Odessa

GAHH I did not enjoy this one bit. Yucky

Not for me. 1/5

"When I was small And Christmas trees were tall Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo" Doo-doo indeed. I'm declaring war on Spain.

Why did they select this Bee Gees album ?? The Bee Gees are great but this album , not for me. It’s terrible

Damnit why am I listening to a Bee Gee's album that's over an hour long? What did I do to deserve this, and more importantly, why is it a "must-listen" album? Even though I didn't like the last Bee Gee's album, that was also "not" a Bee Gee's album in the sense that it wasn't disco (which this also appears to be...at least from the Wikipedia article and from what I can tell based on the first song), I still try to give everything on this website a fair shake regardless of what my expectations are. Like, I get it, the Bee Gees before disco are really going for their best folk meets Beatles-esque "exploratory" era impression. But, who is the target audience for this? I feel like the curator of this is like, "Trust me bro, the Bee Gees were legit good before Saturday Night Fever!" But the Bee Gees, at least from my understanding, are only musically and culturally significant BECAUSE of their movie soundtrack disco era. Look at the top songs of theirs on Spotify..they're almost all from the same album and they're definitely all from the same two albums! No one cares about this other crap. Trafalgar was terrible. Why was that on the list? This one is probably worse because it's terrible AND long! Did I hate every track? No, there were some decent songs and some moments of songs I actually enjoyed, but the whole time I'm still thinking "what the hell is this? Why should I care?" Just put Saturday Night Fever on the list and call it a day. One can probably make the case we don't need any Bee Gees albums on this list, but if we're going to include one, it should be the one with all the hits. Also what's up with singing about Christmas trees in May? Oh well, at least it's the second-to-last song. God this sucked.

I don’t even know what to say about this album. I was aware The Bee Gees had different styles before disco, mostly from watching the documentary about them a few years ago. I recall watching it and thinking how uninteresting they were before they found disco, and this record reinforced it. You can’t argue with a band taking a major swing, but this was most definitely a miss. All over the place and often laughable.

This is pretty bad. From the mock orchestral sections to the excess vibrato, there's not much to love about pre-disco Bee Gees

At least it wasn't Cucumber Castle! Let's be frank: no one is listening to these records anymore. It all went stupid when Robin got the shits with Barry, and they really didn't get their act together again (in terms of albums, not singles)until Main Course in 1975. Habibis that's a long time between manoush. This is embarrassingly awful, I'm not quite at prog rock level physically ill, but this is dreadful, I'm not going to make it all the way through. And I'm a massive Bee Gees fan. Don't do it.

I am so tired of bizarre, unlistenable brit pop

i didn’t hate this as much as i hated trafalgar but i still really did not enjoy this. a concept album about a made up ship? no thanks. especially not when it goes for over an hour

Is this what I get for not being baptized

Should have stayed lost if you ask me, I don't see why this became so critically acclaimed it got reissued besides perhaps nostalgia or a bit of fun surprise finding it after their disco heyday. I look forward to the day I forget they had this era of incredibly sleep inducing ballads mixed with what seems to be classic 80s country songs. I most certainly did not need this knowledge before my death.

I was waiting at the airport and even then, when I had nothing to do, I chose not to continue listening to an hour of this shit. Honestly completely uninspired, you wonder how they got to be so big a few years later.

What a weird period for music, and this certainly was weird. I wasn’t expecting this at all. No wonder they stumbled into the disco.

I’m glad The Bee Gees found disco….and Coke

Man, that was a lot of warbling. Vocals seemed to have trouble staying on tempo too. I’m sorry, but this was not fun to listen to

In his few best moments, this album sounds like a plain rip-off from the Beatles. The rest is hard to listen to. And the lyrics? Come on…

dull and boring. a real snoozefest. all songs keep the same guitar tone, and the vocals are grating.

Didn't even want to keep listening after three songs. Nothing really of substance. All blends together. Very much an artifact of its time. 3/10

