart" Least favorite: Most of the rest—largely forgettable Album artwork: A cool visual tribute to the Battle of Trafalgar, which is sadly more memorable than the music inside.
This sounds outdated as hell. Listening to the album the whole way through was quite the difficult task... I honestly found nothing enjoyable about it. It's definitely not the kind of music I associate with the bee gees and it doesn't suit 'em well, in my opinion.
this was bad on so many levels, cringeworthy at times
This is truly awful from beginning to end.
Not my thing... Won't listen again.
Stick to disco Barry Gibb
Horrible.
Let's just try to sound like the Beatles if the blandness dial was turned up to 11. Pretty unbelievable how much music the Bee Gees made before disco was a thing and that they managed to keep going, this is really unremarkable. "I know what the next track is gonna be! Plodding pace, strummed acoustic guitars and strings!" This is one of those albums clogging up a spot that could've gone to Neutral Milk Hotel, Weezer or something else overlooked by Dimery for the book. PS free Palestine 🇵🇸
I don't like disco but when I saw that I got the Bee Gees I thought at least it's the best of disco. Instead I got shitty rock. Boo. 2/10
This feels like the least essential album that has been generated for me so far. And along with that, I didn’t really like it all that much. I was so close to just skipping Lion in Winter. What is that vocal performance? I feel I’m obligated to give this a 1. My 2s so far either had a sound I don’t care for but, they were trying to do something different and just fell flat (for me) or have a sound that is at least okay (I wouldn’t make you turn it off), but they don’t seem to do anything special or even try to. This one has a sound I don’t care for and doesn’t seem to try and do anything special.
Ok, there's soft rock and there's SUPER SOFT rock. It's so focused on being easy to listening that it becomes almost insulting to the power behind every human ears. The lyrics are awful, the music is uninspired to an impossible level.
1/5
As an active and critical listener I liked that it was beatles esque and almost the score to a film. But as a fan of music, theres a reason the bee gees switch to disco when it exploded. Because this shit is boring and un inspiring. Middle of the road contemporary mix of instruments and pacing.
I never liked the BeeGees but I must admit, listening to it now, brings me back to memories of Bat Mitzvahs in my teenage years, so its hard to evaluate properly
Nothing really redeemable
Sounds uninspired. Such a boring album… I WAS A LIiiiOOoN
boah, das ist mir viiiiiel zu schnulzig; kann ich mir nicht wirklich anhören
Sleepy & tiresome. The part of the palette of the 1970s that I despise.
So exactly why was this album on the list? I see nothing redeeming about it. If I could give it zero stars I would. Disco era Bee Gees is better than this and that is saying a LOT!
Boring
Well it's good to know the Bee Gees sucked even before they were doing disco.
This is another one of these cases, of course I’ve heard of The Bee Gees and I know their hit songs, but I never listened to a full album, and actually don’t think I ever heard any song in hear. So I gave it a listen without prejudice and… It’s crap. This is simply awful. The most sappy, corny music and lyrics. Why would anybody want to hear this? It’s so overly sentimental to the point of parody. I mean yeah they have great vocal harmonies but this is pure dreadful kitsch. One star.
1971 must have been a bad year for music....globally....for this to be considered for the list. It's bloody awful !
Det är för mycket cheesy ballader! Det finns fantastiskt bra och starka ballader men dessa är för "uppenbara" och för "rättframma". Sen kanske jag kommer få mycket hate för detta (inte nödvändigtvis i vårt gäng men i världen i stort) men jag tycker Barry Gibb är en överskattad sångare, särskilt hans tenor-bröströst som blir för nasal och för mycket vibrato för mig. Det finns fina låtar på skivan men inget fantastiskt och det är alltför jämntjockt. "Somebody stop the music" är nog skivans höjdpunkt med sina mer poppiga och Bowie-eska kvaliteter. Tycker också att detta är långt ifrån Bee Gee's bästa album. Den livar upp sig lite under andra halvan men nej det var inget kul eller spännande med detta. 1/5
Cute poppy tunes
I did not like this one Will I listen to again: 0%
Before the Bee Gees went falsetto and ruled the disco, they sang three part harmonic ballads that were turbo shite. 1/5 and I’m taking a point off for them singing songs that celebrate a genocide state (Israel) 0/5 and deservedly so.
