Saddended by the death of Maurice Gibb

Played Bee Gee's music all day and found (again) that the early stuff around "NY Mining Disaster" and "I Started A Joke" is among the best pop music of its time.
You'll be missed, Maurice!

Very sad indeed,
The Bee Gees belong on any short list of great pop groups.
What other group can be compared to them? The Beatles didn't even stick together for more than a decade. Abba, The Hollies, even the Kinks, for that matter, are also mere flashes in the pan compared to the Bee Gees. I read recently that, in the UK at least, the Bee Gees had hit singles in five successive decades! I suspect that England's record buying public will soon make that six decades.

I'm spinning "Jive Talking." Damned! Rare indeed is the white boy who truly understands the soul idiom.
Here's to the greatest pop band of the 20th Century!
Maurice Gibb, this Bud's for you (and the next one, and the next one, and the one after that too).

I never knew how good they were until I bought their DVD, and dam, they were so much more than the disco stuff I knew them for. One of music's pioneering bands.

Since other grown men have come out of the closet to admit they appreciate the Bee Gee's I can now confess how much I love The Bee Gee's Greatest Hits Volume 1. Great music even today..I only wished I could have had the courage to be the first to admit my devotion.

Although I can appreciate the Bee Gee's accomplishment with Saturday Night Fever, that is ultimately not my type of music (but I'll listen to it when it comes on the radio). All the Bee Gee's records I own (and that may just be everything they put out from the mid-60's through the early 70's) predate the disco era, including some comp's of their Australian/British-only early stuff never originally released in America. There's a high degree of chaff amongst the wheat (they were prolific), and even the highlights are not competition for the best groups of their day, but pull together the good stuff and you've got a pretty damn enjoyable collection of timeless pop (and even a few rockers). Barry was the main songwriter, but Maurice was a solid secondary contributor in this department. I have somewhat of a love/hate relationship with their trademark vocal style (they'll never challenge The Everly Brothers as my all-time fav brother act), but you've got to acknowledge their distinctiveness and longevity. It's amazing that, as long as they've been at it, he was only 53 according to the news - tells you how early they started out. RIP Maurice, you did good.