The opening track set the tone pretty effectively - overlong and grating as fuck, going for a schizophrenic, orchestral type vibe but ultimately sounding like someone talking into a fan over a pound shop rendition of wildlife documentary background music. Did it get any better from there? No, not really, much of what I successfully managed to endure was some of the most turgid drivel I've ever had the displeasure of listening to, even if amusingly so in places. The vocalist actually sounded half decent on a track such as "Marley Purt Drive" when attempting to sing properly, though not to enough of an extent to carry the song towards being anything remotely inspiring. With such inventive lyricism on the following track "Edison" as "Oh, how, look at us now, we've still got a lot to learn but it's someone else's turn", it does at least point to a self-awareness within the band, but a lack of willingness to apply any of their (rightfully observed) criticisms towards their own product. "Suddenly" gives off the vibe of a politician trying to write a love song, "Whisper Whisper" is similarly frigid and a bit skin-crawling to listen to, and "Lamplight" was the point in the album where I began contemplating which of my recent actions warranted receiving this awful mess as today's listening experience. Maybe karma is real after all. "Sound of Love" might just be the worst lyrical offender here with lines such as "I need a life to go my way, so every night I pray. Just give me someone for my life. I feel a clown, people try to play me down, and there's one thing I never found. The sound of love. See the old man walk the lane, see him walk along in pain. It makes me cry to see them smile", "buoyed" by the most annoying, belting vocal approach delivering them. "OK, that's 10 tracks I've miraculously endured, surely it's almost over right?" Nope... SEVEN more to go. Fuck this shit, I'm out. Give me a Kanye x Anthony Kiedis collaboration over this nonsense any day of the week.

Dull

An example of when the crew should have gone down with the ship.

This may be the worst ive ever heard. I had no idea i hated beegees this much.

I wanted to score this higher - because I think the idea of writing a concept album about a ship at sea is pretty noble. But I was so bored by the end. Also, for some reason I can’t work out, the production quality is really bad. On my headphones my ears kind of stung even at a lowish volume. It might everything being in the treble. Vocals, violin and acoustic. The vocals sound like they are singing directly into a portable fan. Every bad Beatles track - but worse than that.

Poor quality songs.

Can we vote for albums to be removed? Seriously. This was probably the worst I've heard on this list so far. Absolutely no reason to be on this list. Could definitely be on a list of "albums that were trying to be the Beatles," tho.

A bad album. Are there people who really think that the BeeGees were a good band but then disco ruined them? This is so boring and sounds like a knockoff version of the Beatles, lacking the creativity and lyricism to make truly great songs. What a bore, and it was over (barely) an hour!

In a nutshell: ambitious but rubbish. Odessa is an example of a failed attempt at a concept album. It's meandering, whiny, melodramatic "so this is a story about..." set of songs with a bleating sheep on lead vocals. Overall: 1/10

Seems to be some sort of mix up, shouldn't this be on the '101 Truly Dreadful Bee Gees Albums You Must Avoid Before You Die' list?

Another miss from the Bee Gees. I don’t think I’ve heard anything else so technically fine that was so boring. Do not let these men back into the studio. SNF is not worth it.

Marginally better than the absolute dross that was Trafalgar, but even still, a 2 seems generous. You should only publish a 7+ minute song if you are confident it's as good as Bat Out Of Hell, and this can't even see the bar.

This is the early bee gees incarnation and its all very disinterested in tone. None of the early gems are on this morass. A pudding of an album.

So far ahead of it's time. It's bad enough to be released in the 80s. Based on this album, the BeeGees could have their own meek and risk-adverse variety show

Not good.

This is pre-disco era Bee Gees and whilst that might in some ways might sound promising, it’s actually not. I could at least have endured the disco stuff but this was warbling folky nonsense. At times it sounded a bit Beatlesesque and that’s about as much positivity as I can muster.

I honestly had no idea that the Bee Gees were recording music in the sixties. Until today, I thought they primarily made disco music, and for some reason, I thought they were from Scandinavia. I'm not sure how 90% of the things I 'knew' about them were total bullshit, but at least I can say I learned a few things today. I know this album won't be anything like the soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever, so I have no idea what this is going to sound like. The reviews for this album don't give me a lot of hope, but I've disagreed with the reviewers' consensus plenty of times before, and maybe this album will fall into that category as well! Oof, Odessa was not for me. Reading about this album, the original idea behind it sounded interesting. The ship horn that was used on the first track gave me quite a bit of hope that this album was going to at least partially dive into the original theme about a missing ship, but unfortunately, that wasn’t the case. I really didn’t care for the vocals on this album, especially the vibrato (I think that’s mostly Robin who does, that right?). I thought the arrangements were pretty good, but the longer this album went on, the more I felt like there wasn’t anything special about those arty arrangements, and the whole album felt pretty soulless. I know that baroque pop tends to not rely on traditional pop melodies and hooks, but it felt like the music on this album was really bland. Side two of the album was probably the best part of this project, but even then, it felt like the Bee Gees were just trying to imitate The Beatles (speaking of, are the Bee Gees The Shitty Beatles from Wayne’s World?), and they did so poorly. What made side two better for me is that musically, it relied more on traditional guitars, sounding more like sixties art rock. But there still weren’t any songs that really hooked me in, and there wasn’t anything about the album as a complete work that I thought was interesting or novel. I can’t remember what song it was that really dove into the country sound, and I can’t be bothered to go back and find out which song it was, but that song really solidified this album as a one-star effort for me. I guess the Bee Gees just aren’t really my thing, and I’m not looking forward to Trafalgar.