Good lord, the Bee Gees are awful.
It's amazing it's their 9th album and equally amazing that they made it to disco and some actual songs with this bland overblown easy listening bag of bones.
anyone that hates disco should be made to listen to this pile of shit
Don’t think so
Firstly, it’s deeply fucking weird to write a love song about any country, let alone the genocidal ethno-state that is Israel. That is enough to earn 1 star all by itself, but every single song without exception is a slow dreary ballad with inane lyrics like “Where there’s sand, where there’s beautiful sand yeah”. Somebody Stop The Music - please.
Odesa was bad enough, but I was generous there with a 2. I can’t keep curving these guys’ work. This early Bee Gees stuff is just awful.
Fucking hell, this was awful.
This album is so bad it sounds like a skit of a band trying to sing fancy. It's boring, shrill and slow. I give very few 1 stars but this deserves it.
Nevermind Trafalgar. This felt more like The Hundred Years War. It is such a tremendous slog with one murderously dull and wretched folksy symphonic cornball ballad after another and not one disco hit in sight. The music is already pretty lame anyway but the Gibbs bros manage to serve up a truly bizarre and horrendous set of vocals with Robin especially pushing the boat out here. Robin has some really stiff and weird delivery going on with When Do I and with the chintzy oompah eurovisiony arrangement it does give me serious Edvard Khil trololo vibes except it’s not fun or uplifting in anyway and on the histrionic Lion In Winter he sounds like Roger Daltrey with a buzzard in his throat whilst running around after catching fire. 1.5 stars.
Fucking awful.
I love the Bee Gees, but this album was abysmal. Except for ‘How Can You Mend a Broken Heart’
Free Palestine
Can't say I like anything about this
Não consegui ouvir até o final zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Absolutely boring.
Highlight: How Can You Mend A Broken Heart. In a nutshell: Somebody stop the music! The opening track is proof that the Bee Gees *did* write some decent songs before their disco era (another one is Spicks and Specks, not on this album). But there are not many here or on Odessa. The Bee Gees are more of a Best of band. Just play How Can You Mend A Broken Heart and move on. Overall: 1/10
Is this better than Odessa? Probably. It's tighter and there's some mediocre Beatles rip-offs? Sure. But the maudlin songs are so bad. And it just feels like a contract fulfilling album. Don't understand how this gets on this list
Nobody really needs to hear this
Trash, my life is diminished having listened to this hot garbage.
Oh no. Such a wussified, limp, no balls, lame suckfest this was. Why is this album here? Some of it actual sounds like parody. Give me disco falsetto Bee Gees any day over this garbage. Best song (and only tolerable one): How Can You Mend a Broken Heart
I never realized how much The Bee Gees singer sounds like Kermit the Frog.
Very odd
Dreadful.
I couldn't tolerate the nasally warbling much past the half-way point of 'Somebody Stop the Music'; a song whose name I only now realize is perfectly suited for my review.
Disco Bee Gees are great....Trafalger BGs not so much. 1.5/5
I don't even like the Bee Gees' popular songs, so this album was never going to do well with me, and it was no surprise when this album of slower ballads by this band was not something I enjoyed listening to. To quote one of the track titles in this album: "Somebody Stop The Music". I feel a bit harsh and it's not the worst album on the list, but this falls below my 2-star albums for me. Rating: 1
zzzzzzzzzzzz........... How do you mend a broken heart er en banger, men den version vi havde på Al Green albummet var MEGET bedre. Resten var kedeligt! Tilslutter mig gerne 1'er-koret
Ku egentlig meget godt lide den der meget underlige Bee Gees plade vi havde tidligere, men det her er altså en af de værre vi har haft på listen! Svinger mellem kedeligt og pivringe. Nu gider jeg fandme ikke have mere Bee Gees med mindre jeg kan få noget disco.
