The Ultimate Bee Gees (2 CD) | 
| Artist: Bee Gees
Label: Rhino Records
Category: Music
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Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 359
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 521352
UPC: 081227984786
EAN: 0081227984786
ASIN: B002HFP0QU
Release Date: November 3, 2009
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | You Should Be Dancing | | • | Stayin' Alive | | • | Jive Talkin' | | • | Nights On Broadway | | • | Tragedy | | • | Night Fever | | • | More Than A Woman | | • | Fanny (Be Tender With My Love) | | • | Spirits Having Flown | | • | If I Can't Have You | | • | Boogie Child | | • | Love You Inside Out | | • | You Win Again | | • | One | | • | Secret Love | | • | Alone | | • | Still Waters (Run Deep) | | • | This Is Where I Came In | | • | Spicks And Specks (Live) |
Disc 2
| • | How Deep Is Your Love | | • | To Love Somebody | | • | Words | | • | How Can You Mend A Broken Heart | | • | Too Much Heaven | | • | Emotion | | • | Lonely Days | | • | Run To Me | | • | Love So Right | | • | For Whom The Bell Tolls | | • | I've Gotta Get A Message To You | | • | New York Mining Disaster 1941 | | • | Massachusetts | | • | I Started A Joke | | • | World | | • | First Of May | | • | Holiday | | • | Don't Forget To Remember | | • | Islands In The Stream (Live) | | • | Heartbreaker (Live) | | • | Guilty (Live) |
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Product Description
THE ULTIMATE BEE GEES is a double-disc career retrospective featuring the group's many hits and chart-topping singles, performances of a selection of hit songs they wrote for others, and liner notes by Tim Rice.
Tim Rice's liner notes accompanying THE ULTIMATE BEE GEES puts the group's extravagant popularity into perspective. 'Within this package is a collection of performances and songs that very few practitioners of popular music of the past could match for quality, originality, and emotion. It's the singing, the harmonies, the arrangements, the sound, the rivalry, the love, the intelligence, the determination, but above all it's the songs.'
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 Rhino does it again! Brand new 2009 Bee Gee's anthology is the best ever issued. November 11, 2009
Paul Tognetti (Cranston, RI USA)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
If you grew up in the 1970's you probably bought a lot of Bee Gees records. Just about everyone did. In fact, I could be wrong but as far as I can tell their string of 6 consecutive #1 hits in the late 70's is unprecedented. Elvis never did it. Neither did The Beatles, Elton John, Springsteen, Michael Jackson or for that matter Frank Sinatra. It was truly a remarkable run. If you grew up in the 1960's you also probably bought a lot of Bee Gees records. In those days they were a phenonenon on both sides of the Atlantic and in Australia as well. They have left us an incredible body of work. Now in 2009 America's premier reissue label Rhino offers the exciting 2 disc anthology "The Ultimate Bee Gees".
"The Ultimate Bee Gees" offers up a a total of 40 tracks featuring just about all of of the groups biggest hits from their debut 1966 Australian single "Spicks and Specks" (presented here "live") to the groups very final single release in 2001. Of course you will also find each and every one of the groups major chart hits including memorable tunes like "How Can You Mend A Broken Heart", "Night Fever", "Nights on Broadway" and oh so many more. Aside from their obvious vocal skills, Barry Robin and Maurice Gibb were also very gifted and prolific songwriters. In fact, for all practical purposes the group only sang songs they themselves wrote. In fact, as far as I can tell the brothers Gibb penned every one of the tunes on these discs. Amazing! I would also like to recommend a few of my personal favorites including "I Started A Joke", "Fanny (Be Tender WIth My Love)" and the groups last Top Ten hit "One" from 1989. Also featured are a number of "live" recordings of tunes the group wrote that were huge hits for other artists. Hear the boys' take on "More Than A Woman" (Tavares), "Heartbreaker" (Dionne Warwick) and "Islands In The Stream" (Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton).
"The Ultimate Bee Gees" comes complete with a nicely done 20 page booklet that includes rather extensive liner notes written by Tim Rice that recalls the origins and the glory days of this remarkable group. Also available for a few dollars more is the "Deluxe" editiion featuring 18 previously unreleased videos of the group performing some of their biggest and best. Sadly, we lost Maurice Gibb altogether too soon in 2003 at the age of 53. But "The Ultimate Bee Gees" will allow us to celebrate rhe music of the Bee Gees for many years to come. They had a sound all their own and their amazing harmonies remain a joy to listen to. This is clearly the finest Bee Gee's anthology to date! Very highly recommended!
The 50th Anniversary! November 10, 2009
Martin A Hogan (San Francisco, CA. (Hercules))
8 out of 11 found this review helpful
For having so many greatest hits packages, the first question is why another? 2009 is the 50th Anniversary of the Bee Gees and the first time they announced that they would, after all, reunite as the Bee Gees. When Maurice Gibb passed away in 2003, it was declared the Bee Gees were over and Barry and Robin went their separate ways. This is a celebration.