I'm never thrilled to see the Bee Gees show up as my album of the day, but Odessa starts weird enough that I was curious. For a moment, it almost sounds like a lost Decemberists record. But that intrigue dies fast. By track four, it shifts into pokey, homespun schlock, and the rest tumbles straight off a cliff into a sea of syrupy suffering for my ears. It's overlong and overwrought. "Lamplight" might be the lousy lowlight. In the end, the most impressive thing about Odessa is how unenjoyable it becomes. 1 star.

Hrikalega leiðinleg plata.

Vá hvað þetta er leiðinlegt.

20/1001 Bee Gees - Odessa Heard before? ❎ Revisit? ❎ Oh the Bee Gees, I'll get some disco to into work to. Nope, not a little bit of it. A concept album based around a Ukrainian port that throws all sorts of genres into the mix - psychedelia, country, soundtrack, ballads. Does it work? Absolutely not. Far too serious for their own good and often times far too overwrought.

i hate to say it but I really do not care for the Bee Gees. it's awfully boring music to me. I will be giving it a 1 like the other one I listened to. God stop it

Another slog of a record from Bee Gee's 60s period. There's a pomposity to this that I found super grating - especially the big orchestral instrumentals in the back half which draw heavy inspiration from Elgar but don't feel earned in anyway. All the more galling that actual orchestral (or at least works by contemporary composers) doesn't feature on this list To me it's not a surprise that this period of Bee Gees music is largely overlooked compared to the disco era.

ill be listening to it, and ill be like, okay okay i get the point that's enough and then i look and there's still 8 tracks and a part of me dies inside 2/10

This is bad and weird, and I listen to weird music

Was this included ironically? Am I being pranked? Shitty folksy art rock, but 7 years too late. Glad they switched to disco. Can’t imagine why I needed to hear this album before I die

Dogshit. 1/2 star.

Why?

Just bad! Nothing original all songs I was able to get through were rip offs of another bands sound.

Kids probably read these so I’ll just keep it to ‘It was not good’

A couple interesting swings mixed into what is primarily the most dog-shit attempt to make a late era Beatles album. Favorites (relative): “Marley Purr Drive”; “Give Your Best”

wtf was this! Not the bee gees I expected

For the first five songs, the vibrato vocals are uproariously bad, the songs are meandering or downright absurd, and the lyrics are painfully cringey. Combine all this with a colossal runtime and you would have a candidate for worst album on the list if it wasn’t for some fairly interesting instrumentals on 2 or 3 of the songs. However, the band turns it around on tracks 6-8, before returning to the interminable garbage they started with. 1.0/5.0: Embarrassing

Holy shit that was so boring. I can’t believe I made it through that whole thing, I like The Bee Gees disco stuff so I was excited to hear a whole older album. But that was just so bland and awful. What the fuck was Edison? Lamplight was pretty good tho

No. There should only be maybe three Ren Faire albums on this list, not 20.

This record made me feel sorry for it.

I don't like the Bee Gees at the best of time, but a whole hour in one go is a great big no.

Lame, dull, and boring. No falsetto whatsoever.

- Couldn't finish the first song/name sake of the album >.> - Hard meh on this album overall, there are no songs that I would be sad to never hear again :P

Man, this album is a mess. The production sounds pretty awful, the reverb is terrible and obnoxious, the acoustic guitars don't blend well in the mix, and you know when you can hear yourself talking through your headphones and you struggle to talk, and you end up talking slower, that is how they sing especially on the first song. Every time I think I am overreacting and this isn't really that bad, they play the most annoying half-baked song. This album is also terribly boring and has no reason being a double album. This isn't "that" bad of an album when compared to all music ever written, but compared to everything on this list, it is one of the worst. A lot of times I will say something doesn't deserve to be on this list because it is too generic or forgettable, but this is the rare occasion were this doesn't deserve to be on the list because it is just a bad album. High 1.

I found this to be unlistenable. Incredibly boring.

it could be worse

Who could’ve predicted what they would become after this garbage

Yikes

Not for me

Quite the schmalzfest. Tough to get through and more reminiscent of Engelbert Humperdinck and the likes than of the disco stuff they produced later.