😴 b-side bullshit
No
So I like all eras of the Bee Gees. This is not their strongest outing. Meh.
If you’re into brushing out your chest hair, spray tans, teeth whitener and blowouts, this album is definitely for you.
Beegees are terrible
This was worse than Odessa because that one ripped off the Beatles / Beach Boys and seemed to do it competently. This one continues that pattern by again copying those two and adding Elton John into the mix. Absolute snore.
Incredible that this is the same band that made something as catchy and exciting as "Stayin' Alive". This is overwrought, oversung, and plodding. Highlight: It's Just The Way Nadir: When Do I
Gear: Dunu SA6 Artwork: 🖼️⛵👌 Mix: 🤷♂️ Musik: ⛵🦺🏊☠️ Wertung: ⛵/5
114/1001 🌕🌑🌑🌑🌑
Not a fan of this really. Cheesy and not in a charming way, vocals range from decent Lennon impression to real bad. The stretch from when do I->dearest->lion in water was pretty awful. There are some neat ideas here tho and the first track is quite nice. Musically probably should give it 2 stars but I’m dropping it to 1 because I really don’t understand why this album is in the 1001. It isn’t remarkable, influential, or super culturally relevant plus there’s already another early Bee Gees album included (Odessa, which I haven’t listened to but have heard is better) 3/10
Boring, dull, supports an apartheid state, uneventful, lethargic.
Æ ég er ekki heilluð af þessari plötu.
Not for me...
Genuinely hated it
Was prepared to give this a generous 2*, then that fucking Dearest song came on which highlighted everything that's shite about this record
Somehow this actually started off better than that other horrible Bee Gees album I reviewed ("Odessa"), even despite the horrible singing, but after track 1, it became the same over-the-top, self-absorbed, Beatles-meets-Floyd high school band karaoke.
First listen Saved 1/12 Top track: Don't Wanna Live Inside Myself
Couldnt finish it. Incredibly dull with no notable highlights.
Comically bad, every song is as edgy as a circle, the warbling vocals are equal parts hilarious and terrible. The wiki page suggests the album wasn't successful or notable so I assume it made the list by way of an admin error.
They were nearly irrelevant until Clapton and some others convinced them to turn to disco. I'm looking forward to one of their later albums to be fair, but this is dross.
The Bee Gees pre-Disco were pretty awful and dull.
Wasn't expecting much and it didn't disappoint! Didn't know any of the songs here and it was way duller than I was expecting. Not the discoey sound they are known for. Very forgettable
Much like the Battle of Trafalgar, listening to the Bee Gees will result in the death of plenty of semen.
I would not have asked them to contribute music to the "Saturday Night Fever" soundtrack based on this, and that would have been a mistake on my part. Didn't care for this one, though.
God this was bad. For a band known for their singing i found their tone incredibly bad and some of the songs were laughable.
i should have known it, i'm not a bee gees lover
Well. That was... an album. Imagine that 6 years later, this group would have one of the most upbeat, danceable albums of all time. EVER. At least the most well-known song was the first track. Imagine if it was buried deep in the album. You'd have to listen to all the other songs, which are just sooooooo melancholy and morose to get to it. Again, what makes this the album to hear before I die? Is it the album to hear to MAKE me die? Or the album I hear AFTER I die? Trapped in hell? Geez guys, ONE uptempo song. ONE. Is that too much to ask for? It does have "How Can You Mend A Broken Heart," which is an iconic song. But one song doesn't cut it for an album. I'd give this 2 stars because of that one track, but there are 2-star albums that have more merit than THIS. Sorry.
Really horrible. How did this make the list
Unbearable schmaltzy.
boring
Bee Gees .. tönt für mich alles gleich .. langweilig.
