A-day-ago, I posted nine reasons to be grateful disco is not quite dead. Reason number 10 is The Bee Gees. The BGs are to disco what The Beatles were to pop music. They didn’t cause it, but they brought it to a new level. The ten songs listed below are great examples of their legacy–once thought of as a flash in the pan, the band actually wrote some strong, long-lasting songs. Check ‘em out.
1. How Deep Is Your Love-The Bird and the Bee
2. Switchin’ Alive-Will Smith vs. The Bee Gees (Cheekyboys mash up)
3. Take Ur Mama Out To The Disco-Scissor Sisters vs. Bee Gees
4. Who Boys Choral Society sing Staying Alive-The Who Boys
5. I Started a Joke-Low
6. Staying Alive-Tragedy. (The metal Bee Gees cover band!)
7. Shut Up Let’s Hook Up (Pink Floyd vs. Bee Gees)
8-10. String Cheese Incident:
Staying Alive!
Night Fever!
You Should Be Dancing!
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June 4, 2008 at 11:11 am |
“The Bee Gees are to disco what the Beatles were to pop music” so true!
And while I’ll admit they did have SOME good tunes in between the dancing (I don’t remember what they are, since I don’t own any Bee Gees’s albums) I for one am glad this is the last of the disco posts! Call me cranky, call me a rock ‘n roll conservative (can conservative and rock ‘n roll be used in the same sentence?) I don’t care, I’ll will just be happy to see this website return to rock.
June 5, 2008 at 5:47 am |
I still love Biz Markie’s “cover” of “Night Fever” on the phone for the first Handsome Boy Modelling School album, if for no better reason than because he did it as soon as Prince Paul suggested it.