I didn't know the bee gees did concept albums before the disco hahaha this is quite a revelation. That being said I did not enjoy it and it was quite self indulgent. I don't think this needs to be on the list. Kind of mediocre ramblings of folk music

Couldn't finish this one. So so bad.

This is absolutely awful. I try to listen to the albums completely I had to fast forward through many of the songs on this. Otherwise I am certain I would have put my head through a wall.

In this case Bee Gee stands for Blasted Garbage. This album may be one of the worst I’ve heard on this list. Mockery!

Sounds like dying duck callers. Thank god they found disco

The one or two songs (at most!) I liked nearly saved this from being a one star review but then I remembered how much I disliked the rest of this album. I would never choose to listen to this again, the bulk of it is truly awful! That the author of this project thought I needed to hear this before I died cemented the one star rating. This was punishing.

The Bee Gees were better with disco.

Robert Dimery’s face when he selected this album for the list: 😏 You’re so clever Robert. I can imagine you at parties, cornering some poor bastard and saying “I actually prefer the the albums the BeeGees made in the sixties…”

There must have been some great drugs around in the 60s...this is completely nuts! Poor man's Sgt. Pepper.

This was dire, no wonder they turned to disco if this is what they were doing previously. The instrumental orchestral bits were decent. The rest of it wasnt half as clever as it thought it was. I think the Beatles have a lot to answer for giving half the other 60s bands the misplaced courage to be "experimental", when really its just dodgy ideas dragged on too long. Over an hour of this is not acceptable.

First thoughts... huh, an iconic disco group attempted to make their own "Pet Sounds", and failed terribly. Upon checking the release year... huh, this predates disco by a decade, makes the history of the Bee Gees that much more peculiar, but the album no more interesting or listenable.

During the first few seconds I got a Spinal Tap vibe and from that moment the war for me was over.

unlistenable as a whole 1/5

good god, what a slog of an album. I get that this was a necessary stage in the bands growth but why is it here. There are far too many uncooked ideas floating around while the band found itself. Each track was incredibly derivative of the bands contemporaries, just watered down versions. The instrumental cinematic moments were OK, but pretty basic and just randomly tossed about in the second half of the album. no thank you. 1/5

06/04/2025 This was a terrible album.

It’s interesting to me that this album creating so much tension for The Bee Gees. I am shocked that they were arguing over which songs should be released as a single. They should have been disputing on whether to release anything on this album at all. Side note: Their harmonies need work. It’s clear to me they weren’t all on the same page.

This is astonishingly awful. So much of it is shameless Beatles rip-offs, then some folky stuff that sounds like it’s from a Christian-safe version of a Puff the Magic Dragon movie, and then some symphonic shit hits like a glass of cool water on a hot day—but you can’t be sure if it’s actually good or you’re just so fucking glad they’re not singing.

I got halfway through the first track and could go no further. Honestly I’d rather listen to their disco records- at least there’s some kitsch value there.

Nope.

Goddammit all to hell. I just finished typing up a review on yesterday's boring-ass Arcade Fire album and my stupid brain literally thought, "well, at least I'm about to get something better than this," and now I have to listen to a goddamned Bee Gee's album. I don't know what the fuck is going on here. It's not disco, which is excellent, but it's some sort of weird renaissance fair bullshit. Is this some sort of concept album or something? is this prior to disco or is this their "brave" album where they're trying to adjust their sound? Either way it sucks and I hate it.

I've never been to Ukraine.

++: Whisper Whisper +: Black Diamond, Marley Purt Drive, Suddenly, Give Your Best, Never Say Never Again, First of May +-: Edison, Melody Fair, Seven Seas Symphony, With All Nations (International Anthem), I Laugh in Your Face -: Odessa (City on the Black Sea), You'll Never See My Face Again, Sound of Love, The British Opera --: Lamplight 3,2/10

This wasn't for me

Not my cup of tea. First album that I didn’t finish. Just couldn’t.

Not for me 1/5

Why is this album in this list?? It sounds so half finished... Even the bee gees are probably better than this elsewhere

what a lame piece of crap. folk pop that the Byrds can happily do without. if "so you want to be a rock 'n' roll star" is really meant to be a reference to the Monkeys, congratulations, they did it much better. for me this album is a boring waste of time. perhaps the album had a certain significance at the time it was made, I can't see it today. the album is absolutely dispensable. thank god they have a few other, much better works

They burned the wrong Bee Gees album at Comiskey Park in 1979. Saturday Night Fever is a masterpiece compared to this drivel.