Ohne Höhepunkt und leicht übergehbar. Definitiv nicht für mich.
Of all the Bee Gees albums to choose from, author chose this one? Thanks for nothing, stupid-head.
Don't need to hear this album again.
Sehr schmulzig. Langweilig.
Almost put me to sleep
Wow. How is this on the list? I get that some albums are included because they are genre-defining, and I may not particularly enjoy a certain genre. But what genre is this defining? The shit lyrics sung horribly over boring music genre.
I would rather listen to "Staying Alive" for an hour and ten minutes than this dreck. I'm honestly not sure how this album found its way into "essential listneing" except maybe as a cautionary tale. If only there were a 0 star rating.
dont care for it 1
Interesting to hear them prior to disco -- but still not something I'm interested in listening to. 1.5 stars
sorry, not my jam at all. I don't think I've battled this hard in a while to finish an album.
<< Waterloo
This was extremely boring.
If this was a meal it would be bread with a glass of water. It's dull, bland, mundane. It's not doing anything terribly wrong, it's just not doing anything exciting or different. There's a solid base, but it's never built upon. I'm not sure why this is on this list.
I’m surprised I actually thought I would like this more than I did.
i thought i would enjoy this. could i write poetry to this? n
No, thank you.
I don't have much to say because I literally remember nothing about it except how bland and boring it was
Ugh this was a slog to get through. Wanted to turn off more then once, this was really pushing me towards giving a 1 which I haven't done in awhile. Not a single song that was memorable or anything like a banger. Not list worthy. And was the song "Trafalgar" even about the namesake battle? I listened to it and still don't know
Not my cup of tea.
If I could give zero…
The music was nice but I do not like the sound of their voices.
Very forgettable album. One and done.
1. houu can you mend a broken heart - 1.5 2. izrael - 1 3. greatezt man in the uuorld - 1.5 4. itz juzt the uuay - 1 5. remembering - 1 6. zomebody ztop the muzic - 1 7. trafalgar - 1 8. dont uuant to live inzide myzelf - 1.5 9. uuhen do i - 1 10. dearezt - 1 11. lion in uuinter - 1 12. uualking back to uuaterloo - 1
I learned that The Bee Gees have a hell of a lot of albums and they weren't always disco. Learning those facts was far more interesting than anything on the album. I hated this very much.
i listened to half of it but it was mighty enough
One of the most dull albums I've ever listened to. The vocals are awful. Repetitive and boring. Their disco phase was much improved. Fav tracks: N/A
Sappy post-Beatles / pre-Elton ballads. Don't hear anything new here - really not sure why this is on this list.
Pish. 0 🌟
Kann ich wegen unfassbarer Belanglosigkeit nicht durchhören.
The last Bee Gees album we had on 1001 (Odessa) is one I am not likely to forget since it was mind boggling how such a bad album could make it to 1001. Trafalgar is also very hard to listen to. It is an example of the terrible music that was AM radio. The strange thing about these two Bee Gees albums is that I like the genres; I just hate the albums.
Bland and uninspiring, not sure how it made it to the list. 1/5 Won't listen again
Jooh huhhu mitä paskaa ei paljoo motivoi suuta soittamanaan..
Expecting a classic. Not at all
This is atrocious, whiney nonsense. Wrist-slitting music. Probably one of the least enjoyable experiences of this list. Some of the reviews have said that the latter tracks are better. They are not. It's just that so much of your brain has shut down by that point, you don't really notice it as much.
Good lord that was awful! Glad they found their sound with the more disco vibe, but that was hard to listen to.
Its so fucking bad, the only list this should be on would be the "worst albums ever recorded by a band who later made better work". 1/5
I will try to listen to this record all the way through. I will try to listen to this record all the way through. I will try to listen to this record all the way through. Please, I'd take the Disco BEE GEES over this. Truly one of the worst albums I've had to endure through this project. Zero stars.