The sound is far superior to all previous releases (other than the videos), including Tales from the Brothers Gibb and Their Greatest Hits: The Record. Everything has been remastered to sound better than all previously releases. It appears that `most' of the songs chosen were all in the Top Twenty either in the USA or the UK. This makes for a nice Anniversary Edition, even if you already own most of these songs. The box is (as most are nowadays) a cardboard foldout with a slipcase. But the insert has a nice write-up from Sir Tim Rice with some photos of the group as they progressed over the last fifty years. Its not extensive, but gives enough information to sum up the Bee Gees career (so far).
If you are at all interested in the 18 videos, its worth getting that version of this collection. They range from 1967 to the late nineties. Some are fuzzy or grainy and others are excellent quality videos, giving a good visual and audial history of the group.
Below is a chart listing from The Bee Gees: Tales of the Brothers Gibb. All USA with the UK when noteworthy.
New York Mining Disaster 1941 #14
To Love Somebody #17
Holiday #16
Massachusetts #11 (#1 UK)
World - (#9 UK)
Words #15
I've Gotta Get A Message To You #8 (#1 UK)
I Started A Joke #6
First Of May #37
Tomorrow, Tomorrow #54
Don't Forget To Remember #73
Lonely Days #3
How Can You Mend A Broken Heart #1
My World #16
Run To Me #16
Jive Talkin' #1
Nights On Broadway #7
Fanny (Be Tender With My Love #12
You Should Be Dancing #1
Love So Right #3
Boogie Child #12
If I Can't Have You (Yvonne Elliman) #1
Emotion (Samantha Sang) #3
How Deep Is Your Love #1
Stayin' Alive #1
Night Fever #1
Too Much Heaven #1
Tragedy #1
Love You Inside Out #1
Spirits Having Flown - (#16 UK)
Islands In The Stream (Dolly & Kenny) #1
Guilty (Barbara Streisand/Barry Gibb) #3
Heartbreaker (Dionne Warwick/Barry Gibb)#10 (#2 UK)
You Win Again #75 (#1 UK)
One #7
Secret Love - (#5 UK)
For Whom The Bell Tolls - (#4 UK)
Alone #28
Still Waters Run Deep #57
This Is Where I Came In - (#18 UK)
No regrets May 5, 2010
R. Blair (Chicago, IL)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Sometimes you buy a CD and, after listening to it, wish you hadn't bought it for whatever reason. Not the case here. Excellent music, good quality sound on two generously-filled CDs. I would recommend this to anyone who does not already own these songs on other albums. Very career encompassing. As one who was more into folk, rock and blues, I tend to favor the pre-disco era songs. I don't dislike the dance tunes, and some of them are quite good, I just prefer the older stuff. No one that I can recall had harmonies as tight as these three brothers. As a child, I listened to the Everly's and the early Beatles (how could I not) during the sixties and early seventies. The Bee Gees were the succesors to those two acts, so to speak.
After the mid-sixties, the Beatles had pretty much abandoned the harmony and were each doing there own thing. For those who claim that the earlier Bee Gees were Beatles knock-offs, I have one or two observations to make. To start, when the Beatles themselves hit the bigtime, first in Britain and then America, there were dozens of groups playing the same style (beat groups). Nobody was really copying anyone, that was the sound at the time! So when the Bee Gees hit the international scene in 1967 their sound was very similar to certain elements of the Beatles and others who embraced pop and psychedelia. However, anyone familiar with that era can tell you that the Beatles and the Bee Gees had their differences. The main difference is that, while the Beatles were becoming four creative and talented individuals creating records in the studio, the Bee Gees continued, for the most part, to remain a cohesive recording and performing act, lending their abilities to write songs with beautifully executed harmonies to the contemporary scene in the late sixties and early seventies. As such, they coud be seen as an extension of what the earlier Beatles had accomplished, or possibly what the Beatles would have sounded like in the same period if they had not fragmented (I know this sounds like a bit of a stretch coming from a HUGE Beatle fan and maybe some of you are already scratching your heads). But let's face it, the Beatles had dropped the Moon and June lyrics by '67. The Bee Gees sang what were wonderfully contemporary love songs dipped in that pop, soul, psychedlic mix that their beautiful voices and close harmonies accentuated. Great stuff. And considering they were barely out of their teens, some surprisingly introspective lyrics as well.
Let me introduce you to my wife. She loves to dance. She loves the disco stuff. Soooo, for I who have nothing (money, that is) this disc is a great buy. It has just about every great dance tune that she could want. She also likes some of the older stuff as well, her favorite being "How can you mend a lonely heart". So, this disc has the power to please fans of the older and newer Bee Gees music.
If you are heavily into the Bee Gees, then you probably already have their other albums and don't need this, but for everyone else it seems to be a good bet.
The Bee Gees June 11, 2010
R. Colley (Kentucky)
I bought this CD for my 24 year old son who loves the Bee Gees. Never can go wrong with the Bee Gees!
Ultimate Bee Gees June 29, 2010
Sharon Gowan (Talladega, AL)
If you only have one Bee Gees CD, this is it. Great collection of all their best known songs and I few I dont remember ever hearing.
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