Had two Bee Gees records in under two weeks, and have both been shite.

extremely grating. i like the instrumentals but HATE the singing

I did use a private spotify session for this one as I was expecting some disco crap, instead it was bad folky music, bad music, stupid lyrics, poor harmonizing. I could have died without hearing this.

A Bee Gees concept album!!! and not only a concept album, but it’s an album also that caused the group to break up! I am excited to listen to it all the way through. When I last heard this about 20 years ago, I thought it was naff! Listening again there is a country influence on this album which I don’t think suits them and their melodies. There are also some very odd songs like Edison and Melody fair and no big hits. The Bee Gees have made some of the greatest pop songs of all time. there are not any on this album though. It’s one I wouldn’t listen to again and was not worth the heartache it caused them in the 4 months it took to record. That said I love Robins voice and Lamplight is a great tune! and I love First of May so that gives this album a 2/5. Favourite song: Lamplight and First of May Least favourite: Most of the album Album artwork: Standard yet effective.

Top review #1: "Well. Not just a Bee Gees album, but a Bee Gees concept album. Not just a Bee Gees concept album, but one where significant creative differences resulted in not just one but two Bee Gees concept albums. About a Ukranian port. The first song alone lasts 1 day, 7 hours and 34 minutes." Top review #2: "Expectation: Some funky Bee Gees beats to energise my day Reality: What the hell is this" Top review #3: "The Bee Gees were a lot more successfull at ripping off black artists than they were at ripping off white artists" And honestly, I don't really think I need anything else. That all perfectly sums up this album.

i like the disco era beegees best.

This was a slog to get through. This record is all over the place and I do not know what they were going for other than trying to make a Beatles-ish record. I could have gone the rest of my life without wading through this and I would have been just fine.

Found this very boring, and was a little dissopointed if I'm honest

One of the worst albums that have come up on here in a while. One small decimal over Leonard Cohen awfulness.

the list is stacked with cruel jokes on listeners, like this one.

Fell flat for me start to finish.

Not for me

I like the Bee Gees, but this album did nothing for me

Dry AF. Couldn't wait for it to end

So the description of this album on the challenge page states “the album was not particularly well-received, though now is regarded by many as the most significant of the group's Sixties albums.” And after 3 songs I hit stop and understand why it was not well-received. It’s just garbage. It sounded like they wanted to do a prog-rock epic album and utterly failed. I can imagine the only people enjoying this are those who love to say “You just don’t get it man” before they go into some over pretentious spiel about why the album is so important. I’m good if I never hearing another track from this.

I can't think of anything I want less than an hour-long Bee Gees concept album. Get the hell out of here. An unmercifully long listen. Really, truly, thank goodness for disco. This is intolerable Beatles mimicry.

Did not make it through. The opening song was schmultsy and really tough to get through. Felt like it went on for an hour. I've never heard this side of the Bee Gees before, and I never want to again.

This album is such derivative, self-indulgent garbage and it lasts over an excruciating hour long while feeling like forever. I cannot believe I actually let this play through, actively making me more and more angry with each ill-advised track direction. This may be the worst example of a concept album I've ever heard. It's like they heard bands like the Beatles, the Band, and others and thought, let me just water that down for you and completely convolute it. And then you have symphonic schlock and "The British Opera", "International Anthem", ect like what did they think people would like about any of this....?

Can't be doing with the Bee Gees

Remember that part in the Mr. Bean movie when Willem Dafoe debuts that self-fellating art house movie that nobody enjoys? It wasn't enough for this to be another instance of meandering nyquil-core from the late 60's. Everything about this album just screams insincere and trying too hard to appear artsy. My listening experience was already bad enough and I don't like to think this way about something since it feels anti-art to just dismiss something in such a way but I really cannot shake the douchey vibe this album gave me. 'I Will Laugh in Your Face', that's probably what they were thinking when they saw people giving this crap praise in retrospect since apparently people had the right idea initially and crapped on this album. What is the importance of keeping this on the 1001? So I can know The Bee Gees were dogshit when they weren't making disco tunes?

More like the Slee Pees An overly-long, sleeping aid of an album. Symphony of the Seven Seas was a good instrumental but overall this album kind of blows. I can remember one track from this distinctively and it doesn’t even have vocals.

Can't believe how shit this is. Sounds nothing like the good songs of beegees. every song sounds like the shit song off a Beatles album

Pish, just goes to show they didn't need to wait for disco to be able to suck. A band I hated when I only knew their popular songs; the terrible ones are even worse!

Not my scene

I had no idea they were around before their disco era. That was a much better choice for them than whatever this is. A British band taking a stab at American Southern rock is not it.