Top 3 Songs: 1 - Walking Back To Waterloo (12) 2 - Trafalgar (7) 3 - How Can You Mend A Broken Heart (1)
Thought I liked the Bee Gees, but this album did a great job at changing that. Honestly, what the fuck? First time on the generator an album actually lessened my opinion of an artist. Somebody stop the music indeed. ⏹️
I was definitely not stoked to listen to the BeeGees. Never been a fan. After listening to the album, I’m still not stoked to listen ever again. 😆 Listen again: no Purchase for my collection: no Favourite Song: didn’t pay enough attention Worst Song:
Music to lie naked on a waterbed with a rose between your teeth to, with your hairy little prawn flopping around, praying your girl doesn't hit traffic coming home from work because then you might have to break the pose to flip the record over. Dripping with Napoleonic references and driving home on a sunny day with a band famous for energy made me pretty excited for this. What in the ever schmaltzing fuck was that. Last song is kinda ok but that's it.
Notable for opening with one of the most pernicious earworms in music history. No business being on the list.
I do not like the Bee Gees.
Mietinkin joskus, ettem tiedä, millaista Bee Gees on. Imelää.
Huomaan välillä hitusen lämpeäväni jollekin melodialle, vähän niin kuin monilla käy Totojen ym. kanssa. Levyn toteutus on kuitenkin vain niin (en keksi muutakaan sanaa) ällöttävä, että tiedostamattoman resistanssin asettama muuri sitä vastaan on ylitsepääsemätön.
So much promise... so much disappointment. GDMF, when will this band deliver? Will it ever deliver?
The Battle of Trafalgar was a British naval victory against Napoleon's France and their Spanish allies. Trafalgar Square in London is named after that seafaring triumph. I guess maybe Maurice Gibb lived near Trafalgar Square, though I couldn't find any explanation of the meaning behind the song "Trafalgar." The Battle of Trafalgar is pretty interesting. The album "Trafalgar" is not interesting. So instead, let's review the Battle of Trafalgar. Napoleon wanted to invade Britain. So he teamed up with Spain and sent their armadas after the English Channel. Invading Russia may have been the mistake that doomed Napoleon, but attempts to invade Britain did not work out so well either. On paper, the French had the superior force. But it was the bold tactic of British commander Horatio Nelson to charge right in and split the Spanish and French fleets. Even though French admiral Villeneuve had worried they might attempt this tactic, he still didn't plan for it. I'll give that decision ⭐️. Nelson was shot by a French sharpshooter during the ensuing battle, so I'll give him only ⭐️⭐️ due to the dying. But posthumously he gets ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ and an eternal role as a British icon and namesake. The British victory gave them the crown of best navy in the world, and helped set the course for British imperial dominance of the 19th century. I've never been much into naval history, but reading the synopsis of the Battle of Trafalgar and falling down the Wikipedia naval rabbit hole was pretty exciting. Navies and sea battles are a bit slow, but maybe the summaries are quicker and more interesting than the Master & Commander approach. Oh, and the album! "Odessa" introduced me to pre-disco Bee Gees, and I was unimpressed. "Trafalgar" is the only other Bee Gees entry on the list, and it is also pre-disco. I remain deeply unimpressed and bored. I should have just stopped at "Somebody Stop the Music." When the artist implores you to stop listening, maybe you should heed that call. Instead I made it far enough to discover that of all the Bee Gees voices that I dislike, I dislike Robin's voice the most. It makes me want to stop the music. But I made it all the way to Waterloo. Was this just a concept album about Napoleon's biggest humiliations?
It wasn't a great album. It is certainly better than a one but I wouldn't say it is a two. I will round down.
Oh god, that warbling voice! Soft ballads - who listens to this and is under 80 years old? It sounds like I'm stuck in a church service and they have got a house band. And not the James Brown sort, the blue rinse hair and pearls sort. This was a painful listening experience. Bring on the disco Bee Gees cos this is so middle of the road. Lion in Winter just about broke me.