Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2020 14:03:52 +0000
From: "julian@theglassfamily.co.uk" <julian@theglassfamily.co.uk>
Subject: My Favourite Three Albums
No.2
Bee Gees 1st
Full of great tunes, great singing and innovative arrangements. Sounds as fresh today as back then. I’ve lost count of the number of friends who’ve told me this album blew them away.
If I were to recompile it I’d replace In My Own Time with Gilbert Green. I always found their 60’s and early 70’s guitar driven pop just a bit indistinctive.
Julian
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From: "julian@theglassfamily.co.uk" <julian@theglassfamily.co.uk>
Subject: My Favourite Three Albums
Saturday Night Fever
No. 1
I could say four astounding tracks, but I’m going to say five, because If I Can’t Have You was not excluded because it not good enough. I wonder, as perhaps we all do, whether if they had completed Warm Ride at the time it wouldn’t have been a sixth
Not only were the recordings fantastic but disastrous decisions were averted too: by holding back from issuing MTAW as a single to (as Maurice put it) “give them (the public) a reason to buy the album” and avoid a possible non-chart topper; by not giv
With the love of my first and second choices I could quite easily put SNF in third place were it not for the fact it gave the Bee Gees such critical acclaim it makes me burst with pride.
Julian
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