Sorry guys. But what I definitely didn’t need to hear was a four disc long pre-disco Bee Gees album. Almost nothing good to talk about here.

This is terrible. And it's not because I prefer later Bee Gees. It's a confused mess of Beatles, meets soft rock, meets very unadventurous prog rock. Not good.

why??????? This wasn't anything I was expecting nor enjoyed??

First listen. Nah.

No. This album is a warbling mess.

Bee Gees pre-disco concept album, let that marinate in your brain before listening, cherish that moment because it all comes tumbling down.

I usually try to at least listen to the entirety of the album, but I got really bored by the 4th song. I really dislike how the vocalist(s) overuse vibrato in songs. Other than that my life has been completely unaffected by this album. NNN

Wow. Can we fast forward to disco please?

I wish I could less than one star

Ugh that vibrato is incredibly grating. I don't think I'll be able to make it through the full hour at this rate... Thankfully that has subsided. I didn't know the Bee Gees ever did anything other than disco. I won't say this is good and I wouldn't call it terrible, but it definitely does not rise above its contemporaries. This just sounds at points like countless other mid-career Beatles album facsimiles. You know what? Never mind. The vibrato is back. I got halfway through and wish I hadn't.

Nope.

"I cannot understand why you just moved to Finland" sort of encapsulates why this is such a dreadful self-indulgent album. Some awful cod American accent stuff. Some Beatlesish melody songs. Some of the worst lyrics the Gibb brothers ever put down on record. Altogether a struggle to get through.

This dude loves the Bee gees for some reason

Boy was this a slog. These are not The Bee Gees you’re looking for - they’re much worse

Pre-disco Bee Gees, huh? There was some quite lush instrumentation within here that made it not too unpleasant to listen to, but it was just so boring. I listened to this on my car radio and my Bluetooth connection cut out about halfway through - when it reconnected I genuinely don’t know if it carried on from the same place or started either the song or the whole album from the beginning again. Maybe a bit harsh as it did sound very pretty in places, but this was like listening to some nice paint drying

oh this album? absolute dog meat trash that should be nuked and never played again. I never wanna see this red album cover another day in my life and that’s on baby

Mietin olisko ensimmäinen no comment arvostelu mutta jätetään tähän nyt kuitenkin.

God damn it. I didn't know I'd have to start my day by giving the Bee Gees 1 star. Gutted. My dog's opinion was that he hated the cymbal clashes in With All Nations, and he'd like you to know he's usually very chill about loud sounds in music. I thought the album was over and my auto-play had gone to Danny Elfman for some reason, but that was the last track, The British Opera, so I guess that's my favorite song.

Comfortably one of the worst albums I've heard on this list. Like a knock-off Beatles record lacking any of their charm or wit, a real slog

It’s like the Wiggles tried to be relevant.

No. I’m not doing this to myself. 3 track in and I’m hating it

Truly awful

Wake me when its over

Je ne suis pas vraiment fan, mais c'était une surprise de découvrir cette période musicale des Bee Gees qui m'était totalement inconnue ! Mais ... catastrophe, le premier morceau instille un ennui profond, presque jamais démenti par la suite. Je n'ai pas pu aller au bout ... et je n'ai aucune envie d'essayer.

Never have been a big BG fan, and after listening to this, know I will never be one. A lot of the same old thing

This is the Bee Gees. So disappointed. If it was a random act. A low 2. but this is the bee gees. Everything was so forgettable.

Most artists found disco and embarrassed themselves. The Bee Gees were ahead of the curve and managed to embarrass themselves before finding disco.

This album just made me kinda angry for some reason

Okei mitä helvettiä. Voisin ehkä antaa tälle kaksi tähteä säälistä, jos olisi lyhyempi, mutta tsiisus. Onneksi disko tapahtui.

The title track for this is a monstrosity. Warbling and overindulgent, it doesn't even make up for it by being interesting. At 7:35 it is a chore, and I look at the total running time of an hour and five minutes - it sends shivers down my spine. I really hope the rest of this album gets better. After about 25 minutes, I realise that it probably isn't going to. "Whisper Whisper" is a significant uptick, but then it tails off again, and I'm done with it. Not for me.

Could not get through this

Not buying the hipster narrative that their disco heyday was a sellout, and that the late sixties stuff is some kind of Nuggets buried treasure. This is at times embarrassing and pretentious - if you're names not Eurovision or the Champions League then better not be writing a 'National Anthem for All Nations'. Hoping the Sat Night Fever soundtrack be on this list, but only 250 left to go and its not so far.

I feel like the 1001 album selection is an elaborate troll. Where is Saturday Night Fever? Why this album?

The best decision the Bee Gees made was to embrace disco. This is meh folk rock.

Wenn das ein damals angesagtes Konzeptalbum werden sollte, dann ist das gründlich schief gegangen.

Are we sure the Stayin Alive band made this boring church choir ass shit?

Yo, this is a piece of excrement.

album was way too slow for me, expected upbeat tunes like Stayin Alive, but not on this album.

thanks, but no thanks. this concept failed!

Editors of the 1001 “ hey we should put some Bee Gees albums on here” “ Do you like super famous late 70s disco albums?” “ no, they have a late 60s concept album about a ship”. “

Slap album, af en toe beetje Beatles vibes maar voor de rest kut.

This 60's fantasy/political Lyricing really hasn't aged well. These days I find it so naff. A somehwat tedious easy listening progr/concept album. Has nothing of the trademark Bee Gees disco/funk, and somehow the vocals sound so generic. Tedious and uninspiring.

Komisches Album. Sehr ruhig, lange Stücke. Kenne mich mit der Band gar nicht aus. Schon eher anstrengend. Auch, wenn es natürlich auch irgendwie interessant ist, dass sie so ein weirdes Konzeptalbum machen. Ja okay, inzwischen nervt es so sehr, dass ich es ausmachen muss.

I didn't even know the Bee Gees existed before disco. Now I understand why.

Sounds too much like a Moody Blues/Beatles rip off, and the vocals just don't do it for me.

Not bothering

Gear: Dunu SA6 Mische: irgendwie überraschend hochwertiger Mix und Soundstage, dämliche Vocals mit zu viel Hall, theatralische Streicher unerträglich Mugge: okay, das ist definitiv nicht Disco - aber leider definitiv auch nicht gut🕺☠️👍 Wertung: 1-2/5

Whisper Whisper ok, aber der Rest ... gääähn

Oh you can't be serious - I had to hear it to believe how crappy this is. A response to Sgt Pepper and Pet Sounds? Yeah, sure - this has nothing comparable to the worst tracks off those albums. My only issue - 1 star or 2?

not a fan

This was not my favorite. Not my vibe

Nope.

Not that good

What the actual fuck is this?

No disco

Would’ve been totally fine dying without having heard this.

Det er sgu lidt for storladent til mig. Og så kan man slet ikke danse til det.. 😢

Where are the good Bee Gees songs?

Man alive, wasnt expetcing this, not really disco but really, really terrible. This has made me very sad.

Met all my expectations of a pre-disco BeeGees concept album. It was rubbish. If the concept was to try to emulate 60's Beatles/Pink Floyd/Kinks/Elton John and drag it out for over an hour then mission accomplished boys, but why did you bother?

The TBI Beatles

Ik wist wel dat de Bee Gees al heel lang actief waren voordat ze aan de welbekende hoge noten en disco begonnen. En ik kende ook wel een aantal nummers van ze. Maar dit is een verzameling slechte musicalliedjes en smartlappen voor songfestivals, die zelfs voor die tijd al gedateerd waren. In 1969 kwam ook gewoon Led Zeppelin of Black Sabbath uit, de 70s stonden voor de deur. Dat je dan hiermee durft aan te komen, is echt een verschrikking. Ik heb het hele uur uitgeluisterd en mag nu dus met recht een dikke 1 geven.

Not what I expected. 1.5/5

Weird English guys doing Nashville schmaltz about an old boat and lightbulbs. Not what I was expecting at all, makes me long for disco. Prog adjacent folk with acoustic guitars, lots of strings and bells, the odd French horn - but barely any rhythm section. At best (Marley Purt Drive) they sound like a decent The Band tribute act. Sometimes (whisper, give your best) they sound like a 7th tier Beatles ripoff record playing too slow. Cons: the songs are extremely repetitive and very very boring. Pros: they last forever and there are loads of them. What is it with this list and tedious British concept albums?!

The Bee Gees Sing and Play a Sprinkling of Shit Beatles Songs, by Barry Gibb.

Bleh...disco bee gees are the only Bee Gees I recognize. 1.5/5

Unbearable. Mind numbing. Listening to this is much like drowning. No, I will not elaborate.

Not what I expected, in a really bad way. What in the actual fuck was this?

Didn't make it past the first song, a slow drowning in the freezing Black Sea would have been more fun. Terrible Beatles rip off

A reminder that before they were an awful disco band, they were an awful sixties band. The lyrics on this album are also awful.

I'd never have associated the Bee Gees with the year 1969 if not for this list. To my surprise, this is the Australian disco mega group's 4th album. And it's still a full 8 years before 1977's "Stayin' Alive." Interesting how they moved from soft-pop, prog-rock adjacent double albums like this to MPSTing pop singles in the disco age. Can you imagine if Yes pivoted to become a disco supergroup at the end of the 70s? Of course, Bee Gees were never Yes. Even with this attempt at "serious" music they are much more Seals and Crofts than Yes. Which makes for a slightly less-strange path from soft pop to full-blown disco, I suppose. Other than that mildly interesting history and context, this doesn't do a whole lot for me. Their disco stuff is better. "Marley Purt Drive" would be good if it wasn't so blatantly similar to "The Weight" by the Band (1967.) Similarly, "Melody Fair" feels like a Beatles rip. By “Whisper Whisper” I’m skipping a lot of songs and just recognizing multiple choices as one Lennon-McCartney-Martin regurgitation or another without any of the playful, experimental-pop spirit that makes those Beatles songs great. Just finding this annoying and not distinct enough to warrant revisiting. Yeah this album has nothing for me. I was holding out for “First of May,” but that is not good. 1 star.

I’ve listened to this twice, waiting for something to grab me. Nothing ever did! A shame. I usually like big concept albums. Even the orchestration felt kind of flat to me, and I’m usually an absolute sucker for that kind of stuff. Charlie put me over the edge! It’s true! I thought this was gonna be cool and was bummed out. 1/5

I wouldn't mind never hearing this album again

Not impressed with the vocals nor the songwriting.

Didn't know what to expect from pre-disco Bee Gees but I was expecting better than this shite.

Wow. Nope. Very boring and indulgent.

This is awful. I really hate to yuck anyone's yum. But it's hard for me not to judge someone who likes this. I am still trying though.

Wow! I remember seeing the album at the record stores but I never bought it. In 1969 I was into Abbey Road and still buying a lot of 45s. In 1968 I bought "I started a joke" and "I just got to get a message to you." Then after this album was their big hit "lonely days." I guess we just weren't ready for Concept album yet. I have no idea why this is on the 1001 albums you have to listen to

This was just absolutely terrible. It is remarkable to me I how a band with seemingly no talent at all just kept making albums over and over and over. Ooof, that first song.

Very weird album, and I cant help but think that I would be pissed off if I had actually bought this as an LP 50 years ago. I mean, this is a REALLY bad album. Its kind of confusing as to why it would even be on this list, except as a cautionary tale. 1/5

Well this easily ranks as equal to the worst thing I’ve had. I’m not going to listen twice, otherwise my streaming service will think I like it. The ones that weren’t terrible all sounded the same. And the lyrics, don’t really reflect attitudes of modern society. It’s a one because there isn’t a zero stars. Why isn’t there a zero stars ?

Ick. I can barely tolerate 70s era Bee Gees. I don’t need a double album of their 60s stuff. I could barely finish it.

I hated this overblown, [pretentious piece of over-long wannabe concept album garbage. I could enumerate the ways, but I just want the bitter taste of this record out of my mouth.

Insert Krusty 'what the hell was that?' meme

This album was new to me, although know It Was Good Day very well. The rest of the album seems in a similar vein, if a bit less laid-back. Solitary samples looping most of the way through each track with Ice Cube rapping on top. Enjoyed some of this more than others, and by the time it got to Good Day it was feeling a bit monotonous for me. The sound (and lyrical content) is very much of its time, but an interesting reminder of that time, nonetheless.

Prefer the Disco days of the Bee Gees. Not really my thing.

This was not what I was expecting. Super middle of the rock rock yeehaw

Qué bueno que descubrieron la música disco. Según yo el disco chido de ellos es el primero.

The disco Bee Gees are a guilty pleasure of mine. The pre-disco band is not. All songs are mediocre, down tempo ballads and it goes on and on and on… 😱

Not a favorite of mine.

Not for me

Kind of boring, but whatever.

Not what I need on a Sunday. Drivel at best but oh y god what a band . Best group ever

Estoy convencido de que la única razón por la que este álbum fue incluido es porque los autores se imaginaron la cara de WTF de la gente al escucharlo. Sobre el álbum en sí creo que no hay mucho que decir. Es bastante X y aburrido. Es como una mezcla de hippie + country, algo así como The Mamas & The Papas. Los BeeGees deben estar agradecidos con el universo por haber descubierto la música disco, de lo contrario probablemente ni los conoceríamos.

This album was terrible.

Didn’t listen - I hate the BeeGees.